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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'

ED Surge

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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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

Futurum

Astrophysicists Professor Raja GuhaThakurta and Dr Amanda Quirk , from the University of California Santa Cruz , USA, are studying starlight to explore the mysteries of our two neighbouring galaxies, Andromeda and Triangulum. LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km).

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Examining the extremely small

Futurum

A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Scientific research is so complex that it is impossible for a single research group to do everything by themselves,” says Professor Alexander Urban from the Faculty of Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU). What is DNA origami?

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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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Zero-g and Me

The Blog of Phyz

I am still waiting for that day but I have traveled into the stratosphere aboard NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). If they have a sum that is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to air resistance, the object will move like it is in free fall. My hometown was somewhat confused about that.

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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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