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- noun
Learning done by oneself, without ateacher orinstructor .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Globaloria is a way of learning -- of self-learning with heart and mind -- how to write today's digital language.
Idit Harel Caperton: Waiting for Cupid (not Superman) Idit Harel Caperton 2010
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Curiosity and self-learning should be rewarded, not punished.
KillProcess Terminates Multiple Processes In One Click | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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These systems can now chew through billions of bits of data, analyze them via self-learning algorithms, and package the insights for immediate use.
So, What's Your Algorithm? Dennis K. Berman 2012
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To give but one example, in a story written by the brothers Strugatski in 1970 there is an amazing description of a computer: the simulations it was able to do, the problems that it was unable to face and even some idea about the self-learning capacity which is a characteristic of modern computers.
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Last month the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced plans to issue badges to students who complete a new set of free online courses, as part of a self-learning project called MITx.
Merit Badges for the Job Market Jeffrey R. Young 2012
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Globaloria is a way of learning -- of self-learning with heart and mind -- how to write today's digital language.
Idit Harel Caperton: Waiting for Cupid (not Superman) Idit Harel Caperton 2010
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Kumaraswamy C., who used to work with Prakruti, an organization that partnered with HRF, says, "[HRF] is used to promoting informal self-learning, and this has been received well by the community as they see it as a community managed centre, and not something outsiders set up."
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Curiosity and self-learning should be rewarded, not punished.
KillProcess Terminates Multiple Processes In One Click | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Although Google has added to its enterprise search software a self-learning algorithm that analyzes employee clicks to improve the relevance of search results, the results by and large still cannot be contextualized.
The Power of Co-Creation Venkat Ramaswamy 2010
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Kumaraswamy C., who used to work with Prakruti, an organization that partnered with HRF, says, "[HRF] is used to promoting informal self-learning, and this has been received well by the community as they see it as a community managed centre, and not something outsiders set up."
For the Love of Reading Nilofer D'Souza 2010
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