This document provides an overview of the Innovation and Technology Leader's Mindset course being offered at Virginia Tech in the fall of 2012. The course aims to help students develop skills needed to become innovators and technology leaders. Key components covered include the characteristics of successful leaders, divergent thinking, dealing with uncertainty, validating assumptions, teamwork, and communication. Students will work on group projects to solve problems, analyze opportunities, and develop innovative ideas. The course uses a pass/fail grading system and evaluates students based on class participation and out-of-class assignments.
Authentic learning and Graduate Attributes - The Learner Conference 2013 Univ...Vivienne Bozalek
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These slides accompany a Teaching at URI workshop I presented with Josh Caulkins for faculty and instructors at the University of Rhode Island on August 26, 2014
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Differentiated Instruction in Online Environmentsjkchapman
by Gail Taylor
This forum will explore differentiated instruction (DI) in online environments. DI is a flexible, holistic approach to teaching and student learning that recognizes all students are not alike in terms of their learning styles and/or types of intelligences, among other related concepts. We will be exploring ways to make assessments of student learning styles and multiple intelligences as a way to identify teaching best practices for diverse groups of students in online environments.
These slides accompany a Teaching at URI workshop I presented with Josh Caulkins for faculty and instructors at the University of Rhode Island on August 26, 2014
Opportunities: Supporting the extended project qualificationJohn Iona
Slides from a workshop delivered at the SLA Conference 2014. The sessions looked at the EPQ, what it involves and how it is assessed, how I am involved and how Librarians might like to get involved in it in their schools.
Planning For And Supporting Productive Online InquiryJulie Coiro
How are online reading comprehension practices integrated into classroom instructional routines? In this session, Julie explains how curriculum-based information challenges and performance-based online reading comprehension measures can be used to capture the skills and practices of more and less skilled online readers. Then, she reviews practical examples of how to support elementary and secondary students as developing online readers using a model of Internet Reciprocal Teaching. She also shares research-based ideas for how to move readers through three phases of online inquiry while fostering higher-level thinking, critical evaluation, productive dialogue, and skillful argumentation practices across all grade levels.
Transparent Opportunity Design - May 1, 2018 "Learning Everywhere" ConferenceNortheasternSAIL
As educators, we often expect students to practice a wide range of skills during a given learning opportunity, and we understand those specific skills as fundamental to their development of expertise in a given domain. However, students may not recognize the need to apply some skills we consider necessary for success, may apply those skills without noticing that they have done so, or may fail to appreciate how important they are to expertise in the domain. In the process of being more transparent about which skills we want students to practice, how, and why, we are often able to refine our learning opportunity to make it more effective and meaningful. This session will provide a forum for educators to consider research on the value of transparency for supporting learning, revisit an existing learning opportunity in the context of the SAIL dimensions and skills, and help one another become more transparent about how students should use and understand those skills and dimensions in the context of this opportunity.
University at AlbanyDepartment of CommunicationCOM 369Theories of Or.docxdickonsondorris
University at AlbanyDepartment of CommunicationCOM 369Theories of Organizational Communication
July 7 – August 15
Dr. Alan Belasen
[email protected]
Description & Focus
This course draws on research and theories of communication within complex organizations. Topics include theories of communication, organizational identity and culture, understanding the relationship between formal and informal structures of communication, models of management communication, image, media relations, stakeholder analysis, communication audits, and crisis communication.
Course Objectives
Reading the text, participating in threaded discussions, preparing and analyzing cases, and conducting a research project should enable you to do the following:
1. Understand and use principles, analytical tools, and theories of communication.
1. Describe how contextual factors affect organizational communication.
1. Apply concepts and practice skills of communication that may be useful in improving the effectiveness of corporate communication.
1. Analyze critically the strengths and weaknesses of a strategic communication system and make recommendations about how to improve organizational communication.
1. Identify several career paths available to corporate communication students.
Text
Belasen, A. T. (2008). The Theory and Practice of Corporate Communication: A Competing Values Perspective. California: Sage Publications
Student Evaluation -- Grade Distribution
The completion of the required readings and assignments is essential for understanding course material and developing knowledge in the subject area. It is expected that students will participate in the threaded discussion regularly and in a manner that reflects familiarity with the required readings.
Participation in threaded discussion…...………………..…300
Two Cases for analysis …….…………………..…..………200
Application Paper………..……………..……….………….200
Final…………....………….………………………………..300
Participation in threaded discussion – I expect that you will contribute to class discussion by initiating relevant comments or insights and/or by responding to peers’ entries. Expectation: Each student should enter 4-6 comments per week.
Case analysis – Two cases: Satellite Systems (p. 25) DUE July 19, 2014 by 6pm and Hanover Software (p. 119) DUE July 26, 2014 by 6pm. Format: 3-4 pages, TNR 12, double spaced.
Application Paper – Choose any chapter in the book and summarize its key concepts and ideas. Then identify an organizational story, relevant movie, TV show, video case, TV news report, and so on that supports the main ideas of the chapter. Explain why you think the two pieces (chapter’s main ideas and evidence that you identify) relate. Format: 4-5 pages, TNR 12, double spaced. DUE August 2, 2014 by 6pm.
