Online Active Learning: What makes small group work effective in an online Arts tutorial?

Not a Piece of Cake – What Makes Online Communities Work?

What Makes You Click: An Empirical Analysis of Online Dating∗

This paper uses a novel data set obtained from a major online dating service to draw inferences on mate preferences and the match outcomes of the site users. The data set contains detailed information on user attributes such as income, education, physique, and attractiveness, as well as information on the users’ religion, political inclination, etc. The data set also contains a detailed record ...

Learning in an Online Study Group

Two teachers participating in an online study group provided the foci for indepth case studies. Transcripts of conversations they had with colleagues about issues related to reform-oriented pedagogy were analyzed from both acquisition and participation perspectives on learning. Both teachers exhibited mainly marginal changes to their pedagogical reasoning structures and were generally resistant...

Active Online Multitask Learning

In this paper, we propose an online multitask learning framework where the weight vectors are updated in an adaptive fashion based on inter-task relatedness. Our work is in contrast with the earlier work on online multitask learning (Cavallanti et al., 2008) where the authors use a fixed interaction matrix of tasks to derive (fixed) update rules for all the tasks. In this work, we propose to up...

What makes an effective executive.

An effective executive does not need to be a leader in the typical sense of the word. Peter Drucker, the author of more than two dozen HBR articles, says some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs he has worked with over his 65-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They ranged from extroverted to nearly reclusive, from easygoing to controlling, from generous to parsimonious. ...