Procrastimarking

Ah: procrastimarking. This is Clayton's marking: i.e., the marking we are doing when we are not doing any marking. Now that previous s...

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Academic publishing, open access, and profit

Having research papers hidden behind a paywall offends my sense of social justice, particularly in a place as small as Aotearoa New Zealand....

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Counselling career journals

Those of us who work as career counsellors are trained career development professionals who walk alongside our clients as they develop self-...

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Career education open access journals

Continuing our series on getting access to peer-reviewed journals when we are outside a university subscription system (read more here ), th...

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Rehab open access articles

Continuing our series on getting access to peer-reviewed journals when we are outside a university subscription system (read more here ), th...

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Corporate career open access articles

Continuing our series on getting access to peer-reviewed journals when we are outside a university subscription system (read more here ), th...

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Four open access journals

Continuing with the series on open access journals (read more here ), this time we consider one not-for-profit membership organisation publ...

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The CDI Journal

Continuing with the series on open access journals (read more here ), this time we consider a for-profit publication house periodical. Origi...

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The CJCD Journal

Previously in our series ( here )  on how we can stay professionally updated , I talked about the NICEC - National Institute for Career Educ...

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The NICEC Journal

There are often barriers to improving professional practice, and one of those barriers is the cost of accessing knowledge.  So, continuing t...

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Keeping up in the field

I was asked a question by a graduate last year for ideas on how to keep up in the field of career development once we no longer have access ...

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What is interdisciplinarity?

Interdisciplinarity is an interesting idea. I have previously posted ( here and here ) on this topic, about taking knowledge from one area ...

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YouTube academic channels

In my previous post on this topic ( here ), I listed a number of different content creators who make: the people who 'do' things. I...

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Disruption in higher education

Technology has disrupted the 'traditional' job market. Whereas once we were employed in in long-term roles, geographically close to ...

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Free career journals

It always staggers me how much a journal can charge for one article: for example, an Elsevier publication article that I had ordered from my...

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Boyer’s Dimensions of Academic Scholarship

The centre of academic scholarship has been defined as the "ability to think, communicate, and learn" (Boyer, 1990, p. 15). Being ...

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