'1,000% unacceptable': Marketplace confronts college professor about his fake degree. For more than a decade, Dubravko Zgrablic has pursued his "calling" by teaching thousands of students at several post-secondary institutions in Toronto. He says those schools include Centennial College, the University of Toronto, Ryerson University and Seneca College, where, according to his LinkedIn profile, he currently teaches computer applications and project management courses. Ask him where he earned his master's degree in computer science, however, and he has trouble remembering the school's name.
"Forgetting those … things, I'm always messing up," he said. "Down in the states. " There was a long silence before two undercover Marketplace journalists posing as potential Seneca students reminded him: "Almeda. " "Almeda," he said, referring to Almeda University, which a Marketplace investigation has exposed as a fake online school, that sold fake degrees before recently going offline. According to his LinkedIn profile, Zgrablic received his Almeda degree in 2004. Diploma mill records. 'All of us can be harmed': Investigation reveals hundreds of Canadians have phoney degrees. A Marketplace investigation of the world's largest diploma mill has discovered many Canadians could be putting their health and well-being in the hands of nurses, engineers, counsellors and other professionals with phoney credentials.
Fake diplomas are a billion-dollar industry, according to experts, and Marketplace obtained business records of its biggest player, a Pakistan-based IT firm called Axact. The team spent months combing through thousands of degree transactions, cross referencing personal information with customers' social media profiles. The investigation revealed more than 800 Canadians could have purchased a fake degree. "Keep in mind this is just the one operation," said Allen Ezell, a former FBI agent who investigated diploma mills for decades. "This does not give you totality of how many are being sold throughout Canada by all schools that are operating. " Former FBI agent Allen Ezell estimates half of new PhDs issued every year in the U.S. are fake.
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From Alchemy to Atomic War: Frederick Soddy's "Technology Assessment" of Atomic Energy, 1900-1915 on JSTOR. Participatory Technology Assessment. As part of its mission to advocate for greater public participation in science and technology policymaking, the Loka Institute continues to help catalyze and popularize innovative new forms of participatory technology assessment (or pTA). Loka played a central role in helping to organize World Wide Views on Global Warming in 2009, the first global citizen policy consultation in history. Since then, Loka's Founder and Senior Fellow, Richard Sclove, and Loka's Board Chair, Rick Worthington, have been leading Loka's efforts to partner with other organizations in the United States and internationally to create an institution in the U.S. that could coordinate and disseminate pTA activities.
A key result of those partnerships to date is developing the new Expert & Citizen Assessment of Science & Technology Network (ECAST). Loka also took part in the second World Wide Views, on Biodiversity issues, in 2012. Visit us again for more materials and action updates on this vital subject. Computer Message Systems - Jacques F. Vallee. Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York 1984 Data Communications Book Series Hardcover, 163 pages, illustrated, indexed Part One: The Need for Message Systems 1: A Technology for Effective Communications - A technological and social leap - Communications patterns -The technology and its cost - Case Study 1: Institute of Nuclear Power Operations 2: The Message environment.
The Organization, its management, its culture. - Characteristics of organizations - Group interaction and participation patterns - The Culture of the organization - A simple test - Case Study 2: NASA 3. Part Two: The Tools of Message Systems 4. 5. 6. Part Three: Management of Message Systems 7. 8. 9. Echelon: The Most Secret Surveillance System. Enemy Of The State - Trailer - (1998) - HQ. The 4 Stages Of Edtech Disruption. The 4 Stages Of The Integration Of Technology In Learning by Terry Heick For professional development around this idea or others you read about on TeachThought, contact us.
Technology can be used in the learning process in a variety of ways. Some are supplementary, serving the original design of the classroom and usually automate some previously by-human task or process–grading multiple choice assessments, searching for a source of information, or sharing messages and other data across large groups. But fully integrated and embedded in the learning process, technology can be transformative–and disruptive.
Below the idea of technology in learning is framed in stages, from “on learning” and externally-directed, to “in learning,” and self-directed. This is not to imply that stage 1 is “bad” and that learners should always be given free-reign with powerful technology. Should elementary school be stage 1, middle school stage 2, and so on? Stage 1: Learners are directed in their use of technology.