The comprehensive analysis of 221 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) by Katy Jordan provides crucial insights for health professionals navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of digital learning. Her study, published in the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, examined completion rates across diverse platforms including Coursera, Open2Study, and others from 78 institutions.

It happened this weekend. In the aftermath of turning in the final manuscript for Leading Generously , I promised myself that I would not start working on a new writing project until I had some idea that absolutely would not leave me alone, that I'd instead spend at least a year reading as omnivorously as I could through the ideas of others and see whether anything worth saying surfaced.

Angesicht einer Interviewanfrage und der andauernden Diskussion zum Smartphone-Verbot an Schulen habe ich mich gefragt, auf welcher wissenschaftlichen Basis diese Diskussion eigentlich stattfindet. Ich verfolge die oft polemische Diskussion schon einige Zeit auf LinkedIn und dort wird wahlweise Stimmung gemacht gegen Tech-Konzerne, Medienpädagogen oder auch die Politik gemacht.

For centuries, the scientific community has relied on visual tools to communicate (complex) data. But what if we could listen to data as effortlessly as we read a graph? This question lies at the heart of data sonification, a practice that translates datasets into sound.

Need funding for your wildlife research? Discover millions in grants from regional and national programs with deadlines approaching fast.

The intersection of artificial intelligence and biotechnology is, depending on whom you ask, either a harbinger of our demise or the dawn of a biomedical renaissance. AI is being framed as everything from a rogue scientist’s bioweapon lab to the ultimate safeguard against pandemics. But as someone who sat on the National Academies’ study committee on AI and Biosecurity, I can tell you: the truth is neither so dire nor so utopian.

Citations are crucial to academia. For me, they’re the literal way of saying, “I stand on the shoulders of giants.” They allow us to build on existing knowledge, floor by floor, forming an ever-growing tower. As a PhD student, I’ve just begun laying my own bricks in this structure. So when my work got cited for the first time, I was thrilled.

This blog has joined the Fediverse as @index@blog.front-matter.io, thanks to a major beta update of the underlying Ghost blogging platform. Read about Activitypub support in Ghost here.

Mark Wilson reviews Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, by Katherine Brading and Marius Stan

por Florencia Gutiérrez Pensemos que estamos en 1940 y nos piden tomar una fotografía que sintetice las formas de trabajo vinculadas a la industria azucarera en el norte argentino. El desafío no sólo nos obligaría a mover el lente para descentrar la mirada de los ingenios, espacio laboral eminentemente masculino, sino que implicaría ampliar el foco.

Bursa Fisherman and Stork Reunite: A Remarkable 14-Year Bond In an incredible tale of friendship between humans and nature, a fisherman from Bursa, Turkey, and a stork have reunited for the 14th consecutive year. This heartwarming annual reunion is a testament to the bonds that can form between humans and wildlife, proving that even across different species, friendships can flourish. To read the full news report, click here.