The typical college general education curriculum, fractured into discipline-based silos, often fails to engage students with the profound questions and pressing controversies that shape human life and ...

People’s self-discipline increases their willingness to invest in their retirement. This is shown by the initial results of a new study carried out by the University of Basel in cooperation with UBS.

This article was adapted from Veronica Boix-Mansilla and Anthony Jackson's book, Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World. Read the full chapter, Understanding the ...

Engineering and construction organizations have become increasingly interdisciplinary and global to meet the demands of complex projects around the world. These organizations can gain a competitive ...

Threshold concepts are the core knowledge and disciplinary capabilities that students must successfully transition through to make progress in their majors. The threshold concepts (TC) framework is ...

Work in emerging fields such as sociologies of science and interactional sociolinguistics has raised new questions about how science is defined and what science education entails. This article ...

Automatic extraction of knowledge from diverse sources of data is a challenging task across different fields. For example, in natural language processing (NLP), research on the extraction of ...

An interdisciplinary approach to programme development comes with inherent tensions, which need to be balanced and worked through. Here are our tips What happens when an engineer, a theoretical ...