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Imagining the “open” university: Sharing scholarship to improve research and education

By Erin C. McKiernan in ResearchGate[Published on Plos Biology / National Library of Medicine - NCBI / ResearchGate] STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education for youth can lead to the development of skills to design technologies, innovate tools, optimize work processes, and solve problems to improve society. The public...

OpenCon: the conference that made me realized I was an Open Science and Education advocate!

By OpenCon I get easily bored at conferences. Especially if they are lecture-based and speakers are talking about their published work. I did my K12 education in Senegal, West Africa and it was not hands-on. We just sat and listened all day. After I moved to Europe, and later the US, my education became more interactive. Now, I have developed an...

We should all stand up for science!

By Khadidiatou Sall for Scientists Speaking UpDo we live in an age of alternative facts? It appears people are forgetting the difference between facts and opinions. The two are not the same. One is based on hard evidence while the other is just a personal value judgment. For example, consider climate change; it is all too frequently portrayed as...

Radio France Internationale RFI talks about the collective SN3DCOVID19

🇸🇳😷 #Senegal Citizen initiatives are multiplying to fight the spread of #COVID19.A #Dakar, «fab-labs» (manufacturing laboratories), create protective visors for caregivers. 🎧 Report @CharlotteIdrac #RFImatin 👇