Northwestern trustee Jennifer Leischner Litowitz (Weinberg ’91) and Alec Litowitz donated $20 million to the University in support of the newly renamed Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement, Northwestern announced in a press release Wednesday. Launched in 2024 as part of the Kellogg School of Management, the center seeks to address rising polarization by teaching students... The post Northwestern gifted $20 million for Litowitz Center for Enlightened Disagreement appeared first on ...| The Daily Northwestern
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In today’s world, nearly every profession benefits from multilingual communication. But in healthcare, it’s not just a bonus. It’s often a matter of safety, equity, and legal responsibility. Whether it’s a nurse caring for a Spanish-speaking patient, an EMT responding to a call in a multilingual neighborhood, or a clinic receptionist helping a Chinese family […] The post Speaking the Language of Care: Why Nursing and Health Professions Programs Should Teach and Credential Language S...| LTI Blog
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The academic is based in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London but, she explains, her work centres around peace photography The post “We know about war photography, but what about peace photography?”: In conversation with Dr Tiffany Fairey appeared first on 1854 Photography.| 1854 Photography
The demand for multilingual professionals is growing fast. In industries such as healthcare, hospitality, construction, and emergency services, the ability to communicate across cultures isn’t just an asset; it’s a workforce necessity. As communities become more diverse and industries more globally connected, employers are increasingly seeking workers who can speak the language of their customers […] The post Career-Ready in Two Languages: How a CTE Program Is Preparing Students to Succ...| LTI Blog
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As classrooms increasingly rely on digital platforms for instruction and assessment, ensuring student safety online has become more than a best practice. It’s a legal and ethical responsibility. While teachers often evaluate testing tools and classroom apps based on usability, price, and instructional value, there’s another critical factor that should always be part of the […] The post Online Testing and Student Safety: Why COPPA Certification Matters first appeared on LTI Blog.| LTI Blog
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, a proud Hispanic-Serving Institution. I teach courses in interpreting, Spanish, and bilingualism. Most students at our college are bilingual, yet they often enter college unsure of how their language skills relate […] The post Empowering Bilingual Proficiency through Translation and Interpreting Training first appeared on LTI Blog.| LTI Blog
In today’s economy, language proficiency is more than a communication tool, it is a workforce necessity. As industries expand internationally, integrate diverse workforces, and prioritize safety and efficiency, the demand for bilingual and multilingual professionals has never been higher. Yet, language credentialing often remains an untapped opportunity in Career and Technical Education (CTE). At the| LTI Blog - Certify your language skills anytime, anywhere.
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Dr Stephen Heard goes through his experience mentoring beyond the PhD and helping academic skills transfer to non-academic careers...| career-advice.jobs.ac.uk
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At Digilent, we’re proud to support educators and students around the world in bringing digital design concepts to life. One recent example comes from Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey, where …| Digilent Blog
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Dr Charles Young, founding editor-in-chief of our new global healthcare journal, Research Connections, shares his vision for the journal.| Oxford University Press
Spoiler alert: language education is important for college and career readiness (CCR)! Recently, Education Week (EdWeek) launched an informal poll among K-12 language educators on LinkedIn and found that nearly 75% of the roughly 1,900 respondents listed “adaptability as the most important skill graduates need.” Other skills mentioned were ability to focus, empathy, resilience, critical| LTI Blog - Certify your language skills anytime, anywhere.
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Why a virtual exchange? Have you ever considered engaging in a virtual exchange with a classroom across the world? After trying time-consuming pen pal exchanges, I wanted to find a way to connect my middle school language learners with their peers abroad to engage in authentic conversations in the target language. My hope was to| LTI Blog - Certify your language skills anytime, anywhere.
