Archive for the 'Ideas' Category

The 80/20 Rule

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It is also called the “Pareto Principle” after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the [...]

Peer Review

Monday, July 6th, 2009

 
 For generations, the academic community has relied on peer review as a way of enhancing the knowledge base and encouraging serious scholarship. Peer review can offer many of the same benefit to students… [and] computers [can] mediate the interaction among peers. Gehringer (2000)
 
·        Peer Review reflects constructive guidance at its collaborative best.
 
·        As [...]