Online teaching has generated plenty of discussion in higher education, but it's still used by a relatively small percentage of professors. A UCLA study has identified a more pronounced trend in teaching at colleges and universities ...
Social Sciences
Nov 13, 2014
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Nobel prize week can prompt uncomfortable soul-searching at universities in Latin America, which has produced relatively few winners in the sciences—a symptom, experts say, of the region's struggles in higher education.
Social Sciences
Oct 13, 2014
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Most forecasts about the future of higher education have focused on how the institutions themselves will be affected – including the possibility of less demand for classes on campus and fewer tenured faculty members as ...
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2014
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While state lawmakers honored provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 by not slashing their appropriations for higher education during the recent economic crisis, a new analysis by higher education ...
Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2014
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For decades, higher education has often been cast as the villain in the story of U.S. religious decline. Past research supported these claims.
Social Sciences
Aug 11, 2014
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Too many sixth form students do not have a realistic understanding of either the relevance of Mathematics and Statistics to their discipline or of the demands that will be put upon them in undergraduate study, according to ...
Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2014
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University freshers struggle to remember basic concepts from their A-level studies according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2014
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Technology can open up a world of possibility, but it also has the potential to leave a lot of people behind.
Other
Mar 10, 2014
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Universities need to rebuild their organisational and technological infrastructure, and even change their 'cultural DNA', to meet the challenges of the digital era, according to a new report commissioned by the multi-national ...
Internet
Feb 28, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Is the Internet causing a revolution in education by enabling large numbers of students to take college courses online, at little or no cost, from faculty members at leading universities?
Social Sciences
Jan 29, 2014
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