Communications of the ACM

Cyberpsychology’s Influence on Modern Computing

The interdisciplinary field of cyberpsychology has made a significant impact on key areas of computing, including ...

Teachers increasingly sharing active-learning lessons with colleagues, study shows

A newly published study by Cornell researchers shows that university professors have responded to concerns about learning ...
IEEE

An Active Learning Framework for Continuous Rapid Rumor Detection in Evolving Social Media

Abstract: The widespread of social media has led to the propagation of rumors, resulting in detrimental effects on society. Existing rumor detection methods rely on labeled data and face challenges in ...
C&EN

Lifelong Machine Learning Potentials for Chemical Reaction Network Explorations

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Recent developments in computational chemistry facilitate the automated quantum ...
CNN

‘The worst I’ve seen’: Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories explode online, from the left and right

Baseless conspiracy theories about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk have exploded on social media in the week since the shooting, with partisans from both sides pushing a dizzying ...
eLife

Theory of active self-organization of dense nematic structures in the actin cytoskeleton

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...
eLife

Theory of active self-organization of dense nematic structures in the actin cytoskeleton

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...
IEEE

Active Learning for Control-Oriented Identification of Nonlinear Systems

Abstract: Model-based reinforcement learning is an effective approach for controlling an unknown system. It is based on a longstanding pipeline familiar to the control community in which one performs ...
Edutopia

Propelling Students Beyond ‘Doing School’

Many students aren’t very engaged in their learning, according to a recent survey of nearly 300,000 high schoolers—and close to half say they’re merely “doing school,” but not finding it particularly ...
The Conversation

Chalk and talk vs. active learning: what’s holding South African teachers back from using proven methods?

Lizélle Pretorius received funding from UNISA as part of a bursary when completing her PhD. She is currently a member of ISATT (International Study Association of Teachers and Teaching) and the Junior ...
Phys.org

Chalk and talk vs. active learning: What's holding South African teachers back from using proven methods?

As a full-time teacher completing a Ph.D. part-time, I made a decision early on: do research that speaks to the daily realities of teachers and teaching. And so, the idea came from a lived ...