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Creating Classroom Camaraderie to Promote Learning: 3 Strategies

The Scholarly Teacher

2013) say, “Stories, or narratives, create the glue that binds people together in networks, providing them with a sense of history, common ground, and future, thus enabling them to persist even in the context of resistance” (p. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education , 76 (5), 75. Lejano et al. Ingram, M., & & Ingram, H.

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Presidential habits: How a track record of successes (or failures) has shaped their careers

University Business

Julie Schornack will be the second president and first female president to lead the school since its expansion and name change in 2013. MBKU’s primary focus is healthcare, and it’s comprised of three primary schools focused on optometry, pharmaceuticals and schooling for physician assistants.

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Moving Right Along to Improve Mood and Memory

The Scholarly Teacher

Mark Tarnopolsky, a genetic metabolic neurologist at McMaster University, said that “if there were a drug that could do for human health everything that exercise can, it would likely be the most valuable pharmaceutical ever developed” (Oaklander, 2016, para. Increased levels of BDNF translate directly to better learning (Erickson et al.,

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Pearson’s choice to build their learning outcomes effort around a term that comes from the pharmaceutical industry is an historically apt one for the textbook industry. It was in 2013 and it certainly is now. The cynical jokes are much too easy here. Both companies made real efforts to transform themselves. And fill in gaps.