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WHEN YOUR LEARNERS ARE ENGINEERS… BETTER KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

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I don’t believe there is a more difficult group (I don’t mean they’re not nice people mind you) of learners—but whose typology seriously conflicts with story-based instruction than engineers. To be fair not every engineer exhibits all these traits, and the degree to which they are demonstrated or expressed vary considerably.

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Municipal Planning Means Planning

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With no clear brief offered to professional engineers and architects, not to mention cooperation with, maybe the Army Corps of Engineers, (Maybe not the latter – see New Orleans: Katrina) a more pleasing aesthetic solution equal in civil engineering to the task of keeping waters where they belong might have evolved, with a bit of alacrity.

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5.1 Reasons How and Why to Build Learning with Social Media

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Therefore: Encourage saving and sharing discoveries, research and learning elements via Facebook by example, and tweet to instigate more ideas, even from outside the workgroup. Think Like a Designer .

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Treacherous Business Words Used in Learning Pt2

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8. Rightsize, downsize, best shore, offshore, outsource, optimize, redeploy, downshift, re-engineer. The more times strategic is used the more self-important the speaker and the less concrete the goal. Now entering the realm of hyper cliché are any of these ways of kissing off staff.

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PARDON MY SIN

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But I pulled up short, brakes on, engine off, prop not spinning. So, a little, well not weepy, but aware a door was closing on a professional life done. And reminding me I’m so much closer to the end than the beginning. A lot of weight, words, and worries . I knew what was coming next. So… Books, books, books, everywhere.

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TITHING FOR TEACHERS: FOR A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE, A LIFETIME OF TANGIBLE THANKS

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You might have seen them, featuring successful—and not unattractive—young professional engineers whose physics and math teachers opened their minds to a world in which they could exploit their passion inspired by their teachers that led to a career and a life.

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Getting Closer to Bond, James Bond « Wonderful Brain

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This should not be a far-reaching serious profession with discourse stretching from type fonts to charting to engineering for holographic zoom effects. And the second is a requirement that information design and designers are elevated to central roles designing in the multiplicity of communication modes.

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