Today is my last day at Cardiff Met. I won't be idle; "Introduction to AI" is due out in June and other books in the way, but it is a change of pace and focus. To mark my retirement and turning 65 I am running 65 miles in a week in July in aid of Cancer Research UK.| Alan Dix
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by Edward A. Comor (Editor)Lance Strate (Series Editor)The above photograph of Harold Innis has been little knownor seen before. In 1952, a terminally ill Harold Innis asked his closest intellectual confidant, Tom Easterbrook, to teach his signature course on communications on his behalf. With Innis’s premature death, the course turned out to be both Innis’s final course and […]| McLuhan Galaxy
OUP India's latest academic legal title pays tribute to the career of Professor Upendra Baxi, one of India's most prominent legal scholars.| Oxford University Press
By Thomas (Tom) Cooper, PhD In the age of Artificial Intelligence, social media, and anti-social media, arguably the two thinkers who most alerted us to the real “influencers” of our day – the med…| McLuhan Galaxy
Our new interdisciplinary research collections on AI in Society, and Racism by Context, contain timely and robust approaches to pressing global issues.| Oxford University Press
As language educators, we strive to prepare our students for real-world communication and future opportunities. Whether they pursue careers in government, healthcare, business, or education, their ability to use language effectively can open doors. Therefore, providing them with the right assessment tools to showcase their skills is essential. Not all language tests are created equal.| LTI Blog - Certify your language skills anytime, anywhere.
The AI glossary is complete -1229 entries in all, ready for the publication of the AI book in June. This a resource in its own right and interlinks with the book as hybrid digital/physical media. Find more about the glossary and how it was made.| Alan Dix
“Get you a girl who can do both – pole dance and academia” (and who gets, like, really anxious about it). “Doing both” was, for a while, my brand, something I lived and breathed, without too much thought. But as my responsibilities and profile grow in inverse proportion to my precarity, lately I’ve been filled […] The post Doing both: the challenges of being a pole dancing academic appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
Dr Zahra Stardust is my academic idol and an all-around legend: a socio-legal scholar working at the intersections of sexuality, technology, law and social justice, Zahra is also a stripper from the early days of Australian pole, a former pole dance instructor, porn performer, director and activist building a career in intimacy education alongside academia. […] The post Zahra Stardust interview appeared first on Blogger On Pole.| Blogger On Pole
By Esther G. Juce 5 November, 2024 It all began when Bill Jefferson, Marshall McLuhan Initiative (MMI) Board Member, was opining the fact that we as the MMI Board didn’t meet face to face. Bursting…| McLuhan Galaxy
Query-by-Browsing now includes local explanations so that you can explore in detail how the AI generated query relates to dataset items. Continue reading →| Alan Dix
Northeastern University’s Roux Institute is revitalizing a Portland landmark and creating a new home for cutting-edge education.| CambridgeSeven
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I've just been sent an email from eLife, pointing me to links to a report called "eLife's New Model: One year on" and a report by the editors "Scientific Publishing: The first year of a new era". To remind readers who may have missed it, the big change introduced by eLife in 2023 was to drop the step where an editor decides on reject or accept of a manuscript after reviewer comments are received. Instead, the author submits a preprint, and the editors then decide whether it should be reviewe...| BishopBlog
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Is your mind the same thing as your brain, or are there aspects of mind beyond the brain’s biology? This is the mind-body problem, and it has captivated curious minds since the dawn of human contemplation. Today many insist that the mind is completely reducible to the brain. But is that claim justified? In this stimulating anthology, twenty-five philosophers and Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
Dr. H. Justin Ballenger is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education at Morehouse College’s Division of Continuing and Professional Studies. Concurrently, he serves as the Co-PI for the NSF – Institute for African American Mentoring in Computing Sciences (IAAMCS) and Research Lead for the NSF – National Data Science Alliance (NDSA). Dr. Ballenger’s work focuses […]| Higher Education Digest
Rodoula H. Tsiotsou (Florida State University, Ph.D.) is currently a Professor of Services Marketing at the Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Greece. She is the founder and director of the marketing laboratory, MARLAB, at the University of Macedonia. Since 2019, the Science-wide Author Database developed by Elsevier and Stanford University has ranked Professor […]| Higher Education Digest
