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Beware online “filter bubbles”
There are few people nowadays in the world that do not know what internet, social media and search engines are. In addition to those who argue that some of these engines or making us stupid, some believe that these engines … Continue reading → Continue reading
Sharing Cambridge Ideas
Cambridge Nights is a very interesting site that tries to “share bits and pieces of Cambridge with the rest of the world” by interviewing the distinguished professors of different fields in universities within Cambridge, MA. The very latest one is an … Continue reading → Continue reading
Why We Need Journal of Failures?
We had this discussion in class that it is benefiicial to have a jounral that publishes the failures in research which will be very useful from many different perspectives. One perspective that I mentioned was that with publishing failures plagiarism … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Is College Worth It?
While working on the scholarly essay on the value of higher education I found that the debates on if the college education worth the cost and time is significantly increasing. There are many blog postings and writing on this topic and one was published just today … Continue reading → Continue reading
How as an adviser/faculty, we can cultivate the creativity of our students
The following interesting story shows how a student solved one of the unsolved problems in math because he didn’t know that it was just an example of “unsolved problems”. A key question is that was he able to solve it if he had known … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tips on how to find a good mentor
I found the following notes on how to find a good mentor. I think this also gives hints on how to be a good mentor from a different perspective. In other words it shows what type of mentors the students look for. The … Continue reading → Continue reading
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A Simple Way to Cultivate Creativity is to Let It Free! – An Interesting Story!
The following interesting story shows how a student solved one of the unsolved problems in math because he didn’t know that it was just an example of “unsolved problems”. A key question is that was he able to solve it if he had known … Continue reading → Continue reading
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The 5 Characteristics of Successful New Faculty Members
A nice writing on 5 personal characteristics that a successful faculty member should have/be.
humble
organized
willing
collegial
low-maintenance
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UNESCO Document on Effective Educational Practices
An interesting document published by UNESCO almost ten years ago. It gathers research results on effective education practices and methods. What I didn’t see was a room for “technology and its impact on learning” in the document. http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/publications/EducationalPracticesSeriesPdf/prac03e.pdf Continue reading
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Faculty Duties and How to Get There?
Kennedy 1997, described faculty duties in the following categories: 1) Teach, 2) mentor, 3) serve the university, 4) discover, 5) publish, 6)tell the truth, 7) reach beyond the walls, 7) To change. As we argued these duties are interdependent and … Continue reading → Continue reading
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