The analysis of scientific collaboration networks has contributed significantly to improving the understanding of how does the process of collaboration between researchers and also to understand how the evolution of scientific production of researchers or research groups occurs. However, the identification of collaborations in large scientific databases is not a trivial task given the high comp...

Disciplinarity” and “interdisciplinarity” have become keywords for knowledge and education in the twenty-first century. This development requires that administrators, curriculum planners, and teachers at all levels of the educational system have a common understanding of both terms and their relationship. The primary case study is the school level in the United States. Yet, comparisons with oth...

The aim of this study is to taxonomically analyse the 9th grade Turkish chemistry curriculum. A descriptive analysis method used throughout study. document applied as a construct codes and themes reflect results exhibit that most learning outcomes curriculum focus on understand level (61%), other levels are remember (16%), apply (5%), (13%), evaluate (0%) create (5%). In addition, in distributi...

ICPSR recently developed two new training initiatives in digital curation: a week-long applied data curation workshop where participants learn the theories and methods of data curation using the ICPSR “processing pipeline” as framework, and an ongoing virtual working group of data librarians that discusses similar core data curation topics while giving participants independent access to curate ...

The CS OER Portal was created with the goal of improving the findability and increasing the use of open educational resources in Computer Science. In this paper we describe the portal’s design principles which exploit the domain specificity of the hosted content and are focused on enhancing the search and navigation in the portal. Distinctive retrieval features are the proposed topical recommen...

Problem based learning is one of the highly acclaimed learning methods in medical education since its first introduction at Mc-Master University in Canada in the 1960s. It has now been adopted as a teaching learning method in many medical colleges of Nepal. B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), a health science deemed university is the second institute in Nepal to establish proble...

In recent times, games-based learning has been attracting the attention of educators around the world. One of the challenges in deploying games-based learning to cover a larger proportion of the curriculum is the high costs associated with development of the games. Games development often requires specialized skills sets. Inputs from academic specialists for the learning content and pedagogy is...