learning

The best predictor for future behavior is past behavior. — Or: What I wouldn’t give for a good Learning Analytics System

2019-07-30 | Reading time: 3 minutes

It's impressive what you can do with the information about students performance way before they take their final exam. If there just were a good learning analytics system to ... you know, actually use the information. Of course, that would require that student performance was actually something most universities did care about.
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Necrophilic Teaching

2019-06-05 | Reading time: 1 minute

Teaching dead bodies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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