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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella can turn around the software giant, Crawford Del Prete said in a recent talk with Emily Chang and Bob O'Donnell on Bloomberg West.

Furthermore, Del Prete said that Nadella's recent memo points to major changes in the company.

The comment comes from the IDC Research Chief Research Officer after the Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) boss sent a very long and detailed email to all employees outlining his plans for the company. Also known as a vision memo, the email was sent to employees today with the subject line "Starting FY15 - Bold Ambition & Our Core".

Chang asked Del Prete about the email which she described as "bold" and "inspirational". According to the IDC Research executive, the memo from Nadella points to the CEO directing Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) to focus on being a successful services company. He explained:

"What I pull out of it, and what I thought was very fascinating, was his kind of acknowledgement that the tech industry doesn't really look to the past. It looks to innovation and it looks to the future...I disagree with your opening comments a little bit in that it's not about services. I think Microsoft is all about services. They are about consumer services. They are about enterprise services. They are sitting on top of an incredibly valuable franchise with Office and that is really the language of how people get things done around the world. I think they want to unlock the value of those kinds of services in addition to things like Lync, SharePoint, Skype and OneDrive. I think what they want to do is they want to differentiate on Microsoft product. That's where he talks about soft of a brighter light on Microsoft devices but he acknowledges that they are going to be on all devices...Moving toward the cloud, I think, is really a continuation of a long strategy and it's a frankly very good articulation of the fact that Microsoft wants to participate on all kinds of devices with their services: consumer and enterprise."

Asked whether he thinks the current Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) boss is the right person to turn the company around, Del Prete said yes. He told Chang:

"I am quite optimistic. I have to say, people are more excited at Microsoft. He's trying to drive more innovation at Microsoft. As Bob said, the next few years are going to show us basically whether an end-to-end solution or this modular world works and I think what Microsoft wants to focus on is taking advantage of this modular world. Nadella is moving there through services. I'm very optimistic that he could turn this ship [around]."

Watch the discussion below that started off with the trio discussing the decline of the tablet and the resilience of the PC.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) shareholders includes Bill Miller's Legg Mason Capital Management which reported after the first quarter of the year about 4.16 million shares in the company. Another investor is Kerr Neilson's Platinum Asset Management which reported, also during the same period, about 3.14 million shares in the software giant.
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Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella Is The Right CEO: Crawford Del Prete

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella can turn around the software giant, Crawford Del Prete said in a recent talk with Emily Chang and Bob O'Donnell on Bloomberg West. Furthermore, Del Prete said that Nadella's recent memo points to major changes in the company.

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In case you still had any doubt, it's no longer Steve Ballmer's Microsoft.

Nearly six months into his tenure, CEO Satya Nadella issued a broad-brushed call for change at Microsoft in a 3,100-word note he sent to employees Thursday morning urging the rank-and-file to improve the corporate culture and "obsess" over customers.

Although his memo did not offer specifics, Nadella also promised that Microsoft would "flatten the organization" while creating "leaner business processes."

That's for another day. More immediately, think of this as Nadella's most visible attempt to publicly stamp the direction of the company he began leading last February.

"I used this as a good opportunity for me to just mark the passing of one fiscal year into the next and make sense of the changes," Nadella said in an interview with CNET, during which he described the need for Microsoft to redefine, if not expand, the concept of user productivity.

"The real emphasis for us is what's our soul and contribution in this mobile-first, cloud-first world. And that's where redefining productivity and rethinking platforms is a core sensibility we have," he said, adding that he wants Microsoft to think about it more ambitiously.

"At the end of the day, it's all about culture -- you kind of eat your strategy for lunch if you don't have a culture that reinforces what you want to have done," he said.

The following is an edited transcript of the interview.

Q: I think you missed your true profession. You wrote one hell of a lead, as we say in journalism.
Satya Nadella: I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy. So it's not about being static, or here are a few changes and that's it. I want us to be able to say, "Look we can change. And we should change and don't be beholden to any of our past." Because the nature of work is changing.

I'm so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even important...It doesn't matter that it's not core to productivity.

At the core of the products we build, I want to think about productivity centered around people. I don't want to think about OneDrive and OneDrive for Business as two things. I want the system to think about it on behalf of me. There are some documents that are my personal documents that should go to OneDrive; there are documents that are Word documents that should go to OneDrive for Business. That should all be quote-unquote, auto-magic. That's the kind of innovation we should be able to contribute to, and that's what we're pursuing

Your note also seems to be a declaration that Xbox isn't going anywhere, that it's staying with Microsoft?
Nadella: I wanted to be very, very explicit about how a large company -- and a successful, large company -- like ourselves can have a core and should, in fact, have a core and also have ambition to do a few other things where we can have high impact. And to me, I'm so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even more important -- as a digital life category and in the mobile world. The most time spent? Games. The most money spent? Games. Xbox is one of the most revered, loved brands in games. I look at that and say I want that team to be super ambitious about gaming...It doesn't matter that it's not core to productivity. In fact, there's so much technology transfer that actually happens. Take all the speech recognition that we have in Skype. It came because of Kinect on Xbox. But that's not the reason that I'm in Xbox. We're in Xbox because we want to win in gaming, delight customers in gaming, and want to grow that fan base. I wanted to make that explicit because I think it's OK for a large company like ours to be proud of things where we are having a high impact outside of the core.

Are you still thinking over whether to keep Bing?
Nadella: Bing to me is a core part of task completion and productivity...A lot has happened underneath Bing where a lot of Bing technology is now a significant part of a lot of what we do in Azure and Office 365, so that's what I wanted to reference (talking about it) as part of the core.

You're coming up on six months on the job. I think a lot of people would be curious to know: What's been your biggest surprise so far?
Nadella: The thing that I've found is this hunger for being clear on what is it that is our soul, our core, and that unique contribution and sense of purpose that we can make -- and have a bold ambition around it. There were a lot of things. It's not as if we're suddenly doing things completely differently. But the cool thing is, I love the fact that people are getting galvanized and much more clear about "Oh wow, yeah that's right; we can think about platforms and productivity differently." We should not, in fact, think about our own efforts in fractured ways, but let's put the user in the center and bring things together so that we harmonize it for the user.

We have a lot of work ahead of us. At the end of the day, I'm not a believer in memos but a believer, obviously, in products that draw inspiration from what we said we would do. And I see good progress in the last six months about work that was started even before I started as CEO . That's been good, and now I'm feeling great about our pipeline.

What's your sense: Do you think Microsoft's ahead or behind in each of the categories where the company operates?
Nadella: Think about it. We're 39 years old and here we are on Techmeme every day, every week. There's something right about this place. How does one be relevant in such a broad way across digital life and digital work? There are so many new competitors. In my own 22 years at Microsoft, I started competing with Novell and Lotus. It's just different. Now we have new competitors. It's great. I have a lot of respect for these new competitors. Some places we're ahead, some we're behind -- but we're in it. We're in the mix. And we're a profitable company. So I'll take our hand any day of the week. But at the same time, like I always say, this industry has no respect for any past. So I want us to be on our toes and forward-looking and aggressive and ambitious. But I feel it's our time when it comes to thinking broadly and ambitiously about productivity and platforms.

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Message for Southeast Asia's brick-and-mortar retailers: E-commerce companies could soon be eating your lunch.

That's according to a recent study by UBS, which showed the region's consumers are already flocking to e-commerce sites at the expense of traditional retailers' platforms.

Internet penetration in the populous region is higher than many assume, and will soon skyrocket thanks to the increasing use of low-cost smartphones and the availability of mobile Web connections, according UBS's head of research and strategy in Thailand, Raymond Maguire, who authored the report.

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Message for Southeast Asia's brick-and-mortar retailers: E-commerce companies could soon be eating your lunch. That's according to a recent study by UBS, which showed the region's consumers are already flocking to e-commerce sites at the expense of traditional retailers' platforms. Internet penetration in the populous region is higher than many assume, and will soon skyrocket thanks to the increasing use of low-cost smartphones and the availability of mobile Web connections, according UBS's head of research and strategy in Thailand, Raymond Maguire, who authored the report.

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Just days after Samsung Electronics blamed its weak earnings on the smartphone market's slowing growth, here comes another worrying sign for gadget makers.

Global shipments of tablet computers, after years of robust growth, declined for the first time in the first quarter of this year, according to NPD DisplaySearch. The research firm also lowered its tablet shipment forecast for 2014.

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Just days after Samsung Electronics blamed its weak earnings on the smartphone market's slowing growth, here comes another worrying sign for gadget makers. Global shipments of tablet computers, after years of robust growth, declined for the first time in the first quarter of this year, according to NPD DisplaySearch.

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Leaders of Tech Commencement Speeches 2014

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Graduates around the world gather this time of the year for one final lesson: the commencement speech.

