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'e-Learning' report shows online professional development aids teachers and students

English and math teachers who took professional development courses online improved their instructional practices and boosted their subject knowledge scores, producing modest performance gains for their students, report Boston ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Students learn environmental stewardship, improve science scores

Keeping with the global "green" trend, educators worldwide are relying more on environmental education lessons to enhance students' science knowledge. Studies have revealed that bringing environmental education ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Is it e-government's saviour? An automatic knowledge filter

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative new knowledge management concept has the potential to revolutionise the way government administrators work.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Much to gain by optimizing delousing

New research shows that the efficacy of delousing efforts is greatly affected by the materials used in constructing a well boat’s tank for mixing the delousing agent. This knowledge has now led to improvements ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

America expands once again -- digitally, this time

(AP) -- The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual ...

Technology / Other

created May 19, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Getting news from the Internet not as divisive as many assume

The Internet is changing the way people get their news, but there's little proof that it is fragmenting or polarizing the news audience the way many assume, says professor David Tewksbury, the head of the ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researcher develops personalized search engines

(Phys.org) -- With little more than basic information about Web users’ behavior – that is, the hyperlinks they click on daily and the content at those sites – Susan Gauch can build a better search engine. In ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cellular secrets of plant fatty acid production understood; discovery could boost bioeconomy

(Phys.org) -- Research groups from Iowa State University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have uncovered the function of three plant proteins, a discovery that could help plant scientists boost ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Encyclopedia of Life reaches historic 'one million species pages' milestone

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has surged past one million pages of content with the addition of hundreds of thousands of new images and specimen data from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Inside a mathematical proof lies literature, says Stanford's Reviel Netz

Like novelists, mathematicians are creative authors. With diagrams, symbolism, metaphor, double entendre and elements of surprise, a good proof reads like a good story.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Picking the brains of strangers helps make sense of online information

People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft ...

Technology / Other

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

US sex publisher sues Tumblr over copyright

A US sex publisher which fought a long copyright battle with Google has sued the Tumblr social networking site claiming "rampant" illegal use of its photographs, court documents showed.

Technology / Business

created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Career social network LinkedIn buys SlideShare

Career-oriented social network LinkedIn on Thursday announced a $118.75 million deal to buy a SlideShare service for online hosting of PowerPoint, Keynote and other presentations.

Technology / Business

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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