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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Good news: There's mounting evidence that changing calculus instruction works for the groups usually pushed out of STEM. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

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About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.”

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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2023

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Administrators, professors and students are rethinking nearly everything about how higher education works. Should calculus be taught differently in the 21st century? College professors are pushing calculus past its traditional limits to help more students succeed in advanced math. Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work?

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New Effort Hopes to Make ‘Weed-Out’ Courses More Equitable

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Research by the nonprofit Gardner Institute and other groups has found that these typically-freshman-year classes tend to prune some kinds of students from academic tracks more than others. Research shows students may drop out or change their major based on these gateway courses.” Organic chemistry , anyone?) history surveys.

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

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I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. Accurate information directly impacts who gets what resources — aren’t you an educator and literal expert in communication and research?

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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

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The links didn’t work and as I researched, it looks like this AR experience debuted in 2020. I remember the day when many schools banned calculators because they thought it would make kids not learn math – instead, we can now teach calculus in high school as a result! will be the web in us — the biological web.

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How can smart contact lenses monitor and treat eye conditions?

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Dr Chi Hwan Lee, associate professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering at Purdue University, is developing smart contact lenses that can do just that. Chi Hwan’s research group is designing wearable biomedical devices that can be attached to a patient’s eye or skin to monitor or treat specific health conditions.