It's a time when luminaries from business, politics and the arts deliver wisdom (and humor) to students eager for the next stage. Susan Wojcicki recalled watching the first item uploaded to Google Video-a purple, furry puppet, dancing and singing in Swedish-with no idea what to think. Until her children saw it-and cheered. Marc Benioff shared when he did what all lost thirtysomethings do: travel to India.

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"I no longer look at somebody's CV to determine if we will interview them or not," declares Teri Morse, who oversees the recruitment of 30,000 people each year at Xerox Services. Instead, her team analyses personal data to determine the fate of job candidates.

She is not alone. " Big data " and complex algorithms are increasingly taking decisions out of the hands of individual interviewers - a trend that has far-reaching consequences for job seekers and recruiters alike.

The company whose name has become a synonym for photocopy has turned into one that helps others outsource everyday business processes, from accounting to human resources. It recently teamed up with Evolv, which uses data sets of past behaviour to predict everything from salesmanship to loyalty.

For Xerox this means putting prospective candidates for the company's 55,000 call-centre positions through a screening test that covers a wide range of questions. Evolv then lays separate data it has mined on what causes employees to leave their call-centre jobs over the candidates' responses to predict which of them will stick around and which will further exacerbate the already high churn rate call centres tend to suffer.

The results are surprising. Some are quirky: employees who are members of one or two social networks were found to stay in their job for longer than those who belonged to four or more social networks (Xerox recruitment drives at gaming conventions were subsequently cancelled). Some findings, however, were much more fundamental: prior work experience in a similar role was not found to be a predictor of success.

"It actually opens up doors for people who would never have gotten to interview based on their CV," says Ms Morse. Some managers initially questioned why new recruits were appearing without any prior relevant experience. As time went on, attrition rates in some call centres fell by 20 per cent and managers no longer quibbled. "I don't know why this works," admits Ms Morse, "I just know it works."

Organisations have long held large amounts of data. From financial accounts to staff time sheets, the movement from paper to computer made it easier to understand and analyse. As computing power increased exponentially, so did data storage. The floppy disk of the 1990s could store barely more than one megabyte of data; today a 16 gigabyte USB flash drive costs less than a fiver ($8).

It is simple, then, to see how recruiters arrive at a point where crunching data could replace the human touch of job interviews. Research by NewVantage Partners, the technology consultants, found that 85 per cent of Fortune 1000 executives in 2013 had a big data initiative planned or in progress, with almost half using big data operationally.

HR services provider Ceridian is one of many companies hoping to tap into the potential of big data for employers. "From an HR and recruitment perspective, big data enables you to analyse volumes of data that in the past were hard to access and understand," explains David Woodward, chief product and innovation officer at Ceridian UK.

Members of one or two social networks stayed in their job longer than those belonging to four or more

This includes "applying the data you hold about your employees and how they've performed, to see the causal links between the characteristics of the hire that you took in versus those that stayed with you and became successful employees. Drawing those links can better inform your decisions in the hiring process."

Data sets need not rely on internal data, however.

"Social media data now gives us the ability to 'listen' to the business," says Zahir Ladhani, vice-president at IBM Smarter Workforce. "You can look at what customers are saying about your business, what employees are saying, and what you yourself are saying - cull all that data together and you can understand the impact.

"Most recruitment organisations now use social media and job-site data," says Mr Ladhani. "We looked at an organisation which had very specialised, very hard to find skill sets. When we analysed the data of the top performers in that job family, we found out that they all hung out at a very unique, niche social media site. Once we tapped into that database, boom!"

Ceridian, too, has worked with companies to "effectively scan the internet to see what jobs are being posted through the various job boards, in what parts of the country," says Mr Woodward. "If you're looking to open a particular facility in a part of the country, for example, you'll be able to see whether there's already a high demand for particular types of skills."

Experts appear split on whether the specialisation required for executive recruitment lends itself to big data.

"I hire 30,000 call-centre people on an annual basis - we don't hire that many executives," says Ms Morse, adding "there's not enough volume". However Mr Ladhani disagrees, believing that over time the data set an organisation holds on senior management hires would become statistically valid.

As more companies start to analyse their employee data to make hiring decisions, could recruitment finally become more of a science than an art?

"The potential is clearly much greater now than ever before to crunch very large volumes of data and draw conclusions from that which can make better decisions," says Mr Woodward. "The methods and computing power being used in weather forecasting 10 years ago are now available to us all . . . who knows where this may go."

It is a trend worth considering - to get your next job, perfecting your CV could well be less important than having carefully considered the footprint you leave in cyberspace.
Case study: Demographic drilling down helps LV= recast recruitment ads
Kevin Hough, head of recruiting at insurance firm LV=, was a pioneer of 'Big Data' before he had heard the term.

The insurer has 5,800 employees across 17 UK sites. A year ago, the question of where best to target its recruitment advertising provided an innovative answer. "We took all of the postcode data from our HR database - where our current staff live and where they are located - and split that by their [seniority]" explains Mr Hough. "Using software called Geo-Maps, which works similarly to Google Maps, we could zoom in and out of clusters of our people to see where they are willing to travel from to get to work.

"On top of that we were able to overlay where people were applying from, taken from our recruitment data. The next iteration was where our Facebook and LinkedIn followers are from: the demographic of people following us, what interests them, the diversity and inclusion breakdowns, male and female and so on, on which social media platform.

"We were able to build up a profile of who our successful candidate was, the age demographic, and where people were hunting for jobs. What was really interesting was the reach some of our advertising was having, and more importantly some of the gaps."

Recruitment advertising at LV= has subsequently been redesigned. The investment and expertise required to analyse the data were negligible, says Hough. "For Geo-Maps it was literally as basic as getting a licence for the software and uploading our data to it from a spreadsheet. Sometimes with all the clever systems that people have in organisations you can be blinded to the simple, raw data that is sat there."

Next, LV= will add performance review data.

"The ongoing piece is to say of that group we recruited a year ago, which are still there? It helps to shape not only how we attract the people, but will even start to shape some of the roles themselves."

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"I no longer look at somebody's CV to determine if we will interview them or not," declares Teri Morse, who oversees the recruitment of 30,000 people each year at Xerox Services. Instead, her team analyses personal data to determine the fate of job candidates. She is not alone.

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A few decades ago the decision between work and family was one that most working professionals around the world had to make on a regular basis. The rationalization for many was that "I have to pick work to support my family." Although we have seen some improvement in this area over the last few years, many people still have to make this choice. But why? In today's world with co-working locations, flexible work environments, collaborative technologies, and new forms of management, why do employees even need to consider making this choice? As long as we get our jobs done why can't we focus on things that we want to prioritize? Isn't this what the future of work is all about?

Harris Interactive recently released a few interesting statistics from a poll they conducted. According to :

"The vast majority of Americans (89%) feel employers should try to offer workers flexibility to meet their families' needs, so long as the work gets done, signaling a strong sentiment in favor of the concept of flexible workplaces. What's more, over half (52%) of U.S. workers (not including those self-employed) - and nearly six in ten working parents (58%) - feel they could do their job better if they were allowed a more flexible work schedule. Similarly, 43% of workers and 46% of working parents say they could do their job better if they were allowed a more consistent and/or predictable schedule."

Another study conducted by Randstad found that:

42 percent of employees feel obligated to check in with work while on vacation and more than a quarter (26%) feel guilty using all of their allotted vacation time. ... 67 percent of workers report feeling more productive after returning from vacation...research shows 45 percent of workers feel obligated to respond to email after hours, and 47 percent feel guilty if they don't work (either on site or from home) when sick.

It's quite an interesting paradox when you look at the two sets of statistics. On the one hand employees want flexibility and freedom yet on the other hand employees feel guilty when using their vacation time and feel obligated to respond to email after work hours.

This seems to be a cultural issue related to how we view work. This accounts for the fact that only 1 3% of employees around the world are engaged at work.

So what do we do about it?

We have to accept that work and life are blurring. We bring our life to work and our work home to our lives.

In considering this shift in behavior there are three things that employers (and employees) need to consider:
Flexible work environments
As mentioned in the 8 Indisputable Reasons Why We Don't Need Offices the key to healthy flexible work environments involves giving employees a choice for when and how they want to work. In turn employees need to be accountable for producing timely and quality work. The notion of having to work 9-5 in a cubicle is outdated.
Connectivity is not availability
With email and collaborative technologies it's very easy to always stay connected. It's no wonder that one of the things we do when we first wake up is check our emails (and the same is true before going to bed). We can stay connected in the city, in a cab, in an airport, or in a remote village somewhere in China. However, just because we are connected doesn't mean we need to be available. It's a conscientious decision that we need to make and stick to. It's ok for us to not be available all of the time!
Manage expectations

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Turkey is becoming a new type of Silicon Valley

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When you hear the word "startup," the first place that comes to mind probably isn't Turkey. Between Silicon Valley, New York City, Moscow and Tel Aviv, an exclusive collection of startup hubs around the world has been creating buzz and dominating entrepreneurial attention for years. So when I was offered the chance to join a startup in Istanbul, Turkey in 2013, I was curious about this new market, and accepted the job immediately.

