5 Top Engineering Schools in Nigeria
UNILORIN – University of Ilorin The University of Ilorin, also known as Unilorin, is a university in Ilorin, Nigeria. Unilorin was established by a decree of the Federal Military Government in 1975...
View ArticleFar from bust: five ways MOOCs are helping people get on in life
Lisa Harris, University of Southampton and Manuel León Urrutia, University of Southampton Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – free, short courses made available to everybody online – were expected to...
View ArticleAn Innovative Form Of Cheating Emerges In MOOCs
Andrew Ho, Harvard University Our research teams at Harvard and MIT have shown over and over again that MOOC students look and act nothing like conventional students of either residential universities...
View ArticleBiomimetic non-reflective coating for solar cells wins MADMEC
Biomimicry — known as “innovation inspired by nature” — has led to the invention of bullet trains, vaccines, adhesives, and light bulbs, among other things. Add to that list the winning invention of...
View ArticleWant to change perceptions of Muslims? Support students of all beliefs
In the wake of the recent terror attacks in Paris, Baghdad and Beirut, our national discourse has been full of conversations about Muslims in civic life. Presidential candidates have offered up...
View ArticleSenior Alyssa Napier dedicates herself to improving MIT
Chemistry major works to address social justice issues. Whenever Alyssa Napier sees a problem, she feels an overwhelming urge to fix it — and she has found plenty of opportunities to problem-solve in...
View Article‘Machine teaching’ holds the power to illuminate human learning
is a complex, sometimes mysterious process. Most of us have had experiences where we have struggled to learn something new, but also times when we’ve picked something up nearly effortlessly. FREE...
View ArticleAre all Black students falling behind?
A recent report by The Education Trust, a nonprofit working on educational justice, reveals that while there has been an improvement in graduation rates at four-year public institutions for all...
View ArticleCan technology help teach literacy in poor communities?
Project to provide children with tablets loaded with literacy apps reports encouraging results in Africa, U.S. For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts University, and Georgia State...
View ArticleMIT joins Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
MIT has formally joined the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, a global partnership of governments, businesses, and civil society organizations working together with the goal of applying a price on...
View ArticleIs A Tuition-Free Policy Enough To Ensure College Success?
Across the U.S., many soon-to-be high school graduates are excited to begin college. Over the past decades, rates of college enrollment have increased. In 1950, only 16 percent of young people had at...
View ArticleThere’s More Than Practice To Becoming A World-Class Expert
Some people are dramatically better at activities like sports, music and chess than other people. Take the basketball great Stephen Curry. This past season, breaking the record he set last year by over...
View ArticleThirteen Universities Adopt MicroMasters and Launch 18 New Programs via EdX
MITx expands reach of MicroMasters in supply chain management with new paths to a master’s degree.Watch Video In October 2015, MIT launched the MITx MicroMasters credential, which enables online...
View ArticleWomen’s Business Center & Tech in America Offer Digital Media Workshop Hosted...
Note: Next Workshop Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, 6:00pm-8:00pm. Sign up here. The VEDC Women’s Business Center (WBC-LA.org) and TechinAmerica continues its free seminar series on web pages for...
View ArticleLearning Morse Code Without Trying
It’s not exactly beating something into someone’s head. More like tapping it into the side. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a system that teaches people Morse code...
View ArticleShould Writing for the Public Count Toward Tenure?
Many pressing issues have been calling for attention these days – the unprecedented increase in mortality rates among white Americans, the Black Lives Matter movement and the upending of the Republican...
View ArticleInternet Use in Class Tied to Lower Test Scores
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Warning: Surfing the internet in class is now linked to poorer test scores, even among the most intelligent and motivated of students. Michigan State University researchers...
View ArticleThe Myth Of The College Dropout
Jonathan Wai, Duke University and Heiner Rindermann, Chemnitz University of Technology When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was asked to give this year’s commencement address at Harvard, he asked for...
View ArticleTextbooks In The Digital World
Kui Xie, The Ohio State University and Nicole Luthy, The Ohio State University For decades, textbooks were seen as the foundation for instruction in American schools. These discipline-specific tomes...
View ArticleStudents’ Test Scores Tell Us More About The Community They Live In Than What...
Christopher Tienken, Seton Hall University Every year, policymakers across the U.S. make life-changing decisions based on the results of standardized tests. These high-stakes decisions include, but are...
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