Category Archives: Science Education

The AI Debate: Guiding Light or Dark Tunnel for Education?

Posted on November 5, 2024 by Nadezda Firsova

Written by: Adam Urban (NTK) Opening the Dialogue: How AI is Shaping the Future of Education Will AI serve as a catalyst for innovation, or will it widen the gap between effective learning and mere efficiency? AI’s impact on education … Continue reading →

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AI and writing: much ado about generated essays

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Stephanie Krueger

A recent Reddit/Twitter discussion thread on artificial intelligence (AI) and academic writing recently emerged, following claims of a Reddit user to have used AI to write well-graded essays. The Guardian picked up on this discussion with an article entitled “‘Full-on … Continue reading →

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NCIP enables participation in the HERMES project (“Strengthening Digital Resource Sharing during COVID and Beyond”)

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Stephanie Krueger

Open, captioned video footage of the NTK NCIP-funded presentation by Dr. Stephanie Krueger in English on academic resource use cases at the PhD+ level is now available on YouTube as part of the HERMES project open learning channel. The thirty-seven-minute … Continue reading →

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Equipping students to deal with uncertainty

Posted on July 21, 2021 by Stephanie Krueger

Many in the educational sector, including myself, have contemplated the value of the information we’re imparting on students over the past year. As we migrated to primarily online settings in many places, we had to revisit curricular ideas, course formats … Continue reading →

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Visionary Institutional Action at some Universities Overcomes Paralysis

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Stephanie Krueger

Aaron E. Carroll, Professor of Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, describes how some higher education institutions who reacted to the pandemic in a visionary manner have continued operations and created models for others to follow, allowing community … Continue reading →

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Open Grants: Assisting Early Career Scientists

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Stephanie Krueger

An increasing number of researchers are sharing their grant proposals openly. They do this to open up science so that all stages of the process can benefit from better interaction and communication and to provide examples for early career scientists … Continue reading →

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ERC Starting Grant Problematics

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Stephanie Krueger

A thoughful commentary from Dr. Michael J. Bojdys regarding ERC starting grants and doctoral/postdoc education in the Czech context: Reformists in the Czech Republic are asking for help and legitimacy….One way would be by empowering Czech universities in a ‘Czech … Continue reading →

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In Memorium, Ben Barres (1955-2017)

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Stephanie Krueger

An elegant tribute to close mentorship and gender equality advocate Ben Barres, neurobiologist. Excerpt: Barres devoted much of his last decade to publicly describing the challenges he had faced as a woman in science, and offering ways to correct a … Continue reading →

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Recent G7 Science Ministers’ Communiqué

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Stephanie Krueger

I highly recommend reading the G7 Science Ministers’ Communiqué dated 28 September 2017. At times, the day-to-day struggle of educating young scientists in today’s world can seem so daunting. It’s at least refreshing to read a clear message outlining where … Continue reading →

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