Science Education
From Data Mining to Trend Mining
“Science, economy and politics need reliable indicators for being informed about the current activities in research and for knowing where it goes to. This kind…
With board games, it's how children count that counts
Teachers and parents like to use board games to teach skills that range from fair play to counting. When it comes to improving early number skills, a new…
Investing in our future: The evidence base on preschool education
The research brief “Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education,” authored by an interdisciplinary group of early childhood experts,…
Is Massive Open Online Research the Next Frontier for Education?
In “Bioinformatics Algorithms – Part 1,” UC San Diego computer science and engineering professor Pavel Pevzner and his graduate students are offering a course…
Private tuition provides little help
How widespread is private tuition, and does it improve marks? To answer this question, a team led by educational scientist Hans-Ulrich Grunder from the…
Research Lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute Opens Its Doors to Scientists from All Over the World
Researchers are invited to submit project proposals based on access to the high performance hard and software provided by HPI. Project selection is carried out…