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#BigBeacon Twitter chat – Sept 23 – Junior Enterprise: Transforming Education Mitigating Mistakes: Failure Isn’t Necessarily Failure

#BigBeacon Twitter chat on Wednesday, September 23, 8pm ET: Join twitter chat (Hashtag: #BigBeacon) regulars as they join CUBE Consulting’s Josh Graham (@CUBEuiuc) for a twitter discussion of Junior Enterprise: Transforming Education regarding the climate of mistakes and failures in education. The usual Socratic questions will be posed and all twitter chat participants will be encouraged to engage in a…

Big Beacon Radio Ep. 6: Lessons from ‘A Whole New Engineer’

Ep. 6 -Lessons from 'A Whole New Engineer' for the Transformation of Higher Education When educators think about transforming higher education they almost immediately start with modifications in content, curriculum, and pedagogy, but a recent book suggests that this approach is fundamentally flawed. Join the writing team of A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education, Mark Somerville…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – September 16 – The Student’s Entrepreneurial Mindset

Becoming an engineer is hard work. But does it have to be all formulas and problem sets? Or can we as professors engage students’ hearts as well as their minds? There are a group of faculty who believe the key to student success begins with cultivating the entrepreneurial mindset, encompassed by curiosity, connections and creating value for others. The question…

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – September 9 – Empathy in Education

Join Students for a Whole New Education on Wednesday, September 9 at 8pm ET for our chat about: Empathy in Education This piece is written by Athena Lin (athena@bigbeacon.org) on recent reflections about teaching that she hopes will serve as the basis for Big Beacon’s first Twitter chat this fall. I was recently asked to serve on a panel of…

Big Beacon Radio Ep. 5: Education Funding

Ep. 5 -The Future and Transformation of Higher Education Funding Since the founding of the University of Bologna in 1088, non-profit universities and colleges have dominated the landscape of higher education. With the rise of for-profit universities such as the University of Phoenix, of non-traditional non-profits such as Southern New Hampshire University, and of coding schools and other certificate schools,…

Big Beacon Radio Ep. 4: Lassonde

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…

Big Beacon Radio Ep. 3: John Kotter

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,…

New Radio Program for Transforming Higher Education: Big Beacon Radio

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.

#BigBeacon Twitter Chat School/Workplace Year 2014-2015 in Review: Wed, 3 June 2015, 8pm ET

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…

Listen to Big Beacon Radio on Voice America

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.