Research 2.0
It occurred to me recently that academia has, in all of its traditional glory, failed to adopt the the Web 2.0 mindset in publication and research. We live in a publish or perish environment. ...
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Look out for AI generated essays
A couple days ago, I was shocked to read a story by philosophy professor Darren Hick out of Furman University. He shared publicly on Facebook a story about a student using AI generated essays...
Catastrophizing Social Media
It’s easy today to hate on social media. News articles suggest social media causes anxiety, spreads misinformation, and become cesspools of me-to thinking. And not without basis. Various scientific articles have shared these concerns...
Teaching the right way – with principles
How can principles help you build lesson plans? By helping your focus on what matters most. In this post, I outline how I used them to teach web services.
How to Make the Best Damn Course in our College
Good is not good enough. Using key pedagogical principles, great things can happen in my course. Here’s how I plan to do it.
Why a Stakeholder Approach Matters
Recently, I spoke to students at the University of Wollongong in Dubai about why I use a stakeholder approach in my textbook. I gave the talk a lot of thought because I wanted to capture...
Voices of eCommerce, Ep. 13 with Brian Amerige of Thoughtful
What if? What if we re-thought what social means, to rid ourselves of the dark elements and instead promote the enriching parts?
The Age of AI
What a trio – former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger; former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt; and current dean of MIT College of Computing, Daniel Huttenlocher. These three teamed up to write a book...
The Problem with Education in America
Two interactions this week helped me to see the current problem in education. In the first, a friend complained about the high cost of college and how it isn’t worth it any more. In...
The Amazing Amazon
In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone dishes out the last ten years of Amazon and Bezos history. Good book, but not great.