Research and Regulations
Talk about chilling effects… Colleges and Universities – Institutional Review Boards – Ethics – New York Times Interesting that the NYT should take this issue on. Because of its readership, it might...
View ArticleSchools, Research, Relevance
The following was sent to the Moodle Lounge. Business schools and research | Practically irrelevant? | Economist.com My own reaction to this piece… Well, well… The title and the tone are, IMHO, rather...
View ArticleOpen Access in Canada: CIHR Weighs In
This could be big news. Canada’s major health-research agency has announced policy support for Open Access. Open access to health research publications: CIHR unveils new policy – CIHR “This open access...
View ArticleThe Need for Social Science in Social Web/Marketing/Media (Draft)
[Been sitting on this one for a little while. Better RERO it, I guess.] Sticking My Neck Out (Executive Summary) I think that participants in many technology-enthusiastic movements which carry the term...
View ArticleEthnographic Disciplines
Just because this might be useful in the future… I perceive a number of academic disciplines to be “ethnographic” in the sense that they use the conceptual and epistemic apparatus of “ethnography.”...
View ArticleGender and Culture
A friend sent me a link to the following video: JC Penney: Beware of the Doghouse | Creativity Online. In that video, a man is “sent to the doghouse” (a kind of prison for insensitive men) because he...
View ArticleQuest for Expertise
Will at Work Learning: People remember 10%, 20%…Oh Really?. This post was mentioned on the mailing-list for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE-L). In that post, Will...
View ArticleAnswers on Expertise
As a follow-up on my previous post… Quest for Expertise « Disparate. (I was looking for the origin of the “10 years or 10,000 hours to be an expert” claim.) Interestingly enough, that post is getting a...
View ArticleTransparency and Secrecy
[Started working on this post on December 1st, based on something which happened a few days prior. Since then, several things happened which also connected to this post. Thought the timing was right to...
View ArticleFree from Freelance
For my Happiness Anniversary, this year, I got myself a brand new job. Ok, it was two days late and a job isn’t really a gift. But it’s the thought that counts. We’ll see how things go, but the...
View ArticleMedici and Innovation
First encountered the notion of the Medici effect through this interview with Frans Johansson in Ubiquity, a journal frequently mentioned on the Humanist Discussion Group. A recent article about...
View ArticleEnglish Syntax and Buffaloing
This Wikipedia entry was featured recently: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It would be a very good example to use in an introductory...
View ArticleDefending Quebec's Cegep System
Disclaimer: So far, I’ve taught at six universities and one college in Indiana, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, and Quebec. In Quebec, I’ve taught at Montreal’s Université de Montréal (French-speaking)...
View ArticleResearch Wants to Be Free
Latest in the line of corporations getting a clue, Swiss pharmaceutical Novartis releases data it can’t process alone: Biology Goes Open Source – Forbes.com For its part, the NIH has suggested making...
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