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Modular education: Bridging the gap between academia and workforce demands

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Board members can also act as guest speakers, leading workshops and seminars that provide students with current knowledge and hands-on experience. The post Modular education: Bridging the gap between academia and workforce demands appeared first on Liaison.

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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

” Georgia Tech’s Vertically Integrated Projects program invites undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as faculty across academia and research, to collaborate on multi-year complex problems. . “It works for university researchers—not necessarily for its students and society.” “The vaccine worked.

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Information Literacy Beyond Fact-Checking

ACRLog

On a base-level, literacy is a key component of the modernizing project that has been occurring in Western academia since the Enlightenment era. In a few weeks, I will be teaching a seminar on what we can glean from listening to people’s ghost stories and taking them seriously. Surely, it can’t be so simple.

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The Impact of Non-Evaluative Feedback and Mindfulness in Writing

Faculty Focus

Within academia, the most common feedback approaches, whether summative or formative, are often guided by criticism because assessment traditionally focuses on what is missing or incorrect. Teaching Graduate Students to Write: A seminar for thesis and dissertation writers. Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie , 29 (1), 238–242.

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The Impact of Non-Evaluative Feedback and Mindfulness in Writing

Faculty Focus

Within academia, the most common feedback approaches, whether summative or formative, are often guided by criticism because assessment traditionally focuses on what is missing or incorrect. Teaching Graduate Students to Write: A seminar for thesis and dissertation writers. Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie , 29 (1), 238–242.

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Cultural Competency & Anti-Bias Programs Address Health Disparities

Insight Into Diversity

Such programs might be embedded within curricula, learned in a workshop or campus seminar, be part of an internship or professional training, or shared within community outreach opportunities. State and federal laws and health care schools’ accreditation standards often mandate anti-bias and cultural competency education and training.

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Interdisciplinary Studies: Preparing Students for a Complex World

Faculty Focus

Faculty development seminars can also be conducted to share best practices in incorporating interdisciplinary knowledge. From Martian Frontiers to Academic Horizons As we return from our visionary expedition to Mars in 2100, the echoes of interdisciplinary collaboration linger, bridging the realms of imagination and academia.

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