Matthew J. Gilbert,1,2 B. Andrei Bernevig,3 and Taylor L. Hughes4 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, 1406 West Green St, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA 2Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois, 208 N. Wright St, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA 3Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA 4Department of Physi...

Despite the acknowledged importance and large scale of rural-urban migration in many developing countries, few studies have compared education outcomes of migrants to those for people born in the city. This paper uses recent data from Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam, to examine educational expenditure and children’s grade attainment, with a focus on poor households. I...

The purpose of this article is to explore the need for imagination and creativity in adult education instructional design both online and face-to-face. It defines both imagination and creativity as well as provides an overview of the history of instructional design. It provides an examination of imagination and its application in educational settings. Suggestions are presented for promoting cre...

Students bring to college a value system that affects their levels of academic achievement and persistence. The goal of this project was to develop a self-report inventory that measures the value students place on higher education. The Higher Education Value Inventory (HEVI) surveys students’ attitudes and behaviors in five domains: family expectations, scholastic focus, achievement value, gene...

A computational tool for application to educational Electromagnetics is presented. Integrating a set of numerical modules, it allows the simulation and demo of several radio wave-propagation scenarios at the Earth surface. The application was developed using MATLAB and includes field interference due to ground reflection, ray-tracing in a stratified atmosphere, sub-refraction mirage effects, si...

One of the major obstacles in developing high quality content for learning is the substantial development cost and effort. In addition, the return on investment is often low, as developed learning materials are difficult to reuse and adapt to new and different educational contexts. In this paper, we present a semi-automatic content assembly methodology to automate, at least partially, the reuse...