by jordicabot | Nov 14, 2012 | publishing, Research Rants, teaching, writing
When I complained about the economics of the book business (see Selling my own book: my royalties are less than what I get with the Amazon Affiliate program ) the most common comment I got that we should have self-published our book instead of using in a well-known...
by jordicabot | May 5, 2012 | Research Rants, teaching
Invariably, each PhD program requires the completion of a number of PhD courses and invariably at the end the students complain about the waste of time they supposed. That was also my feeling when I did mine (quite a few years ago already I’m afraid). I believe it’s...
by jordicabot | Feb 14, 2012 | funny, Research Rants, teaching
(I’d love to provide the attribution for the image but I’ve no idea who created it, if you do please let me know; I discovered via Martin Gaedke)
by jordicabot | Dec 6, 2011 | doing research, Research Rants, teaching
Very interesting article “Teaching-oriented faculty at research universities” at last month CACM’s. The article defends the need of having faculty members whose main job is teaching so that others have more time to focus on their research. To me this...
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