Some tools for remote teaching and collaboration
Current circumstances require most in academia to move their professional activities online. While we are already used to collaborate over large distances for our research, for teaching this may be new. Here, I share a few tools that I have used in the past and that I am using now again. Most of them are a little bit more “niche” than the video conferencing services we have to use now to reach our students.(No) Email to/from accounts provided by Microsoft
For some time now I have not been able to answer any email from accounts provided by Microsoft. This includes accounts in the hotmail.com, outlook.com, and microsoft.com domains. Why? Microsoft rejects all my emails because – they claim – another server on the same network as mine was suspected to send spam-like messages. This is what I get if I try to send an email to a microsoft provided email account:Transition to Hugo
This website has gone through several changes over the years. It began as a tikiwiki and was after some years converted to drupal. After several upgrades, that were not always painless, I think it’s time to move on. Both content management systems were probably overkill (and tikiwiki was terribly slow). Now, the site is created with Hugo, a static website engine. For the initial conversion, I shamelessly copied Rob Hyndman’s generously shared configuration.Among German economists on Twitter, they say I am influential
The German blog makronom created a ranking of economists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland on Twitter:
See their original post here and an update here.
Experimentalists are Theorists
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Move to Berlin
At the end of August 2014, I will leave Jacobs University for a new position in Berlin: Professor of Economics at Touro College Berlin.
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