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Is Student Absenteeism a Growing Problem at Colleges, Too?

ED Surge

They may disengage by being physically in the classroom, but on their phones or their laptops feigning attention , feigning participation in class, but they're really in their Amazon cart or they're in their email or they're someplace else. Terri Hasseler So this kind of absenteeism may not be just not being physically there.

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Can quantum physics make the internet more secure?

Futurum

Can quantum physics make the internet more secure? QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT — the physical phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles interact in such a way that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the others. Fields of research : Quantum Physics, Quantum Technology, Optics.

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Want Students to Flourish? Teach Human Ecology

ED Surge

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. It still teaches preventive and protective physical and mental health, but the content has broadened to include climate and technology defenses. It taught civilian survival and resilience.

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Implementing STEM area in high school subjects of economics: The basis of a digital marketing

Scientix

In time, the 4 Ps were extended to 7 Ps ­– People, Processes, and Physical evidence. People are important for this, but physical evidence is also involved in the marketing mix in terms of computer equipment, publications and signaling in general. She teaches Economics at The Commercial and Trade School of Split, Croatia, Europe.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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The location students identified had to be strategically located for equitable access, accounting for the needs of community members most limited by transportation and low economic support. During this lesson, students identified a bridge as a barrier in Lawrence that restricted convenient access to healthy and affordable foods.

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Up Next For Higher Ed? Cryptocurrencies, Political Battles and Hybrid Learning

ED Surge

This year, 57 such experts identified social, technological, economic, environmental and political trends influencing the higher ed sector. An economic trend that the research identifies as significant is the growth of the digital economy.

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Scenes From Campus Life During the ‘Delta Semester’

ED Surge

One thing that was notably different, was adjusting to returning to physical classrooms. Audrey Mullen, a senior at Boston College majoring in economics with a minor in international studies. For Umreen Imam, a grad student at the University of Houston-Downtown, that meant trying to put faces to voices she had heard in online courses.

Economics 257