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SAGE and ALA Announce 2014 Peter Lyman Memorial Scholarship Winner

Los Angeles, CA - SAGE and the American Library Association today announce Samuel Dodson as the recipient of the 2014 Peter Lyman Memorial/SAGE Scholarship in New Media and a travel grant to the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago. A recent graduate of Lewis and Clark College, Dodson will begin a duel Master of Archival Studies and Master of Library and Information Studies this fall at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.





What should be the role of computer games in education?

Los Angeles, CA- Game advocates are calling for a sweeping transformation of conventional education to replace traditional curricula with game-based instruction. But what do researchers have to say about this idea and what is the role of policymakers? A new study out today discourages an educational revolution based on gaming and encourages adding promising features to games in schools including heightened use of explanative feedback in games and relevant pregame activities.






Big Data and Social Research Roundup No.20

In this month’s Big Data Newsletter, SAGE is offering readers a free course from SAGE Campus: Introduction to Big Data for Social Scientists. This short course explores how large-scale datasets and computational methods are changing social research, providing users with answers to frequently asked big data questions.

You can also catch up on our latest data science webinars! If you missed out on the Python and R webinars, you can watch the recordings for free here:


Researchers recommend features of classroom design to maximize student achievement

Los Angeles, CA - With so much attention to curriculum and teaching skills to improve student achievement, it may come as a surprise that something as simple as how a classroom looks could actually make a difference in how students learn. A new analysis finds that the design and aesthetics of school buildings and classrooms has surprising power to impact student learning and success. The paper is published today in the inaugural issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS).


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