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How Some Professors Deploy Mobile Technology in Their Teaching
Students in Ronald A. Yaros’s Info 3.0 class at the University of Maryland at College Park this fall will use a smartphone app specifically designed for practically everything in the course: Writing blog posts, sending tweets, and shooting video interviews.
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Could Income-Share Agreements Help Solve the Student Debt Crisis?
Anyone who is unaware that we face a massive problem involving college student debt, contact Earth at your first convenience.
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This Study Tried to Improve Our Ability to Predict Major Geopolitical Events. It Worked.
The Wharton School's Philip Tetlock is the subject of this article on his prediction project.
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Genetically Inclined to Learn
A study released today has found that an individual’s genetic makeup can have a direct effect on the level of education achieved by that individual, the first time that researchers have found such a relationship.
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Quest to Put a Value on Medical Research Illustrates the Difficulties of Trying
The long-term flattening of the U.S. public investment in medical research is well-recognized. But less is known about a trickier question: Are the available dollars being spent any more efficiently?
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FDA Approves Female Libido Pill, But Includes Safety Warnings
Perelman School of Medicine's Philip Hanno and
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Will Turning Google Into Alphabet Let Founders Play Again?
David Hsu of the Wharton School comments on the business strategies of Google.
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Not Just Research
It’s no secret that science courses, particularly at the first- and second-year levels, can be dry. The classes are big, the content is wide but typically shallow, and professors often resort to lectures.
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New Debt Relief Rules Coming
The Obama administration is planning new regulations that will set clearer standards for discharging the federal student loans of defrauded borrowers and give the U.S. Department of Education new tools to recoup money from colleges where it finds misconduct.
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Tiny Fountain of Atoms Sparks Big Insights Into Dark Energy
Justin Khoury of the School of Arts and Sciences uses the chameleon to define the study of hypothetical particles.