Ep. 4 -The Lassonde School and the Education of Renaissance Professionals After years of relative stability in higher education, a small number of engineering schools are emerging around the world to forge a new vision of what it means to be a professional. In this episode host Dave Goldberg interviews Janusz Kozinski, founding dean of one of the newest engineering…
Ep. 3 - John Kotter: Leading Change in Higher Education Organizations are facing unprecedented calls for change, higher education included, yet leading change in established organizations is a daunting task. One of the keenest architects and practitioners of effective change leadership processes and practices is John Kotter, Harvard Business School professor emertitus and Chairman of Kotter International. In this episode,…
A new higher education radio program has hit the Voice America airwaves: Big Beacon Radio, Transforming Higher Education. Each month the show interviews a mover and shaker from the world of higher education transformation & reform or discusses topics of interest to change in higher education. Learn more about the program, here.
Join Big Beacon Radio host Dave Goldberg, Wednesday, 3 June 2015, 8pm ET for a lively #BigBeacon Twitter chat on School/Workplace Year 2014-2015 in Review. Here are some of the questions (Qs) to be discussed in the chat: What changes did you notice at school in the work place over the last year? In what ways did efforts to reform and transform engineering/higher ed…
Big Beacon's latest endeavor to spread the word about transforming higher education is Big Beacon Radio, a monthly broadcast on Voice America. Listen here, or subscribe on iTunes. The first episode featuring Olin College's Rick Miller is available here.
Join Big Beacon Radio host Dave Goldberg, Wednesday, 6 May 2015, 8pm ET for a lively #BigBeacon Twitter chat on Mentoring & Coaching in Educational Change. Here are some of the questions (Qs) to be discussed in the chat: What is mentoring? What is coaching? What's the difference between them? In what ways have coaches and mentors played a positive…
Join BB Innovators & Innovations host Dave Goldberg on Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 9:00 am ET for a live Google On-Air Hangout (link here) with Catelijne Coopmans and Kelvin Pang as they discuss the use of coaching at Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore. The Tembusu website (here) describes the program as follows: Tembusu College is one of four residential colleges at…
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…
Join BB Innovators & Innovations host Dave Goldberg on Monday, 30 March 2015 at 10:00 am ET for a live Google On-Air Hangout (link here) with Dean Jennifer Herek as they discuss the University of Twente's ATLAS program . The Mountaintop website describes the program as follows: University College Twente offers the only Honours Bachelor’s programme in the Netherlands that combines Technology…
The E-Word and Educational Transformation When Mark Somerville and I are were working on A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education one of the hardest things to acknowledge was the degree to which the transformation of education for the 21st century was profoundly emotional at the level of individuals and profoundly cultural at the level of organizations. Fairly early in our work together (2008…