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The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Tags: phd, education, academia, illustration, funny, science, visualization, career, fun, comics Saved by: admin at 10 Aug 2010

What's Wrong With the American University System - Culture - The Atlantic
Our view is that the primary obligation belongs to the teacher. Good teaching is not just imparting knowledge, like pouring milk into a jug. It's the job of the teacher to get students interested and ... Read more
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/whats-wrong-with-the-american-university-system/60458/
Tags: education, academia, college, teaching, america, academics, humanities, highered, research, tenure Saved by: admin at 31 Jul 2010

University to Provide Online Reputation Management to Graduates
Syracuse University has purchased six-month subscriptions to Brand-Yourself.com’s online reputation management platform for all 4,100 of its graduating seniors. The platform will help students monit... Read more
http://mashable.com/2010/05/05/brand-yourself/
Tags: reputation, education, socialmedia, via:packrati.us, branding, university, academia, career, branding,, brandyourselfpress Saved by: admin at 06 May 2010

The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter
A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence. To reach this c... Read more
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_million_follower_fallacy_audience_size_doesnt_prove_influence_on_twitter.php
Tags: twitter, influence, statistics, socialmedia, research, via:packrati.us, branding, marketing, academia, stats Saved by: admin at 20 Mar 2010

College Degrees Without Going to Class - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
Six experts weigh in on topics related to online learning. Who benefits most from online courses — students or colleges? Are online classes as educationally effective as in-classroom instruction? Sh... Read more
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/college-degrees-without-going-to-class/
Tags: education, online, teaching, nytimes, college, academia, learning, distance-education, distance_learning, elearning Saved by: admin at 05 Mar 2010

'Self-learners' creating university of online - Times Online
By chance he discovered a website called Open Learn, an offshoot of the Open University (OU), which is in the vanguard of a new era of education. Short-circuiting tuition fees and over-priced student ... Read more
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6869552.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1
Tags: education, learning, online, university, academia, free, elearning, web2.0, 20091011, advanced Saved by: admin at 12 Oct 2009

List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Tags: wikipedia, science, reference, psychology, philosophy, cognitive_biases, cognitive, cognition, bias, behaviour Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

Manhattan Institute
http://www.manhattan-institute.org
Tags: writing, thinktank, resources, research, politics, political, policy, news, libertarian, libertairan Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

RAND Corporation Provides Objective Research Services and Public Policy Analysis
http://www.rand.org
Tags: wiki, war, usa, trends, toread, thinktank, terrorism, technology, strategy, security Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009

Main Page - AcademicBlogs
http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Tags: wiki, theory, research, reference, blogs, blog, academic, academia Saved by: admin at 29 Jun 2009