Research Summary: Market Bifurcations Posted on August 1, 2022 by Carlos Diaz Ruiz A summary of the research paper on market bifurcations published in the Journal of Business Research (2021). The article shows that innovation comes not only from firms; consumers can also innovate and shape markets
Vasabladet interviews Dr. Diaz Ruiz Posted on July 30, 2022 by Carlos Diaz Ruiz Vasabladet, a regional Finnish newspaper, features an interview with Dr. Diaz Ruiz. It discusses disinformation and conspiracy theories.
Flat Earth videos can help to understand how disinformation circulates in social media Posted on June 29, 2022 by Carlos Diaz Ruiz Even far-fetched misinformation and conspiracies can seem rational if they fit into existing grievances.
Disinformation and Echo Chambers in Social Media Posted on June 20, 2022 by Carlos Diaz Ruiz What can we learn from people who believe the Earth is flat? My research paper studies their word-crafting techniques to understand how disinformation circulates in social media.
DigitiZAtion of a nation Posted on June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 by Damien Harry So I asked on my Facebook what I could write about for today’s blog with the theme of education in the new era. Ironically, the only response was the lack ICT in South African public schools. Abbreviated for Information, and Communication Technology, i…
Reflection on Topic 5: Lessons learnt – future practice Posted on June 13, 2022 by Caihong Xu The ONL journey came to the end, but my journey of improving my teaching with blended learning has just started. This course definitely fostered my teaching expertise and skills very much. The course ended with Topic 5 titled: Lessons learnt – future practice, which is another thing I valued on the design of this course. […]
Reflection on Topic 4: Design for online and blended learning Posted on June 13, 2022 by Caihong Xu Until now, I stilll remembered clearly how anxious I was in the spring of 2020, when the dean of our school asked whether I could change the on-campus exam to online exam three days before the scheduled exam date for my course due to the deterioration of the covid-19 situation in Sweden. And from then, […]
Reflection on Topic 3: Learning in communities – networked collaborative learning Posted on June 10, 2022 by Caihong Xu For topic 3, we started with a given scenario as follows: “So often when we ask students to collaborate, they see it as merely a way of distributing the workload, and not as an opportunity to build and consolidate their collaborative skills. They fall into old ways of working in groups where the task is […]
It all started in a dream Posted on June 2, 2022June 3, 2022 by Damien Harry “Every day I live to dream, but in every dream, I dream of living.”Shortened to: Live to dream. Dream to live. As it is inscribed on the unders of my arms.I came up with this quote many a year ago, inspired by James Dean’s “Live as though you’ll die to…
A beginning not an end … Posted on May 27, 2022 by Marwa Amri The journey throughout this course has been utterly stimulating. The course facilitated a quantum leap in my knowledge. When thinking about individual moments, I cannot see any peculiarities. However, when I consider the whole picture with all the moments combined, I find it so inspirational and extremely valuable for teachers. It is like a puzzle; […]
Optimatzing campus teaching in the aftermath of Emergency Remote Teaching Posted on May 27, 2022 by Marwa Amri The interest in facilitating digitization in higher education has been the hallmark of the past decade. Before the eruption of the pandemic, there had been a slow but steady progression toward digital learning. Many funds were dedicated to research on integrating digital resources in the classroom and the role they play in revolutionizing education. The […]
The end of a new beginning: Where to start… Posted on May 26, 2022May 26, 2022 by Damien Harry Well, I said it never really ends, so this is me starting at the beginning again. But this time a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit freer, a little bit clearer… Or whatever thought-provoking cliche you think would fit in th…
