Educational Reform and the Social Order

2 Educational Reform

B-Log on Social Change and Educational Reform: The Case of a University Class in Greece

New technologies evangelized the coming of a new era in the context of human communication. However, neo-luddites soon started to express their scepticism in regards the impact of this type of communication on human relations. For example, impersonalization and de-humanization are often debated as symptoms of online communication in comparison to face to face interaction (Jonscher, 1999). The a...

the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality

this thesis is about the effect of self-confidence and educational motivation on oral translation quality.

Fueling educational reform: the HHMI professors.

Is fundamental change possible in the tradition-bound world of college and university science education? The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) believes it is and recently announced new grants to empower individual scientisteducators—the HHMI Professors—to develop innovative approaches for changing the way they teach biology to undergraduates. Central to the Professors program is the goal o...

Educational Reform and Current Education Initiatives