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along with thousands of people around the world students, schoolchildren, radio hams and space enthusiasts. For most of them, this will be the first space mission where they have direct involvement.
Are students who take cognitive enhancers to get better grades and access to top universities cheating,
Sahakian estimates 16%of US students are taking study buddies while a poll of students at Oxford university carried out last year,
found 7%had tried them. In the academic world, the phenomenon reaches both the top and the bottom of the tree.
Students think of these as study aids in the same way as someone might drink coffee before work.
Earlier this year, female taikonaut Wang Yaping gave the first live lesson from space to 60 million students on the effects of zero gravity.
Super spuds Potatoes are preferred often the vegetable of choice for teaching high school science students these principles.
along with Phd student Alex Goldberg, and Boris Rubinsky of the University of California, Berkeley. e looked at 20 different types of potatoes,
KA Lite, their platform, allows students to do exercises, watch videos, and it tracks their progress.
as they can respond to students and tailor lessons. There are several initiatives trying to connect the entire world to the internet,
#Moocs data offers promise of perfect teaching One day, Sebastian Thrun ran a simple and surprising experiment on a class of students that changed his ideas about how they were learning.
The students were doing an online course provided by Udacity, an educational organisation that Thrun co-founded in 2011.
Thrun and his colleagues split the online students into two groups. One group saw the lesson presentation slides in colour,
and improved for students. It was an early example of a trend promising to transform online education the exploitation of huge amounts of data about how people actually learn.
and keyboard stroke a student makes, and this is revealing patterns of learning behaviour that are difficult, if not impossible,
offering a unique opportunity to monitor student behaviour during lessons in unprecedented detail. You can even monitor mouse clicks. e collect tracking data such as
For starters, such data helps Coursera group participants into different types of student, such as those who watch all the lectures and complete all the assignments, others who lose interest over time,
Coursera has discovered there is also a group of students who complete all of the homework assignments without watching any of the lectures. his was unexpected,
Such information will allow people to adapt courses for different subgroups of students. In particular, it provides clear
and sometimes surprising signals about the presentation style that works best for students, as Udacity trial with black-and-white slides revealed.
a Phd student at the Lytics Lab at Stanford university, the style of presentation on a computer screen can make a big difference to learning.
actually help students to learn, or are simply a distraction. Kizilcec looked at whether the video of the instructor should be placed in the corner of every slide,
or if it students would be equally happy if it disappeared and reappeared intermittently. By monitoring over 21
he found that students fell into two camps. Those participants who had expressed previously a preference for learning visually with an emphasis on text
But those students who preferred to be taught verbally were much better off with the instructor face permanently in one corner of the screen. hat this result suggests is need a for adaptive systems,
Mooc data is also revealing how to best motivate students online. Joseph Jay Williams and other researchers at Stanford university
alongside Jascha Sohl-Dickstein at nonprofit online education provider Khan academy, added messages above mathematics problems on the Khanacademy. org website to keep students motivated
"had little effect on student performance. But when they added notes emphasising that intelligence can be improved with effort,
"they found that students attempted a greater number of problems and were more likely to get them right.
A similar attempt by Coursera to encourage students to finish their course by reminding them of what homework assignments they had yet to complete
actually led to a drop in student retention when participants felt harassed, says Do. But the company got a much better response
when they lipped ininformation within an email that focused more on the positive achievements students had made that week,
students could soon be receiving the ultimate in personalised teaching, with unique lessons targeted exactly to their needs, motivations and learning style.
The education technology start-up Knewton, for example, has developed an adaptive learning system that instantaneously alters the way it presents information to students based on
what it gleans about their individual learning style as they interact with it It also possible that student behaviour
whether students are following the lesson or frowning in confusion. All of which promises a future in which teachers can adapt at a glance to how different students respond to everything from string theory to Shakespeare
whether they are in a classroom or not. How students may feel about this level of monitoring,
however, is less clear l
#Emergencies inspire new apps to answer crisis calls Like many residents of Nairobi in Kenya,
000 Saudi students studying abroad at the world leading universities. With 70%of the population under 34,
Graduate and Phd students at Kaust New Ventures programme are given both encouragement and financing to find solutions to pressing problems such as water treatment and renewable energy.
we have over 60,000 Saudi students, explains Prince Fahad bin Faisal Al Saud. He a 30-year-old member of the Saudi Royal family who, after graduating from Stanford university,
He now a echnology evangelistfor the country. his number of Saudi students outside the country has happened not in 13 years,
whereby teachers travel to students in more remote locations and islands around the country, holding classes in the hills, farms and marketplaces.
whereby teachers travel to students in more remote locations and islands around the country, holding classes in the hills, farms and marketplaces.
