Game-based learning: latest evidence and future directions
Source: National Foundation for Educational Research (UK) From Press Release: The role of video games in teaching and learning is a source of debate among many educators, researchers and in the popular press. Detractors and advocates have been discussing the influences and the potentials of video games for quite some time
E-books Now Make Up 1/5 of U.S. Book Sales
E-books are helping fuel overall growth in the publishing industry. According to BookStats figures released Wednesday by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), trade books generated $15 billion in revenue in 2012, up 6.9% from the year before. Trade publications include fiction and non-fiction books for adults, young adults and children, and do not include higher ed, K-12 and professional/scholarly volumes.
Are Elite Journals Declining?
from Docuticker
Source: arXiv.org From the Abstract: Previous work indicates that over the past 20 years, the highest quality work have been published in an increasingly diverse and larger group of journals. In this paper we examine whether this diversification has also affected the handful of elite journals that are traditionally considered to
SOPA’s daddy is now in charge of government science funding, and he hates peer-review
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Lamar Smith (R-TX) is the goon who brought SOPA to the nation. Now he’s in charge of science funding in the House, and he’s got some spectacularly stupid ideas for science as a whole.
As the Obama administration continues to hash out its open access policy for federal research, California weighs its own for state-funded research and development.
Writer Clive Thompson describes his tools and work routine
from Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder
Our friend Clive Thompson is in the spotlight in this week’s “This is How I Work” feature on Lifehacker.
What apps/software/tools can’t you live without?
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