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About Metacognition - Improve with Metacognition

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Overview:: This web site focuses primarily on the process of learning academic materials and skills, with an emphasis on metacognition related to learning within the higher education environment. A second emphasis is the process of teaching, i.e. metacognitive instruction.
Type of Material:: Collection
Recommended Uses:: -Continuing education in pedagogy -Literature search for researchers in metacognition -Resources for designing metacognitive learning activities -Use in faculty development for discussion or development of metacognitive learning activities.
Technical Requirements:: None
Identify Major Learning Goals:: 1. Establish and maintain a community of researchers and practitioners interested in metacognition in teaching and learning. 2. Maintain and share an categorized annotated bibliography of links to metacognitive research - current and past. 3. Solicit, maintain, and share instructors' learning activities designed to develop student metacognitive skills. 4. Solicit, maintain, and share instructors' reflections on practicing metacognition (being metacognitive about their instruction)
Target Student Population:: Faculty Developers Faculty Teaching TAs Students
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: None.

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Strengths:: -Based on peer-reviewed research -A one-stop shop for metacognition -A community in which researchers and practitioners can interact -Open resource. Easy to read and navigate.
Concerns:: None.

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Strengths:: -Brings together both researchers and practitioners -Well-organized and well-maintained site -Sign up to received email updates -Multiple ways to interact with the site managers - by commenting on posts, sending updates of current research or calls for collaborators, submitting practitioner examples - which then go through an editing process with one of the site managers.
Concerns:: None.

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Strengths:: Very easy to use on computer as well as on mobile. Posts are written in accessible language. Articles are helpfully annotated so that users can identify resources they wish to follow up on. There are multiple ways to learn about metacognition from a variety of sources.
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Other Issues and Comments:: Remarkable site, given that this is a voluntary effort and not supported by their institutions or any other outside entity.
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