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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Forrester, Richard; Hutson, Kevin – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2014
This article describes a practical methodology for assigning students to groups where the goal is to create diversity within the groups while taking into consideration the preferences of the students. A motivating application of this work is the assignment of students to first-year seminars. In this common scenario, students select and rank a…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Methods, Preferences, First Year Seminars
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Bourrie, David M.; Cegielski, Casey G.; Jones-Farmer, L. Allison; Sankar, Chetan S. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2014
Although considerable work has been done to develop new educational innovations, few have found widespread acceptance in the classroom. To improve the likelihood of adoption of educational innovations, researchers need to understand why some innovations are adopted and routinely used, while others are not. An initial aspect of the diffusion of…
Descriptors: Expertise, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, Communication (Thought Transfer)