Ethics in action
AHOY – 2014 оны долоодугаар сарын 24Is it possible to teach ethical behavior? Apparently, thisis an existing and legitimate suggestion. Now let’s try it! With Ethics Unwrapped University of Texas makes an attempt to teach such basic ethics for students that are useful when coping with the challenges of the business world. Certainly, economic crises of previous years pinpoint how crucial it would be to live up to ethical standards in the business sphere. Had it been for conforming to basic ethic norms, the whole American credit crisis could’ve been prevented.
mozaTools: Hall of Fame - (almost) all those who matter
AHOY – 2014 оны долоодугаар сарын 10Famous people – no matter if historical figures or contemporary celebrities – never cease to impress us. mozaTool Hall of Fame helps students to find out more about them with just a couple of clicks.
All collected in the right place
AHOY – 2014 оны долоодугаар сарын 4The course book has always been an essential part of the teaching-learning process. It is the storehouse of information used both to learn and to teach from. If I take a course book I can work with all the information gathered in it. However, this in itself is not satisfying any longer as students look out for something more and teachers are also eager to provide them with more.
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Networks
AHOY – 2014 оны зургаадугаар сарын 5I've found a gripping article the other day about researchers who had examined the network system of the Greek epic poem The Odyssey, mapping 1700 connections of 342 characters. Interestingly enough, they have found that the network system of the epos is very similar to that of the network systems of Facebook or Twitter
Figure out where you are
AHOY – 2014 оны тавдугаар сарын 29There is an entertaining (and extremely addictive) game based on Google Street View called GeoGuessr. Our task is simple: we are dropped off somewhere in the world, at random, and we must guess on the world map in the top-right corner where we think that place could be.