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Dear Sir/Madam

Would it possible to listen to the lecture IN ENGLISH?

I’m member of the university of Munich. What must I do, to get the download manager running? Must I first buy it somewhere? I would be very graceful for your help. With kindest regards

Dear M-Said Oukil
We do not have this lecture in English. Not sure if you will be interested in the videos here at http://gallery.ntu.edu.sg/videos/v/nobel/cnyang/? Thanks.

Dear Dr. Goepfert
The download manager is a built-in feature of Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) & ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/). Does your organisation subscribe to the two resources? This download manager is provided by QUOSA (http://www.quosa.com/). Thanks.

That’s a very good resources. Thanks for the effort of our librarians in finding this resources. I try to benefit from this resource. And I hope I will see more coming useful resources in the next time!

In context with America’s GNH I recently read an interesting article, which treats happiness as a socioeconomic development metric. The metric, which is developed by International Institute of Management measures socioeconomic development by tracking seven development areas including the nation’s mental and emotional health. You can find details by visiting the following link

http://www.iim-edu.org/grossnationalhappiness/index.htm

Yeah… As I expect, now I can enjoy one more useful learning resource. There are quite a lot of resources to learn. Thanks our library…!

This is quite a up-to-date information. I’ll share it on Twitter.

I like the idea of argumenting the stupidity…meanwhile the examination format of the university has been so dissatisfying these last semesters; most have been transformed to the series of picking up the most correct option and encircling the answer papers. These indeed make us feel stupid, but this is a different type of stupidity.

I think I prefer to feel stupid because of facing something which in the end has to make me state, “well, I don’t know, but let’s try to do this and see what happens.” rather than feel stupid because I don’t know which option is correct and when I open the textbook I can always find the answer. That part of science…where we have to deal with exams and competition to get as highest mark as possible…is not very entertaining yet unavoidable as it serves as foundation of basic knowledge.

Hopefully the examination in biological sciences can be transformed back to analitical format, because how foundation of knowledge is seeded to every head of scientists-going-to-be really depends on how curriculum format and exam format are constructed.

I think that Thersia is making a good point. I wonder how the obsession with exam-based education is helping us to educate students to become scientists. The Blue Ribbon Commission guidelines seem to be on the right track, but I wonder how well they will succeed with A) crazy huge class sizes B) lack of teaching support and C) people who don’t seem to understand them to the extent that they perhaps could be perceived as possibly undermining them because they have so much invested in the status quo.

Wow, the synopsis makes me interested and I think I’ll need that book next semester. But, I’m going to start to read it now.

I hope oneday I can study in ntu.

Sir,I am a chemistry student wanted to do my phd in organic chemistry