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14 juin 2015

Simultaneously Earn Extra Money and Advance Your Career

By Emily Roberts. In my final year of graduate school, I participated in a leadership program at my university. In the course of this program, all the participants worked on group projects, the subject of which was how to improve graduate student and postdoc career development. My group decided early on that we would focus on how trainees could participate in internships to gain work experience. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Coming Out from the Cloister

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. A couple of years ago, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof stirred up a bit of controversy with a piece he published in the paper’s “Sunday Review” section titled “Professors, We Need You!” The gist of Kristof’s argument is that academia has become so insular as to have little to no impact on the day-to-day life of most Americans. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Say Yes to the Reference Manager

By Michelle Lavery. I’ve recently concluded data collection for my degree (insert week-long celebration here), and have rapidly realized that my background literature has been stored in a rather disorganized way for the past few years (i.e. all over my desk and the floor surrounding my desk). As usual, Google has the answer. After clumsily searching “disorganized science papers help please,” I found a wide variety of reference management programs. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

The End of the Experiment: Teaching My First Class (Part III)

By Katy Meyers Emery. Over this last semester, I had the incredible opportunity to design and teach my own class, a large undergraduate introductory course on archaeology. You can read my first two posts to learn a little bit about the approach I took towards the course (The Experiment Begins: Teaching My First Course, Part I), and how things were going midway through (The Experiment Continues, Part II). I made the decision pretty early on in preparing for the course that I was going to try three new things: 1) backwards design, 2) flipped classroom elements, and 3) integrating new technology into teaching. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

6 Questions for Audible’s VP of Communications

By Joshua Kim. Matthew Thornton is the VP of Communications at Audible. Matthew graciously agreed to answer my questions about Audible in an e-mail exchange. Please share any other additional questions you may have for Matthew about Audible. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

On Choosing to Create a Limited Digital Footprint

By Joshua Kim. I have a colleague whom I greatly respect. She is brilliant, knowledgeable, hard working, modest, and decisive. She is honest and critical and always adds value and positive energy to all of our work. She is the person I often look to for a reality check, to tell me when I’m not making any sense. If you can’t tell, I really have great respect for this colleague. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Coursera, Apple, and the Future of Global Higher Education

By Joshua Kim. I’ve had a few hours to think about the Apple WWDC 2015 keynote. Music got lots of time. Gaming got some time. Education, as usual, was completely absent. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Those Weird iPad Laptop Replacement People

By Joshua Kim. There are 2 types of people in higher ed. Those sane people who use a laptop for work, and an iPad for content consumption. And those crazy people who almost totally replace their laptop with an iPad. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Echo Now Reads Audiobooks!

By Joshua Kim. Now that Amazon’s Echo speaker will read Audible audiobooks, I have a dilemma. Should I buy one these things. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

My Half-Baked Hypothesis About Audiobooks and Reading Speed

By Joshua Kim. Audiobooks changed my life.
You don’t listen to audiobooks.
Audiobooks allow me to read many more books, as I listen to books while I’m doing something else. Read more...

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