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Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences

University Business

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. 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.”

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Fostering blended-mode engagement with active learning seminars

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Drawing on his extensive academic and research experience, Prof. This post belongs to the Jan-March Learning & Teaching Enhancement theme: Engaging and Empowering Learning Engaging and Empowering Learning with Technology. A Weekly Planner provided at the start of the semester is very helpful in organising all essential information.

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Working environments: a short overview of the literature

SRHE

Here in the first of two blogs Nic Kipar reviews what we know from research about working environments; the second blog will look at what this might mean in practice. This sense of control fosters a positive psychological environment, as evidenced in both Swedish and Dutch Masters and PhD research.

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Discord in the Classroom

The Scholarly Teacher

Because Discord is privately owned and not supported by most universities, faculty members will need to allow students the option of joining the class server and offer alternative ways of communicating information through the approved LMS. What could be the drawbacks of implementing a technology such as Discord into your existing courses?

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Colleges need to address rise of white nationalism (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Second, we often think of today’s college students as digital natives, but being born into a world with more opportunities to access information with technology than previous generations doesn’t mean they are born knowing how to navigate such information. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance?

Teaching Matters Online Learning

It is difficult to draw just one conclusion from the research I have read. Qualitative research done by James Lamb, Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, highlighted some of the things that still makes students turn up to their lectures: the human element. Sep 7, 2017 Goebel, A.