Chercheurs étrangers en France
La recherche française décroche
Archaeologists discover 'exceptional' site at Lake Titicaca
An ancient ceremonial site described as exceptional has been discovered in the Andes by marine archaeologists, who recovered ritual offerings and the remains of slaughtered animals from a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca. More...
Research shows students are as good as professors in tutorial teaching
Professors and graduate students are at opposite ends of the university hierarchy in terms of experience, qualifications and pay. But at many universities, both do the same job: they teach tutorials offered in parallel with lectures. More...
Reading the Latest 2U 10-K as Academic Research
By Joshua Kim. For your research, please dig into the latest 2U 10-K filing (105 pages), review 2U’s fourth quarter and full-year 2018 financial results, and then read through the February 2019 2U earnings call transcript (33 pages). More...
Les démolisseurs de la recherche
EEP News: Carnegie Mellon and Duke Lower Barriers to Conducting Educational Research
By Michael Feldstein. Carnegie Mellon and Duke are theoretically peers. To use one very imperfect measure, they are both ranked in the top 25 national universities by US News and World Report. They are both more specifically ranked in the top 15 such schools for undergraduate teaching. More...
Lancement des groupes de travail pour un projet de loi de programmation pluriannuelle de la recherche
Depuis le mois de mai 2017, le Gouvernement porte une politique ambitieuse pour renforcer les capacités scientifiques et technologiques de la France, en misant d’une part sur un soutien significatif aux acteurs de la recherche, et d’autre part sur des transformations d’ordre structurel. Plus...
Research Article: Success factors for serious games to enhance learning: a systematic review
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Research Article: Success factors for serious games to enhance learning: a systematic review
Karl Kapp, Kapp Notes, 2018/10/09
This post summarizes a paywalled article (and the link provided is actually to an individual libraryu account, making it doubly walled) but you can fine the text on sci-hub (28 page PDF). Most of the article cosnsists of a large table summarizing other articles. Kapp rightly focuses on the conclusions and restates them accurately. More...