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  • Tweet: Stanford study on Meta-cognition and Self-regulation.

    “According to the Educational Endowment Foundation (EEF), which performs studies to try and close achievement gaps, metacognition”and feedback are two most effective educational interventions it has tested.

    In this study, Stanford researcher Patricia Chen et al conducted two field experiments:

    • Selected university students were offered a variety of prompts to help them think about how they studied, and how they might study more effectively for an introductory statistics class exam. 
    • Other students who were in the control group received a reminder that their exam was coming up and that they should prepare.

    Those who reflected on how they required to perform and what they needed to do to perform better outperformed those who did not, by an average of one-third of a letter grade.


    Students who received the intervention prompts twice did better than those who received it once.

    Linked Studies : Self-regulation and Meta-cognition are key to learning.

  • Tweet: How founder passion affects investors of different levels

    This study explored how variation in entrepreneurs’ displayed passion affects informal investor interest in start-up ventures by examining neural responses to entrepreneurs’ pitches using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).
    It found that founders displaying high passion increase investor neural engagement by 39% and investor interest in the venture by 26% over those displaying low passion.
    A one standard deviation increase in neural engagement is associated with an 8% percent increase in investors’ interest in investing in a start-up company relative to the mean.
    These findings indicate that neural engagement may account for some of the effects of founder passion on investor interest.

  • Tweet: Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning.

    This study compared passive lectures with active learning using a randomized experimental approach and identical course materials

    The study reached the following findings;

    • Students in the active classroom learn more.
    • But, they feel like they learn less.

    It shows that this negative correlation is caused mostly by the increased cognitive effort required during active learning.

  • Tweet: How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Ideas ?

  • Stanford’s “Technology-enabled Blitzscaling” with Greylock Partners: Video Playlist.

    Blitzscaling means rapid scaling.

    This course ‘Technology-enabled Blitzscaling’ examines how technology enables this hyper growth and how technology can help entrepreneurs and organizations manage that growth.

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  • Tweet: Education as Signaling or Skill Building?

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    This is a very interesting discussion on education and its fundamental purpose. It is focusing on two important paradigms of education; The Human Capital Theory and The Signaling Theory.

    Human capital theory claims that education will stimulate social mobility and raises wages by increasing productivity

    The signalling perspective on education suggests that education causes social mobility because it signifies the competence to the employers or other decision makers. It suggests that the asymmetric information in job market causes the decision maker to look for most trustworthy attributes of the job seeker. That is why getting into a top college sends an stronger positive signal.

    In a popular Ted talk by Rory Sutherland “Life lessons from an ad man” he gives a funny explanation about the effect of signaling power of credentials on a persons confidence level which in-turn makes him more successful in life.

    ” I don’t know if anybody knows it. Someone was actually suggesting that you can take this concept further, and actually produce placebo education. The point is that education doesn’t actually work by teaching you things. It actually works by giving you the impression that you’ve had a very good education, which gives you an insane sense of unwarranted self-confidence, which then makes you very, very successful in later life. So, welcome to Oxford, ladies and gentlemen. “

     

     

     

  • Video Playlist: Stanford Technology Entrepreneurship by Chuck Eesley

    Chuck Eesley is an Associate Professor at Stanford University. As part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, his research focuses on the role of the institutional and university environment in high-growth, technology entrepreneurship.

    Following is a MOOC offered by him in 2012.

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  • Mastery Learning : Khan Academy Videos Playlist.

    (Updated and re-posted from Medium blog )
    Mastery learning is a learning strategy and philosophy first proposed by Benjamin Bloom in 1968.
    According to Bloom, to promote mastery learning, 5 variables must be dealt with effectively:
    • (1) aptitude for kinds of learning, viewed as the amount of time required by the learner to attain mastery of the task;
    • (2) quality of instruction viewed in terms of its approaching the optimum for a given learner;
    • (3) ability to understand instruction, i.e., to understand the nature of the task and the procedures to follow;
    • (4) perseverance, the amount of time one is willing to spend in learning; and
    • (5) the time allowed for learning, the key to mastery.
    Khan academy’s perspective on mastery learning centers around self-paced learning. Unlike traditional learning, students in mastery-learning classrooms are not pushed ahead in lockstep, which can cause the accumulation of debilitating gaps in knowledge.
    In mastery learning, learners learn at their own speed. They advance through questions and quizzes at just the right level for them. They get feedback as they learn and help when they need it most.
    Teachers can track student progress, identify gaps and provide students one-on-one attention to aid them to succeed.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Tweet: Effects of Intercultural Friendships and Romantic Relationships on Creativity, Workplace Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

    This research investigated whether close intercultural relationships promote creativity, workplace innovation, and entrepreneurship— outcomes vital to individual and organizational success.
    The study used:

    • multiple methods (longitudinal, experimental, and field studies),
    • diverse population samples (MBA students, employees, and professional repatriates),
    • and both laboratory and real-world measures.
    1. Study 1: Using a longitudinal design over a 10-month MBA program, Study 1 found that intercultural dating predicted improved creative performance on both divergent and convergent thinking tasks.
    2. Study2: Using an experimental design, Study 2 established the causal connection between intercultural dating and creativity: Among participants who had previously had both intercultural and intracultural dating experiences, those who reflected on an intercultural dating experience displayed higher creativity compared to those who reflected on an intracultural dating experience. Importantly, cultural learning mediated this effect.
    3. Study3: Revealed that the duration of past intercultural romantic relationships positively predicted the ability of current employees to generate creative names for marketing products, but the number of past intercultural romantic partners did not.
    4. Study4: Analyzed an original dataset of 2,226 professional repatriates from 96 countries who had previously worked in the U.S. under J-1 visas: Participants’ frequency of contact with American friends since returning to their home countries positively predicted their workplace innovation and the likelihood of becoming entrepreneurs. Going out with a close friend or romantic partner from a foreign culture can help people “go out” of the box and into a creative frame of mind.

  • Tweet: Is it even necessary or desirable to retrieve fundamentally transient information ?

     The practical value of every major conceptual framework needs to be vetted against the contemporary and future utility. This is why we need to make an effort to understand the future of memory retrieval in academic learning.

    The Future of Jobs Report 2018 by World Economic Forum list Memory as a declining skill in job market.

    Although this report was received by critics and many experts with ridicule, there are others like Conrad Wolfram who embraces the change by radical suggestions like computational mathematics.

    Another major perspective which focus on social evolutionary approach of learning is coming from Connected Learning by Mimi Ito which combines personal interests, supportive relationships, and opportunities.

    It is a new kind of learning in an age of abundant access to information and social connection that embraces the diverse backgrounds and interests of all young people.