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Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Course Descriptions, Journal Articles
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Bedford, Denise A. D. – Education for Information, 2015
The knowledge life cycle is applied to two core capabilities of library and information science (LIS) education--teaching, and research and development. The knowledge claim validation, invalidation and integration steps of the knowledge life cycle are translated to learning, unlearning and relearning processes. Mixed methods are used to determine…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Semantics, Journal Articles, National Surveys