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Cappadocia, a semi-arid region in central Turkey, is known for its distinctive “fairy chimneys,” tall, cone-shaped rock formations clustered

in Monks Valley, Göreme and elsewhere.

Cappadocia, a semi-arid region in central Turkey, is known for its distinctive “fairy chimneys,” tall, cone-shaped rock formations clustered

in Monks Valley, Göreme and elsewhere.

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contents Campus23 pearls of wisdom Bill Gate’s words to the Class of 2017

24 Be wise & have fun Air bee ‘n bee Bite helper Andrei Tarkovsky’s advice to the young Quote by: Ellen Ochoa HoleRoll roller blinds

25 programs at aIu Bachelor of Robotics

About us aIu: Who we are27 General information Accreditation The AIU difference Mission & Vision Organizational Structure28 School of Business and Economics School of Science and Engineering29 School of Social and Human Studies Online Library Resources30 Education on the 21st century AIU service

In touch aIu News 4 notes 5 Graduates of the month

student space 7 Testimonials 8 Essay by Bizuayehu Tesfaye Tilahun11 Globalization and populism14 Interview with Patricia Ghansah

Learning16 Education + culture Brains in pain cannot learn / The song of trees

17 science + Technology The lightest satellite / Ransomware attack 18 art + Design Alberto Giacometti / Designers better learn to code

19 Body + mind + spirit Fresh food by prescription / Proverb / Wasting time

20 Environment The trashiest beach / Fighting drought

21 Human + animal Rights Postpartum hemorrhage / The return of the wild bison

May 2, 2017. One of our gradu-ates, Dr. Daniel C. Andreae,

Adjunct Professor at the Uni-versity of Waterloo and Profes-sor at the University of Guelph Humber was selected as, “Top Professor of the year” for 2017, by the International Associa-tion of Top Professionals for his exemplary achievements in the fields of Psychology and Higher Education.

Dr. Daniel Andreae, along with the other honorees, were

invited to attend the IAOTP’s annual award gala –Ritz Carl-ton Hotel in new york City at the end of this year– to honor their achievements.

The International Asso-ciation of Top Professionals (IAOTP) is an international networking organization who handpicks the world’s finest, most prestigious top professionals from different industries. These profession-als are given an opportunity to collaborate, share their ideas, be keynote speakers and help influence others in their fields.

Dr. Daniel Andreae com-pleted a Doctorate program in neuroscience at AIU.

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Appointed as Professor new book Information Assurance and Security in Communications Technology

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April 25, 2017. The scientific advisory board of the Isanov Kyrgyz State

University for Construction, Transport, and Architecture (Kyrgyzstan), has appointed one of our Academic Advisors,

Dr. Andreas Georg Rissler, as Professor (Prof) in the field of “Business Science” on January 26th, 2017.

Top Professor of the year

The IASCT conference will be held on December 28-29, 2017 in Tunisia, and will bring together the research commu-nity to explore new capacities in Information Assurance and Security in Communications Technology with a target to identify the latest research trends and developments in this field.

In addition, the objective of the conference is to highlight the IASCT advancements and development of customized solutions for USA, nether-lands, Sultanate of Oman and

Tunisia. It creates a forum where participants can dis-seminate their research to a wide audience of scholars and practitioners of IASCT in here and beyond.

For more information visit: www.kwasko.com/conf2017/

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Graduated with HonorsMay, 2017. These graduate students completed the majority of the requirements to obtain honors which included a 4.0 GPA, published works, recommendation from their advisor, patent a product, etc. Congratulations to both of them!

Yousser Gherissi HegaziDoctor of Psychology

in Psychology

Elvis Mbwoge WilliamsDoctor of Philosophy

in Political Science and Public Administration

May 16, 2017. One of our stu-dents, Jagdish C. Das, wrote a book –Transients in Electrical Systems– which is a popular method used in American Universities. This practical guide explains how to identify the origin of disturbances in electrical systems and analyze them for effective mitigation and control.

Find the book here: mhe-booklibrary.com/doi/book/10.1036/9780071626033

Jagdish C. Das completed a Doctorate program in Electri-cal Engineering at AIU.

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Th i s m o n t h we h a ve g r a d u a t e s f ro m : B a h a m a s · B o l i v i a · C a m e ro o n · C a n a d a · C h i l e · Co l o m b i a · D e m o c r a t i c R e p u b l i c o f Co n g o · D o m i n i c a n R e p u b l i c · Eq u a t o r i a l G u i n e a · G e r m a n y · G h a n a ·

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Graduatesof the month

Brisa Marcela Sandoval FrançoisBachelor of Psychology

Psychologychile

David Morales CorpasBachelor of science

ElEctronic EnginEEringcolomBia

Maria Elsa Guzman Gomezmaster of Business administration

ManagEMEnt accounting systEMscolomBia

Jose Omar Rico VasquezBachelor of science

MEchanical EnginEEringcolomBia

Miguel José Plata SilvaBachelor of science

civil EnginEEringcolomBia

Yesid Manuel Hernandez Riañodoctor of education

EducationcolomBia

Mpanya Dikuyi PascalBachelor of Business administration

BusinEss adMinistrationdemocratic rePuBlic of congo

Jean-Pierre ShebanduBachelor of social and human studies

huManitiEsdemocratic rePuBlic of congo

Rosalba Altagracia Florian Novasmaster of accounting

accountingdominican rePuBlic

Sheila Elizabeth Stefan BoschBachelor of Psychology

Psychologydominican rePuBlic

Maria Antonia Abogo NguereBachelor of PuBlic health

PuBlic hEalthequatorial guinea

Julián Abaga NcogoBachelor of Business and economics

accountingequatorial guinea

Yousser Gherissi Hegazidoctor of Psychology

Psychologygermany

Monica Dery master of science

ProjEct ManagEMEntghana

Amedzro Joan Attawamaster of science

hEalthcarE adMinistrationghana

Anna Tweneboah-Koduahdoctor of arts

huMan rEsourcE ManagEMEntghana

Erick Rolando Portillo ColindresBachelor of human resources

huMan rEsourcEs guatemala

Byron Dario Chinchilla TrampeBachelor of Business administration

BusinEss adMinistrationguatemala

Carla Lucia López ValdesBachelor of Business administration


Cesar Eduardo Lechuga JordánBachelor of Business administration


Claudio Josué Albizuris AguilarBachelor of Business administration


David Alejandro Pozo VelascoBachelor of Business administration


Ntui Ebot Gabrielmaster of health science

rEsEarch in gynEcologycameroon

Vincent D. Lacroixdoctor of science

inforMational sciEncEs in inforMnoMycanada

Isaac L. LamazonBachelor of science

industrial EnginEEringBahamas

Jaime Castillo VargasBachelor of science

civil EnginEEringBolivia

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Luis Ignacio Medina Cepedadoctor of scienceforEnsic sciEncE