How a chiilds puzzle game gives insight into more human-like explanations of AI decisions Many of you will have played Mastermind, the simple board game with coloured pegs where you have to guess a hidden pattern. At each turn the person with the hidden pattern scores the challenge until t| Alan Dix
Dr. Temitope Omotola Odusanya, Esq., ACG, affectionately known as “Temi” is a distinguished academic and dynamic leader of the Master of Laws (LLM) Programme at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. As an award-winning lecturer (Assistant Professor) in law and a post-doctoral expert, she is fervently committed to advancing global gender parity and enhancing corporate […]| Higher Education Digest
Dr. Olga Kagan is a nurse consultant, educator, scientist and entrepreneur. She teaches at two New York-based universities, contributes to textbooks, mentors nurses, and advises start-ups. Dr. Kagan founded the Food Allergy Nurses Interest group and co-founded SONSIEL’s Collaborative Healthcare Innovation, Research & Problem Solving (CHIRPS). As a recognized thought leader, she has served on […]| Higher Education Digest
David Ivell is a recognized technology leader spanning financial services, media, education, and non-profit sectors. He began his career as a Systems Engineer with IBM, later transitioning into senior roles such as CIO at Credit Suisse Offshore, where he managed the integration of multiple banks and the launch of the Euro currency. A champion of […]| Higher Education Digest
The author of “Life Hacks” and “Growth Hacks”, Dr. Ken Ip is an award-winning brand strategist, assistant professor, columnist and expert commentator in Web3, AI, Tech, Branding and Digital Economy. Ken has held a variety of senior positions for leading multinationals and conglomerates, ranging from corporate consulting to public affairs advisory. He currently serves as Chairman of […]| Higher Education Digest
Just imagine yourself as Chairman Mao or even one of the Party cadres boundlessly loyal to Chairman Mao getting a copy of the material published in this this book. Those criticisms by the many stud…| 高大伟 David Cowhig's Translation Blog
Our Very Short Introductions series is now made up of a landmark 750 titles from a wide range of topics from across arts, humanities, and science.| Oxford University Press
Moore's Introduction to English Canon Law (4th edn) by Timothy Briden explores the deeply interesting and immersive topic of English canon law or ecclesiastical law, which is the area of law that governs the Church of England. This textbook explores the constitution of the church, the different types of churches or units, the law around doctrine and worship, church property, legal proceedings, Holy Communion and much more. Therefore, this is a holistic introduction to this topic, which introd...| cembookportal.blogspot.com
The three-body problem, which discusses the gravitational relationship between three independent objects, has remained one of the most intriguing unsolved mysteries in physics. Kat Jivkova analyze …| Retrospect Journal
Harry Fry explores the concept of a higher power orchestrating human activity, examining it from religious, conspiracy theory, political ideology, psychological, and technological perspectives.| Retrospect Journal
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Alexander Kuskis, PhD (University of Toronto) By Howard R. Engel, Founding Director & C.E.O. The Marshall McLuhan Initiative Inc. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada The recipient of the thirteenth Med…| McLuhan Galaxy
The Medium & the Light (1999) book, the title of which was chosen to be the name of The Medium & the Light Award Although he died in 1980, he had foreseen the Internet and had warned against the excesses of technologies that could divorce from our material existence and threaten our very humanity, technologies […]| McLuhan Galaxy
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Dr. Whitney McDowell-Robinson serves as the Vice President for Student Development & Engagement and an adjunct professor in the College of Education at Brenau University in Georgia. Prior to this appointment, she worked for Tougaloo College in Mississippi; whereby, she held numerous roles including Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Services. Dr. McDowell-Robinson earned […]| Higher Education Digest
Dr. Arletha McSwain, a distinguished leader in online education, earned her PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia, her Masters in Education, and her Bachelors in Education from Lincoln University-Missouri. Her extensive experience in launching online programs that comply with national and international accrediting agencies is a testament to her dedication. She is a strong advocate […]| Higher Education Digest
Yesterday, I tweeted about how writing a thesis with chronic migraine has been one of the most difficult things that I've done. It got an outpouring of love and it just so happened to be on a day that I finished the first draft of my body chapters. I was already feeling good, and I'm a month out from my final deadline. But it hasn't been like this for the whole process. I feel like I don't read enough about young adults with chronic illness going through school/university, so I thought that I...| Chronic Migraine Ellie
