Teaching

This page contains links and other information related to the art of teaching and pedagogy in operations research and operations management.  For information about the Zicklin School’s undergraduate BBA program in Operations Management, please see the school website and this blog that we put together with additional information.

Blogging

Please see my posts on the Baruch College Teaching Blog.

Teaching and Learning in the Popular Press

1. “Tuning in to Jon Stewart, and Britney Schmidt” by T.L. Friedman, NY Times, 6-May-2005. [Friedman’s “learning to learn” column]
2. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, by J. Medina, Pear Press, 2006.
3. “Life and Music” by A. Watts, produced by T. Parker & M. Stone.
4. “Participant-Centered Learning and the Case Method“, HBS.
5. “Physicists Seek to Lose the Lecture as a Teaching Tool,” National Public Radio, 1-Jan-2012.
6. “What makes a master B-school teacher?” by J.N. Byrne, CNN/Money, 28-Feb-2012.
7. “Wealth or Waste: Rethinking the Value of a Business Major” by M. Korn, WSJ, 5-Apr-2012.
8. “Research? Most people cannot understand it: Larry Zicklin believes that professors need to focus far more on teaching and less on being published in academic journals” by I. Wylie, FT, 7-Apr-2013.
9. “Management Education Needs a Real World Mindset” by J.C. Beck, FT, 9-Jun-2013.
10. “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds” by N. Carr, WSJ, 7-8 Oct 2017.
11. “U.S. Colleges Are Separating Into Winners and Losers: Schools that struggle to prepare students for success losing ground; ‘The shake-out is coming’ ” by D. Belkin, WSJ, 21-Feb-2018. (Good quote in 5th from last paragraph, “Clemson’s success is tied to its embrace of the labor market…”)
12. “Math Teachers Should Be More Like Football Coaches: That style of motivation could help in the classroom, too” by J. Urschel, NY Times, 11-May-2019.
13. “College Students: How To Make Office Hours Less Scary” by E. Nadworny, NPR, 5-Oct-2019.  Maybe I should move to a digital platform like https://piazza.com?
14. ” Cheating at School Is Easier Than Ever—and It’s Rampant: With many students at home, and with a mass of websites offering services to do their homework, schools have seen a surge in academic dishonesty” by TD Hobbs, WSJ, 12-May-2021.
15. “An Epidemic of Student Disengagement: Eight ways to re-engage disconnected college students” by S. Mintz, Inside Higher Ed, 14-Apr-2022.
16. “A Stunning Level of Student Disconnection” by B. McMurtie, Chronicle of Higher Education, 5-Apr-2022.
17. “My College Students Are Not OK” by J. Malesic, NY Times, 13-May-2022.
18. “Educators’ Most Effective Attention-Grabbing Technique: 5 Ways Compelling Teachers Move Beyond Presenting to Storytelling” by C. Gallo, Harvard Business Publishing’s Inspiring Minds, 1-Sept-2022.  (Also see original article in HBR).

(revised 17-Oct-2023)