mexico

Leonardo Guevara Gutiérrezdoctor of Bioethics

BioEthicsnicaragua

Roberto José Solís Mayorquinmaster of artsintErior dEsign

nicaragua

Ana Teresa Aparicio Moralesdoctor of PhilosoPhy

English as a sEcond languagEPanama

Cynthia Carolina González Garcete doctor of science

tEchnological rEsEarchParaguay

Fernando Rosell LanfrancoBachelor of science

civil EnginEEringPeru

Jorge Wilian Gratelly SilvaBachelor of accounting

accounting and financial sciEncEsPeru

Raul Delgado EspinozaBachelor of Business administration

accountingPeru

Antonio Gustavo Lafosse Benavidesdoctor of PhilosoPhy

EconoMicsPeru

James Vibbidoctor of PhilosoPhyProjEct ManagEMEnt

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Maria Constanza Reynoso FerreyraBachelor of human resources

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D. Brent Baileydoctor of PhilosoPhy

civil EnginEEringst vincent and the grenadines

Patricia Jauli Lungumaster of science

MicroBiologyswaziland

Elvis Mbwoge Williamsdoctor of PhilosoPhy

Political sciEncE and PuBlic adMinistrationunited Kingdom

Charles Maxwell Kweningdoctor of PhilosoPhy

BusinEss adMinistrationusa

Janette GuerreroBachelor of sociology

social and huMan studiEsusa

Daniel Ledoctor of science

inforMation tEchnologyusa

Gerard Raymond Boucherdoctor of social and human studies

counsEling and sociologyusa

Jagdish C. Dasdoctor of PhilosoPhyElEctrical EnginEEring

usa

Ariel Alcibiades Torres Vargasmaster of educationEducational sciEncEs

usa

Altidoro Justo Gallardodoctor of PhilosoPhylatin aMErican studiEs

usa

Judith N. Maisonet-Medinadoctor of counseling

guidancE and counsElingusa

Barnabas Seth Amarteifiodoctor of PhilosoPhyProjEct ManagEMEnt

usa

Brian Paul Kaumodoctor of PhilosoPhy

Educationusa

Alhassan Abdul-Wahabdoctor of PhilosoPhyPuBlic adMinistration

usa

Brandon S. KacereBachelor of Business administration

huMan rEsourcEs ManagEMEntusa

Rufus PieterseBachelor of science

ElEctrical EnginEEringzaire

Emmanuel MwasembeBachelor of Business administration

BusinEss adMinistrationzamBia

Emily Mkududoctor of Business administration

accounting and financEzimBaBwe

Ramiro Fernando García Klussmannmaster of Business administration

financE and MarkEtingguatemala

Velvet Yadhira Zea Sandoval de Lópezmaster of Business administration


Yury Roberto Barrera Valdezmaster of Business administration


Christian Eveliza Hogg CariasBachelor of Psychology

industrial Psychologyhonduras

Carlos David Coca Singhdoctor of PhilosoPhy

BusinEss adMinistrationhonduras

Martin Babara Barugaharedoctor of arts

ProjEct ManagEMEntKenya

Carlos Antonio Vázquez Azuaramaster of legal studies

lEgal studiEsmexico

Mariana Casillas Casillasdoctor of Business administration

BusinEss adMinistrationmexico

Natalia Chreties CerianiBachelor of Business administration

BusinEss adMinistrationmexico

Francisco Rivera Alveláisdoctor of legal studies

lEgal studiEsmexico

Hesler Torres RecinosBachelor of Business administration


José David Flores UriasBachelor of Business administration


Luis Miguel Donis HernándezBachelor of Business administration


Manuela E. Ayala Peralta de PérezBachelor of Business administration


Ruth Noemí Sil Estrada de MéndezBachelor of Business administration


Saúl Alexis Rivera LópezBachelor of Business administration


César Augusto Quevedo Quevedomaster of Business administration


Edna Leticia González Chávezmaster of Business administration


Francisco Emanuel Lemus Gironmaster of Business administration


Kerin Jocahbet Véliz Ruanomaster of Business administration


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Shepherd Hampela NdhlovuBachelor of Enviromental Science

March 6, 2017

“When I graduated from the natural Resources

Development College in 2010, I was immediately appointed into a demanding job to which I had previously performed as an intern. The job required me to carryout field trips very often that it left my desire to pursue education frustrated.

But then a colleague of mine and workmate hinted to me about the possibility of rekindling my education aspirations with AIU where he was just about to complete his degree. I initially dragged my feet because “online school” seemed then not to be a socially accepted mode of education in the country I live in.

After a few months of think-ing about it, I decided to visit the universities webpage. not only was I impressed with the courses available, but I found as well that the university offered a flexible period ...

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John Thomas Bangura Bachelor of Science

March 13, 2017

“It all started sometime in August 2016 when I was

browsing through my Facebook page and saw an advertisement from a friend about earning a university degree at AIU online. ... I was admitted into the uni-versity and I started my course ... I saw the direct opposite of the traditional classroom method of learning I went throughout my senior and other professional courses I have done over the period.

I came across many oppor-tunities than ever before in my educational pursuit when I started my journey at AIU. I became comfortable with opportunities like working on assignments at my convenient, study at home or office, access-ing learning resources online at any time I need them, having the liberty to determine the courses that are most relevant to me and earning credits for work experience. ...

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Jackline KeruboBachelor of Monitoring

and EvaluationFebruary 27, 2017

“My name is Jackline Kerubo from Africa-

Kenya, the land of great wild-life and ecology. My experience at AIU has been beautiful. AIU has opened up a whole new world of learning for me. Throughout my study, AIU has supported my academic endeavors through flexibility of timelines to account for my professional and personal re-sponsibility. AIU has helped me appreciate distance learning which has rewarded me with self-motivation, independence and creative thinking. ...

