Take 5: Top 5 Books on Education
The teachers on your list may not always be the easiest people to shop for during the holidays. It should come as no surprise that we have recommendations. Take five and finish your holiday shopping with our most-recommended books for the scientifically-minded teacher. Surrounded by Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments Practitioners in informal science [...]
Future Trends for Doctorate Degree Programs
On September 14th, a Council of Graduate Schools report found that for the 2008-2009 academic year, women earned a majority of doctorate degrees. While women have been earning the majority of master’s degrees, this was the first year that women took the lead in doctorate degrees as well. Yesterday, the National Academies released A Data-Based [...]
Explore Free Case Studies from Surrounded by Science
Surrounded by Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments is designed to facilitate informal science learning. Based on the National Research Council study, Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits, this book is a tool that provides case studies, illustrative examples, and probing questions for practitioners. In short, this book makes valuable research accessible [...]
The Five Most Shared Books On NAP.edu
You may have noticed that there’s a new button in the group of sharing features at the top of each book page: a link to allow you to share a book on Google Buzz and/or Google Reader (you can follow NAP on Google Buzz, too). It’s one more option to make it even easier to [...]
New books this week: Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution and more
Featured Publication Understanding Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution (prepublication) The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the [...]
New Books: Gaming, Science Education, Water Quality and More
Our weekly roundup of the new books on the NAP site this week includes a technical assessment of modeling, simulation and gaming, a look at science education in the 21st century and a couple of publications around energy. Featured Publication The Rise of Games and High Performance Computing for Modeling and Simulation (prepublication) The technical [...]
New Books This Week on NAP
Friday brings us once again to the end of the work week and a roundup of the books that were new to nap.edu this week. Almost all of our books can be read online for free, and many have free PDFs to download, so check under each book’s title in this post for links to [...]
New Publications Released This Week
It’s Friday, which means we take our weekly look back at the new publications on the NAP website. We’re spotlighting the prepublication of Surrounded By Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments, and just below that is a list of all the publications that have hit the website in the past week. Feel free to use [...]
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