Thursday 25 April 2013

Maastricht Universities Top 100 Personal Websites - 74 till 64

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Wednesday 24 April 2013

Maastricht Universities Top 100 Personal Websites

How does an organization's need to centralize authority and control in times of decentralizing technology and disrupting information ecology's effect personal expression and communication?
What misfits the digital self portrait when straight jackets are imposed and tightened like budgetary measures and strategic theme parks? Who can appear to an appointment without checking the Others eating pattern or personal performance indicator in advance? Do you know Akatu shower app?

As part of ICTS effort to catapult Maastricht University into the 24th century, a service officially not supported since 2006 is finally buried alive. The personal website's of UM's human resources are due to evaporate June 1 and with it the collective experience of people who stranded in Maastricht or were on their way to some other place. While the school's profiles found a save new port on its own IT infrastructure no measures where taken to save the personal treasures from the sinking ship. Until now.

A screenshot from all personal websites hosted on the obsolete hardware are here presented for the first time. As little portraits they preserves not only the unique expression of people but show their diversity in the light of an organizations dedication to efficiency and uniformity. A selection of 83 websites was made and ranked by objective parameters: page-views, google ranking and stylistic variables: content, color scheme, layout

The places 83 to 74 are presented here:

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Monday 8 April 2013

SBE Professor Piet Eichholtz Co-develops Economics Website for Dutch High School Students

Economie voor jou” (Economy for You) is a website developed by a group of (business) economists from Maastricht University and Tilburg Universit, designed to increase interest among high school students for  a study in Economics and Management & Organization.

The website aims to serve as an interactive platform to help students with the preparation of their final high school exam. It will provide clear video explanations for all final exam questions on the subjects of Economy and Management & Organization in recent years, both for VWO and HAVO study levels.

Wednesday 3 April 2013

Not at Maastricht University: Online courses open doors for teenagers

Amol Bhave, a 17-year-old from Jabalpur, India, learnt last week that he had been accepted to MIT after scoring 97 per cent on edX’s circuits and electronics course. He received the good news on March 14 – or “pi day”, as he put it in a Skype conversation with the FT.

Link to the article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c5a4b932-924c-11e2-851f-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2PPfwGKgm