What kinds of research matter to educators?
Benjamin Doxtdator, 2018/05/10
This is a good discussion of the place of research in education. Benjamin Doxtdator takes Tom Bennett’s researchED conference as a point of departure, noting that "Bennett’s argument for evidence-based education has also largely been an argument to shore-up traditional practices in the face of new fads." It's not that we don't need a defense against fads. It's that we need a better defense. More...
Uncited Research
Simon Baker, Times Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, 2018/04/19
The argument documented here is familiar, but it's still a point of frustration for researchers working in the humanities and social sciences when they are compared with peers in technology, engineering and mathematics. Simply, the former receive much fewer citations because citations, and papers themselves, play a different role in those disciplines. More...
Frédérique Vidal adresse ses plus vives félicitations aux équipes de l’unité de recherche mixte INSERM/I.R.D./Université de Montpellier qui, en lien avec l’Institut national de recherche biomédicale de Kinshasa (République Démocratique du Congo), ont identifié la souche virale responsable de l’épidémie actuelle de fièvre hémorragique EBOLA en République démocratique du Congo. Plus...
3 dispositifs pour répondre à vos besoins :
Le crédit d’impôt innovation ou CII
les opérations de conception de prototypes ou installations pilotes de nouveaux produits ouvrent droit au CII, imputé sur l’impôt à payer, en complément ou non du CIR
Le Crédit Impôt Recherche ou CIR
est une aide publique imputée sur l’impôt à payer, bénéficiant aux entreprises qui engagent des dépenses de recherche fondamentale et de développement expérimental
La Convention Industrielle de Formation par la Recherche ou CIFRE
est une aide financière au recrutement de doctorants en entreprise, associant l’entreprise, le laboratoire de recherche assurant l’encadrement de la thèse et le doctorant. Plus...
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Le Cycle de Séminaires sur L’évaluation d’impact des politiques publiques consacre sa troisième séance Quelle place des chercheurs dans l’évaluation des politiques publiques ? Le cas de la politique de l’emploi. Plus...
The University at Albany is looking to expand its footprint in a big way, breaking ground Tuesday on a research and academic center on the Harriman state campus. More...
By Simon Baker for Times Higher Education. Academics publishing in particular fields of chemistry or neuroscience are virtually guaranteed to be cited after five years, but more than three-quarters of papers in literary theory or the performing arts will still be waiting for a single citation. More...
Research-Based Observations
One adage is missing from this article: be careful when conducting usability tests, because you will only find what you're looking for. Usability tests are conducted by giving people specific tasks to conduct on a website. If you don't ask them to, say, bookmark a page on the site, then thinks like frames will not appear as a problem. More...
La quatrième édition du Printemps de la recherche en éducation sera consacrée aux thématiques de l'inclusion et du numérique. Plus...
Doctors are finding it increasingly tough to treat infections due to a rising number of bacteria strains that are resistant to antibiotics. Nowhere is that truer than the Middle East, where it is still commonplace to buy the drugs over the counter without a prescription. More...
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