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What is the value of learning in out-of-school settings such as science centers, local businesses, and libraries? How are avatars, massive open online courses, and other new technologies shaping online and distance learning? These questions and more are explored in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning.
SAGE Publishing, an independent publisher of first-rate learning material created in partnership with expert authors, and Chegg, the Smarter Way to Student™, today announce a partnership to provide students with a new affordable option for accessing SAGE texts. Through this partnership, SAGE will provide Chegg with a selection of its print textbooks for students to rent through Chegg’s online connected learning platform beginning spring 2018.
Professor Louise Richardson FAcSS, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, told the Campaign for Social Science Annual SAGE Publishing Lecture on the 21st of November that we must bridge the educational divide to prevent populism from threatening democracy.
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SAGE Publishing, one of the world’s leading independent and academic publishers today announced the purchase of the full portfolio of journals from the international, independent STM publisher, Wichtig. The acquisition marks a significant milestone in SAGE’s science, technology and medical (STM) publishing program and the development of its offerings across clinical medicine and bioengineering. The first issues with SAGE will publish January 2018.
SAGE Publishing today announced that it is to begin publishing Evaluation Journal of Australasia (EJA), on behalf of the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES). The first SAGE published issue will be in March 2018.
Since 1987 EJA’s primary aim has been the dissemination of both current research and innovative practice in the field of evaluation in order to advance its theory, practice and use.
SAGE Publishing is pleased to announce that from 2018 it is publishing the open access (OA) journal European View (EUV), the official journal of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
Yesterday evening SAGE Publishing Founder and Executive Chairman, Sara Miller McCune, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2018.
SAGE Publishing can announce today that it is to begin publishing the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. Under SAGE the journal will be the combination of two existing journals: Journal of Experimental Psychopathology and Psychopathology Review. The title will be published OA, with the first SAGE issue being published January-March 2018.
While Chinese dishes are known to have one of the highest salt contents of all food categories, new research finds that a cooking training for Chinese take-out chefs and restaurant owners can result in substantial reductions in sodium in the foods they serve with no substantial loss of taste. This study was published today in Public Health Reports.
Kwashiorkor, one of the most extreme forms of malnutrition, is estimated to affect more than a hundred thousand children annually. The condition can make a starving child look healthy to the untrained eye, which makes it difficult to study and track. As a result, it has largely been overlooked by the scientific community.