According to the CoI (Community of Inquiry) model, engagement in learning is the result of teaching presence (a well-designed and facilitated online course), social presence (interaction with course ...

Marianne Malmstrom has been using video games in the classroom for over eight years. She recently completed a 3-month professional development tour of New Zealand focused on investigating successful ...

The concept of a ‘company culture’ has been gathering steam, and it holds a lot of importance for existing and potential employees alike. In the past, the benefits package you offered was enough to ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will convene an ad hoc committee of experts to conduct a consensus study on learning and development of youth in out-of-school time (OST) ...

Mental ill-health among students in higher education is a growing problem globally. Most efforts implemented to address ill-health involve individual treatment and adjustments to pedagogy. But more ...

Why should I promote studying in groups? A small-group peer learning environment complements the traditional classroom environment, ideally providing a comfortable space for “academic risk-taking”: ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I share expertise on career ownership. Both reports highlight the retention of promotors as a company goal, and argue that can ...

As the Dutch philosopher Erasmus stated: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, study as if you were to live forever.” I first came across this quote while listening to a podcast, and it stuck with me, ...

International Literacy Day 2023 will be celebrated on 8 September under the theme “Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies”. The ...

About 700 years ago, a Persian poet wrote the story of three princes of Serendip, whose powers of observation and deduction allowed them to describe, based only on its tracks, a camel that was blind ...