Moving and still images have been included in learning materials for decades, but only now has faster broadband, cellular networks, and high-resolution screens made it possible for high-quality images to be a part of eLearning visual design. Graphic interfaces made…
Children and Cellphones On average, children are 12.1 when they receive their first mobile device. [Source] 56 percent of children, age 8 to 12, have a cellphone. [Source] 60 percent of families who have provided a cellphone to their child did so between the ages…
Stereotype threat refers to being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one's group. This term was first used by Steele and Aronson (1995) who showed in several experiments that Black college freshmen and sophomores performed more…
DEFINITIONS Webster's Third International Dictionary defines scholarly as: concerned with academic study, especially research, exhibiting the methods and attitudes of a scholar, and having the manner and appearance of a scholar. Substantive is defined as having a solid base, being…
Some crucial differences between high school and college writing From high school to college Some students make very smooth transitions from writing in high school to writing in college, and we heartily wish all of you an easy passage. But…
HOW THE INDEX IS COMPILED The degree of freedom available to journalists in 180 countries is determined by pooling the responses of experts to a questionnaire devised by RSF. This qualitative analysis is combined with quantitative data on abuses and…
The following seven steps outline a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with the library, you may need to rearrange or recycle…
Reading speed & comprehension Each type of reading has a different rate; an exciting novel is a quicker read than a text in biology. Text books vary in how well they are written; as a consequence some are more difficult…
What is an Annotated Bibliography? An annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation…
Two relatively large studies of this question, reported in 2003 and 2004, yielded good news for sexually active men: high ejaculation frequency seemed to protect against prostate cancer. As part of Harvard’s Health Professionals Follow-up Study, 29,342 men between the…
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