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…
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…
Cohosts @AlanJSnyder (Alan J. Snyder) and @deg511 (Dave Goldberg) are pleased to announce a twitter chat on Designing Change Initiatives for Student & Faculty Engagement & Unleashing. The following are some of the Qs explored in the chat: What aspects of physical plant encourage the formation of a special micro-culture separate from traditional campus culture? What emotional shifts are necessary for…
Join BB Innovators & Innovations host Dave Goldberg on Monday, 2 March 2015 at 1:30 pm ET for a live Google On-Air Hangout (link here) with VP & Associate Provost for Research & Graduate Studies, Alan J. Snyder, at Lehigh University as they discuss Lehigh's transformative Mountaintop Program (more at http://lehigh.edu/mountaintop). The Mountaintop website describes the program as follows: Inside a former Bethlehem…
@OlinCollege and @BigBeacon are pleased to announce the short course Facilitating Change that Sticks, 9-11 June 2015 (Tues-Thurs) at Franklin W. Olin College. According to the announcement This three-day workshop develops participant skills and strategies for creating change that "sticks." In particular, we dive into a set of personal and organizational skills that will help participants develop both personally and professionally as effective…
The 2nd Big Beacon Real Innovators and Innovations show of the year is looking forward to speaking with real innovator Rohit Bhargava, Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign talking to Dave Goldberg about the new innovative program Illinois Cancer Scholars. This new program, launched in the fall of 2014 engages freshmen in the forefront of cancer research and…