A special thank you to NCSU for assistance with the Internic registration. ADEC will join with other invited representatives from higher education and the corporate community from 12 nations to discuss the issues of quality, purpose and responsibility in this new borderless education environment. New Board members will be elected and awards presented for outstanding service. The Board will appoint new Program Panel members consistent with the by-laws at the October meeting. Genetic Analysis of Economically Important Traits in Livestock will be an excellent, internationally oriented session on Technology Transfer.
People pursue goals, they fail, they try again and they develop theory about how to improve.
Schank emphasized that new software can create an environment that looks and feels like real life allowing for active, experiential learning on an individual basis. He said that we need to build World Class simulations with opportunities for learning from failure and including the expertise to help. His rich talk noted that learning doesn't result from Instructional Design in the narrow sense. He stressed that knowledge is not inert. Knowledge is context dependent and knowledge in the real world is ill structured and complex.