Note that the list below, for which 2-unit maths is required, includes psychology and medicine – hopefully this plan spreads, but there will be much lower enrollments, and it begs the question of who will be able to teach these maths-qualified students!…
Month: March 2016
Deakin pilots Cisco hyperlocation with Dimension Data’s help
I heard about the fact that Deakin was using this technology at a Swinburne meeting focused on learning and teaching resources in the context of considering (lack of) lecture attendance as an important indicator of potential student disengagement and attrition…
The Surprising Link Between Child Prodigies And Autism
It puzzling to me that the link between child prodigies and autism (or other forms of mental / emotional difference) would surprise anyone – if you process the world differently from others, sometimes that patterns you recognise as meaningful will be accessible and…
philosophy-in-figures
Have a browse through these ways of visualizing various philosophical positions – there’s quite a bit of food for thought in these images, and something I wish I’d done myself 🙂 Source: philosophy-in-figures (via Stephen Downes)
Science Isn’t Broken
After all, what scientists really want to know is whether their hypothesis is true, and if so, how strong the finding is. “A p-value does not give you that — it can never give you that,” said Regina Nuzzo, a…
Ensuring R Generates the Same ANOVA F-values as SPSS — Stats Can Be Fun
Ensuring R Generates the Same ANOVA F-values as SPSS — Stats Can Be Fun: “Learning Statistics Using R” This is a useful post on how to select error terms in R to ensure that the F-values match what SPSS produces…
E-Sports Superstars – YouTube
For those of us that don’t really know about E-Sports!
And the second video is about sexism in E-Sports … all new to me 🙂
Half an Hour: The 2016 Look at the Future of Online Learning
Source: Half an Hour: The 2016 Look at the Future of Online Learning Stephen Downes is one of my favorite writers on online teaching and learning – he has written prolifically for many many years in a way that I…
Good scientist or successful academic? You can’t be both
Reflecting on the plight of the early career scholar prompts Xenia Schmalz to draw up a research manifesto …It all comes down, then, to what is important to me as a person. I want to be successful in my career,…
Generation Y, Curling or Maybe: what the world calls millennials | World news | The Guardian
Titles – and insults – around the world reflect the reality of life for young adults, from debt and unemployment to overprotective parents Love the idea of “Generation Curling” – where the parents have swept the ice before their children…