By Joshua Kim. The thing to remember about us alt-acs is that we are academics with a different incentive profile than our faculty colleagues. Our career progression and promotion paths are different. Work that might be a detriment for tenure track faculty are a benefit for us alt-acs. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. I’d like to make a modest proposal. We should stop scheduling meetings with zero time to go from one meeting to the next.
Does this describe your life? You have a meeting scheduled from 9:00am to 10:00am. And then another meeting from 10:00am to 10:30am. You have left yourself exactly zero minutes to get from the first meeting to the second. Read more...
By Natalie Houston. One of the most powerful things you can do to improve your focus and productivity is to adjust your working environment. We each have different preferences for things like soft or hard furniture, room temperature, and background noise. Figuring out what works best for you in your environment can help you make the most out of your work time. I’ve written before about Noisli, an online tool that combines a highly customizable background noise generator with a distraction-free writing environment. Read more...You can take a look on the list below or access the interactive version here to discover more tools to study effectively. Pick up the tools that will help you in those areas of learning where you have more difficulties. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You
Brian Merchant, Motherboard, 2015/02/24
At a certain point, people will lose patience withy ther spying and treacking that goes on online. Maybe stuff like this, when it comes home to roost in a bad credit rating, will tip the scales. More...
. Maîtrise des coûts et recherche des compétences techniques : une étude dévoile les raisons qui motivent les DSI à recourir à l'infogérance et à l'externalisation pour mener à bien la transformation digitale. Suite...
Par Elsa Doladille. Bien que le développement des nouvelles technologies à l’école soit en ce moment au coeur des préoccupations du ministère de l’Education nationale, la mésaventure d’une promotion de la faculté de médecine de Lille rappelle que le numérique éducatif a aussi ses inconvénients. Voir l'article...
By Phil Hill. After yesterday’s “sources say” report from TechCrunch about Instructure – maker of the Canvas LMS – raising a new round of financing and entering the corporate LMS space, Instructure changed plans and made their official announcement to today. The funding is to both expand the Canvas team and to establish the new corporate LMS team. I’m not a fan of media attempts to get a scoop based purely on rumors, and in this case TechCrunch got a few items wrong that are worth correcting. More...
By Erin E. Templeton. Where ever you are, ProfHackers, we hope you are staying warm! Record snow and cold temperatures have blanketed much of the U.S. Boston, as fellow ProfHacker Ryan Cordell can attest, is having a “Winter From Hell.” And yet, it could be worse: we could be in eastern Canada, where the snow is high enough in places to bury cars and houses completely. More...
By Anastasia Salter. Several years ago, I started my quest for the perfect travel computing solution. Academic travel places a lot of demands on our technology: often, we rely on computers for presentations at conferences, taking notes, and keeping up to date on other projects and meetings. For a few years I was able to rely almost entirely on an iPad and keyboard case for all my conferences, which offered a lot of portability if not much computing power. More...
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