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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…

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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…

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#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…

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#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…

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#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – June 24 – Maintaining Vision in the Face of Adversity

Working to make any kind of important change in the world can be difficult, stressful, and at times, unfulfilling. Our University Innovation Fellows are trying to change the way colleges and universities educate students. Many of them have encountered resistance from their peers and faculty, and many of them have failed at one point or another in their efforts. In…

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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.  

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Q&A with Athena Lin of Students for a Whole New Education

If engineering education is going to change, then that change needs to be advocated by the students who will make up the future of engineering. Meet Athena Lin, an undergraduate engineering student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is doing just that. How did you first get involved with Big Beacon? Last June, I came across Dave’s writings about engineering…

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#BigBeacon Twitter Chat – April 22 – What Role Can Students Play in Attracting & Retaining their STEM Peers?

Preparing college graduates for careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is a national education priority in the United States. According to a report published by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, fewer than 40 percent of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field actually complete a STEM degree. Many organizations have…

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