These last few weeks, we’ve been exploring where and how to do deep, scholarly research in the various disciplines, and this week we will look at education. Building off the general techniques we explored earlier, there are a lot of great sources for education research, and tools that meet the unique needs of teachers-to-be. For… Read more »
Matt Dilworth
Nursing Questions
Recently, we looked at how to do basic research. Those techniques will serve you well any time you’re searching for information, but if you’re doing nursing research, there are several great tools available to you at IU East that will help you with this very specialized topic. Medicine is one of the fields where reliance… Read more »
Business Questions
Last week, we looked at basic research. But there are specialized tools for each academic discipline at IU East. And while the basic searching techniques work in most databases, if you’re majoring in business and economics, you’ll want to use economics-oriented databases. Fortunately, there are plenty of great sources for business news and research articles,… Read more »
Starting to Research
Whether you’ve been a student for a long time or are just getting started, knowing how to do good research can be a challenge. You’re probably great at finding movie times with Google, browsing Wikipedia for quick information, and maybe you even do your shopping or banking online. So you know that you’re good with… Read more »
Mental Health Awareness Month
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the theme this year is ‘Mind Your Health’, a look at how mental health works as a component of overall health. The mind and the body influence each other, and caring for one benefits the other. That’s a principle that education has long espoused – physical education… Read more »
World Book Night
The book I chose this year is Rebecca Lee’s Bobcat and Other Stories—I chose this collection of short stories because I believe that short stories are a wonderful genre to use to get new or not so avid readers interested in literature. Lee creates a variety of interesting characters in her work that present the… Read more »
Studying the Bard
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. ~ William Shakespeare A bedrock foundation of any literature curriculum is William Shakespeare, who is still considered the greatest English-language author even over 400 years… Read more »
Purple Up
America honors and appreciates our veterans and their sacrifices, but at IU East this is especially so – we are routinely named one of the most military-friendly schools in the country, and as a member of the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges (SOC) Consortium, we offer flexible Bachelors and Masters programs online to make it as easy… Read more »
Poverty and Hunger
Society has solved or improved a lot of problems. Communication, transportation, and production have all seen meteoric improvement in the last century, which itself saw immense improvements over the century before. Laws and changing social attitudes have reduced discrimination to a noteworthy injustice rather than simply the commonly accepted way of thinking. We live in… Read more »
Your Career
With less than seventy days to graduation, many of you are probably thinking about the next step – and for a lot of you, that is how to get a job. The earlier you start exploring your options, the better your chances of scoring the job you’ll love. Fortunately, IU East has a lot of… Read more »