Now, after living and working in Istanbul for almost a year, I've witnessed the city undergo a major transformation, driven by the incredible power of technology and entrepreneurial spirit. While Turkey's move toward a startup ecosystem has been building for years, cutting-edge ideas around emerging technology - like wearables, beacon technology and mobile commerce - are at an all-time high, sometimes cropping up in Istanbul before anywhere else in the world. With so much innovation meeting in the middle, Turkey has been catapulted to the forefront of innovation in a big way, and is only slated to grow even further.
Starting Up
While it has gained ground in recent years, Turkey's transformation has been a long time coming, thanks to a unique mix of cultural, economic and even governmental elements that somehow all add up. A huge factor in Turkey's startup success are the country's demographics. An entire half of Turkey's population is under the age of 30, resulting in a predominantly well-educated workforce and a massive talent pool of early adopters and tech-savvy thinkers. Additionally, m obile penetration in Turkey is through the roof, with more than 68 million people in Turkey owning a mobile device-that's 84% of the population. Turkey's mobile users are also reported to be the most active consumers in the world for mobile shopping, mobile banking and QR code scanning, and are third in the world for mobile wallet technology usage. As the country's population gravitates toward an increasingly mobile lifestyle, consumers are by passing internet and desktop trends of the past, leapfrogging to mobile and embracing its massive potential for innovation.

Turkey's internal infrastructure has even followed suit, working to become more conducive to entrepreneurship. Local venture capital and angel investor organizations, such as 212 Capital, Aslanoba Capital and Galata Business Angels, are recognizing the potential of Turkey's innovative startups from right on the ground. These indigenous financers have played an instrumental role in constructing the ecosystem, where they have set out to showcase the credibility of Turkish entrepreneurship and have worked to refine the financial investment process in this young market. Local incubator Endeavor Turkey also works to connect entrepreneurs to mentors, investors and even potential partners to keep ideas flowing and people sharing.

All this local VC activity has even caught the attention of various international capital firms. Y Combinator-like funding organizations are beginning to take serious interest in Turkey's growing startup scene, with Intel Capital, eTohum and even Kleiner Perkins backing promising ideas in the region. With the acquisition of GittiGidiyor by eBay for over $200 million in 2011, people both inside and outside of Turkey's borders took note.

But what's really most inspiring to me? Turkish culture has long been characterized by an inherent entrepreneurial nature, where necessity is undoubtedly the mother of invention and where things that need improving receive improvements. Thanks in large part to social media, young, bright Turks are finding inspiration and guidance from the startup progression in other parts of the world, and are applying this to their own technological endeavors. Young people are meeting in government-funded technoparks to work together, share ideas and house their inventions. Now, technology and innovation are some of the leading industries in Turkey, and are becoming more socially accepted. It's no longer an anomaly for young people to take up careers in the tech market; in fact, it's a badge of honor.
Staying at the Forefront
Thanks to Turkey's well-balanced ecosystem, small startups and larger companies have begun working to tap into the country's massive mobile opportunity, releasing rounds of innovation at an increasingly faster clip. Across every industry, I've seen new approaches to mobile take shape, carefully filling a long-existing demand in the Turkish market for mobile-centric technology. In retail, companies like Trendyol - a Turkish version of Gilt Groupe - have demonstrated massive appeal, bringing products and purchasing power directly to mobile. Lidyana, another mobile fashion retailer backed by Endeavor, and Hepsiburada, an Amazon-like e-marketplace partnering with international software company ThoughtWorks, are also working to bring much-needed mobile commerce potential directly to consumers. I'm even seeing m-commerce companies turning to beacon technology to bring customized, location-based rewards straight to mobile consumers on the go. One such company leveraging the power of location on mobile? BiTaksi, a Flywheel and Uber-like app, matches locals and especially tourists in Istanbul, Ankara and Antalya with hard-to-find cab drivers in the area via mobile, while Yemeksepeti offers remote food ordering and delivery to smartphone users, almost a Turkish GrubHub. Turkey's m-commerce potential has gone through the roof, and savvy startups are taking the challenge seriously, focusing on wielding mobile to address the country's unique demands.

Additionally, with Google Glass emerging as the first publicly realized example of wearable technology, Turkish companies in almost every sector have begun determining ways to interact with consumers on these new devices. In banking, for instance, we're increasingly seeing app designers incorporating ATM location possibilities, real-time account updates and stock information into wearable devices, offering consumers a level of convenience we've never seen before. In entertainment, we'll be able to bet on international sports games or athletic events instantaneously, with updates and opportunities sent directly to a consumer's Google Glass. Turkish companies - mine included - see massive possibilities around wearable technology, and have been developing new ideas accordingly. When the price point on these devices inevitably drops, Turkish startups and app companies will undoubtedly be among the first with a wearable strategy in place.
Looking Ahead
As the buildup of Turkey's startup culture comes to fruition, it's not hard to imagine a bright future for this Middle Eastern innovation hub. But with Turkey's advantageous set-up comes some heavy burdens to bear. Many have heard of Prime Minister Erdogan's ban on social medi- in response to public outcry against corruption scandals - and admittedly, Turkish startups took a measurable hit. After all, social media is a key marketing tool for many startups, and it's all but impossible to sell VCs on investing in a startup if your country is seen as a political risk. However, the vast majority of Turks found careful ways around the ban, using VPN to access social networks remotely and continue contributing to an important political conversation. The way Turks beat the ban serves as testament to natural Turkish resourcefulness - and technology's mighty power, widespread reach and the Turkish ability to problem-solve.

Despite the country's admitted tumult, most indicators in Turkey are pointing up and to the right: institutional capital is growing, education is only becoming more important and a mixture of Eastern-Western geography has begun to propel Turkey's innovations to new parts of the world. Plus, as a physical bridge between the newly developing tech scene in Asia and the veteran inventions of Europe and North America, inspiration, leadership and expansion potential are well within reach. As a city at the crossroads of history and future - and east and west - Turkey is proving to be the startup hub to watch in the Middle East for years to come.

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Why We Can’t Yet Build True Artificial Intelligence, Explained In One Sentence

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Buried in Maureen Dowd's latest column for The New York Times is a perfect one-sentence explanation of why true artificial intelligence for machines isn't coming any time soon.

Jaron Lanier, prominent author/thinker/cybersociologist-type lays out why it is currently impossible to build machines with the type of "true" artificial intelligence that sci-fi is nearly founded on:

We're still pretending that we're inventing a brain when all we've come up with is a giant mash-up of real brains. We don't yet understand how brains work, so we can't build one.

We bolded that last sentence because it pretty much explains the predicament for AI. Until we more fundamentally understand that which we're trying to clone, everything else is an impressive attempt up Everest that never totally summits.

This jibes with a sentiment that renowned author and cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter posed earlier this year. He calls current prominent pursuits in the artificial intelligence arena "vacuous":

[IBM's "Jeopardy!"-winning supercomputer] Watson is basically a text search algorithm connected to a database just like Google search. It doesn't understand what it's reading. In fact, "read" is the wrong word. It's not reading anything because it's not comprehending anything. Watson is finding text without having a clue as to what the text means. In that sense, there's no intelligence there. It's clever, it's impressive, but it's absolutely vacuous.

We've got a ways to go before machines are truly smart.

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Why We Can't Yet Build True Artificial Intelligence, Explained In One Sentence

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Buried in Maureen Dowd's latest column for The New York Times is a perfect one-sentence explanation of why true artificial intelligence for machines isn't coming any time soon.

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If You Don’t Think Robots Can Replace Journalists, Check Out This Article Written By A Computer

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If You Don’t Think Robots Can Replace Journalists, Check Out This Article Written By A Computer

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Earlier this week we reported on Narrative Science, an artificial intelligence company whose product, Quill, can turn tables of data into a natural language story that you can read as if it were a newspaper article.

The benefit here is that the software near-instantaneously renders numerical data as much more digestible units of understanding - words - without requiring any human supervision.

Quill powers the technology at work in GameChanger, an app for amateur sports leagues to manually capture game events (a pop fly in baseball, a three-pointer in basketball, and so on), then instantly have it spit out a written retelling of the game's events.

It's an artificially intelligent sportswriter that summarizes your game as honestly as you record it in the app. When we spoke to Kris Hammond, chief scientist of Narrative Science, he told us that the results are guaranteed to adhere to the truth as defined by the data that you provide it with.