I believe through this degree I will positively influence my community and the people around me. ...

However, studying at AIU has had challenges too ... Distance learning requires strength of personal will, desire, perseverance, patience, writing and re-writing. ...



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Sibida GeorgeDoctor of Healthcare Admnistration

February 14, 2017

“My experience with the AIU online education

has been very unique as this was my first opportunity of following an academic program online. ... my course curriculum was specifically designed to meet my needs in acquiring the knowledge and skills that I lacked ... In addition it gives me the act of ownership and my active participation in the entire process.

I had the fear that it will not be very interactive as compared to taught courses. However there is no significant difference as I had access to all resources required for the course and interacted with AIU Faculty and staff on a regular basis. The rate at which they gave feedback on assignment was amazing. ...

One major instance was the provision of video recordings when I had internet challenges for two weeks and was unable to access the online library. ...



Lydie MadjouMaster of Business Admnistration

February 20, 2017

“I always wanted to do my Master, but I am a work-

ing single mother with a very demanding schedule, and financial difficulties. A friend of mine ... introduced AIU. ... This is how I find myself registered for a course that I have always dreamed to do not only with a scholarship with a payment op-tion that allows me to meet my monthly repayment...

I just enjoyed the fact that I had lecturers assigned to me as an individual and not collectively...

What makes AIU stands out to me is actually the fact that they recognized accreditations from other schools ... as well as the accumulated work experi-ence. This is what enable me to complete my program in less than a year time. ...although I have not finished paying my fees, AIU will be able to give me a confirmation that I have finished my program. ...



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Utility-scale photovoltaic power plants

at three selected sites in Ethiopiadevelopment. Photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy systems are the most promising can-didates of the future energy technologies, and it has been widely accepted that stand alone and grid connected PV and wind energy markets have grown rapidly.

Energy generation system reliability is one of the most important issues in any sys-tem design process. However, natural energy resources are unpredictable, intermittent, and seasonally unbalanced. Therefore, a combination of two or more renewable energy sources may satisfy bigger share of electricity demand and offer reliable and con-sistent energy supply. The Hybrid PV and Wind Electric-ity Systems are well suited to conditions where sunlight and wind have seasonal shifts. For example, in summer, sunlight is abundant but wind is less available, while in winter, wind resources increase complementing the solar resource. The reliability of the

1. IntroductionImagine the world without

energy. The world’s natu-ral resources are constantly diminishing, the demand for energy is rapidly increasing and the impacts of climate change require rethinking of our practices. There is no question that we need to find sustainable alternatives that lead us into a new energy age. To ensure sustainable growth in the future, renewable en-ergy needs to play an increas-ingly significant role in the global energy mix. Wind, sun, and water are three infinite re-sources of pure energy that are ready to be harvested to meet the demand for clean power.

Volatility in oil price while oil/gas reserves are depleting, growing concerns of global warming, and rapid growth in global energy demand, have made it possible for renew-able energy alternatives such as solar energy, wind energy, bio-energy, and hydropower to become a better way of pro-ducing energy for sustainable

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The Hybrid PV and Wind Electricity Systems are well suited to conditions where sunlight and wind have seasonal shifts.

The Hybrid PV and Wind Electricity Systems are well suited to conditions where sunlight and wind have seasonal shifts.

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stand-alone hybrid Solar PV-Wind-Hydro Systems in pro-ducing dependable energy has been proven by earlier studies. In the last two decades, solar energy and wind energy have become an alternative to tra-ditional energy sources. These alternative energy sources are nonpolluting, free in their availability and renewable. But high capital cost, especially for photovoltaic, has made its growth a slow one; although recent advance in technology is making it highly competi-tive by reducing the cost.

The Ethiopian government has allocated huge investment in the hydropower infrastruc-ture, (a number of large and medium-sized hydropower stations have been completed or under construction), but all these power stations do not meet the growing de-mand for energy due to the rapid economic and social development.

As a result of adverse weather and catastrophic con-ditions occurring due to the globalwarming, the amount of rainfall in rainy seasons is de-creasing and the reservoir wa-ter levels of each hydro power station is reduced. Hence, all hydro power stations are not operating at full load capac-ity. Moreover, depending on just one source of power, has a high risk (lack rainfall, climate

change). Hydro dominated Ethiopian electric grid system is facing severe electricity shortages in recent years with heavy impact on the country’s economy. A Hybrid energy system of hydro wind and solar PV Technology offers greater reliability than any one of them alone because the energy supply does not depend entirely on any one source.

1.1 Country overview Ethiopia is located in the

eastern part of Africa between 3o to 15o north and 33o to 48o east (approximately 820 km from north to south and 130 km east to west) with a surface area of 1.1 million square kilometers, it is the third largest country in Africa. It is the second most populous country in Sub Saharan Africa with an estimated population of about 84.9 million, which is mostly distributed in north-ern, central and southwestern highlands. Ethiopia has a fed-eral country composed of nine regional states. The country has a bicameral parliamen-tary system, and government headed by a prime minister. Addis Ababa is the capital city of the country, and is the seat of many international and regional organizations, like the African Union, and the Un ECA (Economic Commission for Africa).

The country follows an ag-ricultural led industrialization strategy, and is achieving en-couraging results. The econo-my has been growing at a rate of more than 10% for the last eight years consecutively, and large number of development projects is underway. The agriculture sector is the lead-ing source of foreign exchange for Ethiopia. Coffee, distantly followed by hides and skins, oil seeds, and recently, cut-flower, are the major agricul-tural export commodities. At present (2016), the per capita income in Ethiopia is USD 1,100. The national energy pol-icy of the country emphasizes the need for equitable devel-opment of the energy sector in parallel with other social

hydro, geothermal, wind and solar energy resources based on their techno-economic viability, social and environ-mental acceptability.

2. Approach to this studyThis feasibility study

is based on some poten-tial sites, which have been identified and assessed. The study starts from assess-ment of potential sites in the region and investigate a renewable and conventional power generation facilities with a least-cost alternative power generation projects and environmental impacts. Hence, we have found that Hurso, Awash 7 Kilo, and Semera are highly potential for solar energy resources to

develop utility-scale photovol-taic power plants. This study also introduces solar energy technologies for electricity generation and estimates the total investment cost of the Solar PV power plants, which could be constructed in Hurso, Awash 7 Kilo, and Semera with a total installed capacity of 300 MWp.

