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LbSD podcast, episode one: Teaching with a scientific understanding of how students learn

Deans for Impact

Deans for Impact · Teaching with a scientific understanding of how students learn. Subscribe: Learning by Scientific Design is a podcast series by Deans for Impact that explores how an understanding of cognitive science, or the science of how students learn, can lead to more rigorous, equitable and inclusive teaching.

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University of Pittsburgh Launches $15K Master of Data Science on Coursera — No STEM Background or Application Required

Coursera blog

This innovative program welcomes students, regardless of their data or computing backgrounds, to learn career-focused skills in data science through a curriculum offered by the school’s exceptional faculty and staff. Built for working adults, this degree offers the flexibility to balance careers, families, and education.

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The F Word

Inside Higher Ed

That isn’t possible in higher education. Deans, department chairs, and other administrators should inform faculty about classes with unusually high DFW rates or with significance performance and achievement gaps and target assistance to help faculty redesign such classes. Help faculty members grow as educators.

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

Though the 28 laureates in attendance this year gave and listened to each other’s talks with optimistic titles such as “Computing for Social Good,” Inside Higher Ed took the opportunity to ask them questions about computer science’s challenges in higher education. “Do we have to choose?

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The push for more active learning spaces on campus

Inside Higher Ed

These are positive developments from the perspective of groups such as the Association of American Universities and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which promote high-impact practices that increase student engagement and deep learning. Yet the growth of active learning spaces remains incremental.