Here's a sample report, in which Quill helps tell the story of a bested baseball team called the Manalapan Braves Red. Check out how naturally it reads, then know that it was all software that ordered and arranged these words, not a human:

Cole Benner did all he could to give Hamilton A's-Forcini a boost, but it wasn't enough to get past the Manalapan Braves Red, as Hamilton A's-Forcini lost 10-5 in six innings at Pecci two on Saturday.

Benner had a good game at the plate for Hamilton A's-Forcini. Benner went 2-3, drove in one and scored one run. Benner singled in the third inning and doubled in the fifth inning.

The Manalapan Braves Red's Gargano was perfect at the dish, going 1-1. Gargano singled in the first inning.

The Manalapan Braves Red tacked on another four runs in the second. The inning got off to a hot start when Bullen singled, bringing home Cappola. That was followed up by that scored Pellecchia.

After pushing across two runs in the top of the third, Hamilton A's-Forcini faced just a 5-2 deficit. An RBI single by Benner and an error sparked Hamilton A's-Forcini's rally. The Hamilton A's-Forcini threat came to an end when Pellecchia finally got Dominic Chiarello to ground out.

The Manalapan Braves Red increased their lead with three runs in the third. A scored Grieco to start the inning. That was followed up by that scored DeAlemeida.

Two runs in the top of the fourth helped Hamilton A's-Forcini close its deficit to 8-4. A two-run double by Joey Sacco gave Hamilton A's-Forcini life. Nick Psomaras grounded out to end the Hamilton A's-Forcini threat.

The Manalapan Braves Red built upon their lead with two runs in the fourth. Cappola started the inning with a single, plating Gargano. That was followed up by that scored Zucker.

One run in the top of the fifth helped Hamilton A's-Forcini close its deficit to 10-5. A groundout by Dominick Gambino triggered Hamilton A's-Forcini's comeback. Pellecchia ended the inning by getting Matt Kozma to strike out.

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If You Don't Think Robots Can Replace Journalists, Check Out This Article Written By A Computer

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Earlier this week we reported on Narrative Science, an artificial intelligence company whose product, Quill, can turn tables of data into a natural language story that you can read as if it were a newspaper article. The benefit here is that the software near-instantaneously renders numerical data as much more digestible units of understanding - words - without requiring any human supervision.

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Ever wonder what jobs will be out there 100 years from now?

With technology and innovation changing at such a rapid clip, the future is hard to fathom, particularly when even little things, like our mobile phones and tablets, become outdated in what seems to be the blink of an eye.

Looking at the bigger picture, it's precisely this innovation driving change in all of our careers. Traditional newspapers and magazines no longer have a standalone presence without an accompanying web site and healthcare wouldn't be what it is today without technologies such as MRIs that can scan the inner most workings of our brain.

Will humans still have jobs or will we be replaced by robots? We turned to question-and-answer-site Quora for insight on what the careers of the future will be. Here's what some respondents said about what jobs will stay and which will become obsolete.
It's not an exact science
There's no future for routine jobs, wrote Abhisek Bhowmik. "Software is eating the world. Either you write software, be a scientist or join entertainment (which includes sports, movies, personal services etc.)."

Drones will be a very real part of our future, wrote Horia Tudosie: "So, there will be a lot of drone-related jobs: Drone mechanic, drone electrician, drone programmer, drone driver, drone police, drone inspector."

Added Iain Davidson: "One day almost everything will be done by machines including building and designing machines."
The human touch
Drones, however, can't replace jobs calling for a human touch. "The career of the future will be doing things machines can't do, which only leaves....journalism, social work, the arts, sport and politics," Davidson said.

Handmade goods will be in high demand, according to Moises Braun Wollenstein. "For the people that can afford anything, stuff made with lots of labour will be the ultimate luxury," he said, pointing to homemade cooking and raising livestock in traditional ways.
More time for leisure
As careers become more automated, there is an upside. People will gain more free time to travel and explore the world, religion and the arts, Wollenstein continued, opening up jobs in leisure industries to meet that demand.

Some of the opportunities he sees:

Space and Earth exploration: "As less manpower is needed to produce goods we will have more time to get in trouble. Space exploration comes to mind, but I believe that in the next hundred years, the artic and the oceans will be completely mapped and explored."

Tourism: "More spare time means more time for vacations. Cheaper and faster transportation and telecommunications will allow people to travel all over the world more days of each year."

Education and tutoring: "Ballet, math, history, tennis and cooking, among others. With spare time and basic needs covered. People will want to become experts in all sorts of skills many of the fields will not have an obvious economic value for the students."

Sales and Marketing: "Manufacturing will become cheaper, less labour will be needed and energy and raw materials are likely to become cheaper moving the supply curve to the right. This will make marketing and sales increasingly important."

Entertainment: "Singing, dancing, massages, prostitution, movies and videogames. Who wants to see a machine dancing ballet?"

Healthy living
With people living longer and populations aging, we will always need healthcare and agriculture to feed that world, said Tim Menkveld. "Doctors will still be a job in the future," he said. "We will always have to eat! So farmers will be there in 100 years."

However, as scientists make advances on all fronts, including healthcare and agriculture, Menkveld questioned all future careers. "What about machines creating machines?" he pondered. "And even collecting/transporting/mining minerals or whatever to create these machines might be done by machines... How much work will there actually be left for humans?"
What careers to do think will be relevant 100 years from now? Quora respondents are required to use their true names under the site's policy. To help ensure legitimacy and quality, Quora asks some individuals, such as doctors and lawyers, to confirm their expertise. Share your thoughts and experiences on BBC Capital's page or message us on Twitter @BBC_Capital.

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When Satya Nadella took over as Microsoft CEO in February, he inherited a company in the middle of huge transition.

Former CEO Steve Ballmer had a vision for Microsoft that involved chasing Apple's business model.

Ballmer had declared Microsoft to be a "devices and services" company (devices came first).

On Wednesday, Nadella firmly rejected that direction.

Nadella sent out a novella-size email to his employees (nearly 3,200 words!) that described a new direction: to become a "productivity and platforms" company.

Instead of becoming another Apple - a company bent on controlling every part of the tech it sells - he's now looking to become another Google - a company that builds devices as state-of-the-art examples with the real goal of selling more cloud services.

To recap: In 2012, Ballmer abandoned one of Microsoft's core philosophies and announced that Microsoft would be building its own PC, the Surface. That for the first time put Microsoft in direct competition with its PC partners. In the months that followed, he reorganized the company's employees and spent $7.2 billion to acquire the device manufacturing business of Nokia (its second-largest acquisition ever, after his $8.5 billion purchase of Skype).

On Wednesday, to mark the start of Microsoft's fiscal 2015 year, Nadella told employees that he was ditching the "devices and services" mantra:

More recently, we have described ourselves as a "devices and services" company. While the devices and services description was helpful in starting our transformation, we now need to hone in on our unique strategy.

Instead "productivity" and cloud will become king:

We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. ...

Our cloud OS represents the largest opportunity given we are working from a position of strength.

Microsoft has been struggling to find a new mission for itself since it achieved its initial one, which was "putting a PC on every desk and in every home."

Nadella's new mission is just as bold: to "obsess over reinventing productivity and platforms," but it's also squishier and harder to understand.

He explains that he wants Microsoft to focus on the person using the device, not on the company's goal of locking people into using Microsoft products.

He sees the company building the technology like the movie "Her" where computers intelligently do tasks for us, saving us time.

We will reinvent productivity for people who are swimming in a growing sea of devices, apps, data and social networks. They will ask questions naturally and have them answered with insight from Power Q&A. They will conquer language barriers and change the world with Skype translator.

... They will be built for other ecosystems so as people move from device to device ... - it's one way we keep people, not devices, at the center.

He's not talking about abandoning Microsoft hardware manufacturing plans altogether, far from it. With the deal recently closed, he's stuck with Nokia for now.

Instead he wants to use Microsoft's device manufacturing units to "develop new categories" of devices. This is similar to how Google views its home-grown hardware, like its Pixel touchscreen Chromebook. Meanwhile, Nokia's mission will be to focus on Windows phones - not, for instance, pushing into areas of interest to its PC partners, such as Windows tablets.

We will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.

This can't be comforting to the 25,000 new employees added to the payroll from the Nokia acquisition, who are still waiting for word about if there will be any layoffs.

They won't be the stars of a new device-centric Microsoft anymore.

While a lot of this vision sounds really wonderful, it's one thing to talk about it, another to execute. Anyone who has spent much time using apps like Apple's Siri or Microsoft's Cortana know that they aren't always as helpful as their makers envision them to be.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Just Rejected Steve Ballmer's Big Plan

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With its latest update to Windows Phone, Microsoft added what Apple and Google have been offering for quite some time-a virtual assistant.

