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Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Passports are a tangible way of showing where one has traveled, as the stamps provide a chronological order that traces an individual's journey across international borders. When an object's origins are not readily apparent, a variety of sources can be relied upon to learn more, which might include labels, sales receipts, foreign translations, oral histories, GPS coordinates and itemized personal possessions. That documentation is an example of provenance, or the origins of an object and where it has traveled throughout history. Sarah Buchanan, ...

Ian Taylor Schlitz, 15, graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelors of Science degree. The teen from Texas will pursue an MBA next.

Episode Notes Today, our guest is Amy Goodman, Lecturer in Mathematics at Baylor University. An early advocate of online teaching at Baylor Professor Goodman is currently chair of Baylor’s Teaching, Learning, and Technology Committee. She is currently finishing her PhD in Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas. She was also a recent recipient of a teaching exploration grant for a project investigating technologies enabling online math students to more easily show their work. We are delighted to have Professor Goodman on to discuss creativity in online teaching.

News Author: Sonja Strydom & Miné de Klerk Published: 03/05/2021 ​​​​A humanizing approach that considers the lived experiences and unique contexts of students can help facilitate online learning and teaching, write Dr Sonja Strydom (Centre for Learning Technologies) and Miné de Klerk (Division for Teaching and Learning Enhancement) in a recent article for University World News. S The COVID-19 pandemic had particularly adverse repercussions for   t​ to periods of national and international lockdowns, the entire higher education landscape was affected by the unavoidable nec...

Who are Maxwell's siblings? The Maxwell siblings, from L-R: Anne, Kevin, twins Isabel and Christine, Philip and Ian with Ghislaine. (Realghislaine.com) Maxwell is the youngest of 9 siblings, out of which, seven are still alive – Anne, Philip, twins Isabel and Christine, Ian and Kevin. Philip Maxwell, 71 Phillip Maxwell, a scientist and a mathematician was known to have been brilliant from a very young age, seeing that at 16, he won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. However, his strained relationship with his father went from bad to worse when he married Nilda, an Argentinian in 1977...