Registration is Open! 4rdAnnual Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education and Faculty Institute June 3-4th, 2011 Union College, Schenectady, NY www.union.edu/integration Please join us for an exciting fourth annual symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education. The program includes a keynote talk by Dr. David Ferrucci, Semantic Analysis and Integration Department, IBM Watson Research Center. …
October 24-27, 2011 Shanghai, China Shanghai International Conference Center The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) invites you to the annual Global Colloquium, which brings together the world’s leaders in engineering education. This year’s Colloquium will take place in Shanghai, China at the Shanghai International Conference Center. This year, ASEE is partnering with Shanghai Jiao …
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Education is arguably society’s most important type of service. Education is also slow to change in many ways. However, that was before the age of smart machines. To find out why and how things are about to change, be sure to be on hand, when on June 3 at Union College in Schenectady, New York, David Ferruci, the …
The SRII Global Conference took place in San Jose, California last week. Below I provide a summary of the conference flow over five days of events, and then some summary comments about the accelerating evolution of service capabilities enabled by the cloud and smart phones. On Tuesday, the SRII SIG and Chapter meetings took place. …
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe reports http://www.unece.org/ceci/publications/icp3.pdf
Cambridge Academic Design Management Conference “CADMC” “New thinking in design management” Cambridge, UK: 7 and 8 September 2011 Website: www.cadmc.org/
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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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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.