Since the 1990s there has a been a range of Swedish policy reforms calling for Swedish higher education to be more open, flexible and accessible.New governanceIn particular, notable importance was placed on distance and IT-based education. While the issue of access to higher education has long been viewed as an important factor in educational policy, a partly new approach to governance took shape during the 1990s and beyond….
Certain actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions and thus reduce climate change can also directly improve human health, according to a statement from the…
A group of scientists from FIZ CHEMIE and the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) are researching into facilities and technologies to support future self-study on…
Innovation Nation is a quick look at what happens when genius meets possibility: stories about some of the NSF-funded inventions and research shaping our world.
In a new report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, Robert C. Pianta (University of…
At least, if a group of them meet an older student once a week during the first semester to discuss and solve maths problems and other difficult exercises from…
The structure of the university in the 21st century is changing rapidly after its evolution into a multiversity in the 20th century. But as universities are…
Hosted by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), this lecture commemorates the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision of the U.S. Supreme…
This was highlighted at the World Congress “Children, citizens in a challenged world”, which was hosted by the University of Gothenburg.In a statement, the…
The new e-learning platform ILKUM (an acronym for “Interaktiver Lernzielkatalog der Universitätsmedizin Mainz” or interactive catalogue of learning objectives…
A machine which pumps out power pulses with the same intensity as a lightning bolt has helped strike up another important relationship – the launch of an…
E-learning – primarily education delivered via the Internet – implies that the teaching is not limited to one (beyond the time, space and process dimensions)….
Regarding the key role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as an important driving force for innovations, there is an explicit need to improve…
Kids in the classroom are learning how technology works by fabricating 3-D copies of their favorite things. Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab –…
Whether rich or poor, residents of the United States or China, illiterate or college graduates, parents who have books in the home increase the level of…
To achieve this, however, the instructor must set the right stage, says University of Michigan professor Perry Samson.Samson is a professor in the Department…
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