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"Active learning" is a teaching method suitable for any discipline. Learn how two professors used this modern approach to teach material for which rote memorization had been the practice for decades.

The great need for cybersecurity professionals is worldwide and growing. Yet there is a huge gap between available cybersecurity jobs and qualified individuals who can combat bad actors. Learn why this gap persists and how educators can start to work toward closing the gap through innovative teaching tools and techniques.

Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce that the Navigate platform will soon have new and updated features to help your online course run more efficiently and effectively. This week, we'll explore enhanced course navigation features. New Previous and Next buttons at the bottom of each topic chapter page, allow you to move sequentially and eliminate the need to return to the homepage. You can also utilize the “jump-to” option in the drop-down menu to open any topic without returning to the homepage: Learn more about these exciting enhancements by attending an upcoming webinar.

We're so proud to share that Jacalyn Lund, author of Standards-Based Physical Education Curriculum Development, Third Edition, has just been elected President of Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America.

Forty years ago I met the renowned energy healer, Olga Worrall, and the experience changed my life.

More than 60% of all human pathogens worldwide are zoonotic, meaning they originate in animals. Well-known examples include rabies, the plague, anthrax, leptospirosis, and some influenzas...

Your Navigate course will soon change—for the better! We're pleased to announce new and updated features to help your course run more efficiently and effectively. This week, we'll explore Gradebook enhancements. The new Single View tab allows you to target individual students or individual assessments to review results in one place. Simple and Full views have been eliminated, resolving the issue of having a lengthy course name push important grade book setup options off the page. Categories are also now highlighted in the gradebook setup section as you hover over them with your mouse, making their beginning and ends better defined on-screen:

Education is more than just a learning experience. In many ways, it is a social determinant of health.

Humor experts repeatedly suggest to let a smile be your umbrella, but today they might even suggest that a smile be worn as your first of two face masks, to protect again Covid-19...

Patti R. Rose details the atrocity of elderly mass incarceration in the U.S. and suggests alternative solutions.