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Blog postIntroduction This semester I’m teaching four sections of Introduction to Information Systems: Honors. As is the case with most survey courses, CIS236 covers a great deal of material—and quickly at that. Think breadth, not depth. I joke with some of my friends that it’s easier for me to explain the topics that we don’t discuss over the 13-week semester.
I’m not the only professor teaching CIS236. Through our weekly coordination me
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Blog postIntroduction Should universities ban professors from using PowerPoint in the classroom? It’s a provocative question and one that others have asked.
In academia today, you can find plenty of skeptics and naysayers in regard to the world’s most popular presentation program. Perhaps these folks are taking a cue from some of their counterparts in the corporate world. Depending on where you work, you can get yourself in trouble for br
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Blog postIntroduction Now that I’m ensconced in the world of Slack, I thought that I’d take some time to dispel some of its misconceptions. In this post, I’ll address some of the biggest myths about Slack.
Myth 1: Slack is essentially the same as e-mail. This one really rankles me. Comparing Slack to e-mail is akin to saying that a driver is tantamount to a pitching wedge. Yes, technically both are golf clubs, but even trick-shot master B
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Blog postIntroduction This semester I’m teaching four 50-minute sections of CIS236: Honors Introduction to Information Systems on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This is quite the change from previous semesters. In the past, I taught two consecutive 75-minute sections Monday through Thursday. In this post, I’ll describe some of pros and cons of teaching back-to-back sections.
Pros My day is compressed. I typically arrive on campus around
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Blog postIntroduction I recently received my student evaluations from the summer and dutifully updated my interactive dataviz. In this post, I’ll discuss what the data tells me about my teaching style and methods. (Note that you can mouse over each image below to enlarge it.)
I’m rapidly improving at teaching This is the most obvious finding. To be fair, though, I didn’t exactly hit the ball out of the park during my first semester. With any new job, there’s always a learning curve. Bey -
Blog postAnalytics: The Agile Way is now available as an unabridged audiobook. Check out a five-minute sample below or buy it here.
This is my second book that Wiley has offered in this format joining Message Not Received.
Props to narrator Greg Tremblay.
The post Audiobook of Analytics: The Agile Way Is Now Available appeared first on Phil Simon.
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Blog postIntroduction Today I officially start year three as a full-time faculty member at ASU. (Time flies.) I’ll be swamped with preparing for a new course and won’t have too much time to blog. Before I get knee-deep in the semester, though, I wanted to offer a few thoughts on something that most professors encounter at some point: teaching older students.
Because of FERPA, I am unable to access my students’ ages—not that I really need to view that information. Especially in my in-person cl -
Blog postIntroduction Like many professors, I teach software- and business development methods that Eric Ries espouses in The Lean Startup. His book touches on now-established concepts such as minimum viable products, closed feedback looks, and pivots. Up until very recently, YouTube served as my favorite example of a company changing its strategy and cashing out.
Not anymore. Now it’s Slack.
In the podcast below with NPR’s Guy Raz, Slack
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Blog postIntroduction I recently did an interview with Blick, one of Switzerland’s largest media properties.(Click here to check it out.) I touched upon the Facebook’s historic stock plunge.
Here is the unedited version.
Is Facebook still the leader in social media? Yes, it’s the largest social network in the history of the world. For context, more people use Facebook each month than belong to any religious group save for Christianity. B
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Blog postIntroduction As I end my summer session, I now have a year of using Slack in the classroom under my belt. The Slack experiment has been glorious and I have no intention of stopping anytime soon. In this post, I’ll offer some advice to intrigued professors about successfully introducing Slack into the classroom.
Do Some Digging What if anything does the central IT department at your college or university say about collaboration to
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Blog postIntroduction I’ve written before about the parallels among poker, analytics, and Big Data. Brass tacks: To be successful at poker on a regular basis, one needs to constantly deal with incomplete information. The best players continually update their assumptions based on new data. In other words, whether they know it or not, they embrace Bayes’ Theorem.
Students looking for simple, 10-step checklists will find themselves wanting.
As I tell my analytics students, this is t -
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Blog postIntroduction Uber has been in damage control long before it axed its toxic CEO and appointed a new one. Case in point: its newest commercial with a “Going Forward” theme.
None of its recent moves seems to have stemmed the tide of driver complains. (Ahem, “driver-partners” in the company’s forced vernacular.) There’s a reason that sites such as The Rideshare Guy get plenty of traffic and private Facebook groups abound. Site found
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