Jobs disappear not because of robots but because of customers
Common belief these days is that technology is becoming so intelligent that it is replacing smart employees. I think jobs are disappearing because they are outsourced to smart customers. What is left...
View ArticleTips and pointers to writing a good discussion chapter
Writing a discussion chapter can be challenging. Suddenly you are done presenting your findings and results. What do you do now? There is no magic formula for writing a good discussion chapter. But...
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Are you a software developer? Say hello to my 500 students.
Are you interested in introducing yourself and your colleagues to my students? I am interested in bringing the software engineering profession into the lecture room, live. I am looking for video...
View ArticleDefining my role of a university teacher
During the spring of 2019, I participated in a newly designed pedagogics course organized by our faculty. The course made me reflect on my role as a university teacher. We don’t think much about it....
View ArticleNine (surprising) things I learned from teaching a class with 500 students
I was expecting to learn a lot from teaching a course with 500 students. But I was expecting to learn other things that what I actually turned out to learn. Maybe I have to learn these things before I...
View ArticleNRK og persondata
NRKs strategi for håndtering av persondata er ikke egnet for en allmennkringkaster. Jeg har lest NRKs sak om kjøp og salg av lokasjonsdata. Imponerende journalistikk! Jeg har også lest NRKs artikler...
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How to (almost) use Zettlr on Android devices
Are you a Zettlr user? Then you might occasionally want to, as I did, write short notes or even longer blog posts without sitting at your desktop computer and glaring at your Zettelkasten. You may be...
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Book review- Qualitative literacy by Small and Calarco
How do you recognize good qualitative data? One of the main challenges newcomers to qualitative research face is the fact that everything can be used as data. I liked this book a lot because it...
View ArticleI am an academic who did not switch to Mastodon, and this is why
For some time now, I have observed my academic colleagues adding a Mastodon account link to their X profiles. After mass media coverage around X’s owner and how he operates X, I have also considered...
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All the things we do in order not to write
I confess! I am a procrastinator. In my journey toward writing more, I do everything in my power to postpone writing. Most of the time, the things I do instead of writing look very smart and relevant....
View ArticleHow Zettlr changed my relation to research literature
After using Zettlr for a couple of years, I have noticed a fundamental change in how I use research literature in my research and writing. In this blog post, I reflect on this development and describe...
View ArticleWhy don’t you give a self-transforming presentation next time?
Presenting your ideas to a live audience is an excellent occasion for transforming minds. I mean your mind as the presenter and not the minds of your audience. Yes, it is strange, as 99.99% of all...
View ArticleReferencing your sample papers when writing a systematic literature review
A systematic literature review is based on a sample of papers you find after systematically searching for them. Here is a short text about how to differentiate this sample from your other references...
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