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Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar

CAPD

Lolla, a senior from Clarksburg, Maryland, is majoring in computer science and minoring in mathematics and literature. At Cambridge, she will pursue an MPhil in technology policy. She has presented her work at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

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To Weather the Storms of Higher Education, Remember Why You’re There

Supporting Student Success

In 2008, I was recruited to run a grant with the purpose of connecting adult learners with data to inform their college choices so they didn’t need to depend on marketing hype from lead generation websites. But he always wanted to pursue a degree in computer science—he loved technology. She earned her Ed.D.

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How the Choice Based Credit System can Improve the Quality of Higher Education in India

Creatrix Campus

The non-credit courses are evaluated as either 'Satisfactory' or 'Unsatisfactory' and are not factored into the computation of SGPA/CGPA. Providing professional development opportunities and support is crucial for effective implementation. Collaborate with experts to align courses with industry requirements and emerging trends.

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The Challenges of International Credential Evaluation

Parchment

We need to be well informed about our own education system because this is the system that we are measuring an international program against. Or is this some sort of a private proprietary professional development type of institution, or is it a diploma mill, of which unfortunately there are thousands and thousands.

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How to spot a struggling student online and what to do about it

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

If these newly minted online instructors can obtain proper professional development and training in online pedagogy , they can contribute potentially to student academic success. Just logging in usually doesn’t count as “present.” We can at least guide students on how to quell and quiet their phone and computer apps. .

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What is Bloom’s taxonomy? Importance and uses explained

Creatrix Campus

It has a hierarchical framework that categorizes learning objectives based on their complexity, ranging from basic information and comprehension to higher evaluation and creativity. The approach was developed to encourage more advanced ways of thinking in the classroom. It is further divided into six subheads based on its complexity.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Women wrote the first computer algorithm and the first programming language to use English words. York lauds the program as “really smart.”