The Levelized unit cost of electricity and nPV were the key financial measures used to Rank the technologies and projects. Levelized unit cost is derived by taking the pres-ent value of the capital and O&M costs, and dividing it by the present value of the electrical energy (kWh) gener-ated over the lifetime of the project. no taxation expenses,

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and economic developments. Specific policy lines include the attainment of self-sufficiency through the development of indigenous resources with minimum environmental impact and eq-uitable distribu-tion of electric-ity in all regions. The policy envisages the development of Tekeze Hydropower Station, Ethiopia.

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debt interest costs (exclud-ing interest during construc-tion), depreciation or revenue streams are included in this calculation.

3. Project objectives and justifications

Energy plays a great role in human life activities and a significant factor in economic development. And at this time energy is considered to be the fourth fundamental resource for human beings to live next to Air, Food and Shel-ter. Limited fossil resources and environmental problems

associated with them have emphasized the need for new sustainable energy supply options that use renewable energies. Solar PV power gen-eration systems also known as Solar PV Electricity (SPE) gen-erating systems are emerging renewable energy technologies and can be developed as vi-able option for electricity gen-eration in future. Thus, Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants has not yet familiar in Ethiopia. Ambitious goals for Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants development have been set by the Ethiopian

Government. The objective of MW-scale project is to support the strategy to enhance the socio-economic development of Ethiopia by increasing the availability and reliability of electricity through the genera-tion of environmentally sus-tainable energy from diverse renewable sources.

The Solar Project is part of a number of renewable energy projects being implemented to achieve this goal. These projects collectively will lead to hybrid of hydro, wind, solar, and geothermal modules offer-ing greater reliability than any

one of them alone because the energy supply will not depend entirely on any one source. In Ethiopia, solar radiation is high and the amount of solar electric power generation is high. In all cases, solar, wind and hydro create a very well-rounded renewable energy portfolio, which also comple-ment each other. This project will have a tremendous impact in elevating the energy mix the country is utilizing, enabling it to achieve a more stable and reliable energy generation. Solar energy is the best source of power for Ethiopia —where there is presently no fossil fuel or nuclear energy— because it is the most efficient, clean-est and the most ecologically acceptable source. Once we implement the project, the energy generated from our solar farms will have almost no other variable costs.

Coming directly from the sun, it will be naturally shielded from market price fluctuations, and will not pro-duce any waste or pollution. It will be the most reliable of all renewable energy sources in meeting the electricity needs of the country and the conti-nent. We do, however, recog-nize that the nature of solar power is “intermittent” and can only be fully utilized with

large-scale energy storage system. Overall objective of this project is to enhance socio economic development of Ethiopia by increasing avail-ability, reliability of electricity and environmentally sound energy from hybrid renewable energy sources. This project which could lead to hybrid, hydro, wind and solar mod-ules are, offer greater reliabil-ity than any one of them alone because the energy supply does not depend entirely on any one source. For example, on a cloudy stormy day when solar thermal generation is low there’s likely enough wind energy available to make up for the loss in solar electric-ity hybrid, during winter time solar radiation is high and the amount of solar electric production is high and during summer time likely enough rainfall available which is expected to a lot of electric energy extracted from hydro power plant. Hybrid solar, wind and hydro are comple-mentary of each other. Thus, this action will improve the reliability of power supply and diversify power generation sources for increased energy security

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Publications by Students: aiu.edu/StudentPublication.html Solar-Biogas Hybrid Electricity Plant, Ethiopia.

Globalization and populism By Dr. Rosa Hilda Lora M.

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McLuhan the media would become political agents.

On the Globalization many works have been written but there are two very interesting that can give us explanations of what happens today; these works are: The Revolution of Wealth by Alvin and Heidi Toffler, 2006, in English and Spanish, and The Learn-ing Revolution by Gordon Dryden and Dr. Jeannette Vos, 1999 in English, and 2007 in Spanish.

Society has always needed goods and services and the way we have acquired them have determined the modes of production that we know. We speak of slavery, of Asian mode of production, of feu-dalism, of capitalism, and of socialism. In each mode of production, ownership, orga-nization of society, organiza-tion of government, and form of learning of members is determined differently.

We must also consider that the modes of production mentioned aren’t linear; the

The concept Globalization is everywhere; we know

what global trade and culture mean. We also know that this world trade and culture have special form of produc-tion, business relationship and communication for the world to be considered as a global village. The concept of “global village” describes a world in which distance and isolation don’t exist: we all know what happens at the moment it happens.

The above concept was introduced in the scientific literature by Herbert Mar-shall McLuhan in his works: The Gutenberg Galaxy, 1962; Understanding the Media, 1964 and War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968.

McLuhan, Edmonton, Al-berta, Canada, July 21, 1911; De-cember 31, 1981; he didn’t live the communication society he described with his concept of global village.According to

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great human groups can have them one after another but we must take into consideration the thinking of the French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin who maintains in his work that given that the rich countries are in the north of our hemisphere and the poor in the south: on each north there is a south. This means that rich countries also have human groups as poor as the inhabitants of the southern hemisphere.

Capitalist society has the last stage of its way of pro-ducing and consuming goods Globalization. Globalization relies on the development of science and technology, and science and technol-ogy generated the growth of communication and informa-tion. Today we talk about the information and knowledge society.

Information dominates our global village; informa-tion is to offer everything you want regardless of whether it is true or not. Knowledge is to offer to the global village everything that has scientific foundation. At present the research communities have the duty to publish what they are working in and the results already verified, and what is emerging as new research.

Working the society pyra-mid through Globalization:

what is happening to us with the bases of the social structure, which is happening to us with the way to produce wealth and with the form of learning so that those who don’t have digital literacy are integrated into the society organized as a global village? Governments have forgot-ten the necessary change in the new form of wealth and learning.

According to Toffler and Toffler the wealth in the broad sense is any possession, shared or not that has utility and provides well-being by itself or by exchange.

Humanity in producing an excess of welfare created the first system of wealth and this wealth was agricultural. The second system of wealth was industrialization, which began at the end of the seventeenth century.

The ultimate wealth system is knowledge.

Each wealth system brings the change of social organiza-tion because it is based on a culture, and as we have said, the ways of producing goods are not linear. Since different wealth systems can exist in the same culture, they will create shocks in the social organization in which they are found.

