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By GradHacker. My graduate school recently invited an alumna with an MA in professional counseling to talk to us about careers outside academia. She talked about different reasons for switching fields and the ways we could translate our studies into marketable skills. Above all, she stressed, we needed to network. She herself had learned to enjoy networking despite once being a “socially retarded introvert.” I know I’ve got that phrase correct, because she said it twice. Read more...

By Emily VanBuren. I’m wrapping up the second year of my PhD in history, and it’s been a big one. This year, I figured out what I'm writing my dissertation about. I finally identified how all of my research interests fit together and pinpointed the specific question I'm trying to answer. I persuaded my advisor that this project matters and makes sense. I assembled a committee. I tackled a mountain of reading in order to situate my project in the existing literature. I pored over dozens of archival databases and library finding aids and bibliographies to identify the relevant primary sources. I came up with a catchy working title. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. I’m worried that our community is going to draw the wrong lessons from the Dedoose crash.
The wrong lesson would be that cloud services are inherently less secure than local services. 
The right lesson would be that the purchaser of cloud services needs to pay very close attention to a number of factors when deciding to source any critical education function. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. So I’m excited about Andrew Ng, Coursera’s co-founder, becoming the chief scientist at Baidu.
The rest of the world can’t follow the Western model of higher education development. 
The countries of the emerging world, especially China and India, have both the opportunity and the necessity to things differently. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Have you heard of Janux? 
If not, I encourage you to go check it out. Create an account (it is quick), and spend some time surfing around any of the 19 open online courses available on the platform.
Janux is a learning platform out of the University of Oklahoma. What is different about Janux is that the platform integrates free open online (non-credit) courses with the option of taking the course for credit (and paying). Read more...

By Joshua Kim. We are having a debate on my campus about job titles and I’m losing.
My institution is in the process of strengthening our educational technology team. We are recruiting for someone to:  "Provide leadership and support for the development of innovative and effective teaching and learning practices using information technology."
The title for this position is “Instructional Designer”. Read more...