The new University of Oslo contract with Springer means that staff and students get access to all Springer books (~15 000) published since 2005 (titles available here). Now I just need to get an iPad to start reading…
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University of Oslo is brushing up the web pages this year, and now the turn has come to my department. When I updated my official profile I found (to my big surprise) that it is possible to include RSS and Twitter feeds. Wow, not bad, not bad at all! I am very happy that the [...]
Read more →After reading close to 50 term papers the last couple of weeks, I see that there are many small things that have an impact on the grading. So to all students out there, here are a few hints to what will most certainly improve your grade (next time): Spelling errors: using modern word processors, there [...]
Read more →I receive a lot of e-mails from students, and even though I always tell them to send me PDF files, they almost always send me the source files for their documents instead (.doc, .docx, .odt, .pages, …). This semester we have started with electronic submission of term papers at our department, and even though it [...]
Read more →I have written about Eduroam before, and will probably do it again. Just to recap: eduroam is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. eduroam allows students, researchers and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across campus and when visiting other participating institutions by simply opening [...]
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