April 2011
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Mellalieu, P. J. (2011, April 26). Predicting success, excellence, and retention from students’ early course performance: progress results from a machine learning-based decision support system in a first year tertiary education programme (video) If you get bored waiting for the video to commence then please go directly to the Vimeo site. You will be able to view immediately in stream mode:...
Apr 28th
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Advice to clever children
Advice to Clever Childeren Dearly beloved children, in this world they will tell you all sorts of things. And what is indeed more to the point, they will imply even more things than they say. This world is filled with pitfalls for the unwary. This book is a small guide to pitfalls. I am uniquely qualified to write it, because once I was a clever child myself. This world is enriched with a...
Apr 27th
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HERDSA Conference 2011. Early Bird Registrations close Friday 29th April. Follow up Invitation to Participate in ALTC Leadership Project. CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of Learning Design – “Science…
Apr 27th
ReXS: Decision Support System for Retention,... →
A machine learning/data mining exercise using the WEKA Explorer workbench identified the feasibility of predicting accurately students’ final course performance from formative and summative…
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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“IN MY day people who wanted an easy time at university studied geography or land...”
–  Image via Wikipedia Schumpeter. (2011, April 19). Business education: The race to the bottom. The Economist. Retrieved April 26, 2011, from http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/04/business_education?fsrc=nlw|mgt|04-20-11|management_thinking RelatedGlenn, D. (2011, April 14). Business...
Apr 26th
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“Shirky goes on to talk about the positive impacts that could come from human...”
– Tomlinson, B. (2010). Greening through IT: information technology for environmental sustainability. MIT Press. Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?id=5sp7GYopKSMC&lpg=PP1&ots=oiZ_JXeumJ&dq=greening%20through%20it%20tomlinson&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Apr 26th
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“If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social...”
– (Shirky (2008), quoted in Tomlinson (2010, p. 65) Tomlinson, B. (2010). Greening through IT: information technology for environmental sustainability. MIT Press. Retrieved from...
Apr 25th
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Predicting success, excellence, and retention from...
Predicting success, excellence, and retention from students’ early course performance: progress results fro… Mellalieu, P. J. (2011, April 18). Predicting success, excellence, and retention from students’ early course performance: progress results from a machine learning-based decision support system in a first year tertiary education programme (Research seminar announcement)....
Apr 25th
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“Test everything and hold onto the good”
–  Charles Darwin. Image via Wikipedia   1 Thessalonians 5:21 Nick Pollard  provides a commenatry to the movie ‘Creation’. The movie covers the brief period in Charles Darwin’s life as he struggles with his conscience, his family, and community about deciding to publish his book...
Apr 23rd
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“Ecclesiastes: [Nothing lasts forever. Nevertheless while we still live, hope...”
– Geering, L. (2010). Such Is Life! A close encounter with Ecclesiastes. (p. 169) Polebridge Press. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/Such-Life-Lloyd-Geering/dp/1598150235 An appropriate posting from my for Easter reading - a time for spiritual reflection. I’m reading the conclusions to...
Apr 23rd
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Apple iPad 2 stars in vacation videos of New Zealand Just thought my  followers might like to see where I live! This video from USA Today visitor to NZ, Jefferson Graham…. (Still waiting for my iPad 2 … ordered early February……) WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Vacations can lead to lots of idle downtime for browsing photo galleries and videos. But what about editing and...
Apr 22nd
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A research seminar: Predicting success,...
Wednesday 27 April, 2011, 12 noon Location: Room 172-4024, Building 172, Unitec Institute of Technology, Carrington Road, Mt Albert Peter J Mellalieu Department of Management & Marketing Faculty of Creative Industries and Business Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand Higher educational institutions are focussing increased attention on identifying which students are likely to...
Apr 17th
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Shifting frontiers, new priorities, creating pathways: Elevating the case for tertiary education for sustainable development (Video) The announcement for the 2009 New Zealand Tertiary Education Summit asserts that “Tertiary education and research underpin the realisation of New Zealanders’ goals and aspirations, and the sustainable development of New Zealand’s economy...
Apr 14th
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Apr 12th
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A Decision Support System for predicting...
Image via Wikipedia This is a memo I recently submitted to my students based on my analysis of their performance in the first three weeks of their course with me…. Their first assignment in BSNS 5391 Innovation & Entrepreneurship introduces the students to the traditional business case analysis. I achieve this introduction through a series of comprehension-like questions that lead the...
Apr 11th
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“The effects of students attitudes on time devoted to a course (i.e....”
– CiteULike: The effect of time-on-task on student grades and grade expectations Guillaume, D., & Khachikian, C. (2011). The effect of time-on-task on student grades and grade expectations. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 36(3), 251-261. Retrieved from...
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Apr 10th
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“Ecclesiastes: … whatever else it may be, life is short and nothing that we...”
– Geering, L. (2010). Such Is Life! A close encounter with Ecclesiastes. Polebridge Press. pp. 45-47. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/Such-Life-Lloyd-Geering/dp/1598150235
Apr 10th
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Awakening the dreamer. Changing the dream I just registered to attend the Henderson workshop this Saturday. The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is a transformative educational experience that empowers participants to respond to humanity’s current situation with action and informed, grounded optimism about our future. Symposiums are being offered across the globe. The...
Apr 7th
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“The highest point in the development of something. Culmination or climax. (Apple...”
–  Cover via Amazon Apple Dictionary; wikipedia Related articles The Christian Monomyth Part 1 (hillsbiblechurch.org) The Christian Monomyth Part 2 (hillsbiblechurch.org) The Path of the Fool as a Narrative Structure (Tarot) (vonfaustus.blogspot.com) Trying out the sights of the snaring apotheosis -...
Apr 7th
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“Though some twenty-three centuries have passed since an anonymous Jewish sage...”
– Such Is Life by Lloyd Geering My partner thought I would enjoy Geering’s recent book as part of my Easter Retreat reading during the mid-semester break. For an extract from Geerings book, see here: Geering, L. (2010). Whatever else it may be, life is short and nothing that we achieve lasts...
Apr 7th
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel   (via freshtracksinc)
Apr 7th
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The Master's Challenge: Ecotec's 'Green Op' fund
Image via Wikipedia This is an example of an iso-morphically framed learning adventure that formed a component of Enterprise GreenWorks Episode 2011-01. Ecotec Institute of Technology has determined to amplify its journey to sustainability begun almost two decades ago. Accordingly, the Chief Executive has allocated $500,000 to invest in several new initiatives such as improving energy and water...
Apr 6th
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“Tata Steel has said it is investing around £10m in a trio of Welsh research...”
– BusinessGreen.com Group - UK green professionals Group News | LinkedIn Shankleman, J. (2011, April 1). Can Tata steal a march in race to develop solar paint? BusinessGreen.com. Retrieved April 3, 2011, from...
Apr 2nd
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“WWF in shock resignation from zero carbon home taskforce [UK]. Weakening of...”
– BusinessGreen.com Group - UK green professionals Group News | LinkedIn Nichols, W. (2011, April 1). WWF in shock resignation from zero carbon home taskforce. BusinessGreen.com Group - UK green professionals Group News | LinkedIn. Retrieved April 2, 2011, from...
Apr 2nd