Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
American Sociological Association Statement, Guidebook Back Teaching about Race and Racism
The American Sociological Association recently released a statement “urg[ing] public officials, educators, and lawmakers to avoid suppressing knowledge, violating academic and free speech, and prohibiting scholars and teachers from discussing and teaching about the roles of race and racism in society.
Report Provides Recommendations for Data Instruction in the Social Sciences
In the Ithaka S+R report “Fostering Data Literacy: Teaching with Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences,” authored by Dylan Ruediger and Danielle Miriam Cooper, examined the use and teaching of data analysis in the social sciences. Ithaka S+R is the research arm of the ITHAKA not-for-profit which aims to help “the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
Survey Sees HE Faculty Embracing Digital Changes
SAGE’s 2022 pedagogy survey, building on prior annual surveys launched in 2020 and repeated in 2021, show some exciting developments in faculty […]
Engineering an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Today we look at how engineering education can guide students to developing an entrepreneurial mindset most effectively, as discussed in “First-Year Engineering […]
Preparing the Next Generation of Graduates Using Interdisciplinary Team-Based Learning
Professional bodies and industry leaders often suggest there’s a mismatch between the theoretical knowledge students acquire at university and the skills they […]
Timeline of Psychology: A Quick Slideshow
This interactive timeline of some of the most important achievements in the field of psychology field as presented at the Introduction to Psychology website. On […]
What You See is Not What You Get: Photo-Elicitation’s Missing Arts-based Elements
The authors provide a conceptualization of photo-elicitation as an (experiential) learning and teaching tool which shows the interaction between photo-elicitation’s arts-based elements and relevant learning processes and outcomes.
Talking With Bennie Kara, Winner of the First SAGE Social Justice Book Award
As a student, recalls Bennie Kara, school was a haven. And that haven beckoned to her as she mapped out her career […]
