SCIENTIFIC ACADEMIC PANEL – AFTERNOON EDITION

Panel 4A: Apprentice - VTS edition: Season 3

The main objective of this active “panel” is to increase technical interaction among attendees. Team leaders listed below will recruit participants to their team. Each team will try to clearly articulate the problems and come up with ways to solve this problem in the form of new business proposal. The teams will present their findings and business proposals in front of judges later during the c...

Panel 12C: Apprentice - VTS edition judging session

This is the judging session for the Panel 4A: Apprentice – VTS edition. The main objective of this active “panel” is to increase technical interaction among attendees. Team leaders listed below will recruit participants to their team. Each team will try to clearly articulate the problems and come up with ways to solve this problem in the form of new business proposal. The teams will present the...

Scientific-academic narcissism a new phenomenon in academic settings

Narcissism is a type of personality disorder in which a person considers himself great and important and exaggeratedly feels capable and worthy. One of the places in which this disorder can occur is at the university level. The symptoms of this type of disorder can be seen in some faculty members and it seems that these people also have some kind of scientific-academic narcissism disorder. In t...

Afternoon Break

Shaping the College Curriculum: Academic Plans in Context, Second Edition

Major Changes to the Second Edition Chapters have been reorganized for improved understanding of the academic plan model on which the book is based. Greater emphasis is placed on the sociocultural contexts that influence curriculum planning. Includes a new chapter on institutional influences that affect curricular decision-making. Two coordinated chapters on learning and selecting instructional...