By Tracy Mitrano. Higher education is under attack from the Trump Administration. An agenda to afflict “elites” goes straight to the heart of this effort. More...
18 octobre 2017
18 octobre 2017
Education for a New Economy
By Tracy Mitrano. On vacation this week but could not hep but post a little something about the importance of this article, How to Prepare Preschoolers for an Automated Economy. The story piece talks about how the children choose blocks from a table with the goal of building a robot. More...
18 octobre 2017
Where Have All the Technologies Gone?
By Tracy Mitrano. I am an inveterate news/journal reader. Depending on one’s aspirations that may or may not be a good thing. I did not, for example, turn my doctoral dissertation on a worthy topic of Catholic women’s higher education into a monograph or the recent manuscript I drafted on information technology in higher education into books. More...
18 octobre 2017
Do our measures of academic success hurt science?
Perverse career incentives steer researchers toward publishing more articles – and away from other important goals. More...
18 octobre 2017
How better training can help fix the research reproducibility crisis
It’s a common story. A bright young graduate student starts her research program with high ambitions. Six months later she is staring at hundreds of genomes, thousands of pages of digital text, or hundreds of thousands of environmental measurements and wondering how to even begin to analyze them. More...
18 octobre 2017
Benefits and Challenges of Making Qualitative Research More Transparent
In the quest to make research more open, sharing qualitative data presents challenges and opportunities. More...
18 octobre 2017
The Next Best Thing
We are living during a period I like to call “The Age of the Next Best Thing.” We are offered so many options and choices, or at least the appearance of such, that we can always click on or navigate to something else. More...
18 octobre 2017
Math Geek Mom: Thank You!
In Labor Economics, there is a concept known as a “cobweb” model of a labor market. In this model, the supply of labor in a market responds to currently high (or low) wages in that market, shifting supply until a new equilibrium level is reached and tracing out what looks like a “cobweb” formed by the various equilibrium points. More...
18 octobre 2017
Math Geek Mom: Two Roles
The concept of “inverse” is central to Algebra of all kinds. For example, the inverse of a number is, under addition, the negative of that number, making -5 the inverse of 5. Meanwhile, the reciprocal of a number is the inverse of that number under multiplication, making 1/5 the inverse of 5. More...
18 octobre 2017
Final Reflections
This is my last blog post for Mama PhD here at Inside Higher Ed, as the column will retire this month. More...
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