#BigBeacon Twitter Chat, Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 8pm ET, Benefits and Challenges of Combining Liberal Arts and Technology and Engineering

Join host @deg511 (Dave Goldberg) for a #BigBeacon twitter chat on The Benefits and Challenges of Combining Liberal Arts and Technology & Engineering.  The following are some of the Qs explored in the chat:

• What benefits are gained by combining liberal education and technology and engineering education.
• What challenges are presented by so doing?
• Where is this currently being done?
• Are such changes limited to smaller colleges and programs or can they scale?

Join us for a lively chat on an important topic.

How to Twitter Chat

If you’ve never Twitter chatted before, don’t worry; it’s very easy! First, get a Twitter account if you don’t already have one, and log in. At 8 PM ET on Wednesday go to twitter.com and type #BigBeacon into the search box on Twitter. Thereafter all the tweets with the hashtag #BigBeacon will show up on your Twitter page. To participate, simply express your opinion by sending a tweet, and be sure to append the hashtag #BigBeacon so other members of the Twitter Chat see you are posting. Alternatively, automate the hashtag search and append feature by using the free service Tchat at http://www.tchat.io.

About the Host

David E. Goldberg  is president of the non-profit Big Beacon and also a noted computer scientist, entrepreneur, civil engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He resigned his tenured professorship in 2010 to work full time to transformation of higher education. He can be reached at deg@bigbeacon.org. In October 2014 with Mark Somerville he co-authored (along with Catherine Whitney), “A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education,” published by ThreeJoy Associates and available in hardcover and all major e-book formats.