Students were exempted from military service attracting a young, artistic and politically radical alternative scene. Since the fall of the Wall in 1989,
at best, out of about 100, for a school with 450 students and 50 teachers, he recalls. hey were mostly the big, boxy computers,
including infants'later performance in reading, students'later performance in math, criminals'likelihood of becoming repeat offenders, adolescents'future drug and alcohol use,
Hillman and her students built their first SCAPE system using inexpensive off-the-shelf components. Her"aha"moment came when
England's state-run schools began introducing its youngest students to a concept that would confuse most of their parents:
In 2009, only 19 percent of students graduated with credits in computer science, down from 25 percent in 1990, according to a report from the U s. Department of education.
"sees the Arabic-speaking students at Israeli universities as both a business opportunity and a way to bring Israeli Arabs into the country new economy.
4ltr Press Online is built around student"learnflow,"the workflow behind learning, according to information released by the company."
so that students can navigate the text as easy as the flip of a page.""The second pathway attempts to discourage student use of search engines,
which can point them to inaccurate resources, by using concept tags and indexing learning resources to mimic search engine results,
allowing students to find related content aligned with course goals. Concept tags are used also in 4tlr Press Online's Studybits and Studyboard features,
which aim to help students personalize their study. As students read, they can collect bits of information to create their own Studybits,
which are sent then to the Studyboard where they are filtered by concept tags, understanding and category to aid in organization.
students can create flashcards using their personal bits or chapter quizzes.""Print textbooks have been successful for hundreds of years because of their scope and sequence,
"At Cengage Learning, we're squarely focused on the needs of the today's students.
and sequence based on input and product testing with students. We understand that everyone learns in different ways.
That's why we constantly gather feedback to ensure that our products evolve with today's students
and students by harmonizing login credentials, calendar management and course content creation, in addition to other workflow improvements for education institutions and other Moodle users,"according to a news release.
and Office 365 and students and teachers who create events in Moodle will have stored those events in their Office 365 calendars.
where students can complete them, then submit them through Moodle, in turn receiving teacher feedback in the same document.
what students can do. Marist College, which runs the New york state Cloud computing and Analytics Center, is teaming up with IBM
and IBM gives students an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research and learn how the rise of cloud computing is changing
We are ensuring the proficiency of students by providing them access to the latest networking technology skills due to the rise of cloud models,
"By training Marist students"on the latest in networking and architectures, we will help provide a strong career path,
"exemplifies the unlimited possibilities of cloud computing and the importance of the development of students on cutting-edge technology
The Alliance for Climate Education is using Mosaic Places to empower thousands of high school students across the nation to influence parents to go solar.
Part of IBM commitment will go toward internships for over a dozen students from BC universities to build subject matter expertise and practical experience in this emerging industry.
The students will represent a broad cross-section of disciplines including MBAS researchers programmers and biologists.
as well as inviting Chinese researchers and students to visit and study at UC Davis. The UC Davis Policy Institute leverages world-class university expertise
UC Davis has more than 34,000 students, and the full-time equivalent of 4, 100 faculty and other academics and 17,400 staff.
29-year-old Phd student Chiara Nardon, was named top young innovator in the field of biochemistry in 2013,
and the project is expected to stimulate interest among students to pursue advanced degrees in environmental disciplines.
Laura Prochazka also a doctoral candidate student under Benenson has developed a versatile signal converter. She published her work recently in the magazine Nature Communications.
or more such drugs in just the 12 months preceding the survey The results are based on a nationally representative sample of some 1100 students enrolled full time in a 2-or 4-year college in spring 2013.
