Removing Obstacles to Easy Reading

Removing unnecessary obstacles to randomised trials

Since their introduction in the middle of the 20 Century, randomised trials of sufficiently large size have provided reliable assessments of the safety and efficacy of treatments that have produced substantial improvements in health. During the past decade, however, increasingly onerous (albeit well-meaning) regulation and related bureaucracy have made clinical trials much more difficult and co...

Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth in Mozambique a Diagnostic Trade Integration Study

Removing obstacles to the pedagogical changes required by Jonassen's vision of authentic technology-enabled learning

Educators have been striving to achieve meaningful technology use in our K-12 classrooms for over 30 years. Yet, despite significant investments of time and money in infrastructure, training, and support “we have few assurances that [educators] are able to use technology for teaching and learning” (NEA, 2008, p. 1). In this article, we call for a shift in focus from technology integration (and ...

It’s Not Easy Going Green: Obstacles to Tree- Planting Programs in East Baltimore

Removing ‘mind-reading’ from the Iterated Learning Model

The iterated learning model (ILM), in which a language comes about via communication pressures exerted over successive generations of agents, has attracted much attention in recent years. Its importance lies in the focus on cultural emergence as opposed to biological evolution. The ILM simplifies a compositional language as the compression of an object space, motivated by a poverty of stimulus—...