Tag: Academic

Now it is your chance to learn everything you need to know about blockchain, and digital currencies while you will have the chance to ask whatever question comes to your mind! You may have read more posts by me regarding learning initiatives presented by the University of Nicosia. I have been a M...

Life for an American public high school teacher is not easy. Perhaps this is an understatement; it’s more akin to a daily battleground of competing interests. Students want easy grades; parents expect nothing less than an A grade; administrators want to please the parents, and the teachers&...

Life for an American public high school teacher is not easy. Perhaps this is an understatement; it’s more akin to a daily battleground of competing interests. Students want easy grades; parents expect nothing less than an A grade; administrators want to please the parents, and the teachers&...

1 day before the conference starts… Have a meeting with the boss to run through the final details Check the flight and hotel bookings for all the guests Check the conference room bookings Check the power points are queued in the correct order Check the handouts are printed Che...

Assignment writing is an essential part of any academic curriculum. It helps students expand their research, writing, and critical thinking skills. Furthermore, it provides a platform for students to demonstrate their understanding of course materials, requiring them to apply learned concepts to spe...

The scholarship funding I was awarded through the Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme was essential in enabling me to study in the UK as an overseas student from the US. When I started my course, it was my first time in Oxford and I immersed myself in faculty, college and Ertegun life. The ped...

I first became aware of the problem when I took a female faculty interview candidate out to lunch a few years ago. “Deciding what to wear to interviews is a real challenge,” she had told me. “My advisor knows what the male faculty candidates should wear, but for me he had no clu...

If your institution doesn’t have access to that research database, you may lose a lot of time just trying to contact the first authors or trying to find the PDF or a pre-print somewhere. Well, say goodbye to that problem! This Google Extension will make your life easier. It’s ca...

Moral anthropology is a field of study that examines the ways in which moral values, beliefs, and practices are formed, expressed, and understood within different cultural contexts. It explores the intersection of culture, ethics, and human behavior, seeking to understand how moral systems are shape...

I’m an instructional designer as well as a researcher, writer, and educator, which means that I’m skilled at constructing stories — verbal and visual — with information so that a learner or reader can take in and retain the most relevant pieces with the least cognitive load. ...

This is the first academic year when I’m no longer using a paper diary. My scheduling has moved into the cloud. Always in my work bag, following me around, my academic diary is now a ghost of academic years past. The paper-free impulse of interfaces has taken over. The online calendar may b...

The New Mindscape is a practical and critical approach to spirituality grounded in critical anthropological and sociological knowledge, based on my academic location within these disciplines. How we talk about spirituality, and the type of knowledge we generate about it, is different dependi...

English is the most widely spoken language in the world and is often used as a common language for communication in many fields, such as business, education, and science. However, different types of English are used in different contexts, such as General English and Academic English. These two types...