The survey is part of the long-term Monitoring the Future (MTF) study which also tracks substance use among the nation s secondary students
Nonmedical use of the amphetamine Adderall used by some students to stay awake and concentrate when preparing for tests
since however to just over 2 percent in 2013 (secondary school students have shown a similar recent drop in their use of synthetic marijuana according to the Monitoring the Future annual surveys of middle and high school students).
and are at historic lows among high school students. The age peers of college students that is young adults who are also one to four years out of high school
Zhang is now a student at Cornell University. The US ARMY Research Office and the National Science Foundation supported the research p
and students in training. ee not trying to replace the experts, says Jordan Hashemi, a graduate student in computer and electrical engineering at Duke university. ee trying to transfer the knowledge of the relatively few autism experts available into classrooms and homes across the country.
a Mcgill Phd student and the study first author. nderstanding their individual role is crucial in developing a new therapy.
Laura Prochazka also a doctoral candidate student under Benenson has developed a versatile signal converter. She published her work recently in the magazine Nature Communications.
All this gesturing wizardry is made possible by a new type of algorithm developed by Jie Song a master s student in the working group headed by Otmar Hilliges professor of computer science at ETH Zurich.
Foley and the students are working with the Association Of late Deafened Adults in Atlanta to improve the program.
In the latest work Greer and her students used the technique to produce what they call three-dimensional nanolattices that are formed by a repeating nanoscale pattern.
The platform was developed by Vogel s Phd student Dirk Steuerwald and the prototype was created in the clean room at the IBM Research Centre in Ruschlikon Switzerland.
Eric P. Xing professor of machine learning and Bin Zhao a Phd student in the machine learning department presented their work on June 26 at the Computer Vision
Ota a former Phd student in Zhang s lab who is now an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Tokyo.
In a new study, Starner and Phd student Caitlyn Seim examined how well the gloves work to teach Braille."
That s a terrible waste of energy. raduate student Chih-Chau Hwang lead author of the paper first tried to combine amines with porous carbon. ut
Using electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes attached to the scalps of 25 student subjects, a team led by University of Oregon psychology doctoral student David E. Anderson captured synchronized neural activity
Abhinav Shrivastava a Phd student in robotics says NEIL can sometimes make erroneous assumptions that compound mistakes
Eleftheriades and Phd student Michael Selvanyagam s system wraps the mailbox in a layer of tiny antennas that radiate a field away from the box cancelling out any waves that would bounce back.
Jude Keyse a postgraduate student at the University of Queensland School of Biological sciences says the find was surprising.
and yellow hues. o-author Shane Penny a postgraduate student at Charles darwin University says o correctly describe the new species now becomes critical as the effects of getting it wrong can be profound for fisheries ecology
Undergraduate engineering student Allen Hawkes working with graduate student Alexander Katko and lead investigator Steven Cummer professor of electrical and computer engineering designed an electrical circuit capable of harvesting microwaves.
Lithium-sulfur batteries could potentially offer about five times the energy density of today s typically used lithium-ion batteriessays Yingchao Yu a Phd student with Abruã a
and a former Phd student in the lab of Francis Disalvo paper co-author and professor of chemistry and chemical biology. s an additive it greatly improves the cycling stability of the battery. n another approach to improving lithium-sulfur battery durability the researchers also report a new way
The challenge for Angel Mart assistant professor of chemistry and bioengineering at Rice university and his team of student researchers was to get their large metallic particles through the much smaller pores of a zeolite cage.
In an advance online publication of the journal Nature Materials Greer and her students describe how the new structures were made
Scary robotporfiri and Macri along with students Valentina Cianca and Tiziana Bartolini hypothesized that robots could be used to induce fear as well as affinity
says Alex Limpaecher, a Ph d. student in Carnegie mellon University computer science department. Adrien Treuille, associate professor of computer science and robotics, says the drawing assistance app is just one example of how Big data can be used to enhance drawing
The databases also might be used to create teaching tools to improve the artistic techniques of students,
In addition to Treuille, the other team members were Nicholas Feltman, a Ph d. student in computer science, and Michael Cohen, principal researcher in Microsoft Research Interactive Visual Media Group.
#Panwar along with a team of students who have been working on the prototype technology designed streamloading to be compatible with current digital rights management (DRM) protocols.
"says Jörg Reitterer of Trilite Technologies and Phd-student in the team of Professor Schmid."
Students as Helpers Schools offer community service credit, encouraging work with dementia patients, whom students call grandmas and grandpas.
Teenage girls do foot massage at the Cheongam nursing home, which is run by Mrs. Lee, the Alzheimer Association president,
A boyshigh school selects top students to help at Seobu Nursing Center, doing art therapy
another student said. ome of us look like we don want to do this. For Kim Han-bit, 16, the program is intensely personal.