Each system of wealth orig-inates a civilization, generates

new knowledge where knowledge is learned. The knowledge that science offers us is learned in organizations with a formal structure, in schools. The question is: what has happened to the govern-ments of many countries and the school organization? Countries are engaged in the development of the apex of the social pyramid and have forgotten what it is that makes humans reach the top of that pyramid.

Education systems in many countries have problems. We can see that there are countries that have achieved an educational system that allows their citizens to be considered as the best pre-pared to obtain knowledge; we speak for example about

Finland. What has Finland done? Finland spent 30 years studying how human be-ings learn and how they had organized children to acquire the knowledge so that they could enter universities in the best conditions to reach the necessary knowledge.

Finland found that each human being develops their abilities in different moments of its growth; each human being is unique so the studies of each knowledge are taken in the level that the students determine in the range of the X years of the school cycle they have.

Finland also showed that formal education, in addition to the informal, serves for human beings to develop with the values that symbolize

products to consume.The first system of wealth

was based on growing things, the second on making and the third on thinking, experi-menting and knowing.

We have forgotten that the domain of wealth was in the East and that the West, the Enlightenment and the first industrial revolution brought Europe to the center of economic power. Economic power shifted from Europe to the United States (US) as the country became trapped in World War II.

The third system of wealth that starts from the mid-1950s with the last stage of capitalism, Globalization, has as predominant country the United States.

As we have mentioned, global society is based on the production of wealth knowl-edge. Knowledge is the result of science which through history we have seen, itself is generating new methods and new knowledge.

We must realize that the growing growth of science, faster obsolete knowledge.

What seems to be forgot-ten is that knowledge is not reached in a spaceship; knowledge is a human process and starts from the earli-est years in education that structures each culture so that the young learn and generate

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the enlightenment: freedom, equality and fraternity, thus avoiding the problems of coexistence that exist in other societies.

What should be done in education in societies whose predominant system of wealth is knowledge?

Why do we have to make a knowledge revolution? It is necessary to make a knowl-edge revolution to generate new knowledge easier, so that societies can move from information to know the basis of things and human beings to develop a civiliza-tion that makes them have quality of life.

Dryden and Vos in their work The Learning Revolu-tion propose:

1. The role of teacher and stu-dent is interchangeable.

2. Learning can be achieved if we have fun during it.

3. Learning skills are best developed before school starts.

4. People learn best when it is their interest. This is the model of Finland.

5. Humans have different in-telligences and each human being has an individual type.

6. The world should be used as a classroom.

What the principles of the au-thors indicate is that knowl-edge is not reached in closed places and all members at the same time and in an environ-ment of rigidity.

Also every human being has a way of initiating the

populism are:1. A charismatic leader in

direct relationship with the people.

2. Rejection of socio-cultural and political systems; Re-jection of the State.

3. Supporters: men without formal education and low wages.

Globalization has as a system of wealth knowledge, but knowledge is not reached as easily as it should be. Knowl-edge has to arrive in an easier way for any human being so that States have to improve their education systems.

What we are experienc-ing is seeing the less fa-vored groups taken hostage by charismatic leaders to become them opponents of globalization.

The questions we can ask ourselves are the following:1. The East will regain the

power it had before the

French Revolution.2. Europe can strengthen its

institutions through the European Union (EU) and develop societies that inte-grate their productive force into the knowledge society.

3. US will lose the leadership as knowledge society.

4. Will perform US the changes they need in their education system.

5. US will generate the changes that their educa-tion needs.

The time and the develop-ment of the events will tell us what culture and what civilization will the society have that has by wealth the knowledge.

Knowledge and learn-ing have to allow us to achieve the society we need to be happy human beings being unique and irrepetible!

BIBLIOGRAPHY. Ayala Pérez, T. (2012). Marshall McLuhan -Las Redes Sociales y la Aldea Global. Revista Educación y Tecnología, n°2, año 2012. Recuperado de file:///C:/Users/rhlor_000/Down-loads/Dialnet-MarshallMcluhanLasRedesSocialesYLaAldeaGlob-al-4502543.pdf | Dryden, G. y Jeannette Vos (2007). La Revolución del aprendizaje, México: Grupo editorial Tomo. | García Jurado, R. (2012). Sobre el Concepto “POPULISMO”. Departamento de Política y Cultura, UAM-Xochimilco. Estudios 103, vol. x, invierno 2012. Recuperado de: http://biblioteca.itam.mx/estudios/100-110/103/RobertoGarciaJuradoSobreelconceptodepopulismo.pdf | Morin, E. y Anne-Brigitte Kern (2005). Tierra Patria. Barcelona: Kairós. | Toffler, A y H. (2006). La revolución de la riqueza, México: Ran-dom House Mondadori.

knowledge of something and not only in books is learned; books have been taken from the world we live in.

We move on to the sec-ond part of this article. What is happening in the global society so that everyone is protesting? What is happen-ing so that in countries where democracy-based government exists, we are seeing manifes-tations of anarchy? What is happening so that the groups less benefited by the last stage of the development of capital-ism, by globalization, want to govern by abolishing all rights and want to isolate them-selves from everyone? What is happening so that some social groups want to eliminate the great organizations that were created as a result of the worldwide disaster that the Two Great World Wars meant?

Can the above mentioned groups guide the world to-wards their interests?

Let’s talk about Populism.The concept populism

begins to be used in the 19th century; Russia and the US had their populist movements in that century.

Latin American populism began in the 20th century.

European populism arose from 1970 to 1980 and origi-nated as a consequence of the economic crisis of 1970.

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Learning can be thrilling and funfinance, I was so happy I could actually finish my program while still paying my fees. In fact, that made my whole learning process a big success. And now I’m enrolling more of my contacts, friends and my family on board. AIU: I’m soo grateful for the opportunity I never had elsewhere.

How is your AIU Degree helping you in your career?

My AIU Degree is surely helping me in my career —I currently got promoted as a Sales and Marketing Supervi-sor in my organization.

what do you do for living?I am into real estate and

mortgages for now.

Can you describe your experience at AIU?

My experience at AIU is that my online platform has never been interrupted, with my student tutor interac-tions, just out of the ordinary; I surely will recommend AIU in all instances of my life to anyone, and still willing to continue till my PhD.

what are the main problems your Country is facing at this

moment? Can you give us a brief context?

