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For those interested in the supervision of graduate and undergraduate studentsTags (comma separated): student, graduate, postgraduate, undergraduate, supervision, supervisor, teaching, research, project, learning
Nov 27, 2013 at 10:45pm
For postgraduate students and teachersTags (comma separated): student, graduate, postgraduate, undergraduate, research, project, learning, PhD, thesis, dissertation
Nov 27, 2013 at 1:06pm
Writing support and development
Help and support for those needing to write something. This group is mainly concerned with things like essays, dissertations, theses, reports, journal articles and books that are intended for an academic audience.Tags (comma separated): writing, essay, thesis, dissertation, research, citation, format, presentation, book, paper, article
Nov 27, 2013 at 11:27pm
Learning and teaching, ideas, theories, research, practices
This podcast considers reasons for and uses of assessment, and the importance of giving feedback for learning. It was created by Gina for the Oxford cntre for staff and Learning develoment online course on masters teaching , and assessing .Tags (comma separated): learning, teaching, pedagogy, theory, research, lecturer, professor, constructivism, behaviourism, cognitivism, connectivism, constructionism, learning design
Nov 27, 2013 at 9:30pm
A bunch of motivational tips by Alex Hope, with some useful advice for those struggling with the doctoral learning journey. Tip 10 (ignore tips 1-9) is particularly valuable: the take-home message is that every doctorate (or other large activity in which one learns to research) is different and e...Tags (comma separated): phd, research, journey, learning, thesis, dissertation
Oct 5, 2012 at 2:04pm
The Good Supervisor : Gina Wisker : Palgrave Macmillan
Provides help for those wanting to develop strategies for effective supervision with a diversity of students on a wide variety of research projects, whether at postgraduate or undergraduate level. Fully updated second edition includes new content on cultural supervision, online distance...Tags (comma separated): supervision, supervisor, research, learning, teaching, graduate, undergraduate, postgraduate
Oct 5, 2012 at 2:08pm
- Great article from the Times Higher Ed giving hints and tips on how not to write a PhD. Good stuff.
Tags (comma separated): phd, research, dissertation, thesis
Apr 11, 2013 at 6:35am
- A useful site that aggregates a lot of news and information about PhDs, the PhD process and related issues.
Tags (comma separated): phd, support, postgraduate, research, graduate
Jun 20, 2013 at 6:52pm
MOOCs are so unambitious: introducing the MOOPhD
My article proposing (only very slightly tongue-in-cheek) a massive open online PhD. It goes into some detail about ways this could be done, and the issues that might prevent it from happening. I wrote the article as an exercise to see whether the idea actually makes sense, partly to explore some...Tags (comma separated): phd, moophd, research, mooc, course, graduate, postgraduate
Jun 20, 2013 at 7:03pm
Getting research questions wrong - then right
A nice simple explanation of how to come up with (and not come up with) research questions for a thesis. Distilled from Trowler's book (available cheaply at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctoral-Research-Higher-Education-ebook/dp/B007W57J5K )Tags (comma separated): research, question, thesis, graduate, PhD
Oct 4, 2013 at 6:24pm