#Students

THREAD: My university has "engaged a service" from Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) operating in China to facilitate UWaterloo course content to students in China this term. So what is this and
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Teaching, mentoring, & learning can be so profoundly bittersweet & idiosyncratic—instructors & students are poised to share & develop different kinds of knowledge in particular moments in their lives, resulting
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I am planning to reserve some time every week this semester to help undergraduate/masters students by answering any questions they might have around pursuing research.http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ddanish/blog/research-office-hours/(1/3) My underg
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Exactly 53 years ago, a group of armed men led by Jangal Santhal ambushed a police party resulting in the death of inspector Sonam Wangdi. The village was actually Prasajudot,
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I just extended all deadlines in my Spring courses and wrote to my students: “I know many of you will need some extra time. However, I also want to share
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Today, @UWMedicine announced that it will no longer use race to calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate. This move came in light of concerns raised by UW medical students, including critical
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Tis the season for students to consider transferring law schools. A few of my own opinions.1. I don't think it makes sense to transfer if you aren't seriously changing your
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I'm sad and frustrated to read about the temporary ban of the H1b program. I came here on an H1b and almost every immigrant friend I know did so too.
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Several friends posted this thread on FB, so I don't know to whom it should be attributed. But it's so good, I'll post the whole thing here as a public
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I don't know who needs to hear this, because this is such a common-sense among most people I know. But, I think the "international student ban" is sending a very
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"How I made my peace with Zoom -- but not in the way my University's 'be great at digital' told me to." 1/10 "Use Padlet! Use Jamboard! Use Hypothesis! Use
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One consequence of the theoretical and methodological problems in psychology that seems to be discussed less frequently is how this harms the education of undergraduate students, particularly in content courses
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I agree 100% but also - real talk - it doesn't feel like there is/will be this discount now. Despite being granted a 1-year automatic tenure extension. Despite all the
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Assalamualaikum.Anda ingin belajar berbahasa Mandarin? Sy open utk 2nd intake class for beginner(June). Sy fluent dlm membaca,menulis & bercakap. RM20/sesi, online & small group. Semua info dibawah serta feedback my
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On Friday, I taught my economics of education students about "value-added models" for measuring teacher quality. We discussed their pros and their cons.Then I got the following marvelous e-mail from
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Someone asked me about requiring Zoom cameras to be on and I had a moment of clarity on a reframe that I thought I'd share[thread] Question: should teachers require students
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