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Study indicates that graduate students who teach develop better research skills than those who only conduct research.

Learn about the Undergraduate Research Office at Ohio State's next Virtual Brownbag this Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

What causes students to stick with online courses? Quick review of ongoing research...

A new online, peer-reviewed journal

Great article by Jerry Nelms on plagiarism as educational opportunity.

These Smartphone apps will keep your teaching and research more organized and efficient.

Decades of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers show that socially diverse groups are more innovative than homogeneous groups.

Findings from the second of two surveys conducted by Inside Higher Ed ad the Babson Research Group. Links to the full report are available in the article.

How can you use group work effectively in a college setting? Instructors and students share their experiences, and Carl Wieman explains what the research suggests for best practices in implementing group activities.

There are many reasons professors who lecture don't want to give it up. Tradition may be the mightiest force. "Lecturing is just the way a lot of professors have always done it," says Joe Redish, a physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park who has done research on why lectures aren't effective.

In January 2011, a trio of researchers published the results of an experiment in which they demonstrated that students who read material in difficult, unfamiliar fonts learned it more deeply than students who read the same material in conventional, familiar fonts.

"It's hard to give people a path to follow when, by your own admission, you stumbled upon your current career. Serendipity seems to be a theme in many alt-ac narratives, and that is just not inspiring to students who are worried about their futures."

What do you think of using students' grades in later sequential courses as a measure of instructors' success in previous courses? The research of an Ohio State professor is featured in this article!