Category Archives: academia
How To Make the Most of YOUR Student Experience
Q: What is ‘the student experience’? A: It’s what you make it! This week, I held a workshop at the University of Glamorgan about ‘the student experience’. I’ve mentioned Glamorgan in the past for their brilliant Glam Insight, where students … Continue reading
Lessons You Learn At University Go Way Beyond the Academic
If you need any further explanation that university can help you experience all sorts of things beyond your degree study, a University of Glamorgan student gives a bit more perspective in a list. Student Ambassador, Aisling Galligan, has listed just … Continue reading
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Will Science and Art Get Together (Again)?
Back in early 2008, I wrote a short piece about science and art. I said they should just get along. photo by MuseumWales The post still gets a lot of traffic from people searching ‘science vs art’ in search engines. … Continue reading
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Taking the Essay Journey
Is life one big journey? Or is life a lot of smaller journeys? Whatever way you look at it, your journey belongs to you. And the same should be said of your coursework. photo by Matthias Rhomberg Whether you see … Continue reading
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Engaging With Digital Scholarship & Recognising the Purpose of Tools
Long post alert. As an additional post, this piece is part of the #change11 Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). It’s part of Week 3, on digital scholarship. What is a MOOC? Here’s a video introduction: Onward! Books are tools. Visiting … Continue reading
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