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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She says the goal of her research is to help Black students to “freedom dream,” a term inspired by Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination , a 2002 book by Dr. Robin D.G. One of her fondest memories is of getting books from the library with her family and then discussing them in the living room. “I Nash Endowed Chair in U.S.

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Anchors Away: Building Community, Mindfulness, Equity, and Reflection

The Scholarly Teacher

Reflection What and Why: Brookfield (2002) writes that critical reflective teaching involves examining assumptions that shape teaching practices and Barkley and Major (2022) contend that effective teachers constantly reflect to improve their understanding of their teaching practices. Psychological Review , 84 (2), 191–215.

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Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Open Educational Resources (OERs), a term coined in a UNESCO workshop in 2002, are part of a worldwide movement to promote and support sustainable educational development. focuses on everyday teaching and learning materials as well as the bigger initiatives and library collections. Useful ‘how to’ guides and guidance on best practice.

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The Research Essay from an Instructor’s Perspective

Academic Librarian

[The following is adapted from a talk I gave to colleagues who provide library instruction for first-year college writing courses, but have never taught one themselves. Except for a year when I exiled myself from academia, I either taught writing or worked in a writing center from then until the end of 1999 when I finished library school.

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Adding interactivity in mathematics online workbooks using JSXGraph in STACK

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The HELM project HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) is a collection of 50 workbooks developed by five English universities – Loughborough, Hull, Reading, Sunderland and Manchester – between 2002 and 2005. HELM resources cover the curriculum of first and second year mathematics courses for engineering undergraduates [1].

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The Second Report of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee (April 2002) heard evidence to that effect and recommended that HEFCE ‘ensure that its quality assessment does not discourage or disadvantage interdisciplinary research’, arguing that ‘such research offers some of the most fertile ground for innovation and discovery’.

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An Overview of the Accreditation Process with the Supreme Education Council (SEC) Qatar

Creatrix Campus

Background - The higher education in Qatar Background - The higher education in Qatar Qatar’s higher education sector, roughly around 2002 was still in its early stages of development.