The University of Florida broadcasts and archives Dr. Rush lectures less for the convenience of sleepy students like Mr. Patel than for a simple principle of economics:
Students on this scenic campus of stately oaks rarely meet classmates in these courses. Online education is known best for serving older,
nontraditional students who can not travel to colleges because of jobs and family. But the same technologies of istance learningare now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses,
resident students are earning 12 percent of their credit hours online this semester, a figure expected to grow to 25 percent in five years.
How much of a student education and growth academic and personal depends on face-to-face contact with instructors and fellow students?
4. 6 million students took a college-level online course during fall 2008, up 17 percent from a year earlier, according to the Sloan Survey of Online learning.
belying the popular notion that most online students live far from campuses, said Jeff Seaman, co-director of the survey.
families paying $53, 000 a year demand low student-faculty ratios. Colleges and universities that have plunged into the online field,
mostly public, cite their dual missions to serve as many students as possible while remaining affordable,
At the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, first-year Spanish students are offered no longer a face-to-face class;
despite internal research showing that online students do slightly less well in grammar and speaking. ou have X amount of money,
and know every student name, but that not where we are financially and space-wise,
who teaches statistics to 1, 650 students. She said an advantage of the Internet is that students can stop the lecture
and rewind when they do not understand something. Ilan Shrira, who teaches developmental psychology to 300,
so by an online course Kristin Joos built interactivity into her Principles of Sociology course to keep students engaged.
and students join a virtual classroom once a week using a conferencing software called Wiziq. i, everyone, welcome to Week 9. Hello!
Dr. Joos said in a peppy voice recently to about 60 students who had logged on.
She asked students for their own definitions. One, bringing an online-chat sensibility to an academic discussion
A hardworking student who maintains an A average, she was frustrated by the online format. Other members of her discussion group were not pulling their weight,
#Student in Kenya Invents Solar Powered Forest fire Detector Efforts to curb forest loss around the world as a means of cutting carbon emissions just got a boost:
A Kenyan student has invented a device to automatically detect forest fire outbreaks. The technology, produced by Pascal Katana, a 24-year-old University of Nairobi engineering student,
uses heat sensors to detect a fire, then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. he heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,
the electrical and electronics engineering student said, calling it a lug and playdevice. The device still has to go through a vetting
But IBM believes the classrooms of the future will give educators the tools to learn about every student,
and student behavior on electronic learning platforms##and not just the results of aptitude tests.
which students are at risk, their roadblocks, and the way to help them. IBM is working on a research project with the#Gwinnett County Public schools in Georgia,
the 14th largest school district in the U s. with 170,000 students. The goal is to increase the district s graduation rate.
IBM believes it can harness big data to help students out.####You ll be able to pick up problems like dyslexia instantly,
#A solar-powered 3d printer that prints glass from sand Marcus Kayser s Solar Sinter project When Markus Kayser, a design student,
##With face-reading software, a computer s webcam might spot the confused expression of an online student
a Phd student working on the project.####People don t always know how or what to teach computers,
#Elementary school students in Finland to learn coding Teaching programming is part of an effort to encourage the development of tech skills at an early age.
In the near future, elementary school students in Finland could be adding coding and programming to their nightly homework routine.
##Bringing coding to students is something we are very aware of, but it would probably take awhile to get it up and running.##
Estonia rolled out a similar program for elementary school students in 2012, with 20 schools across the country testing a program called#Progetiiger.
The software teaches everything from basic logic to Java and C++ for older students. Finland is emerging as one of the hottest new startup hubs in the world,
#some schools already require students wear them as bracelets that sensors can pick up to#deter truancy.
U s. embassies around the world this fall are hosting weekly discussions for students enrolled in free online courses, called MOOCS, in partnership with Coursera, the Silicon valley-based platform with over 5 million users.
a 21-year-old student studying business at a Catholic university in La paz, Bolivia. She started the MOOC Camp in September,
meeting weekly with other students who were taking#Foundations of Business Strategy, a Coursera course taught by Michael Lenox at the University of Virginia s Darden School of business.
And the embassy is following up with a business plan competition for local students, with an#ipad#Mini as the prize.
##I thought this would be a great opportunity to work with Bolivian students and get them exposed to American-style education.##
which helps international students go to U s. colleges. For its part, Coursera is providing training resources for facilitators.
