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Nothing like an engaging conference

A week from today I will be headed to Helsinki School of Economics for the Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research workshop. From their website, this is the focus of the conference:

The workshop focuses on LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE INNOVATION. The ongoing profound transformation of the world economy calls for new ways to lead and govern collective action in companies, actor networks and broadly in society. The old governance models and structures do not sufficiently guide and support us in our aims for sustainable life, well-being and long-term wealth creation in the transforming economy.

Prior to this conference, I’ll be attending the NITIM doctoral consortium, giving and receiving feedback from other doctoral students on our dissertation topics. I am excited to meet some great people, and hear some great ideas.

August 14th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: conferences | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Ordinal Logistic HLM for DIF detection in IRT

I recently wrote a paper for my Hierarchical Linear Modeling class on using Ordinal Logistic HLM to detect unfavorable biases on test questions (DIF detection in Item Response Theory Language). Since there is not much info about this on the internet (except a couple recent disserations, which are very good) I have made it available. If you are interested reading it, here it is in PDF form.

I wrote another more basic paper introducing how to interpret HLM coefficients using an example. Find it here, in PDF form.

I am interested in any feedback or comments on them.

June 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: methods | Comments are closed

Open innovation in education, OLEDs, and Nature

Mozilla, Creative Commons, and P2P University announced a new open innovation initiative to partner with educators in extending Mozilla’s role in the education space. This post has more about Mozilla’s strategic position to engage in the open innovation process build educational materials.

Innocentive and Nature just announced a partnership of somekind to engage scientists in solving global scientific challenges. It is refreshing to see this large publisher getting involved in such a worthwhile endevor. Perhaps this is in response to MIT’s announcement to make all it’s faculties scientific papers available for free on the internet.

Lastly, Novaled, an OLED maker, and Holst Centre, an open innovation R&D company announced a partnership.

Read Pascal Finette’s blog about the interesting name change for the LinkedIn Open Innovation group.

March 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: commentary, open-innovation | Comments are closed

The best, free online GMAT study resource

When the subject of GMAT comes up in conversation, I always want to share the best online resource that I found when studying for it. It currently can be found in word document form here. It helped me learn the tricks of the GMAT. Hope it helps you.

March 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: commentary | Comments are closed

Tips for Grad School

A colleague forwarded me a nice blog post by an MIT PhD student on grad school advice.

It is a great list… except exercise is missing from it, as well as timeboxing.

March 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: commentary, discoveries, research | One comment - (Comments are closed)
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