Three ways to counter stage fright
In appreciation of Adam Neely’s latest video, and some additional tips.
Implementing Online-Hardware Hybrid Labs
The philosophical underpinnings, reflections from in-class observations, and the full GitHub repository of lab material – for a measurement and instrumentation course designed around the Raspberry Pi platform.
Moral Dichotomies
Some thoughts on Malcolm Gladwell’s recent book, The Bomber Mafia.
Overcoming programming aversion via a problem-solving approach
Some reflections on my experiences with helping students develop programming-based problem solving skills in photonics.
CC-BY-NC code examples included!
Some reflections on Being Mortal
I see it now – this world is swiftly passing. Karna, Mahabharata A couple of years back (when I was fairly younger and equally blissful), a doctor friend of my father recommended I read “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande. Being young and confronting one’s mortality are mutually exclusive pursuits, hence the title of the book…
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Doing research, like making music?
How can we strive for emergence when doing research? The Twitter-verse reflects.
Using Constructive Alignment for Academic Writing IV – Workflow
In Part III, I presented some general writing tools.
In this part, let’s see how to bring these together to realise a workflow for arriving at a constructively aligned piece of writing.
Using Constructive Alignment for Academic Writing III – Tools
In the previous part, I elaborated on how we can use the abstract to define the learning objectives/outcomes of our paper. In this part, I present four tools you can use to ensure your writing is constructively aligned to these learning outcomes
Using Constructive Alignment for Academic Writing II – Getting started
In Part I, I drew a parallel between academic writing and the constructive alignment framework used for course design. Essentially, I showed how we may view our academic peers as learners, trying to construct meaning, or in the broader sense, knowledge from our presented results. Now, let’s see where to start.
The Route to Mastery
Postulating a meta-approach to upskilling for practicing professionals.