Iraq bomb kills Iranian pilgrims
A car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims kills seven and injures 34 in Kerbala.
Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright
The emergence of the Internet and the digital world has changed the way people access produce and share information and knowledge Yet people in Africa face challenges in accessing scholarly publications journals and learning materials in general At the heart of these challenges and solutions to them is copyright the branch of intellectual property rights that covers written and related works This book gives the reader an understanding of the legal and practical issues posed by copyright for acce
EQUATIONS!?! WHAT EQUATIONS? or ARITHMETICAL METHODS of SOLVING WORD PROBLEMS
The Grand Rapids Community College Mathematics Department presents Adjunct Mathematics Instructor Radu Teodorescu.
Word problems are “le raison d’être” of beginning Mathematics, often one of its most important parts. Usually at this level, word problems are solved using equations or systems of equations. After writing an equation/system for a given word problem we solve it and – voilà! – the solution appears. This is a direct and effective method, but what we gain in simplicity,
T4 Tips Podcast #11 - Free Educational Software
There is certainly one price that most teachers can appreciate: free!
In this podcast, we discuss a number of free software applications. Our
recommendations are programs that real people use everyday, for all
kinds
of tasks. They're tried and tested, the
best tools you can get - and they're all free.
Many of the programs we cover are open-source (http://www.opensource.org/),
with their source code available for use and modification as others see
fit. Other programs we highli
Guide to (Setup YouTube Account)
This is a guide on how to setup your own YouTube account. Go to your internet browser got to You Tube-click on the sign up. This video shows you the steps and the options you need to complete.
Overview of PDF Portfolios
This video shows you how to combine documents, drawings, e-mail, and spreadsheets in a single compressed PDF Portfolio that can be branded with your logo.
4.3 Thinking mathematics ‘Thinking mathematically’ is something that everyone does. It involves: problem-solving and decision-making; logical reasoning; communication (including using diagrams, charts, graphs and symbols); making connections and recognising common characteristics; using mathematical tools, including calculations and measures. Much of the mathematical thinking done in ever
Embedding enterprise in the curriculum
This presentation discusses the pioneering approach to the embedding of enterprise in the curriculum through people and pedagogy
Britain's attitude to same-sex relationships and 'cheating'? (UCL)
Professor Dame Anne Johnson (UCL Infection & Population Health) was Principal Investigator on the 3rd National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3), the most detailed picture yet of the British population's sex lives over the last 10 years. This series of five short videos highlights some of the findings relevant to young people and features UCL students' views views on the survey's statistics.
Published in The Lancet and led by UCL in partnership with the London School of Hygie
High-leverage Innovation, Part Three: Lessons from the Auto Industry
In this final part of a three-part interview, Wharton professor of operations and information management Karl Ulrich and Kevin Dehoff, a partner at Booz & Company, talk about innovation in the auto industry -- what constitutes it, why some manufacturers, like Toyota, are more innovative than others, and the role that customers play in innovative product development.
04 Oct 2010: The Fate of Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Examining the Legal Battle Behind the Science
The Science and Technology Policy Program of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy invites you to attend a presentation on The Fate of Embryonic Stem Cell Research. At this event, experts will address recent court rulings that reinterpret the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which prohibits the creation of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines from destroyed embryos. Federal funding currently is allowed for research using existing lines, all of which were created with private funds, but th
Can fingerprints be forged? This MythBusters video shows that fingerprint security systems can be beaten using latex fingerprints - in less than 10 minutes.
New microscope 100 million times stronger than MRI - IBM research IBM scientists have demonstrated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI. This will enable the study of complex 3D structures at the nanoscale level.
La question paysanne des hautes terres d'Afrique de l'Est
Caractérisées par une altitude moyenne de 1000 m, de vastes plateaux et un climat équatorial modéré, les hautes terres d’Afrique de l’Est ont toujours été une région propice au développement de l’agriculture. Bien avant l’arrivée des premiers colons, ces terres étaient déjà occupées et organisées autour de la production agricole. A partir de 1850, les modèles de développement importés d’Europe se généralisent dans ces régions, puis se réorganisent à partir de
The Brain of the Future
The Graduate School Centre at the University of Nottingham was formally opened on 12th October 2006 by Baroness Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University. In this key note speech, Baroness Greenfield considers how humans will communicate and learn in the future, as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated, and the pace of change within society becomes ever faster.
Supplementing Textbooks with Computer-Based Resources in the Primary EFL-Classroom
Compute-assisted language learning (CALL) should take place whenever it can support work which otherwise could have not been carried out as effectively. Teachers should choose computer-assisted activities which reflect and promote pupils existing abilities rather than neglect or marginalize them. The suggested activity here is the production of talking books audio-visual multimedia slideshows. It requires pupils to use the listening and speaking skills of a storyteller rather than the readi
Do students ideas about the antigen-antibody reaction change when they are gathered to design an exp
This study is a preliminary work before the development of the CoPEX software that
helps students and teachers to design experimental procedure. To this date, there are no
other intelligent learning environments for this task. An experiment was done in two
high schools during an immunology course (a lecture and a practical work). It is done in
ecological conditions during a laboratory session with students majoring in science
(ISCED level 3A-16/18 years old). Students designed (imagined, wrote a
Proposal for convergence of e-learning systems for t-learning
This article presents considerations about viability on reutilize existing web based e- Learning systems on Interactive Digital TV environment according to Digital TV standard adopted in Brazil. Considering the popularity of Moodle system in academic and corporative area, such system was chosen as a foundation for a survey into its properties to create a specification of an Application Programming Interface (API) for convergence to t-Learning characteristics that demands efforts in interface des
Computer Supported Interaction Analysis of Group Problem Solving
Collaboration is widely regarded as beneficial for learning. Collaboration is the mutual engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to solve a problem together. It has been conclusively argued that a focus on the process of collaboration is necessary in order to understand the value of working together with peers for learning. In accordance with the approach of open distributed learning environments (ODLEs), we have developed a framework system for computer-supported cooperative learning
Innovative pedagogical and psychological perspectives of podcasts
Podcasting, being a new form of audio distribution offering the possibility to be loaded on personal mobile devices from teachers, student, universitys websites and blogs, is discussed as an activity with potential in learning and teaching. The existing and potential varieties of podcasts represent sources for learning, converging, socializing. In this paper, podcasting is supported as an innovative approach to stimulate university students reflection, specifically on epistemic quest
