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Plagiarize and risk getting stigmatized
No body wants to be labelled as a cheat. That is something given for granted. In the academic world, the worst sin is none other than being caught as a plagiarist. Getting stigmatized by your peers and society at large is the consequences of being caught. In the days before the internet era and before the…
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The M in MOOC stands for Massive!
Inside Higher Ed reported that the University of Wisconsin – Madison is revamping its Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) offering. It will put emphasis on MOOCs that have local interests. This was done at the back of 3.2% average completion rate for Wisconsin – Madison’s MOOCs. Although this is low, it still falls within the 3 to…
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Reading deeper into dates
Today is the “official” birth anniversary of my father who passed away on December 01, 2013. Officially, if he was alive today, the late Mr. Chow Kong Yong would have been 85 years old. It was not until we were arranging for my father’s funeral in December 2013 that we discovered a new fact about my…
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Killing your ad with poor music
Some movies have great soundtracks which help to them to sell well, especially the snippets of video and soundtracks used in the trailers. Great soundtrack can save a “so-so” movie Some movies on the other hand are very “forgettable” if not for their soundtracks. The classic example is 2001 – A Space Odyssey. The soundtrack,…
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Can you learn to be innovative & creative?
The management guru, Peter Druker (1909 -2005) said, “Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth”. I wonder how many entrepreneurs practice what Drucker’s had preached. Many think that innovation and creativity are confined to the “creative people”, like those who design your logo.…