Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Tips for Switching to Teaching Online: Archived Webinar
SAGE Campus is hosting a series of webinars on “Top Tips for Switching to Teaching Remotely.” The first webinar, which appears below, featured Tom Chatfield and Elspeth Timmans, who created the SAGE Campus Critical Thinking online course, discussing key questions from faculty about the shift to teaching remotely.
Free Webinar on Switching to Online Teaching
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, many universities around the world switched to online teaching and remote learning both at scale and […]
Free Webinar: Having Conversations About Race in the Classroom
Stephanie A. Jirard, professor of criminal justice at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and author of Criminal Law and Procedure: A Courtroom Approach, […]
Coping with COVID-19 as a Research Community: The Sussex Hive Experience
When COVID-19 came around, an obvious joke went around in academic circles: PhD students are already isolated, so nothing will change for them. But nothing could be further than the truth. COVID-19 lockdown and university closures mean a big aggravation to the isolation already experienced by researchers.
The Added Value of Latinx and Black Teachers
As the U.S. Congress debates the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a new paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences urges lawmakers to focus on provisions aimed at increasing the numbers of black and Latinx teachers.
Student Perspectives on the Online Teaching Landscape
Under the threat of coronavirus, many universities took early initiative to empty their campuses and transition to online classroom spaces. In the […]
Technological Considerations for Training Human Service Professionals in Light of COVID-19: Opportunity for Appropriation
The appropriate training of human service professionals in digital platforms — entailing retrospection, revisions, and appropriation of the curriculum and training frameworks with an emphasis on the integration of technology with practice — can ensure the quality of services to the clients during emergencies like COVID-19.
An Open Letter on the COVID-19 Crisis to Young Social Science Scholars
‘I think,’ writes Damon J. Phillips, ‘ that this suggests that you happen to be coming along in a new era that will be stressful to live through, but also one that will fuel the best of our scholarship. In the coming years and decades there will be an urgency around different questions framed by our current crises.’