Final – You will answer 2-3 questions based on the readings. Due: 8/15, 2015 by 6:00pm.
ONLINE COURSE POLICIES:
Online Etiquette: All your online communications need to be composed with fairness, honesty and tact ...
HUM Syllabus/Humanities Project Instructions.pdf
A Humanities Project
For your Humanities Project, you will create a Power Point to showcase a themed study of our
course in review. Your assignment will cover each chapter that we’ve studied on its own
separate page. If you want to do more, that’s fine. Just make sure that each chapter is
represented by at least one full page of its own.
Requirements:
• minimum of 1 content page per chapter
• separate title page
• college level research beyond the textbook (online encyclopedias are NOT college level
research – use scholarly sources)
• citations of all of your sources including photo credits for images borrowed online
(separate Works Cited page/slide)
Content:
1. PICK A THEME that connects the chapters.
2. DO RESEARCH to add information or insight into your understanding or appreciation
of each topic.
• Background information (historical, cultural, etc.)
• An image or photo that complements the topic or relates to it in some way.
• Audio or video related to the topic (YouTube, TED Talks, etc.).
Objectives of the Scrapbook Project:
• To showcase a collection of topics and related resources inspired by each chapter.
• Select some online resources, which add to your understanding of the topics.
• Create an electronic scrapbook using one of the following to present your theme and
related sources.
• Document your sources accurately in MLA format.
Evaluation (Grading)
• Requirements met
• Content
• Originality
• Design
• Sources
• Mechanics
No late work for these assignments will be accepted at all.
HUM Syllabus/Humanities Project Rubric.pdf
HUM Syllabus/HUMN 2203 Syllabus .pdf
Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City
HUM 2203- Western Humanities
Fall 2016 Syllabus
Instructor: Dani Harris-Brunet
Office: not applicable
E-mail: [email protected]
Credit: 3 hours
Please note: Please use email as our primary channel of communication. I typically respond to
emails within 24-48 hours. Emails received on Friday will be answered the following
Monday.
REQUIRED TEXT AND MATERIALS
Humanistic Tradition, Fiero, Gloria, McGraw-Hill, 7th Edition, vol 2, ISBN 978-1259351686
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Key ideas and values of modern cultures, as discovered through an integrated and thematic
study of literature and the fine arts, as seen in their historical and philosophical contexts.
GENERAL EDUCATION GOALS
Upon completion of General Education Curriculum, students should be proficient in
demonstrating the following competencies:
Goal #1: Critical Thinking
Critical thinking skills include, but are not limited to, the ability to comprehend complex ideas,
data, and concepts; to make inferences based on careful observation; to make judgments
based on specific and appropriate criteria; to solve problems using specific processes and
techniques; to recognize relationships among the arts, culture, and society; to deve ...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
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Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Enge 2984in vents syllabus fall 2012
1. Innovation and the Technology Leader’s Mindset
ENGE 2984, Fall 2012
Thursday, 11AM-11:50AM Design Lab, Lee Hall
Instructor
Cory Hixson
Engineering Education Graduate Student
hixson@vt.edu
McBryde 619
Office hours: by appointment
Catalogue Description
This course encourages and challenges students to explore and develop the concepts and skills needed to
become future innovators and technology leaders. Key components covered include: the characteristics of
successful technology leaders and entrepreneurs; divergent thinking; dealing with uncertainty, confusion,
and risk; validating assumptions; teamwork; and communication. Students will utilize group interaction with
peers and other VT/Blacksburg community members to enhance leadership skills, solve problems, analyze
opportunities, and develop innovative ideas. (1H, 1C)
Prerequisites: None
Learning Objectives
Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to:
• Recognize characteristics of successful technology leaders and entrepreneurs
• Identify and evaluate sustainable opportunities that create value
• Identify assumptions associated with an opportunity and develop tests to validate those assumptions
• Describe the process that enables entrepreneurs with limited resources to transform a simple idea
into a sustainable success
• Apply fundamental aspects of entrepreneurial thinking across disciplines and as a means of personal
empowerment
• Apply science and engineering to societal issues
• Apply techniques learned in the course to confusing and uncertain scenarios
Evaluation of Learning
Evaluation for the course consists of two components:
• Active, engaged participation in course meetings and all associated activities: 60%
• Completion of out-of-class assignments: 40%
Course evaluation is on a pass/fail basis; according to university policy for undergraduate courses, a D or
above is equivalent to a Pass.
Participation
This course is designed as a space for you to actively engage with innovation and technology leadership
principles as well as interact with colleagues at Virginia Tech and within the local community about topics
relevant to innovation and technology leadership. Effective participation includes not only attendance at all
course meetings but also
• actively participating in all course activities; and
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2. • professional (see below), collegial discussion with colleagues and guest speakers about ideas, course
materials, and presentations.
Because the evaluation that occurs during the course is dependent on your presence and my ability to
observe your engagement, it’s critical that you attend the course. Should you need to miss class for personal
reasons, I’ll work with you to develop a plan to make up missed material.