We were already impressed with Cortana during our early tests back in April.

Cortana was even able to correctly predict the outcome of most of this year's World Cup matches.

But recent words from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hint that this is only the beginning. Nadella sent out a massive memo to employees detailing his vision for the future of Microsoft Thursday morning.

Buried deep in that 3,187 word email was a subtle clue at the company's intentions for Cortana.

Right now, Cortana is already built to learn more about you the more you use her.

Based on Nadella's memo, however, it seems as if Microsoft wants to take this one step further by actually enabling Cortana to perform tasks for you and reason.

Here's what Nadella wrote:

Increasingly, all of these experiences will become more connected to each other, more contextual and more personal. For example, today the Cortana app on my Windows Phone merges data from highway sensors and my own calendar and simply reminds me to leave work to make it to my daughter's recital on time. In the future, it will be even more intelligent as a personal assistant who takes notes, books meetings and understands if my question about the weather is to determine my clothes for the day or is intended to start a complex task like booking a family vacation.

Although Nadella didn't go into detail, that nugget about Cortana says a lot about the direction Microsoft is advancing toward when it comes to mobile apps and artificial intelligence.

Siri, Google Now, and Cortana are all capable of providing readily available information. Nadella, however, is referring to a world in which these virtual assistants are smart enough to function as a real-life human assistant.

A lot of this functionality would presumably rely on apps being able to work together easily. In a hypothetical scenario, let's say Cortana knows you're in an important meeting with your boss. She may listen up during the time specified in your Outlook calendar and transcribe the conversation to take notes for you.

Microsoft said it interviewed actual human assistants when it developed Cortana to make her seem as human-like as possible. Marcus Ash, Microsoft's partner group program manager, emphasized how important it is that Cortana feels like a person rather than a robot in a previous interview with Business Insider.

"If you don't have a personality, it's really hard for people to trust you," he said.

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With its latest update to Windows Phone, Microsoft added what Apple and Google have been offering for quite some time-a virtual assistant. We were already impressed with Cortana during our early tests back in April. Cortana was even able to correctly predict the outcome of most of this year's World Cup matches.

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Baseball-my passion and profession for three decades-has been at the forefront of the analytics revolution sweeping through sports. And the game is just beginning.

The proverbial tip of the iceberg: Statcast, a 3-D tracking system that provides detailed metrics on the locations and movements of the ball, the players, and even the umpires. While the system is currently installed in only a handful of ballparks, Major League Baseball plans for all 30 stadiums to have it by 2015. Eventually, such systems will proliferate not just...

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Billy Beane on the Future of Sports: A Tech-Driven Revolution

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Baseball-my passion and profession for three decades-has been at the forefront of the analytics revolution sweeping through sports. And the game is just beginning. The proverbial tip of the iceberg: Statcast, a 3-D tracking system that provides detailed metrics on the locations and movements of the ball, the players, and even the umpires.

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The great economic problem for millennia has been scarcity. People want much more than can be produced. The challenge has been to produce as much as possible and to ensure that everybody gets their fair share.

In important respects, the problem has changed. There are many more Americans who are obese than who are undernourished, for example. But that is only a harbinger of things to come. The economic challenge of the future will not be producing enough. It will be providing enough good jobs.

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Lawrence H. Summers on the Economic Challenge of the Future: Jobs

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The great economic problem for millennia has been scarcity. People want much more than can be produced. The challenge has been to produce as much as possible and to ensure that everybody gets their fair share. In important respects, the problem has changed. There are many more Americans who are obese than who are undernourished, for example.

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The Wall Street Journal & Breaking News, Business, Financial and Economic News, World News and Video

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WSJ online coverage of breaking news and current headlines from the US and around the world. Top stories, photos, videos, detailed analysis and in-depth reporting.

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A Collaborative Perspective on Convergence

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9 Must-Read Blogs (You Might Not Even Know About)

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Take a look at these nine blogs that we think are worth reading. Subject matters range from technology and design to marketing and sales best practices.

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Dancing Towards the Future: Designing New Moves for New Times

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Remember how in "Presenting 101" they taught us that giving a presentation is all about getting an idea across? There's an unfortunate truth they don't tell you, though: You can be great at getting across a message, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful as a presenter.

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Slide Makeovers: Buffer's Social Media Guide

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Where will the music industry be in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years?

Before I tell you my thoughts on the matter, you should know that you're reading the opinion of an enthusiastic optimist: one of the few living souls in the music industry who still believes that the music industry is not dying...it's just coming alive.

There are many (many) people...

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For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story

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Where will the music industry be in 20 years, 30 years, 50 years? Before I tell you my thoughts on the matter, you should know that you're reading the opinion of an enthusiastic optimist: one of the few living souls in the music industry who still believes that the music industry is not dying...it's just coming alive.

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Top free online education courses for professionals

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Top free online education courses for professionals

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Want to gain an edge in your working life? Learning new skills online doesn't cost you anything but time.

Based on data from online education platform Coursera, we compiled a list of the 12 most popular, free online classes for working professionals.

Here they are, ranked by popularity:

1. Wesleyan University's "Social Psychology"

Coursera's most popular course offers an introduction to classic and contemporary social psychology, covering topics such as decision making, persuasion, group behavior, personal attraction, and factors that promote health and well-being.

Starts July 14

2. University of Maryland's "Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems"

This is an introduction to the design and implementation of applications for handheld systems, such as smartphones and tablets, running the Android platform. It is part of a larger sequence of specialization courses called Mobile Cloud Computing with Android.

Starts September 26

3. Duke University's "Think Again: How to Reason and Argue"

This course will teach you how to reason well. You will learn how to understand and assess arguments by other people and how to construct persuasive arguments of your own.

Starts August 25

4. Duke University's "A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior"

In this course, you will learn why we don't always behave rationally, and how we might overcome our shortcomings. You'll also learn about cases where our irrationalities work in our favor, and how we can harness these human tendencies to make better decisions.

Start date TBD

5. University of Toronto's "Learn to Program: The Fundamentals"

This course introduces the fundamental building blocks of programming and teaches you how to write fun and useful programs using the Python language.

Start date TBD

6. Stanford University's "Startup Engineering"

This course will help you bridge the gap between academic computer science and production software engineering. It's a fast-paced introduction to key tools and techniques, featuring guest appearances by senior engineers from successful startups and large-scale academic projects.

Start date TBD

7. Yale University's "Financial Markets"

You'll gain an understanding of the theory of finance and its relation to the history, strengths, and imperfections of banking, insurance, securities, futures, and other derivatives markets, as well as the future of these institutions over the next century.

Start date TBD

8. The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School's "An Introduction to Financial Accounting"

This course will improve your fluency in financial accounting. You will learn how to read, understand, and analyze most of the information provided by companies in their financial statements.

Starts September 5

9. University of Washington's "Introduction to Public Speaking"

In this class, you will study the principles of public speaking and critically examine your own and others' speeches through interactive practice. By the end, you'll understand the process of writing, practicing, and presenting a clear and engaging speech.

Start date TBD

10. Unive rsity of Michi gan's "Introduction to Finance"

This course primarily focuses on the fundamental principles of valuation and how to apply the concepts of the time value of money and risk to understand the major determinants of value creation.

Starts October 6

11. The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School's "An Introduction to Marketing"

This course will teach the fundamentals of marketing by getting to the root of customer decision making. It will focus on branding strategies, customer centricity, and new market entry.

Start date TBD

12. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's "Data Analysis"

Through this applied statistics course, you will learn about the most effective data analysis methods to solve problems and achieve insight. You will cover some of the most popular and widely used statistical methods like linear regression, principal components analysis, cross-validation, and p-values.

Start date TBD

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The 12 Most Popular Free Online Courses For Professionals

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Want to gain an edge in your working life? Learning new skills online doesn't cost you anything but time. Based on data from online education platform Coursera, we compiled a list of the 12 most popular, free online classes for working professionals.

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When I look ahead to the schools of 20 years from now, what I see are institutions that not only will be more diverse, but will in every way look and function differently from the schoolhouses of today.

The classrooms of the present will go the way of the banks of old. Just as new technologies allowed us to access banks through ATMs instead of going to the teller in the lobby, education will be revolutionized through ever-expanding technologies and the rapid flow of information.

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There have been moments in history where the invention of new technology has completely rewired the way our society lives and works. The printing press, radio, television, mobile phones and the Internet are among these. In the coming decades, we will see the greatest revolution yet, as billions of people connect to the Internet for the first time.

Today, only a little more than one-third of the world is connected-about 2.7 billion people. It's easy to take the Internet for granted and assume most people will soon have the...

