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For the first time in its 174-year history, the Smithonian Institution has launched a new open access platform high-resolution images from across its collections for patrons to peruse and download free of charge.
The current skills gap costs the UK £63 billion a year, with an estimated 600,000 job vacancies in digital technology alone. There are currently more FTSE100 companies being led by men called David and Steve, than companies led by women and ethnic minorities. Meanwhile, we know that companies that achieve...
Which factors have a strong systemic influence on the digitisation of higher education? Which can be influenced politically? The authors look at areas of action related to open science and discuss the extent to which future scenarios such as “disruption" can endanger university locations.
How far has the United Kingdom higher education (UK HE) sector progressed towards open access (OA) availability of the scholarly literature it requires to support courses of study?
An examination of introductory psychology textbooks suggests that prospective psychological researchers may learn to interpret statistical significance incorrectly in their undergraduate classes.
The mental health crisis extends into the ways counseling and psychological services are provided and into the intrinsic nature of graduate education.
People often suffer from an 'illusion of knowledge,' write the authors of a new study that finds that people who hold the most extreme views about genetically modified foods know the least.
Manuscript showing how Augmented Reality, which is the projection of virtual information onto a real-world object, can be applied in the classroom and in the laboratory.
Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women.
In an era in which data is everything, the risks to core democratic principles caused by technological illiteracy in policymakers, and policy illiteracy in computer scientists, are staggering.
Speakers inadvertently prepare presentations for themselves rather than their audiences. A few mental exercises can help presenters to avoid this pitfall.
26 ways that digital ledger technology could be deployed by school districts, networks, postsecondary institutions and community-based organizations to improve learning opportunities.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report outlining key recommendations for graduate programs and the science enterprise. It highlights the need for employers in all sectors to provide financial support for internships and other types of career experiences to students and recent graduates.
In an era in which evidence is being disregarded, scientists need to speak up in support of the pursuit for truth. If we do not successively train our youth to distinguish between truth and falsehood, we are at risk of raising a new generation unused to recognizing truth as derived from evidence.
An instructor at the University of Washington set off a major debate there and elsewhere over his recent essay in which he says that the low proportion of women in computer science is at this point largely a result of women's choices and is unlikely to change. University officials immediately disputed his claims.
As someone with a deep appreciation of education and expertise, it’s troubling to know that college is just one more locus of skulduggery, veiled and overt.
Students need to be given real and significant things from the world to think with and about if teachers want to influence how they do that thinking.
Something strange began happening with a U.S. Department of Education loan program known as Parent PLUS, under which parents borrow money from the government to finance their children’s education.
A meta-analysis combining the most popular university rankings to find out which ones are best, and showing which university offers the best value for the money. Spoiler: Switzerland, for once, is a good deal.