Out-of-class Assignments
Out-of-class assignments are designed to support your ability to both achieve and demonstrate the learning
objectives. At a minimum, the out-of-class assignments for Fall 2012 include:
1. Engaging with community members and business leaders at VT and within New River Valley to
examine ideas and opportunities.
2. Reporting the experiences and findings of the above interactions.
3. Completing out of class readings and/or watching videos required for in-class discussion.
4. Communicating original ideas and potential opportunities to engage classmates and external
advisors.
I will develop additional assignments as appropriate throughout the semester to insure that everyone has the
scaffolding needed to achieve the learning objectives.
Policies
Accommodations: If you have special circumstances that require accommodations or adaptations to
support your success in this course, please obtain an accommodation letter from Services for Students with
Disabilities (540.231.0858 or ssd@vt.edu) as soon as possible. Your notification will remain confidential.
Plagiarism: The University Honor Code applies to all work for this course; all work you submit must be
your own.
Plagiarism is defined as "the copying of the language, structure, ideas, and/or thoughts of
another and passing same off as one's own, original work, or attempts thereof." It is
academically dishonest, and often illegal, to present someone else's ideas or writing as your
own. You cannot use even short phrases or parts of sentences obtained from other sources
unless you properly document those sources. This documentation includes quotations, when
appropriate, as well as notes, citations, and a reference list. It is also academically dishonest
to submit your own previously written work for a current assignment or to submit an
assignment in more than one class without the previous knowledge and consent of all
instructors involved. Suspected cases of plagiarism will be reported to the Virginia Tech
Honor System Review Board.
You will be held accountable for furnishing upon request all sources and preliminary work (notes, rough
drafts, etc.) that you use in preparing written assignments. If you cannot produce these materials upon
request, you cannot receive a satisfactory evaluation on the assignment.
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3. Tentative Schedule
All meetings and deadlines on this calendar are tentative and may change as the semester progresses. I'll
announce changes in class and via email as needed; you are responsible for keeping up with these changes.
Date Topic
August 27 Welcome and Syllabus
September 3 Divergent Thinking
September 10 IH Lesson 1 – The Power to Choose
September 17 IH Lesson 2 – Recognizing Opportunities
September 24 IH Lesson 3 – Ideas Into Action
October 1 Validating Assumptions, Validated Learning, & Lean Startup
October 8 IH Lesson 4 – Pursuit of Knowledge
October 15 IH Lesson 5 – Creating Wealth
October 22 Value from the “Valueless”
October 29 IH Lesson 6 – Building Your Brand
November 5 IH Lesson 7 – Creating Community
November 12 IH Lesson 8 – The Power of Persistence
November 19 Thanksgiving NO CLASS
November 26 Uncertainty, Confusion, and Risk
December 3 Pitches and Lessons Learned
December 10 Finals NO CLASS
Professional Behaviors – Some examples
(Selected from Ruff, S. and M. Carter. (2009) Communication Learning Outcomes from Software Engineering Professionals: A
Basis for Teaching Communication in the Engineering Curriculum. ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Oct. 18-21.
San Antonio, TX. Session W1E).
Solicit help, advice, or information.
Listen actively; ask clarifying questions.
Be nice to others, through words and tone.
Read with comprehension and evaluate information to determine what is credible and relevant.
Give opinions with a balance of confidence & humility.
Manage non-verbal communication to avoid sending inappropriate messages.
Adjust communication based on (non-verbal) reactions from the audience; solicit feedback about the
effectiveness of communication.
Deal constructively with conflict: debate/discuss/negotiate/collaborate productively and respectfully.
Hear criticism as a constructive contribution to the outcome of a project [or discussion] (without getting
defensive).
Give criticism constructively and respectfully.
Avoid complaining, by proposing a solution, fixing the problem, or remaining silent.
Communicate charismatically; be passionate/animated in order to influence people.
Communicate through transparency (make information openly available).
Develop the flexibility to communicate in different roles within an organizations [i.e. the university].
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4. Inform managers and team members of potential problems before the problems become serious.
Principles of Community
The Virginia Tech Principles of Community will guide all our interactions together this semester;
above all, this class should represent an environment in which everyone is treated with respect and
encouraged to learn and grow. To that end, the following principles define the basis of our work
together:
• We affirm the inherent dignity and value of every person and strive to maintain a climate for work
and learning based on mutual respect and understanding.
• We affirm the right of each person to express thoughts and opinions freely. We encourage open
expression within a climate of civility, sensitivity, and mutual respect.
• We affirm the value of human diversity because it enriches our lives and the University. We
acknowledge and respect our differences while affirming our common humanity.
• We reject all forms of prejudice and discrimination, including those based on age, color, disability,
gender, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, and veteran status. We
take individual and collective responsibility for helping to eliminate bias and discrimination and for
increasing our own understanding of these issues through education, training, and interaction with
others.
• We pledge our collective commitment to these principles in the spirit of the Virginia Tech motto of
Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).
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