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Mark Zuckerberg on a Future Where the Internet Is Available to All

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There have been moments in history where the invention of new technology has completely rewired the way our society lives and works. The printing press, radio, television, mobile phones and the Internet are among these. In the coming decades, we will see the greatest revolution yet, as billions of people connect to the Internet for the first time.

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Infographic: Streaming Boom Changes Music Landscape

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This chart illustrates how streaming continues to grow, while things go downhill for basically every other way of music distribution (except for good old vinyl).

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See one, do one, teach one. Practice (MedEdWorld)

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A museum is defined by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) as a 'non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment'.

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Presentations and interviews on the use of technology in the culture and heritage sector. Edited by John Stack.

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Terminator
"Today there's no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you're going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines."

These are the words of Louis Del Monte, physicist, entrepreneur, and author of "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution." Del Monte spoke to us over the phone about his thoughts surrounding artificial intelligence and the singularity, an indeterminate point in the future when machine intelligence will outmatch not only your own intelligence, but the world's combined human intelligence too.

The average estimate for when this will happen is 2040, though Del Monte says it might be as late as 2045. Either way, it's a timeframe of within three decades.

"It won't be the 'Terminator' scenario, not a war," said Del Monte. "In the early part of the post-singularity world, one scenario is that the machines will seek to turn humans into cyborgs. This is nearly happening now, replacing faulty limbs with artificial parts. We'll see the machines as a useful tool. Productivity in business based on automation will be increased dramatically in various countries. In China it doubled, just based on GDP per employee due to use of machines."

"By the end of this century," he continued, "most of the human race will have become cyborgs [part human, part tech or machine]. The allure will be immortality. Machines will make breakthroughs in medical technology, most of the human race will have more leisure time, and we'll think we've never had it better. The concern I'm raising is that the machines will view us as an unpredictable and dangerous species."

Del Monte believes machines will become self-conscious and have the capabilities to protect themselves. They "might view us the same way we view harmful insects." Humans are a species that "is unstable, creates wars, has weapons to wipe out the world twice over, and makes computer viruses." Hardly an appealing roommate.

He wrote the book as "a warning." Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more capable, and we're adopting it as quickly as it appears. A pacemaker operation is "quite routine," he said, but "it uses sensors and AI to regulate your heart."

A 2009 experiment showed that robots can develop the ability to lie to each other. Run at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne, Switzerland, the experiment had robots designed to cooperate in finding beneficial resources like energy and avoiding the hazardous ones. Shockingly, the robots learned to lie to each other in an attempt to hoard the beneficial resources for themselves.

"The implication is that they're also learning self-preservation," Del Monte told us. "Whether or not they're conscious is a moot point."

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By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' And That Could Be A Problem

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"Today there's no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you're going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines."

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Jeanette West, left, with Audrey Snell, who works 50 weeks a year at Wimbledon's library, cutting articles for preservation. Credit Credit Javier Garcia/AELTC

WIMBLEDON, England - It is fitting that the quietest place at Wimbledon is the library.

"It's an oasis," said Audrey Snell, who has worked there for 15 years.

About 40,000 fans crowd onto the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis Club each day during the tournament, filling Centre Court, smothering Henman Hill and shuffling among matches, sipping Pimm's and nibbling strawberries.

Only a few each day find their way to the library, with the sport's greatest collection of books and magazines. Some spot it beyond the displays of the club's well-tended, below-ground museum. Others see it when they venture down a set of out-of-the-way steps to an A.T.M.

When they peek into the windows, they see a meticulously organized room of bookshelves and, usually, a woman or two cutting out newspaper articles and gluing them into large, leather-bound books titled "Newspaper Cuttings."

They are scrapbooking, essentially. All Wimbledon-related articles printed in the many British dailies are carefully excised from the newspapers and preserved, just as they have been since 1927.

"It's exactly the same as what we do now," Snell said.

There are shelves lined with the matching blue books, placed in chronological order. The first page of the first thin book, covering the years 1927 to 1931, has an Evening News article from June 20, 1927. "Tilden Opens the Championship," the headline reads. On Wednesday, on the way to filling three thick volumes for this year's tournament, most of the articles being saved were about Andy Murray.

Want to find the collection online? It is not that kind of library, at least while Alan Little oversees it.

"My personal view is, if you're doing research, it's much easier to turn the page of a book than to do it on a computer," said Little, a tennis book collector who was asked in 1976 if he could provide 20 books for a display at Wimbledon's new museum. He did, and he was soon asked if he could assemble an entire library.

Little's title is the honorary librarian of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum. He has gray hair and thick glasses and said his age was not important enough to reveal. He spends every day of the tournament at Wimbledon, and two days a week at the library the rest of the year.

"It's the biggest and the best in the world," Little said of the collection. "We can honestly say that without blushing."

The newspaper cuttings occupy one wall of the asymmetrical space, about the size of a three-car garage. A much larger area is devoted to magazines, many defunct, all bound in leather volumes, each set a different color. From a few steps back, the shelves look like those of a law library.

There is Tennis et Golf, dating to 1913, as well as seven shelves of Il Tennis Italiano, dating to 1927. There are Tenis (Czech) and Tenisz (Hungarian). Three shelves of maroon leather books hold every issue of Tennis Australia, from 1976 to the present.

Green broadsheet volumes of Match (1926-1938) are not far from the burgundy Smash (1939-1965). And there are all the iterations of Pastime, starting in 1883 and following its name changes - Lawn Tennis and Croquet to Lawn Tennis and Badminton - until its demise in 1967.

"I am always very, very anxious to purchase old books and magazines," Little said. "As I say about magazines, they are contemporary, written at the moment, not something that might have been retold many times before appearing in a book."

But there are books - lots of them. They occupy a wall of shelves as colorfully chaotic as confetti. Like the magazines, they are organized by country (alphabetically) and then, within each country, placed in chronological order.

The collection includes recent titles about Murray and other contemporary players published this year. There is a section of tennis fiction, too.

Little's favorite is "Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad," by Arthur Wallis Myers, published in 1903. The collection has three of them.

Among the earliest books are thin pamphlets from the 1870s explaining the rules of lawn tennis. The most prized, perhaps, are the thin books by Walter Wingfield that were originally included inside an all-in-one tennis box, filled with rackets, balls and a net. Wingfield's kit helped popularize the game, and Little said there were 22 known copies of the book remaining. The library holds seven of them.

Little has written roughly 35 books on tennis, the latest called "The Golden Days of Tennis on the French Riviera, 1874-1939." The most important of his works may be the dense Wimbledon Compendium, his annual almanac.

It is filled with records, scores, seeds, weather and trivia. There is a year-by-year summary of the club and the tournament, which is how one comes to find that the first scoreboards were used in 1880 or that, in 1947, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth presented the men's singles trophy on a Friday to Jack Kramer, the first champion to wear shorts.

There are lists of champions and runners-up who wore glasses, players exhibited in wax at Madame Tussauds in London, and Centre Court invasions, including a squirrel in 1949, bees in 1982, a pied wagtail in 1996 and streakers in 1996, 2002 and 2006. The 2014 edition is 584 pages, has the weight of a brick and is sold on the grounds for 16 pounds.

The tournament is a busy time for Little, and he was soon off on another obligation. It is Snell, his assistant, who runs the day-to-day operations, working five days a week, 50 weeks a year. Visitors are few. Most do not browse but come with a mission. They are university students doing research or relatives of long-ago tennis players looking for match records.

And while the library is busier during Wimbledon than at other times, it is never crowded.

"It's a pity," Snell said as Jeanette West sat nearby, cutting out newspaper articles. "It is an underused resource. And it's geography - we're just kind of buried."

Even the wildest cheers for Murray on Centre Court do not penetrate the walls and windows below the shuffling feet of thousands of tennis fans. But if you listen carefully, you can hear John McEnroe speaking on an endless loop, part of a museum display nearby.

Correction:

Because of an editing error, an article last Sunday about the library at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum misidentified the woman who presented the men's singles trophy in 1947 with King George VI. It was Queen Elizabeth, his wife; it was not Queen Elizabeth II, his daughter, who ascended to the throne in 1952.

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11am, Overview of the flipped classroom model, Dong Chaoyan
11:30-12pm, Example - Using the flipped classroom model in radiology teaching, Goh Poh Sun
12pm, Technologies to support a flipped classroom, Goh Poh Sun

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"Message to workshop participants -

Thank you for signing up for this workshop. My presentations on the two topics for the workshop will be based on the material on this website. The presentations will be given entirely from this website.

Please explore the content, and reflect on the engagement process as well.

May I invite you to post comments, and questions on the "add your comments" section in this blog below. Please also post in the comments section how you currently use; or are thinking of using the flipped classroom idea in your own teaching.

