As we continue celebrating fives years of Higher Ed Professor, I want to look back at this past year and share what I’ve learned in 5 years of blogging. When I started this blog, I had no idea exactly where it was going or where I would come up with enough content to fill the now more than 250 posts. In today’s post, I want to give a sense of the state of the blog and the four lessons that I have learned.
Can you believe it!?! Higher Ed Professor turns 5 years old today. As is our tradition each year, I want to share the Top 10 posts from this past year. I always love seeing the posts that people find the most interesting and connect with readers. For our new readers, I hope you will enjoy seeing some of these posts for the first time. If you’ve been with us from the beginning, did your favorite post make the cut?
WThe desire to understand the lived experiences of people and the ways in which they make sense of their everyday lives rests at the core of qualitative research (Merriam, 2009). Unlike research studies in which settings are controlled, such as laboratory experiments, qualitative research typically occurs within natural, real-life environments such as schools, neighborhoods, and businesses. Researchers working with qualitative methods conduct naturalistic inquiry, examining real-world settings with an inductive mindset. In today’s post, I will discuss the key ideas behind qualitative research methodologies.
Over the past several years, Slack has become one of the most common and valuable software tools that I use. Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration software. Essentially, Slack serves as an instant message or chat room for messages and files that helps organization your communications. In today’s post, I will share the five strengths and uses where I find Slack to be the most helpful to explain why I use Slack and you should too.
Slack has been exploding oral tren before and after in popularity in recent years so I suspect you probably have at least heard about it. But whether you are a faculty member or an administrator leading a team, Slack is definitely worth trying.
Longtime readers know that I am always looking for the best tips and best practices on productivity. I believe spending the time to work smarter is always better than simply trying to work harder. Over the years, I’ve often looked at the work that Michael Hyatt who has done as some of the best and most useful writing on productivity out there. Now, he has published a book based on his successful training course, Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less. In today’s post, I will review his book and point out a few of my takeaways from it.
