Open Culture: Free University Online Courses & [...]
Ronald Azuma eloquently presents the ups and downs of the Ph.D. journey. There is lots of good information here which I wish I knew before I started on the Ph.D. trip.
Some useful references from A graduate school survival guide: “So long, and thanks for the Ph.D!”:
Tomorrow’s Professor, a collection of interesting articles for current graduate students [...]
The Virtual Reference Desk: Christopher C. Brown
The Virtual Reference Desk has grown out of Christopher Brown’s work as a reference librarian. Hundreds of Internet sites have been identified for their usefulness in research. Original abstracts are being written for each of these sites to enable users to identify the contents of the site, and [...]
Librarian’s Ultimate Guide to Search Engines – DegreeTutor.com
Librarians were the ultimate search guides before search was re-invented with the web. They are trusted, credible sources for historical information, and pioneers and innovators of taxonomy of information. Librarians witness, search for, find, organize and catalog knowledge.Online research and the power of the web, have made [...]
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing – lifehack.org
Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do [...]
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb
Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around eight billion web pages indexed. That’s a lot of information. But it’s nothing compared to what else is out there. Google can only index the visible web, or searchable web. But the invisible [...]
Here is a batch of useful links to such topics as “burnout
prevention,”writing a thesis,” talking to others at conferences, what
thesis examiners look for,structure of a scientific paper and so on.
And, oh, yes, Citation guides should you advance to that stage. In
total, some 15 links to topics related to postgrad work.
Open Directory – Reference: Education: How to [...]
Assessment Cyberguide for Learning Goals and Outcomes
Developing higher-order thinking skills in students is not an easy task. Historically, teachers have looked to Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956) for assistance. Bloom’s model divided thinking skills into lower-order and higher-order knowledge. The early taxonomy began with knowledge, understanding, and application as lower level skills and cast higher level [...]
The quickest way to understand what a book about is by reading a book
summary. Here is a new site called WikiSummaries, which provides free
book summaries that anyone can edit. There are already many summaries
that are related to personal development [...]
