#Teaching

It is amazing to me a) how much “analytics” is misunderstood by the appointer keepers of the game (across all sports)and b) how complicated [many] data analysts seem to make
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1/ I have some thoughts (and links) on the downstream consequences of #faculty hiring freezes, massive #adjunct / #NTT layoffs, loosened admissions standards + institutionalization of online/hybrid #teaching. Your thoughts?
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Been going over this problem for a few days now, whilst struggling over my 1c but:What actually makes good explanation/ analysis in a significance enquiry? 2.Through a lot of @jcarrollhistory
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Most schools and programs in the USA will consider you for funding automatically once you submit your application. Open to read more!A thread... You do not need to submit a
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I graduated from @peelschools and experienced a very ‘traditional’ English education that included Shakespeare and a Eurocentric literary canon. (1/10)*Thread* Even at the tender age of 15, when I decided
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In my original outline for my @LawGovDCU @DCUClimate global #environmental #politics module, yesterday would have been the day of my @WorldClimate #negotiation simulation. Because of @DCU's closure I replaced it
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Mathematics should always be verbal in words as a poetry so that even a common man can understand it and get benefited from it.Using too many symbols and notations (almost
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A thread on race and sign language interpreting for my fellow white deaf people. Dr. Ford highlighted the centrality of race in the work of black interpreters. And how important
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Bloody hell: “for the 2020/21 academic year, all of Durham’s current educational offer will be available online alongside the existing residential degrees.” Create a whole new online curriculum in 5
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Real talk: Teaching online is harder, more time-intensive, and stressful. We miss our students. Some of us even miss wearing pants and having quality time away from our pets. College
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One year ago this week, I was abruptly left unemployed - with scores of other people I knew and didn’t know, folks around me and folks across the globe I’ll
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Today is #UCUStrikesBack anti-casualisation day. My last dept was heavily dependent on casual labour (as hourly paid tutors or part-time teaching fellows) because the staff-student ratio was what can only
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From 25 Nov-4 Dec @UCU is striking over pay inequalities, casualisation, unmanageable workloads and attacks on our pension scheme. I will not respond to work-related messages during this time.I am
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DEAR FELLOW WHITE PEOPLEWe seem to talk a lot, especially in 2020. I know. Now, you weren't raised in a barn...most of you. And those who were still have manners.
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Short thread about #mentorship and something that just occurred to me at #acr19: I love telling the story of the first time I met @UIchildrens Dr Sandy Hong, because it
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A student wrote me via e-mail this week asking for help with an assignment, and he confided to me that not only has this shift from f2f to online been
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