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Note to self: This could be the "personal" part of the course. If so, what would the "organizational" part look like? clipped from www.businessweek.com I have a vision for each person who takes the course. I want him—or her—to passionately love what
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clipped from insidehighered.com What we decided was that if you could commit yourself to the five or six key ideas, the ones that do most of the heavy lifting in economics, students really could master those after a semester, and the key device that we’ve stumbled onto for
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so says Sir Ken Robinson in an 18-minute talk he gave at the TED conference in February 2006. [googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4964296663335083307]
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clipped from www.opinionjournal.com Duke University's business school recently announced that 34 of its first-year M.B.A. students will be expelled, suspended or awarded failing grades for cheating on a take-home examination in a required class. The incident was the largest ever reported in
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I liked most of the meetings, except when Thrasymachus came. He was completely arrogant, and I really resented his male rage and his point of view. I guess I kind of liked him, though, because he stood up to Prof. Socrates, but I think he is against peace and justice
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This list is for the glorious slackers out there who need a dose of anti-motivation to deal with the guilt of not upholding responsibility. (The Dog Ate it Manifesto)
Teaching and Learning
Effective educators do not teach. Teaching is usually an obstruction to learning. (...) However, a good educator facilitates one’s learning process, enables one to learn more rapidly and effectively and motivates one to do so. To a large extent they do so by making learning fun.- Russell Ackoff (CQM Journal)
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The appeal of gurus lies to a large extent in the simplicity of the doctrines they put forth. They are simple no matter how complex the problems at which they are directed. They provide a life raft to those managers who are incapable of handling complexity. (...) Educators stand in sharp
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After each (...) class, I post the readings for the class, a link to the PowerPoint slides used in that class, and a link to an audio recording of the class. (....) I am increasingly using these posts as a way of following up on subjects that we didn't fully
Business Communication
In the e-mail, Dell wrote that the company ended its fiscal year Friday with "great efforts, but not great results." "This is disappointing, and it is unacceptable," wrote Dell, who went on to say that he plans to remain CEO for the next several years.
Teaching and Learning
An excellent website at Indiana University at Bloomington with cases, examples, resources and a 10-question test.
Teaching and Learning
Making their courses available on the web does not discourage enrollment in participating universities... and anyone has access to content from world-class institutions. Think of the goodwill this generates. An illustration of givers gain. OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a type of intellectual philanthropy. Students don't have to register