Author Archives: qzhilei
What is school for?
“What is school for?”, it sounds like a simple question, but what I had an answer is to learn some knowledge and do a good man, including obeying laws and moral rules. Seth Godin just broke my idea into pieces … Continue reading
Innovation in Educations
After reading the article written by Dan Edelstein, I am really impressed by the role of humanities in innovations. The author suggests that humanities could offer students with the best chances for knowing how to innovate. The traditional perspective in … Continue reading
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is a rational way to face challenges in our daily life. It can help people to justify what they have done or never seen. The banking theory has listed the learning process for each person: receive, memorize, and … Continue reading
Digital Learners’ Dilemma in Information Era
With the proliferation of internet and web 2.0, more and more people get used to learning online. They are called “digital learners”. Although we know it is helpful for people to learn efficiently online, we still need traditional way to … Continue reading
Incentives for Learning
When I prepared the coming course, “Assessment” as a key word inspired lots of reflections for these materials. “The Case Against Grades” highlights the criticism of grading policy in the current educational policy. From a psychology literature, grading is an … Continue reading
What is Learning?
Learning sometimes is difficult to define. In a traditional opinion, learning is just to simulate and practice. We need to observe others’ actions and start to take actions like them. If you practice may times, you finally master it. Although … Continue reading
First class in contemporary pedogogy
Dr.Nelson gave us a brief introduction in the first class of contemporary pedagogy course. Based on the introduction, I am expecting to know how to convert learning theories into practice in the coming courses. After the introduction, I talked with … Continue reading
Open Access
Management Science is an elite journal in business school. If a PhD student can publish one article in the journal, you will have more opportunities to find a good job in academic area. The journal is located at the campus … Continue reading
Being Faculty
Being faculty means that you will continue to expand your research topic further, teach students with your expertise knowledge, and participate into professional academic activities that contributes to mission statements of your organization. Different institutions have different philosophy for being … Continue reading
Code of Ethics
I found our business school’s statement of business conduct standard. After I read the statement, I was impressed by following points. 1. In the citizenship chapter, how do we treat others in a professional behavior? 2. In the Professional and … Continue reading