It will be tracking students success through the platform. The idea is that people will find it easier to persist
Increasing student success through this so-called##blended learning##approach is pretty important for Coursera and the other MOOC platforms.
Imke Hoehler, an inductrial design student at Germany Muthesius Academy of Fine arts has turned a lot of heads with her thesis project, the Dropnet fog collector.
but Canadian design student Thomas Row gives us an idea of what it may look like.
masters student Jonathan Cheseaux said in a release. Companies like Facebook and Google are looking into using drones
We need to prepare students for jobs that don t yet exist using technology that hasn t been invented to solve problems we don t even know are problems yet.
He works out religiously, is the school s students council president and spends eight to 10 hours a day at school.
#Department of education shuts down for-profit Corinthian Colleges Federal regulations are designed to make sure that colleges that don t offer a good value to students,
don t get student aid money. Corinthian Colleges will put 85 of its U s. campuses up for sale and close the remaining dozen under an agreement with the U s. Department of education.
It has more than 70,000 students across North america. It s the largest-ever college, by enrollment, to be shut down in this way.
and attendance and grade changes, of students. This was part of compliance with federal regulations designed to make sure that colleges that don t offer a good value to students,
don t get student aid money. When Corinthian didn t fully respond, in June, the Department of education placed a three-week hold on financial aid payments to Corinthian.
The cash freeze was a big problem for the college, which had underlying financial difficulties.
We are pleased to have reached an agreement with ED that helps protect the interests of our students, employees and other stakeholders, Jack Massimino,
This agreement allows our students to continue their education and helps minimize the personal and financial issues that affect our 12,000 employees and their families.
It also provides a blueprint for allowing most of our campuses to continue serving their students and communities under new ownership.
Current students have a number of choices. For those who stay on at campuses that are closing
Some students will also be offered refunds or the opportunity to transfer, and their loans may be discharged.
For example, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing ITT Educational Services, a chain with 135 campuses and 55,000 students in 40 states.
The CFPB s allegations include predatory lending and misleading students about their job prospects. ITT has filed a motion to dismiss this lawsuit.
but Udacity stated, It should take a working student about six to12 months to complete without having to take time off.
#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
and supportive learning environment that can help turn around students who are failing. Currently a free service, Classcraft will introduce a pay structure this fall that embraces the free-to-play model more commonly seen in mobile apps and online games like League of Legends and Runescape.
especially when they realize that the students will be buying gear and pets for their Classcraft avatars on itunes. Playing in class If you re a gamer,
At the start of class, his students come in and check their stats on the screen projected at the front of the room.
This helps focus the students, Young told Gamesbeat during a video call, asthe second they get into class,
and collaboration and will give hit damage to students who lack focus or misbehave. Students can gain powers specific to their character class by levelling up,
and they can use these to help and protect their teammates (or themselves), activating them live as events that unfold in the classroom.
Young s students are playing by his rules, but the chance to turn things in their favor is always there.
and the students can get pretty creative with them. There s one power, Teleport, where you can leave the class for 2 minutes,
Students don t typically respond happily to punishments. But they are. It s weird. Transforming the classroom through collaboration Young had the Classcraft idea in his head for several years before acting on it.
Nearly all the students in his middle school are eligible for free or reduced school lunches. Higuera s been trialling Classcraft for the past 4 months
and he s thrilled with how it s making his students care about their grades.
Before, some of my more apathetic students wouldn t care if they failed a quiz.
Classcraft permeates every aspect of school for Young s students. They get XP for doing well in sports or helping each other after school.
and describes using a video of NBA star Kobe Bryant jumping over a pool of snakes embedded below to spark a lab-based session where students try to answer the question,
As students level up, they ll get gold coins as part of their reward. They can use these to customize their character s look.
whether there would be a cap on the amount of money that students could spend. They cant spend that much money,
Classcraft will have a premium version charged at a rate of $4 per student per year. That way, pupils can still access the customizable features,
Higuera thinks his students will love the opportunity to customize their characters but doubts whether many will actually do it.
and will give students more immediate ownership of the game. German and Spanish translation will add global appeal to a system which Young says he always intended being an international concern.
Students as young as 8 and as old as 20 are already playing the game,
For students whose grades are suffering because they re not engaged or they re not motivated.
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