I have recently been thinking about a number of topics, as I was preparing to be interviewed by the academic career committee. One aspect is how culture influences education. In practical terms, I observe that teaching is different in Ecuador…
Today's guest post is written by Daniel Sherwin. As a single father navigating the joys and challenges of raising two children, Daniel created DadSolo.com, a haven for single dads offering valuable information and tools to conquer fatherhood. Embarking on your…
In the past years, I have graduated several PhD candidates. All of these candidates have been cosupervised, and I have been actively involved in their research and writing over the years. While I don't think I have extensive supervision experience…
As a millennial, I saw the rise of social media only during the final years of my university studies. At that time, I did not have a laptop computer, so computing work was limited to being at a desktop. It…
When we talk about the future of education, it is easy to get into a technical discussion on all the tools we will be using as teachers in the next decades. And yes, I am excited about the opportunities ahead.…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
If you want to strengthen your ties to industry, you have a lot of options and different paths to approach. In today's post, I hope to give you an overview of how you can set up industry collaborations through teaching,…
At my university in Ecuador, we have a collaboration with Coursera for faculty and students. The program for faculty gives faculty a Coursera license for one semester to take courses and get certificates for their professional development. The program for…
For anybody interested in trying out the reflection workshop I designed for myself - you can find it in today's post. I'm sharing here what I had originally prepared. In the end, I did not have time or energy to…
I enjoy reading quite some, as long-term readers of this blog know (I read over 110 books last year, after all). So, I recently did some triaging of my favorite non-fiction books to generate some lists of book recommendations. Here…
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