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Game On For Productivity: How Gamification Boosts Employee Engagement

[ad_1] Engage Your Employees By Making Work Fun The Gamification Global Market Report 2023 found that gamification grew to $18.63 billion compared to $14.87 billion the year before. Experts predict it will reach $30.7 billion by 2025. The fact that numerous companies use gamification for employee engagement is a good indication that it works. But …

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‘My Conflicting Views on Affirmative Action’: The Week 4 Winner of Our Summer Reading Contest

[ad_1] Winner Smrithi Senthilnathan, 17, from Chennai, India, chose a guest essay from the Opinion section headlined “I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions.” and wrote: I’m an Indian high school senior. Applying for college will probably be the most brutal experience of my life, and I …

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Reframing Branding: How Sales Force eLearning Drives Brand Identity

[ad_1] Sales Force eLearning Tech For Positive Branding According to common wisdom, a company’s brand is its consumer-facing identity—the traits the consumer assigns to the company, the beliefs the consumer holds about the company’s market positioning, and so forth. As one vivid example, think about Target, which has established itself through its branding as a …

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Exciting Ideas for Shark Week Lessons

[ad_1] Celebrate Discovery Channel’s Shark Week with fin-tastic Shark Week programming and curriculum-aligned lesson starters to fortify STEM concepts, investigate conservation, and explore career connections. Here to share her tips and ideas for diving into an exciting Shark Week with your students is DEN STAR and Texas educator, Dorothy-Ann “Dottie” Vakidis. For Discovery Education Shark …

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How To Start A Career In Artificial Intelligence And Data Science

[ad_1] Starting Fresh In Artificial Intelligence And Data Science? According to GlobeNewswire, the Artificial Intelligence market size will reach the $2745 billion mark by 2032. Isn’t that a whopping statistic that raises eyebrows? Absolutely yes! Building a strong portfolio in the field of Artificial Intelligence and data science is the clear gateway to a succeeding …

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Paper says highly competitive private could diversify student bodies

[ad_1] A new working paper suggests that highly selective private colleges could change the makeup of their student bodies (and the future leaders of the country) by changing their admissions practices. The paper is by Raj Chetty, director of the Public Economics Program at Harvard University; David J. Deming, a research associate at Harvard; and …

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High schoolers account for nearly 1 in 5 community college students | KQED

[ad_1] The sharp growth in dual enrollment has raised a lot of questions about course content and whether students are really producing college-level work. John Fink, an expert in dual enrollment at the Community College Research Center, acknowledged that quality is uneven. That’s not surprising when 80% of high schools are now offering these courses …

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Anthropologists back boycott of Israeli academic institutions

[ad_1] iStockPhoto/Inside Higher Ed The members of the American Anthropological Association have endorsed a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. An all-member referendum took place from June 15 to July 14, and the results were announced today. Thirty-seven percent of eligible members voted. Of them, 2,016 voted for the resolution (71 percent) and 835 people voted against …

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Academic freedom and “offensive” comments

[ad_1] I read with interest the report on a new study from North Dakota State University on students’ hypothetical willingness to report professors who say “offensive” things.   As a longtime administrator, I can count the number of student complaints about professorial speech on one hand and have fingers left over. It hasn’t happened with anything …

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