Archives for 2020

Why Are People Hoarding Toilet Paper?
Science & Social Science
March 19, 2020

Why Are People Hoarding Toilet Paper?

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Empty Grocery Shelves! Are Supply Chains Resilient Enough?
Business and Management INK
March 19, 2020

Empty Grocery Shelves! Are Supply Chains Resilient Enough?

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What the AIDS Response Can Teach Us for Addressing COVID
Public Policy
March 19, 2020

What the AIDS Response Can Teach Us for Addressing COVID

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Coronavirus UK – Why Closing Schools is (Generally) a Bad Idea
News
March 18, 2020

Coronavirus UK – Why Closing Schools is (Generally) a Bad Idea

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Breaking Bad News: How to Talk With the Misinformed

Breaking Bad News: How to Talk With the Misinformed

It’s also common to encounter people who are misinformed but don’t know it yet. It’s one thing to double-check your own information, but what’s the best way to talk to someone else about what they think is true – but which is not true?

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Twixt Duck and Rabbit: Psychological Biases and Bad Coronavirus Policy

Twixt Duck and Rabbit: Psychological Biases and Bad Coronavirus Policy

Crises rarely see human decision-making operating at its best. Politicians and policymakers have to make important decisions in unfamiliar circumstances, with vast gaps in the available information, and all in the full glare of public scrutiny. The psychology of decision making doesn’t just tell us a lot about the potential pitfalls in our own thinking – it alerts us to ways in which some of the world’s governments may go astray.

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Making a Sudden Transition to Teaching Online:  Suggestions and Resources

Making a Sudden Transition to Teaching Online: Suggestions and Resources

Editor’s Note: As a means of supporting those attempting to do their best under trying circumstances, SAGE Publishing has drawn from its […]

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16 Answers to Your Questions about Teaching Online

16 Answers to Your Questions about Teaching Online

The call for ‘social distancing’ in the wake of the coronavirus and its attendant COVID-19 disease has seen schools and universities around the world hurriedly attempting to turn their physical classrooms into virtual ones. While this may be best immediate reaction from an epidemiological point of view, from a pedagogic perspective, it has left instructors desperately trying to retrofit and reformat their courses while trying not to unduly disadvantage large numbers of their students. As a means of supporting those attempting to do their best under trying circumstances, SAGE Publishing has drawn from its large body of published and peer-reviewed research to offer the resources below — free of charge — to serve teachers and students around the world.

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Higher Education’s COVID-19 Online Pivot: Students

Higher Education’s COVID-19 Online Pivot: Students

Most of the articles and advice out there about quickly switching to online education in the wake of COVID-19 is aimed at educators, but we should bear in mind that it is an unfamiliar experience for many students, too.

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Higher Education’s COVID-19 Online Pivot: Institutions

Higher Education’s COVID-19 Online Pivot: Institutions

The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen many universities closing campuses and shifting learning online. It’s unprecedented and suddenly puts ed tech front and center in a way it hasn’t been before. For those of us who have been doing online learning or distance ed for a while it can seem a bit irritating to have been seen as second class for so long and then suddenly deemed worthy of interest. So here’s some useful bits for those without that pedigree.

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14 Tips for Improving Your Online Teaching

14 Tips for Improving Your Online Teaching

Hundreds of thousands of teachers are busy working to move their face-to-face lessons online. Designing online courses takes significant time and effort.
Right now, however, we need a simpler formula. Here are 14 quick tips to make online teaching better, from an expert in online learning.

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Coronavirus UK: Self-Isolation Must Not Mean Self-Imprisonment

Coronavirus UK: Self-Isolation Must Not Mean Self-Imprisonment

The United Kingdom’s reputed the self-isolation proposal, and its attendant controversy about the alleged influence of social and behavioral scientists on the government’s approach, is a nice indicator of how limited the social science influence actually is – and why it needs to be greater.

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