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• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 121
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
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• The Quotable Black Scholar: Pedro Noguera on Class and Black Identity Formation

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 106
  Pedro Noguera *** “In many black communities, it is the ethos, the style, the orientation of poor black kids that influences middle-class black kids in ways that [are not] true for middle-class white kids. Most middle-class white kids don’t know poor white kids.” – NYU sociology of education Professor ...
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• Obama Offers Scholarship Aid to Moms for Higher Education

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 154
  Life as a single mother is not easy. Working multiple jobs to make ends meet, while also worrying about the welfare of your children can be a lot to handle. President Barack Obama wants to help these women by providing funding to them to go back to college, so that they can live and provide a better life for their ...
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• More and more students, less and less money, tighter controls

  
  University Blog — Authority: 475
  A perfect storm is beginning to form around Irish higher education, and conditions are such that the sector  will be in very serious trouble over the coming year. According to an article in the Sunday Tribune , figures to be released by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) this week will show a significant ...
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• Pennsylvania State University Astrobiology Summer Program (ASP) – Deadline Feb 19, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The Pennsylvania State University Astrobiology Summer Program (ASP) will be held at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA on June 6th – August 14th, 2010.Program details: There will be independent research under the guidance of one or more astrobiologists, a field trip to NASA and astrobiology-related ...
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• Windows of opportunity

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The importance of mass commerce to postwar recovery led to a revolution in window display Retail street theatre was all the rage in the 1920s. "Audiences" would throng the pavement outside Selfridges store in London just to gawp at the display beyond acres of plate glass. As a show, it made any production of Chekhov ...
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• What did the Romans ever teach us?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Will plans for food-label-style tagging of degrees threaten the arts and humanities? Last week Lord Mandelson called for a new food-labelling-style system in which degrees would be tagged with drop-out rates, earnings potential and employment success, and called on employers to fund courses in return for helping to ...
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• Any student, any subject, anywhere

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Web technologies are driving a revolution in higher education, where many degrees may soon be studied online Mandy has been on a study trip to the Sistine chapel without going to Italy. Tina, while working as a full-time carer, has been taking a free university course in psychology on another continent. And ...
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• A batty tale of oral sex

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The interesting sex life of the fruit bat comes under scrutiny in a new study A new study helps to answer the question raised in Thomas Nagels 1974 philosophy essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat? A team of Chinese and British researchers focuses on an aspect of bat-ness that Nagel ignored: fellatio. Nagel, a professor ...
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• NASA History Division Internships – Deadline Feb 1, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The NASA History Division sponsors internships for undergraduate and graduate students year-round. Our internships are quite substantive and are opportunities for students to learn and contribute significantly.The NASA History Division is part of the Office of External Relations at NASA Headquarters. We are a small ...
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• NASA Planetary Biology Internship (PBI) – Deadline Feb 15, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The NASA Planetary Biology Internship Program (PBI) provides opportunities to explore scientific questions of global scale about planet Earth. Each year the PBI program sponsors nine or ten interns who undertake research at NASA Research Centers or NASA-sponsored laboratories and academic institutions. Students ...
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• NASA Langley Research Center Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Internship Program – Deadline Jan 31, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The GIS Internship Program is open to community college, undergraduate, and graduate students majoring in the fields of geography, technology, and civil engineering with experience in geospatial technology or an interest in developing their skills in spatial data technology in support of NASA’s mission. A student ...
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• UCF Homecoming: Tailgating can start one hour earlier Saturday

  
  Sentinel School Zone — Authority: 440
  UCF will allow tailgating to begin at 7 a.m. Saturday to avoid traffic tie-ups with people planning to attend the 9:30 a.m. homecoming parade. Tailgating normally begins at 8 a.m. on game days with earlier kick-off times. Saturdays earlier tailgating...
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• Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars (LARSS) – Deadline February 1, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars (LARSS) Program is managed for NASA by the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) under the auspices of the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA). The LARSS Program provides paid internship opportunities year round for eligible students during spring, summer, or fall ...
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• Harriet G. Jenkins Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program (JPFP) – Deadline Feb 1, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The Harriett G. Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship Program (JPFP) increases the number of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities participating in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce, thereby helping to eliminate the shortage of skilled workers in STEM-related disciplines. ...
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• A New Normal for Higher Ed

  
  UB Buzz — Authority: 98
  What is the “new normal” for higher education in the 21st century? That question was the topic for the first session at the 2009 TIAA-CREF Institute Higher Education Leadership Conference Thursday and Friday. This comes at a time when institutional...
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• Want to keep your job? Get more education

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  A recent survey by the Career College Association reported that 9 out of 10 Americans think college is important for career opportunities and 67% believe that education is the key to competitiveness in the global economy. Turns out education can also be the key to keeping your job in an economic downturn. Recent ...
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• Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Internships – Deadline March 31, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab offers science and engineering internships each summer. The program provides practical work experience and an introduction to APL. Students spend the summer working with APL scientists and engineers, conducting research, developing leadership skills, and growing ...
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• LPI Lunar Exploration Summer Intern Program – Deadline Jan 22, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 128
  The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) will host a special summer intern program during the summer of 2010 to evaluate possible landing sites for robotic and human exploration missions. Four to six interns will work with LPI science staff and other collaborators to evaluate the best landing sites to address each of ...
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• P2P Assessment and Accreditation

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Philipp Schmidt, Christine Geith, Stian Håklev and Joel Thierstein have published an article on peer-to-peer assessment in the latest issue of IRRODL . From the abstract: This paper makes the case for a peer-based method of assessment and recognition as a feasible option for accreditation purposes. The peer-based ...
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