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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

ED Surge

I want the students to do something historical, obviously—depict an event or person, perhaps—but I understand that not everyone is equally creative in the arts. From Brian Plummer, adjunct history professor at Vanguard University Dear Brian, You have posed such vital questions. What do I do? What do you wonder?

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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

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Our primary guide for observing these learning environments was a book by Vanderbilt University Professor Rich Milner called Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There , which offers a framework of opportunity-centered teaching. We often neglect to discuss the real impacts of diverse life experiences and circumstances.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But in 1834, Émile Clapeyron (1799–1864)—a rather distinguished French engineering professor (and steam engine designer)—wrote a paper entitled “ Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat ”. The Sadi Carnot who would later become president of France was his nephew.) physics) in Glasgow—began to be curious about.

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

Futurum

The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather. When I was younger, I always loved math and science.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

Fill the balloons that are your lungs, the professor says, then empty them completely. Each of them has already earned at least 45 college credits—equal to about three semesters—and desires to complete a degree. Yet their professors believe in them. Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library.

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