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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educators Technology

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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Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?

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While plenty of schools have experimented with short lessons conducted in virtual reality, this new school, called Optima Academy Online, has embraced the technology as a primary mode of course delivery. For students at a new Florida-based charter school, entering the classroom means strapping on a VR headset.

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

Educators Technology

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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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

Talk like a geographic information systems expert Cartography — map making Environmental justice — ensuring equitable access to the environment for all people. I went to university to study geography, then started a master’s in meteorology. I’ve been working for the EPA for 30 years, and it’s been a great career.

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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.

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"Learning loss" is a misnomer, bilingual education a must, and more from NM teacher of the year

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a public charter school located in Albuquerque. Primary Years Programme makes our curricula unique in how it weaves together content standards, skills and student identity. . I suspect that education in the short-term will see more changes that include access to internet services and technological devices.

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