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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? Why that topic?

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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And then be super attentive to a [group of] decentralized deans, divisional leaders, chairs and individual faculty, and trusting them in the implementation. So there’s been enormous attention to that and how we turn forms of continuing online education into something that reaches the alumni in that way.

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

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These five components of curiosity quickly captivate students attention because learners are immediately engaged in ways that allow for their individual contextualization, cultural connections, and academic comprehension. Curiosity benefits priming the brain for learning (Robson, 2022).

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

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These five components of curiosity quickly captivate students attention because learners are immediately engaged in ways that allow for their individual contextualization, cultural connections, and academic comprehension. Curiosity benefits priming the brain for learning (Robson, 2022).

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