MOVIES IN NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION: NEW TRENDS

Trends in Soil Science Education and Employment

During recent strategic planning exercises, the SSSA identified several trends related to the soil science profession: 1) declining academic programs and course offerings at land-grant universities, 2) decreased enrollments, and 3) improved employment opportunities for soil science graduates. To quantify these trends, the SSSA conducted surveys in 2008 of soil science students, academic departm...

New Trends in Training Science:

Gun violence trends in movies.

BACKGROUND Many scientific studies have shown that the mere presence of guns can increase aggression, an effect dubbed the "weapons effect." The current research examines a potential source of the weapons effect: guns depicted in top-selling films. METHODS Trained coders identified the presence of violence in each 5-minute film segment for one-half of the top 30 films since 1950 and the prese...

education for library and information science in iran: current trends

the article presents an account of the library and information science (lis) education in iran. it briefly reviews the growth and development of the lis education in the periods: 1939-1978, as the pre- islamic revolution period, and 1979- 2007, as the post –islamic revolution period. the paper covers an up-to-date list of the 29 universities in iran offering various lis programs including post-...

GIS Laboratory: New Trends in Research and Education in Environmental Science Based on Advanced Computing Tools

This contribution provides an overview of some of the recent research in environmental informatics involving spatio-temporal data processing. Implementation of cloud computing to teach Geographic Information System (GIS) and spatial sciences is described in the framework of a project focused on innovation of the GIS Laboratory. The new age of cloud computing is demonstrated on research issues d...