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.
This is the first in a series of 4 blogs based off a 6-hour workshop I designed for early career researchers. I recast the framework of Biggs’ constructive alignment for academic writing.
2012 இல் ஆஸ்டன் பல்கலைக்கழகம் ஏற்பாடு செய்த “தகவல்தொடர்புகளில் சிறப்பானது” என்ற போட்டியில் பரிசு வென்ற நுழைவு பின்வருமாறு. பரிசு வென்ற அனைத்து உள்ளீடுகளையும் இங்கே காணலாம். Translated by N. Sugavanam/ மொழிபெயர்ப்பு: திரு. என். சுகவனம். அனைத்து பொருட்களையும் திருகு சுருள் வில்(spring) மற்றும் திருகு சுருள் வில்லின் நெட்வொர்க்குகள் என்று கற்பனை செய்து பாருங்கள். உதாரணமாக, நீங்கள் ஜெல்லியின் ஒரு குமிழை ஒரு அசைவு கொடுத்தால், அது கொஞ்சம் கொஞ்சமாக அசைந்து, பின்னர்…
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Of Fourier transforms and spectro-temporal dynamics In my previous blog Bar-Time Dynamics, I had taken an audio file of a song, and applied my methods of laser analysis – spatio-temporal dynamics – to it. It became a visual representation of the song structure, and with a nifty phase-flip also revealed the differences in the way…
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Spatio-temporal dynamics… of an ARR song?
Constraint is good fodder for creativity. Masayoshi Fujita makes the most of it.
The prospect of colonising space is no longer a pipe dream. But, are we prepared for it?
The endeavour of measurement is integral to the construction of knowledge in the natural sciences. The finer and more reliable our measuring ruler is, the more confident we can be about the evidence we present and the worldview we construct. Light provides us with such a precise ruler. It is an established fact that the…
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I had been wanting to do Andrew Ng’s foundational course on Machine Learning for quite some time. I was mostly indoors over Christmas, so I thought it was good time to finally dip my toes in it. My primary apprehension was whether I would be able to complete the three-month long course given my existing…
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The following is a prize-winning entry in the competition “Excellence in Communication” organised by Aston University in 2012. You can find all the prize winning entries here. Imagine that all materials are made of springs, and networks of springs. For example, if you give a blob of jelly a nudge, it wobbles around a bit and…
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