4 Views of Website Success
In the Spring of this year, one of my students was offered an internship with Waveborn based on a report she wrote in my class. Another student was asked to present his report to...
Category: Teaching
Improving my Teaching
Recently, I had the pleasure of reading Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov. Mr. Lemov is the director and former president of a series of highly successful charter schools. In this role, he...
Education, Technology, and the future
I just finished listening to the EconTalk Podcast on “The Future of Work“. The podcast featured a panel discussion about technology, work, and the future – absolutely fascinating. What really got my mind spinning...
Video – A Brief History of Information Systems
I recently finished recording this video narration of a brief history of information systems. It summarizes what I’ve learned from reading over 10 books on computer history and encompasses a lecture I used to...
Estimating Google Data Warehouse
Cartoonist Randall Munroe (of xkcd.com fame) estimates Google’s Data Warehouse size in this excellent TED Talk. [ted id=1993]
MOOC Launch
Over the past 10 months, 2 colleagues, Elaine Seeman and Rami Maysami, and I have been working on developing the MOOC “The Transformation of Asian Economies.” It’s DONE! Register for our 7 week course...