PHIL SIMON
What do when someone possesses a great deal of professional experience.
Posts Tagged as: Teaching
Posts Tagged as: Teaching
Lessons From Slack’s Origins
Collaboration, Communication, Higher Education, Management
A pox on you if you think that the idea behind the popular collaboration tool was someone’s master plan.
Why I Often Answer Analytics Students’ Questions With Questions
Analytics, Big Data, Higher Education
Thoughts on the Socratic method, critical thinking, and providing too much guidance.
Traits and Skills of Effective Professors
Thoughts on common characteristics at people who are really good at this job.
Why I Teach
My motivations behind my choice of vocations.
Three Main Types of Capstone Project Problems
Analytics, Faves, Higher Education, Project Management
Thoughts on some common issues and what to do about them.
The Case for Early Student Evaluations
How feedback at the start of the semester can help nip issues in the bud.
Four Sites That I Recommend to My Analytics Students
Analytics, Communication, Dataviz, Higher Education
Those who can effectively incorporate data and analytics into their writing are poised to prosper.
Three of My Favorite In-class Exercises
Analytics, Dataviz, Faves, Higher Education
A few of the ways that I try to make learning as active as possible.
Why I Have Never Visited My Rate My Professor Page
Higher Education, Social Media
And why I never will.
Why I’m Switching to Canvas This Summer
Analytics, Collaboration, Communication, Consulting, Higher Education
I’m all in on ASU’s new learning management system.
Tools of a Tech-Savvy Professor
Collaboration, Dataviz, Higher Education, Technology
These applications and tchotchkes make my life quite a bit easier.
Three Ways to Manage Capstone Projects
Analytics, Faves, Higher Education
Looking at the different approaches to impart knowledge.
Visualizing Flows
Analytics, Dataviz, Higher Education
Sankey diagrams can display data in very interesting ways.
How I Use Slack Inside of the Classroom
Communication, Faves, Higher Education, Trends
Adventures in the collaboration tool that has taken the world by storm.
Why I Wrote Analytics: The Agile Way
Motivations on why I penned book number eight.