Two Different Callings: Research and Teaching Students
In the world of online universities, teaching is the predominant focus. But what about those instructors who are driven to research?
I Finally Have a Job Interview. Now What Do I Do?
Before an interview, find ways to get personally connected to a hiring organization, do your homework and follow up on leads.
The Myths of Multitasking
By Jim Brinson and Kasie Brinson
Faculty, School of STEM at American Public University
In today’s world, one shifts focus frequently to cope with information inundation. Constant shifts in focus place considerable demands on cognitive processes and resources, leading to a decrease in performance. Additional research confirms this performance reduction, which suggests that focusing on a single primary task results in better resource direction and adequate processing, encoding, and storing of tasks. Uninterrupted processing yields minimal errors with respect to information retrieval.
The Open Access Movement: Challenges and Opportunities
Interview with Dr. Patricia Campbell and Dr. Elena Mastors
How does the current system of publishing academic articles work, and what are the challenges of this? There is still a lot to be learned about the risks of moving forward with open access, but there seems to be a lot of opportunity as well.
How does the current system of publishing academic articles work, and what are the challenges of this? There is still a lot to be learned about the risks of moving forward with open access, but there seems to be a lot of opportunity as well.
How to Get Out of an Interviewing Slump
As the owner of an executive search firm, I will be the first to tell you that every interviewer of every level gets into some sort of slump in their career. Though, once it happens, most people have trouble getting out of their string of unsuccessful interviewing. Here are some tips on how to do so: