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Researchers Team Up With Schoolteachers on Web-Based Instruction System
A $2.5 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to Florida State University will fund the creation of an electronic performance support system...
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A Professor
At this time of year, students are buying textbooks and looking for ways to avoid reading them.
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Campusreader Aims to Turn Electronic Tablets Into Tools
The iPad, Kindle, and other electronic reading tablets may prove to be game-changers to help people overcome barriers to effective reading and comprehension, say...
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Engaging Girls in STEM
Girls in the United States are no more interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers than they were 20 years ago. Aa recent study also...
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Student-Built Satellite Scheduled for Launch
A 6.5-pound satellite scheduled for launch on November 19 is to become the first stand-alone spacecraft built by University of Michigan students to go into orbit...
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Dental Surgery at the Click of a Mouse
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz researchers have developed an e-learning platform that enables dentistry students to download case studies with videos and images...
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Searching For STEM Success
Rural community colleges (CCs) have recently done much better than urban and suburban CCs in the percentage increase of associate degrees awarded to women and minorities...
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Study Confirms Wireless Computers Effective During Class
A recent Columbus State University study shows that students who consistently use laptops with interaction software to enhance or supplement their classroom notes...
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Bringing Engineering to K-12 Classrooms
With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, engineers from Tufts University are bringing engineering to young students through STOMP, the Student...
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Not Enough Students Take Advanced STEM Courses, Warns Iet
More students are taking advanced level science, technology and math in the United Kingdom, but the number is not enough to fill a skills shortage in time to prevent...
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Wikipedia Age Challenges Scholars
For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of...
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U.s. Funds Improve Broadband Connectivity to Foster Scientific Collaboration
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $20 million to universities in 17 states to improve inter- and intra-campus cyber connectivity.
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Google Scholarship Program Kicks Off in China
Google hosted more than 130 Google Scholarship recipients at its Beijing office earlier this month. The undergraduate and graduate students in computer science...
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ACM China Nearing Launch
ACM's expansion into China will support local professionals and increase Chinese involvement in ACM's international activities.
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Degrees, Distance, and Dollars
The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students—but not necessarily at a lower cost.
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Brains and Bytes
Computational neuroscientists are learning that the brain is like a computer, except when it isn't.
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For Pianist, Software Is Replacing Sonatas
The pianist Robert Taub was puttering around the house one afternoon in 2004 while his teen-age daughter was practicing for a violin lesson—a Schubert sonatina...
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Virtual Reality Tackles Tough Questions
Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour that were previously not possible or were thought too unethical.
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Tech Guilt: 5 'persuasive' Technologies to Help You Be Good
Information is power, but does information—by itself—actually make people change their behavior?
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