Confession: I’ve never really thought about the process of creativity or strategies generating ideas before, much less believed there could exist a framework or model for helping to do just that. But that’s what the ICEDIP model is. Originally conceived by Geoffrey Petty and presented in his book, ‘How to be better at … Creativity’…
I rather suspect that over the next two years I’ll be gathering (and by extension managing) a reasonable number of references and citations for my studies. As I mentioned in my previous post on Academic Practice, ensuring due credit is given to others for their work when referring to is both courteous and a requirement.…
Although most of my adult career has been in Research and Development, good academic practice is not a discipline I’ve cultivated over the years. This is an area of the course where I expect I’ll have a steep learning curve. Making the transition from writing technical documents such as specifications and processes to adopt a…
There is no denying it, effective time management is the first challenge and not unexpected either. With each module requiring in the region of 300 hours self-directed study over a 12 week period I need to make an average of 25 hours per week to get through the workload. To quote one of my business…
For this post I want to look at the structure of my blog. Unlike a notebook that forms a monolithic record, using a blog allows for a more structured approach to filing my writings away, searching and finding entries. I originally created this blog to serve as a repository of my own thoughts and ideas;…
