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A History of Teaching and Learning from 500 Billion Words

10.08.2011 · Posted in Google, History, books, culture, data, language, vocabulary, words

    By analysing over 500 billion words the Google Books Ngram Viewer allows you to compare the history of terminology and language from approximately 5 million digitised books. The graph above shows my search for the terms “teaching” and “learning” in publications between the years 1500 and 2010. What fascinates me is how the ...

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