The annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, held each spring, is a gathering of more than 14,000 members of the world’s leading organization for advancing knowledge about education and promoting the application of educational research. When the 2020 AERA conference, to be held April 17–21 in San Francisco, was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, more than 170 ASU scholars and graduate students had been slated to be presenters and participants.

Whether you’re going camping in the Superstition Mountains for the weekend or spending two months in the Himalayas, you’re going to need some basic skills: pitching a tent, cooking on a tiny stove and layering your clothes to suit the weather.

Joey LaNeve teaches those skills at Arizona State University in a class called Introduction to Outdoor Recreation.

The joys of gardening: head in the sun, hands in the dirt, something living where nothing lived before, and finally the crunch and snap and taste of what you and nature have created together. Indeed one of life’s pleasures, and one worth learning and teaching.

But how do you teach it online? It’s not exactly calculus or ancient Roman history.

One Arizona State University instructor has cracked that problem, and it’s not only successful — it’s turning out to have some advantages no one expected.

Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with medical researchers in the efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, social scientists are taking the pulse of society and examining underlying conditions now magnified by the pandemic. The crisis, Arizona State University sociologists say, is shining a light on the cracks of human society that need to be addressed.

Arizona educators and concerned parents are eagerly anticipating direction from state officials on how and when K-12 schools should proceed as their communities continue opening up amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Arizona Department of Education is expected to release its guidelines for school reopening this week, and an Arizona State University professor said a dynamic and multilayered approach will be required in order to secure students’ learning environments.

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