by Jenae Cohn | Mar 28, 2022 | Digital Literacy, Higher Education, Online Learning
The most common question I’ve been asked over the past four months is a simple one: what do you think the future of online learning is in higher education? It’s one of these million dollar questions that almost everyone working in higher education...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 22, 2018 | National Endowment for the Humanities Institute
Today’s experiences at the institute made me think about my apartment. In my living room, one whole wall of my apartment is full of bookshelves. They are obscenely large – purchased from a closing Borders bookstore in 2011 – and they fill the room...
by Jenae Cohn | Dec 21, 2015 | Personal, Professionalization
For Ph.D. students, the holidays can be a dreaded time because it means inevitable questions from old family and friends about a lot of stressful topics, from their long-term projects to their future career outcomes. Believe me, Ph.D. students do a great job of...
by Jenae Cohn | Aug 7, 2014 | Functional Literacy, Personal, Professionalization
I sheepishly admitted something embarrassing to a member of my dissertation committee yesterday: I still use Microsoft Word to take notes and keep track of citations. “Jenaaaaae,” he groaned. “Seriously? It’s time to get with the twenty-first...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 7, 2014 | Pedagogy, Professionalization
Over the weekend, I saw the documentary, Ivory Tower, and was prepared to be completely depressed. Going in, I knew the documentary was about student loan debt; the trailer for the film revealed that the amount of student loan debt in the United States is now higher...
