An online research management platform including a bibliography composer and note-taking features.
What is it?
NoodleTools is a resource that allows students to evaluate resources, build accurate citations, archive source material, take notes, outline topics, and prepare to write. it generates accurate MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian references with options to annotate and archive lists of documents. It offers a visual 'tabletop' to manipulate, tag and pile notecards, then connect them in outlines to prepare for writing. Why use it?
Use this resource if you are looking for an all-in-one resource to assist with note-taking, citations, and pre-writing projects.
The Chronicle of Higher Education - American higher education seems to be experiencing a kind of teaching renaissance. Articles on the subject proliferate on this site and others, suggesting a renewed interest and commitment to the subject across academe.
University of South Carolina - Linking teaching and research can benefit both faculty and students. There are several different ways of linking research to teaching, the precise approach being tailored to the disciplinary context. Here are 4 approaches for linking teaching and research across disciplines.
The Journal of Effective Teaching - The best professors treat students like people, not numbers; they go beyond their call of duty in terms of helping students and holding office hours; they not only know their material, but they also know how to teach it well. They understand the student and concerns the class may have.
Inside Higher Ed - Does it make economic and public policy sense for professors to spend more time on research? Two scholars review the evidence and find more theories than answers.
Columbia University - Anna Neumann has spent more than a dozen years trying to understand the dynamics of a faculty career. It’s a scholarly interest that for Neumann, Professor of Higher Education, invariably runs to the personal given her firsthand knowledge of the pleasures and pressures of the life academic.
Inside Higher Ed - I've been thinking about something that this professor said to me the other day. He said that given a choice, he will always choose to collaborate with (and try to recruit) people who are unreasonably passionate about their work.