I am from Ghana. The main problems my Country is facing at this moment, are the lack of efficiency or right skills and capabilities exhib-ited from fresh graduates ab-sorbed into the career world with ease, thus bringing on board initiative rather than acting on demand or request pulled by their employer, hence my reason for studying with AIU, where students are trained as go-getters, and to be result-oriented which are out of the ordinary, day rou-tine in my environment.

Do you think that you have been able to help your community?

Perfect and readier to chal-lenge such system.

How can education help the world during this troubled time?

With education, we ac-quire the right knowledge and the needed skills and capability our environment requires from us to make the world achieve its goals and objectives.

Tell us about this educational experi-ence. How has the learning process based in Andragogy from AIU impacted your life, professionally and personally?

My educational experience! It was so fun and mobile, this means I can log into my AIU Student Portal at any location or on my mobile phone since my apps were on, with no interruptions. One good experience was with my

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The song of treesThere’s a biology professor in Ten-

nessee who can distinguish trees by their sounds. Wind, rain, wildlife, and how they interact with the different sizes and shapes of leaves and branches all make up what David George Haskell calls the “distinct voices” of trees.

The Sewanee university professor spoke with Carol Off about his new book, The Songs of Trees. Here’s part of their conversation:

CO: What do you think it is that makes the noise or the song or the voice of the tree?

DGH: The most obvious voice of a tree is when the wind blows through the tree and, of course, the tree then responds by vibrating, and shaking, and tearing apart the air as it passes through the twigs and the leaves. And each tree

has its own architecture. Each leaf has its own degree of stiffness and floppi-ness and shape.

Just as a cello sounds very different from a violin, because of the scale and tautness of the springs and how large the wood is, so too do the leaves and branches on trees. And those voices change through the seasons as well.Read full text and listen to some recordings: www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4072865/meet-the-biologist-who-says-trees-have-their-own-songs-1.4072909

Also read:The Hidden Life of Trees. By Peter Wohlleben. www.amazon.com

David Geroge Haskell says trees have their own songs.

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Students who look oppositional, defiant, or aloof may be exhibit-

ing negative behavior because they are in pain and presenting their stress response. Over 29 percent of young people in the U.S., ages 9-17, are af-fected by anxiety and depression disorders. The thinking lobes in the prefrontal cortex shut down when a brain is in pain.

A traumatized brain can also be a tired, hungry, worried, rejected, or detached brain expressing feelings of isolation, worry, angst, and fear. In youth, anger is often the bodyguard for deep feelings of fear. The neu-robiological changes from negative experiences cause our emotional brain to create a sensitized fear response. Chronic activation of the fear response

can damage other parts of the brain responsible for cognition and learning.

If brain development is disrupted by adversity at any age, but especially in early development, the skills of problem solving, reflection, and emo-tional regulation are compromised and diminished.

To learn and problem solve, we must prime the brain for engagement and feelings of safety. The clusters of neurons resting deep in each temporal lobe must be quieted if learning and well-being are to be exercised and ad-dressed. Here are three ways to calm the stress response: 1. Movement.2. Focused attention practices. 3. Understanding the brain.

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An Indian teenager has won an international competition to build

a functioning satellite, and not only has he produced what is reportedly the world’s lightest satellite device –nASA has agreed to launch it next month.

The tiny satellite weighs just 64 grams (0.14 lb), and will embark on a 4-hour sub-orbital mission launched from nASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on June 21. Once positioned in microgravity, its main objective will be to test the durability of its extremely light, 3D-printed casing.

“We designed it completely from scratch,” 18-year-old Rifath Shaarook told Business Standard.

“It will have a new kind of on-board computer and eight ... built-in sensors to measure acceleration, rotation, and the magnetosphere of Earth.”

Shaarook entered his invention into the Cubes in Space competition, run by education company idoodlelearning, and supported by nASA and the Colo-rado Space Grant Consortium.

The challenge for school students was to invent a device that could fit into a 4-metre (13-foot) cube, and weigh no more than 64 grams. And, most importantly, it had to be space-worthy. The tiny satellite that topped all the en-tries has been named KalamSat, after Indian nuclear scientist Abdul Kalam.

It owes its lightness to its reinforced carbon fibre polymer frame –a material that has a super-high strength-to-weight ratio, and is used in everything from aerospace engineering to fishing line.

Read full text: www.sciencealert.com/a-teenager-

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On the 14th of May, one of the biggest ransomware attacks in

history took place. Organizations such as the UK’s national Health Service (nHS) and FedEx were hit by an attack of unprecedented scale.

The ransomware encrypted count-less nHS files, demanding ransom money for them to be unencrypted, and caused widespread chaos in all the organizations it hit.

But then a 22-year-old figured out how to hit a kill switch on the ransom-ware, stopping it from spreading any further. Marcus Hutchins, a security expert from an English coastal town, discovered a domain name within the ransomware’s source-code. On a hunch, he bought the domain name

for an extremely affordable $10.69. Immediately, computers affected

by the attack began connecting to the URL, and within hours people’s files became accessible again. The attack was stopped in its tracks, deactivated by the kill switch found by Hutchins.

Since then, Hutchins, who failed his Information Technology course in high school after being accused of hacking (which he denies), has been rewarded by HackerOne with a $10,000 payout, which he decided to give to charity.

Then came the bad part...Find out what happened: www.iflscience.com/tech-

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Alberto GiacomettiThe profound thrill of being spooked.

“When you can do both, you can do things that no one else

can do,” says John Maeda, a seasoned technologist who spent more than a decade at the MIT Media Lab before becoming president of the Rhode Is-land School of Design, a partner at VC powerhouse Kleiner Perkins, and now the head of computational design and inclusion at Automattic, WordPress.com’s parent company. Every year, Maeda travels to South By Southwest to deliver his Design in Technology report, a sprawling presentation that outlines the field’s growing impact on technology and business.

This year, Maeda makes the case that the most successful designers will be those who can work with intangible materials —code, words, and voice. These are the designers who craft experiences for the chatbots and voice

interfaces people are increasingly in-teracting with. Maeda cites a blog post from last spring, in which UX designer Susan Stuart makes the case that writ-ing and UX design aren’t so different. A core skill of the interaction designer is imagining users (characters), motiva-tions, actions, reactions, obstacles, successes, and a complete set of ‘what if’ scenarios. “These are the skills of a writer” she said.

