Finally finished my essay!!! woohoooo~~~ In this post, I want to share some more thoughts regarding to the my essay topic: Creativity Cultivation in the Western and Eastern Societies.  My main references are one book [1] and one paper [2].  If … Continue reading →

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/06/new-book-gender-family-and-academe-shows-how-kids-affect-careers-higher-education Here are a few thoughts after reading the above article…. First, I’m so happy I’m not the only woman who are worried about how to balance my career and family in the future. When we finally obtain our PhD … Continue reading →

One thing that I think future of the university should improve is to increase the standard for tenured-track positions, and  provide more non-tenured-track positions. I understand that current standards based on their research (including quantity and quality of the publication), teaching … Continue reading →

This post is about OPEN ACCESS! Interestingly, my advisors were discussing about it during our meeting last week. Google  helped me find the list of open access journal in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_access_journals In engineering, one of the open access journal is Royal … Continue reading →

MOOCs stands for “massive open online courses”.  According to the reference, more options for online courses are offered online. Like Coursera and edX, the nonprofit consortium led by Harvard and MIT, they have up to nearly 13 million users and … Continue reading →