4.1 Something different Perhaps it will not surprise you if I say you may experience this unit as rather different to any you may have previously encountered. Like any course of study, you are likely to find surprising and interesting material in it but there are three specific ways this unit may surprise and even challenge you. These three ways are concerned with: The nature of systems thinking and systems practice; A style of learning where you have to tak
3.2 Learning by experience It's a familiar idea but it implies two activities: learning and experiencing. Both activities need to happen if I am to say that learning from experience has happened. Experiencing seems to have two components. The first is the quality of attention that allows me to notice the experience and its components. The second is memory. Calling experience to mind allows me to examine the experience and to think about it in ways that were not possible at the time. Learning is what I take away from th
3.1 What are you hoping to learn? Anticipations and preconceptions are an important determinant of how people learn, so before you read on, I would like to you to record some of what you are experiencing now as you begin the course. It's important to get these impressions noted down now, because new ideas and new impressions will quickly overlay the experience. What you are experiencing now will be re-interpreted as new understandings emerge. You are also likely to form some judgements about your expectations. So before
2 Part 1 Starting the unit Welcome to T306_2 Managing complexity: a systems approach – introduction. As I write, I experience a sense of excitement. For me, as for you, this is the beginning of the unit. These are the first few sentences I'm writing and so, although I have a good idea of how the unit is going to turn out, the details are by no means clear. Nevertheless, the excitement and anticipation I, and maybe you, are experiencing now is an important ingredient in what will become our experiences of the u
Prince sends Zsa Zsa huge anniversary card
July 26 - Prince von Anhalt sends wife Zsa Zsa Gabor a huge anniversary card in the form of an oversized billboard that overlooks Sunset Blvd. John Russell reports.
Housing expert says prices fragile
July 26 - Housing prices rose from April to May, but were down from a year ago, and could head lower as the debt stand-off in Washington threatens to paralyze potential buyers, according to housing expert Robert Shiller. Conway G. Gittens reports.
UTMC and ProMedica Better Together
News coverage on the UTMC ProMedica partnership
DRINET Project overview
Symposium on Data-Driven Approaches to Droughts (DDAD2011), June 21-22, 2011. Presentation by the DRINET team at Purdue University explaining the DRINET project.
Fish Farming
Good water for drinking and agriculture is becoming a precious commodity on our planet. This two minute video is about how agricultural engineers work with math to make it possible for farmers to understand how water from raising fish can go watering plants. A good career video or one about math in daily life.
Running time 1:56 minutes.
Ecological Pyramids
An ecological pyramid (or trophic pyramid) is a graphical representation designed to show the biomass or productivity at each trophic level in a given ecosystem. Biomass pyramids show the abundance or biomass of organisms at each trophic level, while productivity pyramids show the production or turnover in biomass. Ecological pyramids begin with producers on the bottom (such as plants) and proceed through the various trophic levels (such as herbivores that eat plants, then carnivores that eat he
Footage of PhillieBot in the Lab with the Engineers
This is footage of a visit to the lab at which PhillieBot was created, you can catch some of the engineers chatting about how they built it.
Penn Relays 2011 College Women's 4x100 Race
The Penn Relays (also Penn Relays Carnival) is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States, hosted annually since April 21, 1895 by the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It regularly attracts more than 15,000 participants from high schools, colleges, and track clubs throughout North America and abroad, notably Jamaica, competing in more than 300 events over five days. Historically, the event has been credited with popularizing
NYCOM White Coat Ceremony 2011
The White Coat Ceremony marks the transition that medical students make when they complete their classroom education and begin their clinical training. New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM).
IDS336 Session 12 Summer 2011
IDS336 Human Rights - Session twelve 07/26/11 Emily Magruder
PURPLE! Magazine - Coming soon
PURPLE! Magazine is a new online sports publication from East Carolina University. The magazine features inspirational profiles of Pirate athletes as well as news about ECU athletics, campus recreation, club sports, cheerleading, dance team, and the Marching Pirates. Read PURPLE! online at www.ecu.edu/purple beginning August 26, 2011. GO PIRATES!
SFAP 2011 – La sédation palliative : enjeux éthiques d’une pratique qui se banalise.
Titre : SFAP 2011 – La sédation palliative : enjeux éthiques d’une pratique qui se banalise
Auteur(s) : Danielle BLONDEAU. (Professeur en sciences infirmières et éthiciennes, Canada ).
Etablissement : Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Résumé : c’est une pratique encore mal connue et controversée. Il s’y prête beaucoup de confusion due à des nomenclatures et des pratiques cliniques variées, une diversité sur le plan empirique comme éthique.
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Boiler Bytes: Team to compete in international solar home competition
Purdue University is one of 20 teams chosen to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011. The teams, from 16 U.S. and four foreign universities, will compete to design, build and operate the most affordable, attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered house.
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/students/2010/100419HutzelDecathalon.html
Boiler Bytes: More Purdue sculptures
Purdue's West Lafayette campus is home for many sculptures -- from statues of people who provided inspiration to students to commissioned pieces from internationally renowned artists.
http://www.purdue.edu/vic
South Korea classrooms to go fully digital by 2015
July 28 - South Korea is pushing forward with a plan to completely digitize its classrooms by 2015. The US$2.1 billion plan calls for supplying every student in the country with a digital tablet replacing traditional textbooks. The tablets will give the students access to a massive cloud-based network where students can learn online, even when they are sick at home. Ben Gruber reports.
An International Education
Two Thai universities are interested in hosting Auburn student pharmacists for educational opportunities, starting as early as fall of 2012.
