By Joshua Kim. Why creating access to a quality liberal arts education is the most interesting challenge we face. Read more...
2 octobre 2016
2 octobre 2016
‘The Great Acceleration’ and Your Crazy Higher Ed Life
By Joshua Kim. Google’s unofficial motto, according to Robert Colville, is “If you’re not fast, you’re fucked”.
I can’t find any evidence that this is really true - but nobody would be surprised if it was. Same motto could apply to Amazon (maybe more appropriately so), Facebook or Netflix. Read more...
2 octobre 2016
How "Working From Home" Became "Just Working"
By Joshua Kim. Something has changed. This change has occurred so gradually that we may be having trouble noticing the shift. Read more...
2 octobre 2016
On Choosing an Alternative Academic Path
By Joshua Kim. My colleague Kes Schroer graciously agreed to answer my questions about her recent decision to pursue an alternative-academic career. Read more...
2 octobre 2016
A Puzzling 'A Truck Full of Money' from Tracy Kidder
By Joshua Kim. The fall book that I was perhaps most excited about is Tracy Kidder’s A Truck Full of Money. I read Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine when I was in 8th grade - and I credit this book as one that influenced me to pursue a career in and around technology. Read more...
2 octobre 2016
Why the Future of Adult Learning Is Mobile Learning
By Joshua Kim. Is the future of learning mobile? Maybe, maybe not.
Traditional postsecondary digital education has not yet lived up to the mobile promise. Read more...
2 octobre 2016
3 Small Technology Advances That Would Change My Life
By Joshua Kim. Working at the intersection of learning and technology means spending much of your time living in the future. Read more...
2 octobre 2016
Re-Starting: Strategies for Returning to Your Dissertation
By Heather VanMouwerik. Getting back into the swing of things. Read more...
2 octobre 2016
Five Alt-Ac Careers for the Passionate Teacher
By Anne Guarnera. While we here at GradHacker have written on alt-ac careers before—including Adopting an Alt-Ac Strategy from the Start and the First Steps to Launching an Alt-Ac Search—most of our posts have been very general, and as I’ve been working on my own alt-ac strategy for the past year or so, I realized that a more specific resource might benefit GradHackers who, like me, love being in the classroom but are seeking career opportunities outside of a tenure-track position. Read more...
2 octobre 2016
Asking Questions to Improve Research Strategy
By Anjali Gopal. My first substantial research experience was in a genomics lab, where I wanted to dig into the booming world of bioinformatics. I was green, green, green, and determined to prove my competence: I was going to be a computational expert, build systems from the ground up, and do the type of analysis that would change the face of cancer and antibiotics resistance and heritable disease. Read more...
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