In every complex system -- be it educational, economic, political, social or biological -- competition and cooperation must be effectively balanced. When competition becomes excessive, it becomes counterproductive.
The recent announcement that Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are cooperating to offer free online courses is a promising development. Much more needs to be done. In coming articles, I will describe how overspecialization renders much undergraduate schooling irrelevant, and how globalization and online education provide opportunities for rethinking higher education.
LaTeX for Psychological Researchers
In november 2011 I have given a short course on using LaTeX for psychological researchers, which included the following subjects:
how to obtain a LaTeX distribution
How to use LaTeX to write professional scientific reports
How to use the apa document class to produce articles in APA-style
How to use BibTeX and apacite to easily add references from google scholar and completely automate the reference list
How to use Beamer to produce presentation slides
How to use Sweave to incorperate R codes in your LaTeX document to keep your analyses reproducible
On this page are all the slides and examples used in the course as well as a lot of additional links to other online resources.