Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Designer Babies - Biogenetics
Wearable Computing
Structured Design Process in Pharmaceuticals
- Capability to accomplish in just a few days what was/is taking months.
- Capability of producing faster and better designs up front that will reduce the overall time to market.
- Ability to give practitioners important clinical information in a more timely way.
Monday, August 24, 2009
The Future of the University
Emily’s blog post offers up twenty-five predictions of changes in the ‘academic landscape’ for higher education. She categorizes these predictions into four areas: Technology and Innovation, Student Body and Enrollment, Global and Economic Issues, and finally Sustainability. An interesting observation of the predictions offered is that thirteen of the twenty-five are in the area of Technology and Innovation.
While technology and Innovation may provide a wonderful avenue for advancement throughout higher education, the real issue that is not addressed here is attitudinal. Emily states that faculty members in all fields will need to become “techies.” The one aspect that can be counted on in academics is that change is slow. There are often more settlers than pioneers.
Being a faculty member of a university campus I am able to see the rate of acceptance of new technology throughout campus. This past spring we asked a group of 40 faculty members to look into how they would use mobile technology within their courses. We even gave each one a new iPod Touch. While they are currently still evaluating the devices the initial feedback coming in is that it may just be another distraction to the students. The bottom line here is how do we as technologists help guide others in advancing their knowledge and usage of technological innovations.
25 Predictions for the University of the Future, by Emily Thomas
Sunday, August 2, 2009
yUML - Awesome Web 2.0 UML Generator
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I am so impressed with this tool that it will become a required tool for the students in my CSIS 321 - Software Engineering course this fall. I will NEVER again accept hand written UML diagrams as part of any project specification.