On the Agenda – Week 30, 2013
Take 1 – Big Data in Education
@SchleicerEdu: Big Data and PISA: how education can reinvent its business model
@AnnieMurphyPaul: Spatial skills at age 13 predict the likelihood of becoming an innovator in STEM fields as an adult
@KristenSwanson: The Implications of Big Data and Education: Reforming Grading
@SteveJones_MCR: Ethnography and the Geography of Learning (more interesting piece than its title implies)
Take 2 – Developing Countries
@theobhe: Burka Avenger Fights For Girls’ Education #superheroes
@InternationalUT: Sri Lanka as an education hub?
@NST_online: Students in Egypt face civil war
Take 3 – Research
@vangeest: Inception for real: Neuroscientists Plant False Memories in Mice Brains
@PLOSone: What Took Them So Long? Explaining PhD Delays among Doctoral Candidates
@naturenews: Arctic methane release will cost trillions in global impacts, say Gail Whiteman, Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams.
…and this week on ScienceGuideEU
@ScienceGuideEU: Universities struggle with academic freedom in the Gulf. Christopher Davidson: “The relationship is getting awkward”
@ScienceGuideEU: “wtf, it’s sooooo boring here.” Tweets are as effective as old-school surveys to determine a community’s happiness.
Meest Gelezen
Wederom intimidatie van journalisten door universiteit, nu in Delft
‘Burgerschapsonderwijs moet ook verplicht worden in hbo en wo’
Raad van State: laat taaltoets nog niet gelden voor hbo-opleidingen
Vrouwen houden universiteit draaiende, maar krijgen daarvoor geen waardering
Extra geld voor bètafaculteiten is daar nooit terechtgekomen