Paul’s Tips wants to share what he’s learned about life. In this installment, Paul has ideas on how to absorb difficult material. In bullet form, these are: Bombard yourself with information Identify the key concepts and make them yours Only memorize what absolutely has to be memorized Get some feedback on your understanding Bombard yourself with some more information…

I’m all about the idea of creating content versus just consuming content. This morning, I listened to Richard Lucic and Zach Pogue from Duke University. They talked about how podcasting really boosted the value of information given BACK by the students. So, instead of a student turning in a five page paper full of garbage…

This is a great find. UC Berkeley has a page on courses with feeds which you can subscribe as a podcast. After you subscribed to the class RSS, you should see different lectures for the class which has mp3 you can download as podcast. If you follow the link, you should be able to download…

One of the coolest way to learn stuff by yourself is to jump to an OpenCourseWare and get the lecture materials. But sometimes I found I really hard to natvigate OpenCourseWare like MIT one. David Wiley has developed an online utility called OpenCourseWare Finder, based on del.icio.us direc.tor, which can list and narrow…

Paul Gray and David E. Drew at Inside Higher Ed has a detailed article on tips for an academic career for Ph.D. students. The article has two parts – first, it describes tips on completing dissertation and finding a first job. Second, it talks about in detail on teaching and service, research, and grants. Here…