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Tag: Central Michigan University

Teaching Project Management This Fall

July 10, 2018 7:36 AM James Howard Blog

And in other news, I am teaching People and Project Administration at Central Michigan University. It’s a good course with a focus on the people side of project management. But since it is always good, I kick a little agile methodology in at the end. The course is online and

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Syllabus for People and Project Administration

October 25, 2017 7:55 AM James Howard Blog

Here’s something interesting. Despite having my work spread all across multiple fields, which I kind of like, I rather want to make sure I keep a connection to my home field. The problem is, I can no longer tell if that is mathematics or public policy. So I teach. Both.

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Gelman’s Candy Weighing Demonstration

March 12, 2017 5:31 PM James Howard Blog

We did Andrew Gelman’s candy weighing demonstration in class on Friday. This was the first time I’ve had a chance to teach sampling in some time and really wanted to do it. These were not traditional statistics students, however. We did this in research methods. So these are students interested

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Syllabus for Foundations of Research Methods

December 3, 2016 12:55 PM James Howard Blog

As promised, I’ve posted the syllabus for Foundations of Research Methods in Administration. This course is a generic research methods course, though it is set in the MSA context. As a result, it should look like a research methods course in just about any social science curriculum. One of the

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What Goes Around Comes Around, Teaching Edition

November 28, 2016 9:56 PM James Howard Blog

This spring, I will be teaching something a bit different. I will still be teaching mathematics online for UMUC, but I will also be teaching MSA 600 — Foundations of Research Methods in Administration, as part of the Master of Science in Administration (MSA) program at Central Michigan University. This

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