Peter Smith: Blog

There has been a little bump in traffic, so I’ve kicked off AW Stats pro­cess to workout what/who/etc is hap­pen­ing. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Ding. Okay, it looks like some of my cur­rent stu­dents have rumbled that this blog exists. That’s a bit later in the course than usual, but not unex­pec­ted. Most are using …

Our BUSINESS 101 course (aka Busi­ness and Enter­prise) is based on Team-based learn­ing and has an ele­ment of peer evaluation.This is based on the Michael­son (per­cent­age) method. We’ve just com­pleted a prac­tice run through and the res­ults are quite inter­est­ing (but not unex­pec­ted). Approx­im­ately half the class com­pleted the prac­tice team review. The dis­tri­bu­tion looks …

I’ve talked else­where about the eco­nom­ics of text­books and my sur­prise at how much of the mark-up goes to the vari­ous parties. Any­way, on Boing Boing there is an inter­est­ing art­icle that dis­cusses the issue fur­ther (and provides some inter­est­ing links). The art­icle says: 5. Stu­dent beha­vior a. Stu­dents basic­ally func­tion as a cap­tive con­sumer audi­ence, …

This semester I’m teach­ing BUSINESS 101 aka Busi­ness and enter­prise 1, here at school. We’ve a dis­cus­sion forum that is used within the course–but it may not work for no UoA people. Any­way, there is a sec­tion for intro­duc­tions, and, hav­ing seen the first half-dozen entries, such as: Woo 1st 1 to reply and find out …