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DataFest UCLA: Wrestling with big data impacts students long term
ASA DataFestTM 2016 is set to be another great event for students studying statistics, mathematics, computer science, and humanities. There is so much excitement that some students are coming from up...
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New technologies radically alter the way we interact with information
Since the introduction of the smartphone, about 10 years ago, there has been a relative lull in the popular adoption of new technology that radically alters the way we interact with information. That...
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What do an 8th-grade dropout, an immigrant, and a heart failure survivor have in common? All three overcame tremendous obstacles, enrolled in community college, and have been accepted to Phi Theta...
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The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer, is one of the first books to examine the use of computers in the classroom. In it, author Seymour Papert writes, “Information...
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Active learning moves programming students from novice to skilled
Today’s educators are faced with numerous challenges, particularly in courses where students have a broad range of prior knowledge and interests. Introductory courses from many departments are often...
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Quick identification of strategies — both highly successful as well as the less successful — is fundamental to student engagement in programming. If teachers can quickly identify successful behaviors...
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ASA DataFest 2016 exceeded my expectations
Analyze, network, experience. This is what you can expect from DataFest. As a statistics major at UCLA, I greatly anticipated participating in this “big data” event because of the excitement former...
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Take a Risk and Follow Your Own Path in Life by Anisha Srivastava was originally published on Getting Smart. At the end of my sophomore year in the business program at the University of Texas at...
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DataFest UCLA: Wrestling with big data impacts students long term
ASA DataFestTM 2016 is set to be another great event for students studying statistics, mathematics, computer science, and humanities. There is so much excitement that some students are coming from up...
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What Challenges Exist for Women in STEM? Tell Us
Women account for 47 percent of the American workforce, but they’re woefully underrepresented in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields, even as their educational statistics in...
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Perhaps in the not-too-distant-future, parents and educators will be able to glimpse the future’s needs and effectively educate today’s students for future jobs. Until then, society’s most promising...
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Are Bootcamps the Answer to the “Skills Standoff?”
U.S. employers are developing a global reputation for wanting the perfectly qualified candidate delivered on a silver platter — or they won’t hire. As Peter Capelli of Penn’s Wharton School astutely...
View ArticleStudent Coding Contest: Winners Honored for Innovative Learning Apps
We announced the winners of our third annual Student Coding Contest! During the competition, college students and teams developed original innovative learning applications that integrate with Pearson...
View ArticleLearning Makes Us Webinar Series: REVEL: Teaching Programming in an Immersive...
This session is about teaching Java programming in an all-digital, immersive learning environment. How do you implement this “read a little/do a little” approach in your course and how does it impact...
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Spend time with an experienced instructor who will take you through all that MyProgrammingLab has to offer and show you the value it can provide to your students. Learn some new best practices and tips...
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The 2015 Pearson Student Coding Contest had three female semifinalists this year, Anisha Srivastava, Faye Li and Alberta Williams! And of those young women, Anisha Srivastava has moved on to become one...
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