This year, Maeda goes deep on this idea of skills, focusing his own on the growing field of computational design (a field he’s pioneered since the mid-1990s). In the report Maeda makes the distinction between “classic” designer, the makers of finite objects for a select group of people (think graphic designer, industrial designer, furniture designer) and “computational” design-ers, who deal mostly in code and build constantly evolving products that impact millions of people’s lives.

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“I entered Tate’s exhibition expecting to be bored, even irritated –familiar-

ity, after all, breeds contempt. But I was won over, from the off, by an elegant and sometimes dramatic display, which foregrounds neglected aspects of his life and work.

I left Tate’s exhibition spooked by its many ashen visions and appari-tions –half-glimpsed phantoms sum-moned from the troubled nether-world of Giacometti’s imagination, which articulate the nightmares of us all. I mean that as a compliment. In the hands of a great artist, being spooked can offer a profound thrill.”

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The advice to eat a healthy diet is not new. Back

around 400 B.C., Hippocrates, the Greek doctor, had this mis-sive: Let food be thy medicine.But as a society, we’ve got a long way to go. About 1 out of every 2 deaths from heart disease, stroke and Type 2 diabetes in the US is linked to a poor diet. So, how best to turn this around? Welcome to the

A life spent dutifully re-sponding to emails is a

dull one indeed. And “wasted” time is, in fact, highly fulfilling and necessary.

The problem comes when we spend so long franti-cally chasing productivity, we refuse to take real breaks. We put off sleeping in, or going for a long walk, or reading by the window —and, even if we do manage time away from the grind, it comes with a loom-ing awareness of the things we should be doing, and so the experience is weighed down by guilt.

Instead, there’s a tendency to turn to the least fulfill-ing tendency of them all: Sitting at our desk, in front of our computer, browsing

Fresh Food Pharmacy, located on the grounds of a hospital in central Pennsylvania.

Over the past year, about 180 patients with Type 2 dia-betes have been participating in a pilot program aimed at getting them to change their diets and lose weight. They re-ceive free groceries of healthy foods every week.

The participants meet one-on-one with a registered dietitian. They’re given recipes and hands-on instruction on how to prepare healthy meals. Then, they go home with a very different kind of pre-scription: five days’ worth of free, fresh food.

websites and contributing to neither our happiness nor our productivity.

We’re missing out on the mental and physical benefits of time spent focused on our-selves, says Michael Guttridge, a psychologist who focuses on workplace behavior. “Wasting time is about recharging your battery and de-cluttering,” he says. Taking time to be totally, gloriously, proudly unproduc-tive will ultimately make you better at your job. Even TV binge-watch can be a trans-porting experience —if you relax and enjoy it. We should embrace these moments, and see them as what they are: time well spent.Read full text: qz.com/970924/the-psy-

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Fresh food by prescription Wasting timeThis health care firm is trimming costs and waistlines.

There’s a psychological importance to it.

“When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”

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Imagine the most perfect square me-ter of white sandy beach. It is pow-

dery and warm in the sun, but cooler once you burrow a hand into the wetter sand beneath. now take 671 separate bits of plastic —buoys, scraps of fishing nets, water bottles, every manner of un-identifiable junk— and cram it into the sand before you lay down your towel.

That’s what researchers from the University of Tasmania and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds recently found on Henderson Island, at 14-square-mile fleck of sand, jagged coral, and palm trees in the middle of the South Pacific. They estimate the entire island’s current total at 38,000 pounds of plastic, all in a place that is one of the world’s last two raised coral

atolls whose ecosystems remain rela-tively unaffected by human contact.

Henderson is one of the most re-mote places in the world, more than 3,000 miles from the nearest signifi-cant population center. It has some human history —a few generations of Polynesians, some explorers, the wreck of a whaler, visits from timber harvesters from Pitcairn Island— but nothing to suggest the tide of garbage all over it. It comes from the South Pacific Gyre, a current that sucks in floating debris and keeps it on a perpetual tour of the better part of a hemisphere.

Read full text: “The World’s Trashiest Beach Is

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The world’s trashiest beachOn a remote island in the South Pacific.

Girl invents wonder material from orange peels.

South Africa’s worst drought in re-corded history has left eight of the

country’s nine provinces in a state of disaster, with thousands of communi-ties and millions of households facing water shortages.

The agricultural union Agri SA has requested over $1 billion in govern-ment subsidies to help farmers through the crisis, but a cut-price so-lution could soon be available -- from an unlikely source.

Johannesburg schoolgirl Kiara Nirghin, 16, recently won the Google Science Fair’s Community Impact Award for the Middle East and Af-rica with her submission “no More Thirsty Crops.”

Using orange peel and avocado skins, the precocious student created a

super absorbent polymer (SAP) capable of storing reserves of water hundreds of times its own weight, forming reservoirs that would allow farmers to maintain their crops at minimal cost. The polymer has the added benefit of sustainability as it uses recycled and biodegradable waste products.

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Fighting drought

The Great Plains and eastern slopes of the Rockies were once home

to as many as 60 million bison, but by the late 1800s, settlers and disease had almost wiped them out. In 1889, a prominent conservationist estimated only about 1,000 animals remained.

Soon, though, people realized some-thing needed to be done and started taking steps to protect these animals. In the early 1900s, the Canadian gov-ernment actually tracked down some of the last wild animals and shipped them by train to wildlife refuges. Today, thanks to more than 100 years of conservation efforts, bison numbers have partially recovered. About a half million are managed as livestock, with about 30,000 wild individuals.

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Heavy persistent bleeding after giving birth presents a serious

health concern. Known as postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), this bleeding can occur for a variety of reasons —from the failure of the womb to contract properly after a woman has given birth, to abnormal detachment from the wall of the womb. In the case of secondary PPH, retained placental tis-sue and/or infection is responsible.

In poorer nations where post-birth care is difficult to access, it’s esti-mated that 100,000 women die in low and middle income countries every year due to excessive bleed-ing after childbirth. But new research suggests that we might have a highly

cost-effective safeguard. Researchers recruited 20,000 women from across the globe to examine whether a drug known as tranexamic acid performed better than a placebo at controlling postpartum bleeding in women admit-ted to hospital with suspected PPH. The study —published in the Lancet medical journal in April— was an in-ternational, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, meaning that researchers used very strict conditions to evaluate whether tranexamic acid held up to its promise when tested on a bigger scale.

