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17 mai 2014

Navigating the Ph.D. Application Season

By Ashley Sanders. You’re fresh off your Bachelors or you’re in the final throes of your Masters and you see it coming over the horizon, PhD application season. You thought long and hard about the worth of a Doctorate and whether or not you should “just not go”, but in the end you decided to take the plunge. Navigating PhD application season is an intense and emotional experience to say the least. Read more...

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17 mai 2014

Parenting in Grad School

By Andrea Zellner. Parenting in grad school can be crazy hard. There is really so much to say about parenting in grad school. I asked the question on Twitter and on Facebook and was just overwhelmed with the responses. I have blogged on Gradhacker before about being a mother in academia. As I enter what is hopefully the last year of my grad school experience, I find myself reflecting on how I’ve made it work and how making it work has changed as I’ve advanced in my doctoral program. Read more...

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17 mai 2014

Writing Boot Camps

By Ashley Sanders. Writing can be such an isolating task, whose very isolation may deter us from starting or progressing toward our goals. The other obstacle we often face is a lack of accountability once we leave the classroom for the desert of dissertation writing. Writing boot camps address both challenges by providing a space and time in which to work on writing projects alongside others doing the same and setting a schedule with periodic, brief meetings to report on goals, challenges, and progress. Read more...

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17 mai 2014

Why the Beats / Apple Deal Depresses Me

By Joshua Kim. Why should the reported impending $3.2 billion purchase of Beats Electronics by Apple depress me?
If Apple, a company with a market cap of over $500 billion (the largest in the world) and over $40 billion in cash, wants to spend a few billion on a hot consumer electronics brand why should I care?
Apple can afford to buy Beats, and who knows what new cool headphones or more robust competition for Spotify might emerge from the deal. Read more...

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17 mai 2014

Why I'm Not Reviewing That Book That You Sent

By Joshua Kim. One perk of writing book reviews is that people suddenly want to send you free books.
Each week I get wonderful e-mails from colleagues in publishing and communications generously offering to send me a book for possible review.
Almost never do I accept these offers. Read more...

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17 mai 2014

Office Mix and Apple Hypocrites (Like Me)

By Joshua Kim. I’m an Apple hypocrite. When it comes to Apple I’m (mostly) willing to overlook the hardware and OS lock-in.
Out of one side of my mouth I’ll preach the gospel of platform agnosticism and the benefits of OS diversity, where the other side of my mouth will be spouting about the elegance of iOS only solutions such as iTunes U Courses and one-to-one iPad programs. Read more...

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17 mai 2014

An Attempt to Reframe Our Active Learning Debate

By Joshua Kim. We Inside Higher Ed folks are a cantankerous bunch. That is good, as open and respectful debate is one of the hallmarks of academe.
Our penchant for forceful and well-articulated disagreement was on full display in the discussion (DISQUS) section of Doug Lederman’s article on 5/13 A Boost for Active Learning. Read more...

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17 mai 2014

Audible's Lost MobilePlayer

By Joshua Kim. How many of us audiobook fanatics and Audible Stockholm Syndrome customers realize that Audible once sold hardware?
Back in 1998 (or late 1997 - Wikipedia is a bit unclear), Audible released the MobilePlayer. You connected the thing through the serial port on your computer, fired up Windows 95, and downloaded your maximum of 2 hours of audio to the device. Read more...

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17 mai 2014

Ask the Administrator: What About Master’s Programs?

By Matt Reed. I’ll start by conceding the point that much of the discussion online about whether people should go to grad school in the humanities tacitly assumes that grad school means doctoral programs. But there’s no reason it has to. Master’s programs are well-established, and serve purposes of their own. Read more...

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17 mai 2014

Secret Teaching

By Matt Reed. What happens when you combine administrators and faculty from research universities, master’s level universities, and community colleges to discuss how best to prepare grad students for jobs at teaching institutions?
Apparently, a whole lot of “I hadn’t thought of that”s. Read more...

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