Check this out!! I love it – these children, grades 6 – 12 are our future (needless to say). The new learning model is called “Quest to Learn” Started in 2006, the design is all about innovation, and capitalizing on the kids innate curiosity and energy with the hope to instill a love of life …
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Following the success of the 2010 Grand Challenge in Service week organized by the Cambridge Service Alliance, we are delighted to announce the Two-day Academic Conference to be held on 22-23 September 2011, as part of the 2011 Grand Challenge in Service Week in Cambridge. Understanding Complex Service Systems through Different Lenses Two-day Academic Conference, …
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Bruce Holland’s Strategic Snippet Is the Public Sector is going in the wrong direction? February, 2011 The purpose of this Snippet is to illustrate how bureaucracy and red tape may be driving the Public Service in the wrong direction. Indeed, because of unquestioned assumptions, government may be inadvertently designing failure into many things they do …
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Anyone thinking about education reform today should take a look at this video by Michael Wesch at Kansas State University.
Call for Participation – new deadline 2/23 4rdAnnual Symposium on Engineering & Liberal Education and Integrate to Innovate Faculty Institute June 3-4th, 2011 Union College, Schenectady, NY www.union.edu/integration Union College will host the fourth annual symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education this spring to continue the discussion of the rationale for and methods of integrating …
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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS SERVICE COMPUTATION 2011: The Third International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing September 25-30, 2011 – Rome, Italy General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SERVICECOMPUTATION11.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPSERVICECOMPUTATION11.html Submission deadline: April 20, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster Forum …
The submission deadline for refereed research papers have been extended to February 28, 2011. The submission deadline for non-refereed research abstracts and proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, and symposia have been extended to March 30, 2011. The 2011 Annual Meeting of the Art & Science of Service June 8-10, 2011 IBM Research – Almaden San …
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The construction of the Service Science Track of the Annual INFORMS Meeting in Charlotte, NC is underway. We need session chairs and papers. Please consider participating in one of these capacities. — Ralph D. Badinelli, Professor, Virginia Tech; Secretary, SRII Past Chair, INFORMS Service Science Section; ralphb@vt.edu (540) 231-7688 Department of Business Information Technology Pamplin …
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Go here to read the article. at “Blogging Innovation” Paul Hobcraft runs Agility Innovation, an advisory business that stimulates sound innovation practice, researches topics that relate to innovation for the future, as well as aligning innovation to organizations core capabilities. Quote: “What are the disciplines required to be mastered? There is a real need to …
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See the abstract here Introduction of Service Systems Implementation Haluk Demirkan, James C. Spohrer and Vikas Krishna available at Springer of course