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Having Trouble Hiring at Your College? Try Improving the Jobs.

ED Surge

Months can separate each milestone of the search process, and colleges are notoriously bad about communicating with applicants about their status. Surveys have regularly demonstrated that higher education employees desire more flexibility and remote work options. We can communicate with applicants about their status more frequently.

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This Year’s High School Seniors Reflect on the Adversity They Faced and How They Persevered

ED Surge

Many students cited the flexibility of remote learning as the sole benefit of the pandemic. Some took advantage of the increase in down time to volunteer in their communities, to form nonprofits or even to graduate early. Heckman says these kinds of skills are usually picked up in college.

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How can smart contact lenses monitor and treat eye conditions?

Futurum

Therefore, wearable biomedical devices must have mechanical softness, flexibility, stretchability and breathability, without side effects such as discomfort, pain or tissue damage.”. This means the sensors can exist on flexible, stretchable, transparent or biodegradable substrates, including soft contact lenses. Pinterest.

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Grading for growth in an engineering math class: Part 1

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Those three adjectives also describe many of my students' past experiences with math courses, including MTH 302's prerequisites of Calculus 1, 2, and 3. But many were simply Calculus survivors, with a survivor mentality about Calculus and other forms of math. Here's one ; here's another.

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Why Should You Consider STEM Programs for High School Students?

STEM Education Guide

Improved Collaboration and Communication When learners enroll in STEM programs for high school, they have recurring opportunities to boost communication, particularly through formal presentations and active listening. The programs mirror experimental learning and stir students’ imagination.

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ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

Stephen Wolfram

And in the end, as we’ll discuss later, that’s a more flexible and powerful way to communicate. And writing this prompt is a strange activity—perhaps our first serious experience of trying to “ communicate with an alien intelligence ”. When ChatGPT calls the Wolfram plugin it often just feeds natural language to Wolfram|Alpha.

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The heart of the loop: Reattempts without penalty

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

be the primary measure of success in a course, and some measure of grace and flexibility will be included along with high standards and "rigor" And for other instructors, this concept raises more questions than answers. For some instructors, it provides hope that student growth will (finally!) Wait, what?