CPA Success: Virtual workshop examines reality of XBRL. Second Life is quickly becoming a first-rate training tool.
Just ask the XBRL community. On June 18, the MACPA held the first-ever continuing professional education (CPE) program offered for CPAs in Second Life, a two-hour Intuit workshop titled “The Future of Small Business and What CPAs Need to Know.” Then, as proof that the first event was no fluke, on July 15 the MACPA hosted yet another CPE event in Second Life, a seminar titled "XBRL and the International Future of Financial Reporting" that was presented during a meeting of the San Francisco chapter of the Financial Executives Networking Group, or FENG. The seminar was the MACPA's latest example of what are known as “mixed-reality” events – sessions that take place in real life and a virtual world simultaneously.
Watch a video of the Second Life session. Developing Social Media Workshops for Journalists. For the last few weeks, my colleague Raphael and I have been organizing a series of social media workshops for our fellow journalists at the Belgian business newspapers and websites De Tijd and L’Echo.
I’d like to open this up to reader suggestions, so let me tell you what we intend to cover in this course — and I hope you can give us feedback, telling us if we’ve overlooked something important or if you have ideas for how we could facilitate the whole process. Social Media We are organizing five workshops about social media: 1) The very basics. The first workshop starts with what we consider to be the very basics: RSS Feeds. Active and Coopeative Learning. The past decade has seen an explosion of interest among college faculty in the teaching methods variously grouped under the terms 'active learning' and 'cooperative learning'.
However, even with this interest, there remains much misunderstanding of and mistrust of the pedagogical "movement" behind the words. The majority of all college faculty still teach their classes in the traditional lecture mode. Some of the criticism and hesitation seems to originate in the idea that techniques of active and cooperative learning are genuine alternatives to, rather than enhancements of, professors' lectures.
We provide below a survey of a wide variety of active learning techniques which can be used to supplement rather than replace lectures.