Dr. Morris Thomas serves as Assistant Provost for Digital and Online Learning and Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Assessment at Howard University. Dr. Thomas is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the School of Education. As a Project Management Professional (PMP), he […]| Higher Education Digest
Timea Kadar is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is the Associate Dean and Programme Leader of the MSc Digital Marketing Programme at Northumbria University London Campus. She is the Winner of the Student Led Teaching Award nominated by students. Her subject field is marketing and business with decades of practitioner experience and […]| Higher Education Digest
Kevin House is an Associate Professor in Practice at Durham University’s School of Education and a Fellow with the UK’s Chartered College of Teaching, and the Royal Society of Arts. At Education in Motion, he is currently Group Education Futures Architect (Global) focused on developing innovative interdisciplinary curriculum frameworks and credential eco-systems for Green School […]| Higher Education Digest
Caleb Simmons, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Online Education at the University of Arizona and oversees Arizona Online. He also serves as Professor of Religious Studies and Faculty Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program. His current research focuses on online and digital learning, student learning outcomes, and cost-benefit in Higher Education. He was named […]| Higher Education Digest
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Earned, inherited, and covenant commonalities enable persons and groups of people to develop sympathy and empathy for each other. The sympathy and empathy that one person or group has for another person or group is defined here as social capital. The absence of commonalities often results in relationships of apathy and antipathy that one person or group has for another person or group, defined here as negative social capital. People and groups that share negative social capital for the same p...| Institute for Social Capital
Export Reference Download PDF Print We often talk about social capital in general terms, describing it as high or low, good or bad, positive or negative, or weak or strong. But social capital is complex and multidimensional. Does it make sense to talk about social capital in general terms, and what do we mean by […] The post What is high and low, and positive and negative social capital? appeared first on Institute for Social Capital.| Institute for Social Capital
This paper briefly reviews the theory of social, negative, and cheap social capital and then explains the popularity and the high cost of cheap social capital. Next, this paper points out that our voluntary exchanges (which are enabled by prospects of mutual gain) and the high cost of involuntary exchanges (which are entered into in response to threats and defensive and destructive acts) both reflect our responses to the same physical and socio-emotional needs. Therefore, what differentiates ...| Institute for Social Capital
This accessible academic textbook chronicles the legacy the adventure game genre has left behind on the contemporary gaming landscape. A generation of designers grew up playing these games, which are rarely studied today as a comprehensive body of work, and their DNA lives on not only in the work of contemporary auteurs but also in the form of dozens of daughter genres, from visual novels to walking simulators to escape rooms to puzzle platformers. We make the case that the genre has always b...| aaronareed.net
Should online communities require people to create accounts before participating? This question has been a source of disagreement among people who start or manage online communities for decades. Re…| copyrighteous
Ever considered doing research about online communities, free culture/software, and peer production full time? It’s PhD admission season and my research group—the Community Data Science Colle…| copyrighteous
I first started using Debian sometime in the mid 90s and started contributing as a developer and package maintainer more than two decades years ago. My first very first scholarly publication, colla…| copyrighteous
In exciting professional news, it was recently announced that I got an National Science Foundation CAREER award! The CAREER is the US NSF’s most prestigious award for early-career faculty. In…| copyrighteous
I wrote this blog post with Kaylea Champion and a version of this post was originally posted on the Community Data Science Collective blog. Critical software we all rely on can silently crumble awa…| copyrighteous
The other thing I am really looking forward to, is the tutorial I’ll teach together with Dominikus Baur. We will look at all the practical aspects of producing successful web-based data visualizations — except the actual data vis code. So, we will discuss deeplinking, performance, shareability, help and explanations, fallbacks, mobile optimizations – all the stuff that makes great web applications really great, but which we all underestimate all the time.| Well-formed data
