classes and evaluating their students progress. It is also very important to maintain discipline in the classroom. The teacher must have unlimited energy and knowledge about the subject they are teaching. The most important thing is to create an academic and fun environment…
I sought to understand this illness in an academic light and explore the tortuous and intricate nature of eating disorders and the various methods of treatment. But when presented with the hackneyed question “what do you want to do when you grow up?”, I would answer with such a confident and specific…
I was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1970. When I was four years old, my mother and two younger sisters died during the Vietnam War. My older sister and I were then sent to be raised by my grandmother, a devoted Buddhist in her 70s, while my father continued his military service. In obedience to my grandmother, I engaged in Buddhist worship. I grew up not only in poverty but also in ignorance of Christianity. In 1987, I escaped the country with my father and we came to the United States as…
information my first thought would be to go on Google and search my topic. I now realize that if I want to find scholarly information that is peer edited the best places to check are online databases. Also, by using online databases I was able to approach academic research in a more efficient and effective way. I was not wasting my time looking into information that might or might not be accurate. Instead, I was able to spend my time sorting through a vast majority of articles relating to my…
Suggested Financial Strategies for Stressed Higher Education Institutions Kelly Canavin Regent University Abstract Suggested Financial Strategies for Stressed Higher Education Institutions Throughout this country and the world schools are suffering and in search of ways to rise above financial struggles and become the great institution they once were. Among my research I found as though I really enjoyed learning ways to help schools who are suffering. As though…
Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Cost? There comes a time in every students’ life when they must decide whether or not to continue their education past high school. There are countless factors that contribute to this decision, such as career aspirations and college tuition costs. With increasing tuition costs and what seems to be declining educational values, possible college prospects are wondering if college is worth the money, and in most cases, the debt that accompanies it.…
This experience helped me to learn how to work under immense pressure with utmost responsibility. I became a student member of IEEE and started to follow their online course “Introduction to Nanotechnology”. I started to download monthly electronic journals from there and studied the papers I found interesting. In the mean time, I did some independent research with a colleague of mine on a solar…
However, with this rise in the desire for a higher education there has come another increase, tuition prices. There has been an astounding increase rate in tuition prices since these student’s parents went to school. Karen Herzog in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote “In 1978, a UW-Madison student paying his or her own way, without any help, had to earn $2,362. It could be done at minimum wage by working full-time through…
1. Introduction E-Learning is a young and ground-breaking phenomenon for serving the needs of learners. The use of technology and new communication channels allow teachers and learners to experience a social, interactive and vibrant learning environment. Governments invest in E-Learning initiatives for making education accessible to everyone by lowering the barriers of time and place and providing flexibility and affordability especially for those could not enter traditional programs. (Bichsel,…
How to Read a Paper August 2, 2013 S. Keshav David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada keshav@uwaterloo.ca ABSTRACT Researchers spend a great deal of time reading research papers. However, this skill is rarely taught, leading to much wasted effort. This article outlines a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers. I also describe how to use this method to do a literature survey. 4. Read the conclusions 5. Glance over…