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View article: Understanding the Social and Cognitive Nature of Collaboration: Implications for Practice
Understanding the Social and Cognitive Nature of Collaboration: Implications for Practice Open
Understanding how cognition develops as a result of collaboration is a continuing educational endeavour along with identifying effective strategies and understandings related to collaborative learning. With this endeavour in mind, this pap…
View article: Loss of the mitochondrial protein mitoNEET in mice is associated with cognitive impairments and increased neuroinflammation
Loss of the mitochondrial protein mitoNEET in mice is associated with cognitive impairments and increased neuroinflammation Open
Background Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases associated with memory and cognitive deficits, including Alzheimer's disease. Changes in bioenergetic function results in reactive oxygen species, oxi…
View article: Graying arts access: crafting creative online programming to promote older adults' artistic engagement in and beyond pandemic time
Graying arts access: crafting creative online programming to promote older adults' artistic engagement in and beyond pandemic time Open
Introduction Declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020, the COVID-19 virus and attendant patchwork of local, regional, and national government-initiated public health responses to it unexpectedly opene…
View article: Principles of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in STEM Education: Using Expert Wisdom and Research to Frame Educational Practice
Principles of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in STEM Education: Using Expert Wisdom and Research to Frame Educational Practice Open
Developing teacher knowledge, skills, and confidence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education is critical to supporting a culture of innovation and productivity across the population. Such capacity building is …
View article: Direct[Message]: Exploring Access and Engagement With the Arts Through Digital Technology in COVID Times
Direct[Message]: Exploring Access and Engagement With the Arts Through Digital Technology in COVID Times Open
Direct[Message], a community-based research (CBR) project developing a digital platform supporting older adults engagement with the arts through digital technologies, faced the challenge of redesigning the research protocol after the COVID…
View article: “Flipped classroom” for academic and career advising: an innovative technique for medical student advising
“Flipped classroom” for academic and career advising: an innovative technique for medical student advising Open
Utilization of the flipped classroom style advising document was an engaging advising technique that was well received by students at our institution.
View article: Teachers as leaders in science - building personal capacity to shape and personalise professional learning
Teachers as leaders in science - building personal capacity to shape and personalise professional learning Open
This research reports on findings from an in-service teacher professional learning (PL) program that created ‘conditions for learning’ which placed self-improvement directly in the hands of teachers themselves. The objectives of the study …
View article: Unplanned Returns to Hospital Care: A Linked Data Study
Unplanned Returns to Hospital Care: A Linked Data Study Open
The linkage of data across facilities and settings of care provides a holistic view of the patient journey through the healthcare system. This study, through data linkage, reviews alternative approaches to the measurement of unplanned retu…
View article: Science that Matters: Exploring Science Learning and Teaching in Primary Schools
Science that Matters: Exploring Science Learning and Teaching in Primary Schools Open
To help support primary school students to better understand why science matters, teachers must first be supported to teach science in ways that matter. In moving to this point, this paper identifies the dilemmas and tensions primary schoo…