CERI - Recent publications

This book summarises and discusses key findings from the learning sciences, shedding light on the cognitive and social processes that can be used to redesign classrooms to make them highly effective learning environments. It explores concrete examples in OECD countries, from alternative schools to specific cases in Mexico, in which the actors are seeking to break the mould and realise the principles emerging from learning science research.

This book is designed to help policy makers, managers and practitioners in education to support long-term strategic thinking in education. It fills an important need: decision makers and practitioners in education often have only anecdotal or local information on the trends shaping education; too often they do not have solid facts in front of them.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Adults: Improving Foundation Skills

This book provides a strong foundation for understanding the fundamental issues at stake in the sector of adult learners with low skills in language, literacy and numeracy.

Exemplary case studies, international literature reviews and country reports are downloadable for free on the Internet.

Cross-border Tertiary Education: A Way towards Capacity Development

This book discusses the concept of capacity-building for tertiary education through cross-border education, emphasising the critical role of quality assurance and trade negotiations.

Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science

This book provides new insights about learning, synthesing existing and emerging findings from cognitive and brain science.

Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources

The rapidly changing phenomenon of Open Educational Resources and the challenges it poses for higher education.