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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Encouragement Watford inherited one pre-college program that already existed for seventh and eighth graders, providing information about electrical and computer engineering. Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology (BLAST) serves rising ninth and 10th graders, designed to help students find their place in STEM.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

After all, students who lack a solid background in calculus and statistics are not only closed out of programs in business analytics and financial technology, engineering, epidemiology and health informatics, machine learning and the quantitative social sciences, but even medical, dental and nursing school. It’s necessary.

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Mini-series: Academic blogging at University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

2007; Deng & Yuen, 2011), particularly reflective writing (Hemmi, Bayne, & Land, 2009), and learning to write for particular real or imagined audiences (Ross, 2014; Gogia, 2016). The new service brings together a range of technologies into a coherent support framework, including: Existing VLE and Pebblepad blogging functions.

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Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods: ‘A little bit digitalised?’ Developing practice with online exams

Teaching Matters Online Learning

2019, Myyry & Joutsenvirta 2015, Williams & Wong 2009). The first was migration , whereby exams are expected to transition from pen-and-paper to computer-based delivery largely unaltered, resulting in improvements in efficiency and the student experience.

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Wellbeing matters. But how can we enhance wellbeing across the academic community?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In a 2009 study , students across multiple countries rate the importance of wellbeing higher than money, and the desire to live a fulfilled life. SOVA (Supporting Our Valued Adolescents) is a project where a young person who feels anxious or depressed can go to find information and support from others who have been there too.