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Quora: Who do you think is the best professor in the world and why?
Definitely going to get a lot of nominations – just 1 from IIT so far though: For example, I like Michael Wesch because he is fantastic in his pedagogical methods. Just check his wildly popular videos...
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The Broken Indian Education System
I’m sure Thane would have had even better things to write had he studied in Bengal: Most of my friends were 3rd years, like me, and all of them were obviously very bright. I was curious about what...
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David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
This makes it the second interesting Kenyon commencement speech that I’ve come across (edited version on WSJ): This is a standard requirement of US commencement speeches, the deployment of didactic...
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Who wants to be a programmer?
Of course, in most Indian colleges the reverse is true, where in you wind up with a job in the IT sector from campus placements irrespective of the your stream. Coding Horror: So You Don’t Want to be a...
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HBR graduation advice
Some cliches, some interesting ones, some short, some long… The Graduation Advice We Wish We’d Been Given – Gretchen Gavett – Harvard Business Review. Tagged: advice, graduation
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Quora: What made Mahesh Murthy start his crusade against IIPM and Arindam...
Straight from the horse’s mouth… Answer by Mahesh Murthy: I have answered this elsewhere on Facebook, but it may be tough to make out a timeline from the fragmented posts there. So here’s some sort of...
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Letting students set the exam rules
A very interesting experiment by an UCLA professor where he let the students set the rules for the final exam of the Behavioral Ecology course: In the end, the students achieved their goal: They earned...
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Hacking into the Indian Education System
The case of the missing marks it seems. Of course, the first thing that authorities will do if they get wind of this will be to shoot the messenger. Post by Debarghya Das: Hacking into the Indian...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook on Collaboration
via Macrumors Tagged: advice, Apple, Career, Collaboration, Tim Cook
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Quora: Who do you think is the best professor in the world and why?
Definitely going to get a lot of nominations – just 1 from IIT so far though: For example, I like Michael Wesch because he is fantastic in his pedagogical methods. Just check his wildly popular videos...
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Quora: What made Mahesh Murthy start his crusade against IIPM and Arindam...
Straight from the horse’s mouth… Answer by Mahesh Murthy: I have answered this elsewhere on Facebook, but it may be tough to make out a timeline from the fragmented posts there. So here’s some sort of...
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Hacking into the Indian Education System
The case of the missing marks it seems. Of course, the first thing that authorities will do if they get wind of this will be to shoot the messenger. Post by Debarghya Das: Hacking into the Indian...
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