I have also set up a "digital wall" for all workshop participants, and faculty to record and share their thoughts (see website/link below). You all have permission/digital rights to post and modify your contributions at any time. Please make use of this digital wall - and please title your contribution, include your name; then share your thoughts; pose questions; share documents, videos, links, or any other contribution you feel would add to the discussion.

http://padlet.com/dnrgohps/largegroupteach

All you need to do is to double click on any clear space on the digital wall on the website above. You do not need to log-in or sign up. And you can modify your post, add to, or delete the post at any time.

Very best regards,

Poh Sun"

GOH Poh Sun
MBBS(Melb), FRCR(UK), FAMS(Singapore), MHPE(Maastricht)
Associate Professor and Senior Consultant
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
National University Hospital
National University Health System
Singapore
Email: dnrgohps@nus.edu.sg

Dr Goh is a clinician educator who currently devotes 80% of his time to clinical practice and postgraduate training; and 20% of time to educational research. This has been supplemented over the last three years by daily two to three hour early morning sessions focused on creating, curating and sharing (anonymised) case based educational teaching resources on a variety of digital and mobile learning platforms, from a digital repository currently containing over 5000 digital teaching and learning objects. 25/21/13: years of experience as a clinical radiologist/educator/technology enhanced learning practitioner.

"Passions - Technology enhanced learning, Education, Radiology. Technology as a tool, platform and enabler to support and augment face to face customised teaching and learning; with educational principles as the foundation; and radiology as my academic and clinical focus."

http://sg.linkedin.com/pub/poh-sun-goh/22/45b/b16 (LinkedIn profile)
http://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/documents and http://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/presentations
(Education presentations and papers)

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In addition to the examples below,
M1 (NUS undergraduate medicine chest anatomy radiology correlation)
M2 (NUS undergraduate medicine chest pathology radiology correlation)

M3 (NUS undergraduate surgery radiology case based discussion)

Upper abdominal masses on AXR

Nephrology (NUHS postgraduate medicine nephrology radiology case discussions)
CaseBasedLearning@NUHS (postgraduate radiology)

above are 2 screenshots of interactive "digital wall" (for the workshop, please focus on the top left segment of the wall, and vertical column 5 and 6)

on evening after workshop (screenshot above, from digital wall below)

NUS Prime: Technology enhanced learning - three case studies

3 take home points
1. focus on your teaching and learning objectives, not the technology ... (e)Learning (small "e", big "L"... focus on the Learning) ... focus on understanding learning needs, curricula design, scaffolding, learner support and customised learning, assessment with feedback and evaluate what you are doing ... document and make transparent your process

2. use "simple" tech - email, SMS, blogs (websites) to broadcast, and "narrowcast" .. targeted message ... connect ... disseminate ... document
3. keep refining your teaching techniques, and improving as an educator (Glassick's criteria - clear goals, adequate preparation, appropriate methods, significant results, effective presentation, AND reflective critique ..... Glassick, C.E., Huber, M.R. & Maeroff, G.I. (1997). Scholarship Assessed - Evaluation of the Professiorate. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass).

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Extended abstract of presentation for NUS CDTL TEL 2013 Symposium, Oct 7, 2013 http://cdtl.nus.edu.sg/tel2013/

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Use of case pairs can potentially improve the efficiency and effectiveness of radiology residency

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Machine learning for detection of intracranial hemorrhage, synthetic MRI of the spine, new techniques for studying neurovascular conflict, cerebrovascular reserve in Moyamoya disease, and rapid identification of brain metastases: join Dr. Gibbs for summaries of these fascinating articles in the September AJNR podcast.

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Content + Platform + Audience / Value Add

Digital First, with Blending Learning, and "Flipping Classroom" mindset

>5000 online (indexed) teaching cases

eg. Hyperlinked radiology clinical case teaching and learning repositories (collectively > 150,000 page views)

> 5000 hyperlinked (indexed) curated teaching resources

Online digital and mobile platform

eg. Learning Neuroradiology Blog, CaseBasedLearning@NUHS, Learning@NUHS

Upcoming eBooks and mBooks (interactive)

Digital, customised/personalised/unique learning document/deliberate practice and mastery training experience

Online and mobile audience - local, regional and international

Embedded content development and curation processes, supported by educational theory, literature and evidence

Face to face individual, small group and large group interactive presentations, symposia and workshops

eg. Workshops, Symposia and Invited Presentations, TelRoundtable2014@11thAPMEC

Invitations to participate; faculty development; consult and collaborate, and quality of the output ( example)

eg. AMEE eLearning committee or AMEE eLearning committee screenshot; SIF / Temasek Foundation / MEU collaboration with MOH Sri Lanka; TEL projects (local and international)

Peer reviewed conference papers

eg. http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/tel2013/slides/GohPohSun.pdf or Building an online repository of teaching resources to facilitate consistent and good quality teaching of postgraduates and undergraduates in medicine - a preliminary report from Technology enhanced learning TEL 2013 symposium by CDTL, NUS

Online and mobile interactive learning platforms

Blended learning approach

Mastery training and deliberate practice ethos

Evaluating Teaching - Quantity and Quality (Methods and Examples)

Kirkpatrick 4 levels of evaluation (Google images)

http://www.minervaproject.com/institute/

http://mazur.harvard.edu/eric_mazur.php

Digital convergence erodes boundaries (Forbes)

The internet of everything 2014 slidedeck Business Insider)

table for discussion (Apr 27, 2014 version)

Live prototyping

http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-of-this-media-age/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mylestanzer/exclusive-times-internal-report-painted-dire-digital-picture

http://mashable.com/2014/05/16/full-new-york-times-innovation-report/

How to make good TV for the web according to Amazon

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Content + Platform + Audience / Value Add Digital First, with Blending Learning, and "Flipping Classroom" mindset >5000 online (indexed) teaching cases eg. Hyperlinked radiology clinical case teaching and learning repositories (collectively > 150,000 page views) > 5000 hyperlinked (indexed) curated teaching resources Online digital and mobile platform eg.

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Edited online conversation and discussion between

Dr Zaid Mommo,
Resident, PGY-2
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of British Columbia
Canada

http://ophthalmology.med.ubc.ca/education/residency/current-residents/

and

Dr Goh Poh Sun
MB,BS(Melb), FRCR(UK), FAMS(Singapore), MHPE(Maastricht)
Associate Professor and Senior Consultant,
Department of Diagnostic Radiology,
National University Hospital
National University Health System,
Singapore

http://medicine.nus.edu.sg/meddnr/staff.html

Topic: Building an Online Course in Orbital Imaging

Tips and suggestions

1. Think about your learning objectives, and draw up a draft curriculum (draft curriculum outline below from Dr Mommo, April 14, 2014)

2. Review some basic ideas about eLearning

eLearning - how to start

3. Have a look at some available online resources, while reflecting on what you might want to create for your own program, and what content you will curate

"Knowing where things are is (can be) worth more than the things themselves." Seth Godin

Review of orbital imaging (Eur Rad, 2008)

Imaging of neuroopthalmic and orbital disease: a review (Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 2009)

Orbital trauma

http://radiologymasterclass.co.uk/tutorials/musculoskeletal/x-ray_trauma_spinal/x-ray_face_fracture.html

Imaging proptosis

Radiological evaluation of orbital masses

Imaging of the orbit

Pictorial review of extraconal and osseous orbital pathology (ECR 2013 poster)

http://www.radcharts.org/Orbital/Orbital.html

Orbits, vision and visual loss (AJNR, 2010)

Orbital vascular lesions

Review of paediatric orbital and ocular tumours

4. Start developing a hyperlinked index of resources (tips and suggestions added by Dr Goh, April 23rd, 2014)

Intentionally, and regularly keep a list of online resources that you stumble upon, are recommended to review, or have found during a targeted or systematic search process.

Keep this list as a series of hyperlinks (highlight + right click + save as + then paste) onto an offline document or online thematic blog.

At the time you paste the link, rename the link using a key word, key phase or title that makes sense to you. Do not worry about "proper curatorial" terms at this stage. You can rename, shorten or lengthen what the link reads as (while keeping the underlying URL) as many times as you wish.

Regularly review, reorder, and reorganise your hyperlinks.

Very soon you will have a usable collection of curated online resources which you can refer to, cite, recommend, and incorporate into your teaching and learning programs.

ACTION > As an exercise, reorganise, recategorize and rename the hyperlinked resources under Point 3 above; and email your webpage/blog to me.

