News 04-01-2003
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Global Business Competition for College Students
The Capstone/Foundation International Challenge, a worldwide Internet-based
business management contest for college students, began this week. The contest
is based on the Capstone and Foundation business simulations, and involves students
from the 500 colleges using these programs for management education. The students
form teams to manage simulated corporations, making decisions in research and
development, marketing, production, human resources, and finance. Each simulated
corporation competes with five other corporations for eight simulated years.
The winning teams achieve the highest profits, sales, market share, stock price,
and other measures.
Students from all over the world can participate without needing to travel.
Previous winners and their schools are listed online: www.capsim.com/competition/halloffame/halloffame.cfm
Conferences on Higher Education This Week
Stanford Graduate School of Business is sponsoring a conference on the "Future
of Content." The keynote speaker will be Yair Landau, vice chairman of Sony
Pictures Entertainment. Scheduled panels include: "Are the Economics of Entertainment
Killing Creativity?" and "Value Creation and Capture in the New Broadcast World:
Who Will Call the Shots?" The conference takes place Sat., April 5, 9:30 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m., at the Stanford Graduate School of Business at Stanford.
For more information visit: www.futureofcontent.com
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) will host its annual
conference April 6-12 in Charlotte, N.C. The conference will focus on issues
affecting higher education, including librarian recruitment, funding, and technology
issues. The program will also tackle student assessment, online privacy, and
how best to teach students to find valuable resources in print and on the Web.
For more information visit: http://acrl.telusys.net/acrl/charlotte/
Northern Ireland Awards HP $100M eLearning Project
Last week Northern Ireland’s Department of Education awarded Hewlett-Packard
Co. a $100 million contract to provide and manage Classroom 2000 (C2K). C2K
is a 10-year government initiative designed to provide a single infrastructure
to connect up to 350,000 learners—virtually every student from university
down through primary school in the country. HP plans to design an adaptive system
that will enable schools to accommodate future technology requirements. HP picked
Amaze and Hyperwave as partners to work on the C2K project.
ITU to Help Displaced Silicon Valley Technology Workers
The International Technological University (ITU), a Silicon Valley-based technical
institution, said it will offer 20 scholarships to qualified applicants, as
well as launch a "fast track" 12-month master’s degree program for students
who want to graduate in less time. This program will be offered to students
to complete master's degrees in computer, electrical, and software engineering,
as well as business administration. The school said it was offering the resources
to acknowledge "tough times that have hit Silicon Valley," whose Santa Clara
County has lost 191,500 jobs in the last two years. The 20 scholarships will
range from $1,000 to $10,000.
For more information visit: www.itu.edu
Other Deals, Awards, Contracts in Higher Education
ELEARNING SYSTEMS—LaSalle University selected the WebCT Campus
Edition course management system to enhance traditional classes with online
components and to create the school's first distance-learning offerings. The
system will go live in the fall with 30 courses augmented by Web content, chat
capabilities, newsgroups, quizzes, white boards, and other tools. These will
include courses in communications, social work, the arts, and business. The
school will also use WebCT to create a fully online, yearlong program to certify
nurses in special wound care.
GRAPHICS SOFTWARE—Virginia Tech’s department of mechanical engineering
received a donation of graphical development software LabVIEW from National
Instruments Corp. All junior-year mechanical engineering students will receive
licensed copies of the software. The students can use LabVIEW to configure virtual
instruments (VIs) and acquire, analyze, and present data for a variety of applications
from calibrating a pressure transducer to opening a soda can. Users can create
VIs for lab assignments.