Friday, 6 April 2012

Yale-NUS college! An interesting insight (unofficial of course)

Something not available in local official press, nor in our official NUS mailing.

A very detailed analysis of the Yale-NUS tie-up from a non-official perspective.

MIT education? Singapore education?

The open, "free" MIT education.

Why do US university education need to be so expensive? Most current students are likely to die before fully paying their college debts. Are universities so inefficient.

University is a teaching institution. While research is becoming more expensive, the army of adminstrators are increasing even faster. University is slowly becoming a Bureaucracy - forgetting their purpose in pursuit of more regulations to fulfill their annual KPIs.

Textbooks - digital vs paper

The big rich traditional publishers are busy suing the digital startup ebook publishers. It's time to embrace change, rather than waiting for change to covert you.

startup get sued.

To include twitter in teaching?

Twitter is increasing use in humanities teaching. Can it also be used for life sciences courses?

an example..

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

What is the difference between an ideal and a typical professor?

A comparison chart.
http://ebm.facultyfocusemail.com/c/tag/BPFCw2B8X3cvB8fSlaAAAAABBE/doc.html

Monday, 16 January 2012

GSN6505 Presentation

When doing the research paper for my topics, ask yourself the following questions?

(1) What is the intent of the paper?

(2) Why is there a need to do the research?

(3) What are the observations?

(4) How were these observations derived?

(5) What are the conclusions?

(6) What are the implementations for AD research?