In a recent study published in the Academy of Management Learning and Education, “Can Business Students Learn to Evaluate Better? Evidence from Repeated Exposure to a Peer-Evaluation System” found that the more students evaluated their peers the more confident they became as both givers and receivers of feedback. Stéphane Brutus, from Concordia University, Magda B. […]
Mobius SLIP and End of Course Portfolio
Portfolios are gaining popularity in higher education as students try and demonstrate the things they have learned and compensate they have developed and the skills they can bring to a job site. At Mobius SLIP we are active partners in this movement. Students Students are able to take everything they have developed every critique they […]
Five Study Tips For Acing The Exam
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room, final exams! You are all going to have to eat the elephant at some point and how are you going to do it? Well, just like you eat anything else, one bite at a time. Here are 5 easy steps to make test taking a little easier. […]
Complex Task and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Learning
Part of what the Mobius loop system does is creating an ecosystem or individual organisms in this case “student organisms” to have them share information back and forth in a safe environment. Margaret Wheatley wrote a book called Leadership and the New Science that really talks about human interactions in these shared environments. I highly […]
Video Production Firm Decisions — Will it Kill the Radio Star?
The last big decision was the CRM Vendor — ZoHo. I am still trying to get the hang of it, but it looks pretty good thus far. My guess is that to be effective, this is something you do every single day for at least 20-30 minutes (feed the beast). Please correct me if I […]
Social Innovation: Competition Shifts from Markets to Ecosystems and Education Should Follow
Two terms that are often discussed together are ‘Social Innovation’ and ‘Social Entrepreneurship‘. The latter label is a version of old wine in new bottles that seeks to redefine using social media approaches to address societal problems. A classic example that many readers may have experienced personally is the UNICEF orange donation box. Many of […]
The Cusotmer Relationship Management (CRM) System Decision — ZoHo
Thanks to the many bloggers, zines and websites that provide guidance on the various CRMs available. There have been enough electrons killed in the name of reviewing these products, so I’ll spare you my two bits (bytes?) on that front. Several of the CRM companies have a ‘freemium’ model where the first two or three […]
Internship Posting: Mobius SLIP Social Media Intern (Greensboro, NC)
Is Mark Zuckerberg following you on Twitter? Do you open spam and think “Wow, this person clearly has NO idea about what their key metrics should be!” Is your idea of a fun Monday morning writing a blog and linking it to every other blog in the technology domain? If so, have we got a […]
Innovative Apps and Unbundled Content: New Business Models for Higher Education
Revolutions never happen in isolation. Whether it was the American Revolution providing impetus to the French version or the more recent Arab Spring, events in one domain give rise to events in another. And so it is in higher education today with many forces feeding the creative destruction in our curricula. In addition to the […]
Maximizing our B-School’s Student Experiences and Resources Through Competition
Starting a new venture is very challenging because of the wide variety of tasks. The best known social innovators, business ventures seeking to change the way groups interact, introduced a simple idea that fundamentally changed the game such as Facebook or Twitter (see a great interview with Frances Westley about the difference between Social Innovations […]
