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By Catherine Haras The need for continual learning is a given in most professions. Architects, doctors, engineers, and teachers are expected to keep up with current practice, for their careers as well as for their clients, patients, and students. By contrast, professional development (PD) within higher education is confounding. Most literature on professional development is housed in teaching journals (followed by ...

The Education and Skills Directorate is one of twelve substantive departments of the OECD and provides policy analysis and advice on education to help individuals and nations to identify and develop the knowledge and skills that drive better jobs and better lives, generate prosperity and promote social inclusion.

Text mining techniques have become critical for social scientists working with large scale social data, be it Twitter collections to track polarization, party documents to understand opinions and ideology, or news corpora to study the spread of misinformation. In the infographic shown in this blog,

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A fast, flexible, and comprehensive framework for quantitative text analysis in R. Provides functionality for corpus management, creating and manipulating tokens and n-grams, exploring keywords in context, forming and manipulating sparse matrices of documents by features and feature co-occurrences, analyzing keywords, computing feature similarities and distances, applying content dictionaries, applying supervised and unsupervised machine learning, visually representing text and text analyses, and more.

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"It's like going from heaven to hell," says 21-year-old Israa Khaled Hamad, a Syrian refugee from Damascus. Like thousands of other Syrians, Hamad fled her hometown in April 2012 for Jordan. It wasn't...

The purpose of the landscape review is to provide a comprehensive mapping of programmes providing higher education for refugees. The review functions as a standalone resource but is best read in conjunction with the associated report titled ‘Higher education for refugees in low-resource environments: research study’.

Throughout the five-year Syrian refugee crisis, education for refugee children has been prioritized in development, humanitarian aid, media coverage, discussion, and research. Extensive efforts have been made to increase children’s access to basic education to ensure their continued healthy development and provide security and stability during the refugee experience. As the majority of Syrian refugees in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan are under the age of 17, this attention is not unfounded.

This paper examines current interventions to reduce barriers to access into higher education for refugees in North America and Europe.

I was curious what scientists who are involved in studying and developing AI in education thought of a recent analysis.

Well-designed and implemented professional development is an essential component of a comprehensive system of teaching and learning that supports students to develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies they need to thrive in the 21st century. This brief outlines key components of effective professional development and offers rich descriptions of model programs to inform education leaders and policymakers seeking to leverage professional development to improve student learning.

This guide is meant to inform the user about Digital Pedagogy. It includes information on educational theory, a collection of case studies, and resources relevant to the study of digital pedagogy.

As a result of seven years of conflict, young refugees from Syria are growing up without the skills they need to access higher education. Higher educa...

The aim of this set of books is to combine the best of current academic research into the use of Communities of Practice in education with "hands on" practitioner experience in order to provide teachers and academics with a convenient source of guidance and an incentive to work with and develop in their own Communities of Practice. This set of books is divided into two volumes: volume 1 deals principally with the issues found in colocated Communities of Practice, while volume 2 deal principally with distributed Communities of Practice"

Communities of practice (CoPs) are designated networks of people who share information and knowledge either face-to-face or virtually.