Learning – Page 12 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Introduction to R presentation (German)

2018-11-09

Just a short posting about a presentation I did on Friday, 9th of November, 2018.
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Jonathan Haidt on Institutionalized Disconfirmation in Universities

2018-03-24

A short 10 minute clip of Jonathan Haidt regarding our confirmation biases and that we need others to cancel those out.
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Withheld Twitter Accounts

2018-03-22

Just a short comment on Twitter accounts which are withheld in certain countries.
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Bed Light Lantern

2018-03-18

I needed a night light for reading next to my bed and with a cheap lamp and some modifications ... yeah, I like it.
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A short shout-out to R

2018-02-15

Okay, R has been around for ages, but it never did grow on me. Recently, giving how commercially unattractive SPSS is, I started to give it another try. And boy, it did blow me away.
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A (down-voted) comment on dealing with troublesome social situations

2018-02-15

If others are in bad situations, people are quick in wanting to help directly. But there's something to be said for encouraging people to develop the competency to deal with current and future situations on their own.

Image: academia.stackexchange.com
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Reading PDFs by Making Margin Notes

2018-01-28

Some people prefer to make notes in the margins of the text. One of the nice things about digital texts is that you can pretty much set the margin for your notes.
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Making sense of the stuff you have collected during the initial stages of your PhD thesis

2017-12-04

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.
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Learning Analytics, Ethics, and Dutch Uncles

2017-12-04

Just a short comment about ... well, learning analytics, ethics, and that university departments need a Dutch Uncle to keep students on the field.
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MetaNook Presentation (German): Wissenschaftliches Schreiben im Studium: Oder: Wie schreibe ich das verdammte Teil bloß?

2017-11-17

A 45 minute presentation in German about scientific writing.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.