February 2021

The Science of Learning, or probability stacking

There has been much research into the science of learning. In fact, the Learning Sciences is a field dedicated to the study of learning. It is ironic that few schools and teachers design education and curricula with the principles from the science of learning. Sadly, even if teachers themselves know how to engineer quality and […]

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The attention economy in academia – Social media strategies for the Open Science age of information

For over two decades, advances in ICT have created a flood of information that has disrupted the traditional business marketplace and plunged it into the new attention economy where companies struggle to catch and maintain customer attention. A parallel shift can be seen for scientists in a new research attention economy. Researchers face unprecedented competition

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Social media for academic purposes (SMAP): What is it and why is it important?

We live in an age of information with research being published in volumes and at speeds never before seen. Unfortunately, with so many new scholarly publishing venues and databases, there is no one database that can access all research. For professional researchers, this is a problem: we all want to increase our research visibility and

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