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Motivating students to push their limits
I think I must be stranger than usual sometimes, I always seem to take on topics that are somewhat more difficult than the mainstream, in very trying conditions - but the outcomes are very much worth ...
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Gamification in Asian Classrooms
I've been thinking more about how to improve attendance in my classes as well as how to get my students do to the expected work outside of class. I've tried a lot of sticks but the weak students care ...
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Too burnt out to continue MSc
I finally realized that there is a term for the situation I am in,"burned out". What can I do to recover from a short term burnout?
I am at the the last four months of my MSc program and I haven't ...
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What can I do to recover from a short term burnout?
Over the past few days, my advisor and I had been going really hard. We got a really good idea and the preliminary results looked good, so I started spending long days in the lab, going home only to ...
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How to encourage seminar attendance?
My research lab organizes monthly “internal” seminars, where we give the opportunity to talk to PhD students around the middle of their PhD, as well as newly arrived post-docs (who can talk about what ...
