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Questions related from Michael Brückner
The Gartner Hype Cycle for Higher Education from 2022 labeled "AI in Education" 2-5 years before becoming mainstream. It seems to me that AI tools will come much more rapidly to institutions.
09 March 2023 7,693 7 View
I am interested in technological standards and not in personal ICT or digital literacy standards of students and teachers. W3C surely has published some. Which standards do you adopt when...
18 December 2017 1,800 6 View
I am looking for Thailnd's census data on a district basis (amphoe, อำเภอ). Recent data have already been made available. Thanks in advance for any data, scans or links. SOLVED: My friend in...
31 May 2015 3,294 8 View
Problem: More and more countries are getting involved in the globalized world, partly by strengthening such transnational communities as the European Union and the AEC (ASEAN Economic Comunity)....
28 February 2015 6,525 23 View
We want to find (or build by ourselves) a tool for evaluating those skills in the course of medical training, which could even be used via telemedical applications. As a first step, we need an...
31 January 2015 7,854 7 View
Since Brain-Computer Interfaces are not a distant prophecy but an upcoming technology in rehabilitation, gaming and other fields, they might be used in educational settings as well. Think of...
19 October 2014 3,646 64 View
In a recent post I asked this question (https://www.researchgate.net/post/Should_scientific_fraud_be_handled_as_criminal_offense), which was overwhelmingly approved. One of the interesting...
01 August 2014 2,714 61 View
It's not only Google, all search engines can be asked to remove search results. They then must delete results that are "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant". That sounds like services...
13 May 2014 3,227 42 View
"Intelligence agencies hire lots of mathematicians, but would-be employees must realise that their work is misused to snoop on everyone, says Tom Leinster" New Scientist has published an article...
29 April 2014 3,232 44 View
Youtube and similar channels for video materials (e.g. used in education) are popular among teachers and students. Why don't we use RG as the single platform for disseminating and discussing such...
19 March 2014 2,803 57 View
'Conference proceedings removed from subscription databases after scientist reveals that they were computer-generated.' The last section of the article is rather scary, making me think of a...
26 February 2014 4,658 17 View
The ESL Mentoring Network here on RG is an approach to provide effective feedback to ESL speakers, who want to get help regarding grammar, style and vocabulary by native speakers of English. (1)...
23 February 2014 170 46 View
Today's hardware is powerful enough to let us create realistic and instructive animations of a wide area of topics. The saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words' could be extended to 'an...
10 February 2014 2,282 3 View
I remember an old computer game (called Tetris) by a Russian programmer, where the player had to rotate and move objects with straight edges (squares, rectangles, and more complex ones) that were...
29 January 2014 2,997 4 View
In the question below, Carlos Alberto asked about the meaning of productivity. Can we use the ideas of productivity for tangible goods also for intangible results as in science and academia? Could...
06 January 2014 967 8 View
The Pew Research Center has published a study on conceptions of US population relating evolution and similar topics. They found, for example, that 33% reject the idea of evolution. In influential...
04 January 2014 3,202 28 View
Question: "Can I block ads on Facebook or opt out of ads showing on my account?" Facebook says: "If you don't want to see a specific ad, you can click the x on the top right corner of the ad and...
22 December 2013 1,578 7 View
Companies are increasingly checking online representation and social network activities of candidates for suitability. This also applies to academic institutions, I would assume. What are the...
10 December 2013 5,065 8 View
This question does not ask for answers from law, social anthropology, or psychology. What are the convincing arguments for and against monogamy or polygyny in terms of biological and human...
15 November 2013 5,015 15 View
They're under Creative Commons license, so there should be no copyright problem.
29 October 2013 2,902 3 View
It is widely believed that interdisciplinary projects more likely lead to breakthrough results and innovations than mono-disciplinary research projects. If this is true, how have funding...
26 October 2013 9,057 40 View
In Thailand students are habitually silent and do not ask questions, because they do not want to let the teacher look like they haven't done their job in teaching the 'right' things the 'right'...
08 September 2013 5,716 11 View
Most reviewers of academic papers are volunteers, who spend valuable time for research when they try their best to improve our papers and evaluate their appropriateness for publication. Usually,...
05 September 2013 3,099 83 View
Discrete is a vast field of knowledge. What do students need to know about it nowadays and in the forthcoming years? Taking into account such topics as information security and data warehousing?
25 July 2013 1,732 2 View
We share soft data and many other things about our research with colleagues, who we trust. But how trustful are the ways in which we communicate with them in the light of Edward Snowden's...
11 July 2013 9,018 25 View
If your answer is 'yes', won't it be possible to construct specialized medical diagnosis simulation tools that help continuing medical education (CME)? Those tools could use real (anonymized) or...
04 July 2013 1,159 7 View
The current development of continuous medical education (CME, computer assisted or not) has yet to fit into daily clinical routines of medical professionals. If we just talk about medical...
23 June 2013 4,208 2 View
In many areas we need to model personal perceptions of people relating instances of concepts. Take the famous pizza topping ontology and extend it to perceptions of guests in a restaurant. Those...
20 December 2012 8,532 1 View