For material you produce yourself, very often word or powerpoint documents, you can convert these to pdf format, then share these via Slideshare (upload followed by keeping copy of hyperlink to document or presentation). You could also convert each slide on a Powerpoint document into an image, then upload each slide/image onto a blog. The advantage of this is that not only the whole presentation has its own URL, but each slide has its individual ULR, which you can individually hyperlink and index (see example from an undergraduate lecture below).

http://learningchestradiology.blogspot.sg/2013/11/imaging-of-respiratory-disorders-m2.html

or

Building an online repository of teaching resources to facilitate consistent and good quality teaching of postgraduates and undergraduates in medicine - a preliminary report

ACTION > As an exercise, upload or convert/post one of your documents or presentations; and email your webpage/document link to me.

5. Assess learning and Evaluate Teaching

(e)Assessment and Evaluation

Evaluating teaching: Quantity and Quality, Impact

(e)Scholarship or Digital Scholarship and Traditional vs Digital Scholarship

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An overview of eLearning (Slideshare)

(e)Learning; digital repositories; and digital scholarship (Slideshare)

Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning (held in Sri Lanka, 13 December, 2013; as part of Singapore International Foundation program)

Technology enhanced learning - some key points

Flipped classrooms - Old or new?

12 tips for using social media as a medical educator (abstract)

12 tips for using social media as a medical educator (pdf)

Why social media is not a waste of time (Anne Marie Cunningham)

Social media summit in health professional education (ICRE, 22 October 2014)

Future of education 2014 (conference proceedings)

See article "Real and virtual classroom" by Darren Hanson, visiting associate professor in the Department of Management and Organisation at NUS Business School, written for school's Think Business portal (see below), and featured in The Business Times, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 issue

http://thinkbusiness.nus.edu/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

Human Brain Project @ the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

http://epfl.ch/index.en.html

http://moocs.epfl.ch/information

https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/

"Create or curate (digital) content, index and hyperlink, intentionally and systematically share, underpin this with an educational philosophy and pedagogic foundation, as a digital professional, with an overarching scholarly ethos."

"Know what you want to do, know why you are doing it, know what you are doing, and do it (initially start slowly, with care and circumspection, observe and consume first, learn about and get some training, dip your toe into the water before taking the plunge). Get feedback, keep improving and refining, engage with the learning process (see 12 tips article above).

Poh-Sun Goh

Dr Goh Poh Sun
MB,BS(Melb), FRCR(UK), FAMS(Singapore), MHPE(Maastricht)
Associate Professor and Senior Consultant,
Department of Diagnostic Radiology,
National University Hospital
National University Health System,
Singapore

email - dnrgohps@nus.edu.sg

LinkedIn -

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/poh-sun-goh/22/45b/b16

Slideshare educational presentations and papers -

http://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/documents

http://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/presentations

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"Message to workshop participants -

Thank you for signing up for this workshop. My presentations on the topics for the workshop will be based on the material on this website. The pre-reading for the workshop, and presentations will be given entirely from the website below.

http://padlet.com/dnrgohps/eLearningWall

The overview of the program for this workshop is displayed graphically below.

Please explore the content, and reflect on the engagement process as well.

May I invite you to post comments, and questions on the "add your comments" section in this blog below. Please also post in the comments section how you currently use; or are thinking of using eLearning or Technology Enhanced Learning in your own teaching.

Alternatively, I have also set up a "digital wall" for all workshop participants, and faculty to record and share their thoughts (see website/link below). You all have permission/digital rights to post and modify your contributions at any time. Please make use of this digital wall - and please title your contribution, include your name; then share your thoughts; pose questions; share documents, videos, links, or any other contribution you feel would add to the discussion.

http://padlet.com/dnrgohps/eLearningWall

All you need to do is to double click on any clear space on the digital wall on the website above. You do not need to log-in or sign up. And you can modify your post, add to, or delete the post at any time.

_________________

As a specific pre-workshop task, please answer the following questions about yourself, by making a post on the digital wall http://padlet.com/dnrgohps/eLearningWall BEFORE the workshop (by Friday, the week before the workshop please).

1. Tell us a little about yourself (please also identify yourself/give name)

a. background - current clinical, educational or administrative practice, number of years active, practice setting
b. experience and training in eLearning/technology enhanced learning - e.g. pick up as you go along, workshops, courses, formal training (Masters)
c. What barriers/challenges are you currently facing/have you encountered in integrating technology into teaching?

and

2. Share an educational project you intend to use eLearning for (current or planned/upcoming)

a. aim
b. how you intend or hope to use eLearning

___________________

For those of you who prefer traditional literature reviews and articles, please review the following before the workshop.

1. AMEE Guide 32: e-Learning in medical education
Part 1: Learning, teaching and assessment
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01421590802108331
Rachel Ellaway & Ken Masters, Medical Teacher, 2008, 30: 455-473.

2. eLearning in clinical teaching
http://www.faculty.londondeanery.ac.uk/other-resources/files/BJHM_article%2012_%20e-learning.pdf
Ian Doherty, Judy McKimm
British Journal of Hospital Medicine, January 2010, Vol 71, No 1

3. What do we mean by web‐based learning? A systematic review of the variability of interventions
http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=RbXpT6kAAAAJ&citation_for_view=RbXpT6kAAAAJ:IWHjjKOFINEC
DA Cook, S Garside, AJ Levinson, DM Dupras, VM Montori
Medical education 44 (8), 765-774
2010

4. Instructional methods and cognitive and learning styles in web‐based learning: report of two randomised trials
http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=RbXpT6kAAAAJ&cstart=20&citation_for_view=RbXpT6kAAAAJ:Se3iqnhoufwC
DA Cook, MH Gelula, DM Dupras, A Schwartz
Medical education 41 (9), 897-905
2007

5. Time and learning efficiency in Internet-based learning: a systematic review and meta-analysis
http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=RbXpT6kAAAAJ&cstart=20&citation_for_view=RbXpT6kAAAAJ:HDshCWvjkbEC
DA Cook, AJ Levinson, S Garside
Advances in health sciences education 15 (5), 755-770
2010

6. Computer animations in medical education: a critical literature review
http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=RbXpT6kAAAAJ&cstart=20&citation_for_view=RbXpT6kAAAAJ:ULOm3_A8WrAC
JG Ruiz, DA Cook, AJ Levinson
Medical education 43 (9), 838-846
2009

7. Preparing for the changing role of instructional technologies in medical education
http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=RbXpT6kAAAAJ&cstart=20&citation_for_view=RbXpT6kAAAAJ:iH-uZ7U-co4C
BR Robin, SG McNeil, DA Cook, KL Agarwal, GR Singhal
Academic Medicine 86 (4), 435-439
2011

Lastly, please bring your personal WiFi/3G/4G enabled tablet or laptop to the workshop. You should have examples of your teaching content on the tablet or laptop. You will be using this tablet or laptop for the workshop activities.

Very best regards,

Poh Sun"

GOH Poh Sun
MBBS(Melb), FRCR(UK), FAMS(Singapore), MHPE(Maastricht)
Associate Professor and Senior Consultant
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
National University Hospital
National University Health System
Singapore
Email: dnrgohps@nus.edu.sg

Brief Bio:
Dr Goh is a clinician educator who currently devotes 80% of his time to clinical practice and postgraduate training; and 20% of time to educational research. This has been supplemented over the last three years by daily two to three hour early morning sessions focused on creating, curating and sharing (anonymised) case based educational teaching resources on a variety of digital and mobile learning platforms, from a digital repository currently containing over 5000 digital teaching and learning objects. 25/21/13: years of experience as a clinical radiologist/educator/technology enhanced learning practitioner.

"Passions - Technology enhanced learning, Education, Radiology. Technology as a tool, platform and enabler to support and augment face to face customised teaching and learning; with educational principles as the foundation; and radiology as my academic and clinical focus."

http://sg.linkedin.com/pub/poh-sun-goh/22/45b/b16 (LinkedIn profile)
http://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/documents and http://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/presentations
(Education presentations and papers)

How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching - Susan Ambrose et al. (2010), see links below

How The Brain Learns - David A. Sousa (2011), see links below

How People Learn - National Science Foundation (2004)

Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment - Terry Doyle (2008), see links below

(the website is free, AND allows collaboration and brainstorming, while documenting discussions, and promoting sharing)

Can we build the perfect teacher?

Priced to sell - Is free the future?

The long tail

Social Sharing Companies such as Airbnb and Uber, which have a social mission and are also social marketplaces, are able to access all three social value drivers: Advocacy, Connection, and Collaboration. The revolutionary power of Airbnb and Uber comes from their ability to harness technology to create a social sharing platform that facilitates trust by creating transparency and dual accountability. This enables individuals to form weak ties (i.e. Bridging Social Capital) with one another, leading to the personal sharing of goods and/or services (i.e. Linking Social Capital) by Barbara Gray (on LinkedIn Post)

Video - How to land plane in an emergency (reflection exercise)

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eLearning workshop on Wednesday, 23rd July, 2014

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