Answer never, rarely, sometimes or often Your social activities (eg nights out) Your everyday life Intellectual topics (eg science articles) Your partner Your children Your achievements, diets and exercise A 2015 study of 555 brave volunteers (at London's Brunel University) explored the relationship between people's Facebook updates and various personality measures.
That article, "Fulfillment without commitment at the University," explored the attitudes of the average U of M student's sexual habits (with an emphasis on the female perspective).
@paulbradshaw Mark Carrigan is a sociologist and works as a researcher for the Digital Change programme at the university, exploring the possibilities which digital tools afford for scholarly communication.
For older pupils, this Ted talk from Michael Chaney, a professor of English at a US university, explores the complexities of the graphic novel form and how caricature and distortion are used to convey messages in a coded manner – an interesting cross-curricular topic for art and literature.
I teach a course on adolescence at a nearby university, exploring the various challenges and rewards that new teachers will encounter in the middle and high school classrooms.
When asked what precisely such a discipline would teach, Mr. Gore paused, chuckled and then referred the question to Dr. Neil Halfon, a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who directs a small consortium of universities exploring the field.
Mr. Shulenburger's report suggested that public universities explore a variety of approaches to lower costs — distance learning, better use of senior year in high school, perhaps even shortening college from four years.
In a recent report by the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), it suggested that universities explore opportunities for veterans to transition successfully such as: Work closely with Education Services Officers to ensure resources and collaboration.
Using these DBER recommendations as a guide, we have replicated a course intervention (increased course structure; Freeman et al., 2011) that has been demonstrated to increase student achievement at an R1 university and explored its effectiveness when transferred to a different university with a different instructor and student population.
Working with researchers from Istanbul University, they explored a 400-mile-long swath of southeastern Turkey, making a remarkable find at Cayonu in 1964.
While a student at the university, Kierkegaard explored the literary figures of Don Juan, the wandering Jew, and especially Faust, looking for existential models for his own life.
