Prerequisite-aware course ordering towards getting relevant job opportunities

This Job is ‘Getting Old:’ Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities using Occupational Age Structure

In both the U.S. and the OECD, highand low-paying occupations expanded relative to middle-wage occupations during the 1990s and 2000s. We explore changes in the age structure of occupations as a means to analyze the reallocation of workers from middleskill occupations towards the tails of the distribution. We posit that occupations typically expand by hiring young workers and contract by curtai...

Towards Mobile Sensor-Aware Crowdsourcing: Architecture, Opportunities and Challenges

The recent success of general purpose crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk paved the way for a plethora of crowd-enabled applications and workflows. However, the variety of tasks which can be approached via such crowdsourcing platforms is limited by constraints of the web-based interface. In this paper, we propose mobile user interface clients. Switching to mobile clients has the...

Getting organized in your job.

The benefits of being organized when starting one's career are countless and worth the time and effort in developing an effective and efficient practice. Established protocols, good habits, and methodical communication that include all members of the team will help create a system that keeps all components of one's practice organized. Adhering to these strategies requires self-discipline. Apply...

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What’s in a Prerequisite? A Mixed-Methods Approach to Identifying the Impact of a Prerequisite Course

Despite the ubiquity of prerequisites in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula, there has been minimal effort to assess their value in a data-driven manner. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, we examined the impact of prerequisites in the context of a microbiology lecture and lab course pairing. Through interviews and an online survey, students hig...