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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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Unfortunately, a sizeable portion of this academic scholarship is locked behind paywalls thus restricting its access to those who can afford to pay. Several researchers and students are unable to afford the high costs required for access thus crippling their efforts to participate in the generation of quality knowledge.

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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

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iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. These resources are accessible from the Teach hub and are organized by topic. Webquests are composed of slides, resource links, and questions.

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Fun Math Games to Help Students Practice Math Concepts and Skills

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Cool Math Games Cool Math Games offers access to a wide range of free math games that help students sharpen their mathematical skills. The free version of the site offers access to 50.000 questions and over 1000 curriculum aligned skills. Using their credentials, students can sign in to class and access the assigned games.

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Encourage Creativity in the Classroom

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Kids don’t go to school just to learn classical subjects such as history, math, or geography. Up until a few years ago, 3D printing wasn’t an easily accessible technology. Let’s take polygons as an example – children learn about this geometric concept throughout their primary years. Use Fun Tools. Encourage Their Curiosity.

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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

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The gap between our instruction has been created by increased recognition of the importance of ICT skills and access to devices changing from a few middle and upper-class homes to the vast majority of households.

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

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In rural communities, on the other hand, access to these basic needs can be harder to come by. As well as a lack of jobs, housing and education, these communities also tend to lack good quality infrastructure, such as roads and public transport, access to health care, and support from government programmes.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. Access to water and sanitation are fundamental human rights. By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today.