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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. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” I believe CEED is a national model,” Sanders says. “If

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Among the criticisms : That the report lacked sound research to support its claim that its approach will advance equity. According to one often-reported statistic from 2009, 17 percent of the general population has high levels of anxiety involving mathematics. Linus: New math is too much for me. 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). This included individual reflective writing, writing for public audiences, group writing, showcasing project/research work, and multi-modal blogging.

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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). A couple of years ago I did some research that analysed the experiences of university staff who designed and delivered online exams (Allan 2020). The second was transformation , whereby rapid technological changes require radical change in examination practices.

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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. Over the years, researchers have been working on how to best promote positive mental health among students. Works like these serve as inspirations for my own research project.