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 […]
September 14, 2021
Decolonizing Your Subject Discipline: Where to Begin
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Most Universities Don’t Keep Up With Changing Communication
While writing is certainly a critical communication skill, universities need to start learning how to thoughtfully integrate all available skills.
Teaching Sociology in India During the Time of Covid-19
The COVID pandemic has affected teaching in India as it has everywhere. Applying a sociological lens to the Indian experience of teaching sociology itself is instructive.
Remote vs. In-Person University Classes: What Did We Know Before COVID?
Prior to the pandemic, Kevin O’Neill and his colleagues conducted a study of how undergraduates at a public university in Canada chose which courses to take online.
Teaching & Learning: Free Resources Page
SAGE Publishing (the parent of Social Science Space) has launched a new Teaching & Learning hub with a range of free resources […]
Online Teaching, Campus Design Upgrades and Institutional Changes
The times they are a-changin’ for higher education. Or so say a growing number of commentators. They see COVID-19 disruptions as a […]
A Primer on Academic Tenure (and Its Tenuous Future)
In the following Q&A, George Justice, an English professor and author of “How to Be a Dean,” explains the origin of tenure and the waning protections that it affords professors in the United States who have it.
Watch the Video: What Are Biosocial Sciences and What Are They Doing in Education?
In this video, Daphne Martschenko
Can Civics Education Boost Youth Voting? Research Suggests No
New research shows that states that require civics courses do not necessarily have better test scores, more youth voting or young people volunteering at higher rates than other states
