Archive for the ‘ Professors ’ Category

Scitable

Nature Education has launched a free online resource for undergraduate science students. The idea behind Scitable is to offer students “evidence-based” articles about the subject matter they’re studying that are informative and accurate (because it is not useful to learn faulty facts). From the press release: “Research supports the fact that while science students are [ READ MORE ]

Plagiarizing Never Ends Well

I want to be all cranky and yammer on about how it serves a plagiarizing professor right to lose his job, etc., but I’m mostly just sad. James Twitchell was a tenured professor at the University of Florida until last month, when he opted for early retirement in lieu of a five-year, unpaid suspension. He [ READ MORE ]

Top 100 E-Learning Tools (And The Top 25 Free Ones)

Jane Hart over at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has compiled some great lists for e-learning tools. The lists are geared more toward educators, but I think a decent majority of the items are relevant for students as well, especially grad students who spend their days walking that line between penniless student and [ READ MORE ]

Letters of Recommendation

For any prospective college student (graduate student or undergrad) in the throes of the college application process, you might want to read this hilarious post by Tenured Radical, aka Claire B. Potter of Wesleyan University. It will give you insight into the application process from the letter-of-recommendation writer’s point of view, be they high school [ READ MORE ]