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Posted to Diigo 08/18/2010

Aug 18, 2010

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Killing the Lecture With Technology, Part II – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Annotated Gregory A. Moses, a professor of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has tried to reverse the “lecture-homework paradigm” in a computational science course. Instead of watching a lecture and doing homework later, outside…
Research at South African universities

Dec 11, 2008

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I just read an interesting short article discussing the research priorities of certain South African higher education institutions. While some institutions rank highly and excel in specific areas of research, government does not seem to adequately support these institutions in terms of pushing those research agendas. With the move towards a more scholarly approach to…