Day: January 18, 2011

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-01-18

  • Glad we arrived before the big snow and ice storm that is forecast tonight. #
  • Anybody know a good application for project management with #Gantt charts for the Mac? Online or offline are fine. #
  • Apple Says Steve Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave – http://nyti.ms/he4bRP / I hope Apple has dynamic CEO contingency plans. #
  • We are off from work today, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I wonder how many people use this as a day of service? #

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Academic “Stuckness”

I recently started to read a most interesting blog, The Thesis Wisperer. While this blog is about doing a doctoral thesis, and my research is about researchers and the research process, it seems a natural fit.

This became even more apparent when I read their newest post, Why you might be ‘stuck.’ This post is about threshold concepts, a topic I have been studying especially intensely recently, that comes from the work of Meyer and Land. Not much to really add to this right now, as I am saving all that for my own research findings. On an even larger note, as I am narrowing down my doctoral research questions, let’s just leave stuckness alone, at least for the time being!

Let’s just say that I envision this being a most important framework for my thesis proposal, whose idea is due to be submitted for review within 2 weeks at Lancaster University. Back to my research . . .