Recommendation: The Rubin Report (esp. Dr. Everett Piper Interview) 2019-02-05 | Reading time: 1 minute Can't say I'm a fan of religious institutions, but Dr. Everett Pipers Interview on "The Rubin Report" is worth watching.[show the article]
Things that work very well with R: short scale (or: Fishfood ;-)) 2018-04-19 | Reading time: 1 minute A short example of using R for short scale development.[show the article]
Jonathan Haidt on Institutionalized Disconfirmation in Universities 2018-03-24 | Reading time: Less than a minute A short 10 minute clip of Jonathan Haidt regarding our confirmation biases and that we need others to cancel those out.[show the article]
Making sense of the stuff you have collected during the initial stages of your PhD thesis 2017-12-04 | Reading time: 4 minutes A couple of people I know are currently in a similar stage in their PhD — they have done some studies/development/research, but they don't know what they have or where the trip is going. Some suggestions.[show the article]
Learning Analytics, Ethics, and Dutch Uncles 2017-12-04 | Reading time: 2 minutes Just a short comment about ... well, learning analytics, ethics, and that university departments need a Dutch Uncle to keep students on the field.[show the article]
MetaNook Presentation (German): Wissenschaftliches Schreiben im Studium: Oder: Wie schreibe ich das verdammte Teil bloß? 2017-11-17 | Reading time: Less than a minute A 45 minute presentation in German about scientific writing.[show the article]
Deliberate Practice — Or: How to invest that 10000 hours you need to become an expert in something 2017-11-01 | Reading time: 1 minute Nice piece of information from a lecture on expertise — the role of deliberate practice. Without using click-bait abstracts, but there are four characteristics deliberate practice (to acquire a skill) should fulfill.[show the article]
Online Presentation [Broken English]: Scientific Writing 2017-10-14 | Reading time: 1 minute An online version of a presentation I did a while ago — this version is in broken English. Probably doing another take with less accent, more clarity.[show the article]
Online Presentation [German]: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben 2017-10-14 | Reading time: 1 minute An online version of a presentation I did a while ago — this one is in German.[show the article]
A few remarks on Gamification 2017-09-06 | Reading time: 3 minutes Last semester I did a seminar on Gamification. While it was lots of work, it was also very interesting. Not only for the students. A few things that became clearer to me about Gamification, esp. in relation to psychological theories.[show the article]
