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Young scientists need collaboration
As today’s science is a team effort, it is essential to promote the collaboration skills for young scientists in their early careers ([McNutt, 2015](https://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6245/217.summary)). In China, the China-educated young scientists (*tubie* in Chinese, or ‘land turtles’), m...
By Xingfeng Si
Components of Expertise
Herling (2000:13) in his "Operational definitions of expertise and competence" outlined three basic components of expertise: knowledge; problem-solving; and experience. Here, I propose a more sophisticated differentiation that involves four types of knowledge: 1) Epistemic Knowledge; 2) To...
Piracy and (Digital) Economy - Beneficial side-effects of outlawed acts and black market economies for societies.
There are various pointers in recent research that suggest that product piracy as a means of distribution is a mayor factor in not only innovation but also education and economic advancement. Independent studies also show positive effects for the establishment of the class of goods that have be...
Awards specifically to free educational software that has proven to be effective in randomized field experiments involving a large number of schools.
Ben Goldacre described randomized field experiments as following: ""Randomised trials are our best way to find out if something works: by randomly assigning participants to one intervention or another, and measuring the outcome we're interested in, we exclude all alternative explanations for any...
Behavioral Economics: The Way Forward in Education
Behavioral Economics focuses on modelling the decision-making process of individuals, by exploring the emotional, psychological, and social factors that lead to those decisions. Although it primarily focuses on economic decisions nonetheless there is significant potential in the educational fiel...
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