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Lifelong learning

How to learn well.

Articles, primers, slides and lectures for students, researchers and professionals on learning, skills and personal development, including the three Learning 101 articles from IEEE Potentials.

Start here: the IEEE Potentials articles

Three articles on learning itself: the impediments students face and their remedies (2015), the basics that school rarely teaches (2018), and a revisit of those basics for the generative-AI era (2024).

Primers and guides

Longer guides on thriving in engineering education, the competencies the 2020s ask for, and learning independently.

The art of being knowledgeable

Insights from Shah Waliullah Dehlawi’s Risala-e Daneshmandi on the art of scholarship, learning and teaching, with his guidelines for educators.

Essay · 8 pages

Shah Waliullah on The Art of Being Knowledgeable (Fann Daneshmandi)

J. Qadir

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Writing with AI

A framework for writing well in the age of generative AI, with its companion lecture series and workshop slides.

Writing course (YouTube) ↗AI-augmented research writing: workshop slides (PDF) ↓

Slides

More decks are linked from Talks.

Lectures and short courses

The IHSAN courses are on the Ihsan page; all open courses, including CS721 Network Performance & Evaluation, are listed together.