Advice from a student

The medical student elective in Africa: advice from the field.

The Student Advice Recommender Agent: SARA

SARA, the Student Advice Recommender Agent is a system somewhat like an early alert system, where predictive models of learners’ success combined with incremental data on learners’ activity in a course can be used to identify students in academic distress. With SARA, rather than give alerts to academic advisors or professors, we provide personalized advice directly to students. An advice string...

Student evaluations: advice for novice faculty.

Student evaluations can be a valuable method to transform teaching strategies and course design in nursing education. Negative student comments are difficult to view as constructive criticism and have the potential to lead to negative changes, rather than positive, productive changes for improved instruction and course design. This article provides a glimpse of recent empirical evidence regardi...

From Logarithmic Advice to Single-Bit Advice

Building on Barak’s work (Random’02), Fortnow and Santhanam (FOCS’04) proved a time hierarchy for probabilistic machines with one bit of advice. Their argument is based on an implicit translation technique, which allow to translate separation results for short (say logarithmic) advice (as shown by Barak) into separations for a single-bit advice. In this note, we make this technique explicit, by...

Dear student: stem cell scientists' advice to the next generation.

For the field of pluripotent stem cell biology to realize its promising future, current researchers will need to pass the torch to new generations. We asked a group of successful scientists in this area, "What advice would you give a young person considering a career in stem cell research?"