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Postpartum hemorrhageA cheap way to prevent fatal blood loss in new mothers in developing nations.

Back in Canada after more than 100 years.

efforts to reintroduce wild bison to the north American wilds, Parks Canada relocated 16 bison from Elk Island national Park to Banff national Park in Alberta, Canada. Though this is something to be celebrated, moving north America’s biggest land animal is anything but simple or easy.

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Dear Class of 2017: Congratulations! you’ve just accomplished some-

thing I never managed to do –earn a college degree.

Between your commencement speaker and every aunt and uncle at your graduation party, I am sure you are getting a lot of advice. At the risk of piling on, I thought I would share a few thoughts.

new college graduates often ask me for career advice. I was lucky to be in my early 20s when the digital revolution was just getting underway, and Paul Allen and I had the chance to help shape it. (Which explains my lack of a college degree: I left school because we were afraid the revolution would happen without us.)

affordable, and reliable will be essential for fighting poverty and climate change.

The third is biosciences, which are ripe with opportunities to help people live longer, healthier lives.

But some things in life are true no matter what career you choose. I wish I had understood these things bet-ter when I left school. For one thing, intelligence is not quite as important as I thought it was, and it takes many different forms.

In the early days of Microsoft, I believed that if you could write great code, you could also manage people well or run a marketing team or take on any other task. I was wrong about that. I had to learn to recognize and appreciate people’s different talents.

The sooner you can do this, if you don’t already, the richer your life will be.

Another thing I wish I had un-derstood much earlier is what true inequity looks like. I did not see it up close until my late 30s, when Melinda and I took our first trip to Africa. We were shocked by what we saw. When we came back, we began learning more. It blew our minds that millions of children there were dying from diseases that no one in rich countries even wor-ried about. We thought it was the most unjust thing in the world. We realized we couldn’t wait to get involved —we had to start giving back right away.

you know much more than I did when I was your age. Technology lets you see problems in ways my friends and I never could, and it empowers you to help in ways we never could. you can start fighting inequity sooner, whether it is in your own community or in a country halfway around the world.

Meanwhile, I encourage you to sur-round yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self. Melinda does that for me, and I am a better person for it. Like our good friend Warren Buffett, I measure my happi-ness by whether people close to me are happy and love me, and by the differ-ence I make in other people’s lives.

If I could give each of you a

graduation present, it would be a copy of The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. After several years of studying, you may not exactly be itching to read a 700-page book. But please put this one on your reading list to get to someday. It is the most inspir-ing book I have ever read.

Pinker makes a persuasive argu-ment that the world is getting better, that we are living in the most peaceful time in human history. This can be a hard case to make, especially now. When you tell people the world is improving, they often look at you like you’re either naive or crazy.

But it’s true. And once you under-stand it, you start to see the world dif-ferently. If you think things are getting better, then you want to know what’s working so you can accelerate the progress and spread it to more people and places.

It doesn’t mean you ignore the seri-ous problems we face. It just means you believe they can be solved, and you’re moved to act on that belief.

This is the core of my worldview. It sustains me in tough times and is the reason I still love my philanthropic work after more than 17 years. I think it can do the same for you.

Good luck to all of you. This is an amazing time to be alive. I hope you make the most of it.

Read full article by Tod Perry: education.good.is/articles/bill-gates-class-of-2017-essay

Bill gate’s words to the class of 2017If I were start-

ing out today and looking for the same kind of opportunity to make a big impact in the world, I would consider three fields.

One is artificial intelligence. We have only begun to tap into all the ways it will make people’s lives more produc-tive and creative.

The second is energy, because making it clean,

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Contact us to get startedSubmit your Online Application, paste your resume and any additional com-ments/questions in the area provided.aiu.edu/apply-online.html

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The Bachelor of Robotics (BS) aims to train graduates who are able to

apply their scientific, technical and socio-cultural knowledge to: design, manufacture and maintain automated systems and production equipment, design, start up and maintain indus-trial plants. Investigate and implement new technologies; to create and man-age micro, small and medium enter-prises in the area of automation and manufacturing.

The Bachelor of Robotics (BS) program is offered online via distance learning. After evaluating both aca-demic record and life experience, AIU staff working in conjunction with Fac-ulty and Academic Advisors will assist students in setting up a custom-made

program, designed on an individual basis. This flexibility to meet student needs is seldom found in other dis-tance learning programs. Our online program does not require all students to take the same subjects/courses, use the same books, or learning materi-als. Instead, the online Bachelor of Robotics (BS) curriculum is designed individually by the student and academic advisor. It specifically ad-dresses strengths and weaknesses with respect to market opportunities in the student’s major and intended field of work. Understanding that industry and geographic factors should influence the content of the curriculum instead of a standardized one-fits-all design is the hallmark of AIU’s unique approach

to adult education. This philosophy addresses the dynamic and constant-ly changing environment of working professionals by helping adult stu-dents in reaching their professional and personal goals within the scope of the degree program.

IMPORTANT: Below is an example of the topics or areas you may develop and work on during your studies. By no means is it a complete or required list as AIU programs do not follow a standardized curriculum. It is meant solely as a reference point and ex-ample. Want to learn more about the curriculum design at AIU? Go ahead and visit our website, especially the Course and Curriculum section:aiu.edu/CourseCurriculum.html

Core Courses and TopicsGeneral ElectronicsDigital electronicElectronic systemsPower ElectronicsComputer ControlFundamentals of RoboticsElectrical Installations and MachinesRobotic Mention and AutomationRobot Control and ProgrammingIndustrial ComputersPerception SystemsElectronic Systems for AutomationAutomation of Production SystemsDesign of Electronic Circuits and SystemsMechanisms and Mechanics of VehiclesRobotics & AutomationOptoelectronicsMechatronics

orientation CoursesCommunication & Investigation (Comprehensive Resume)Organization Theory (Portfolio)Experiential Learning (Autobiography)Seminar Administrative Development (Book Summary)Seminar Cultural Development (Practical Experience)Seminar International Development (Publications)

Research ProjectBachelor Thesis ProjectMBM300 Thesis ProposalMBM302 Bachelor Thesis (5,000 words)

Publication. Each Bachelor of Robotics graduate is encouraged to publish their research papers either online in the public domain or through professional journals and periodicals worldwide.

Job description. Design, build and maintain electronic devices and their corresponding software systems, meet-ing the requirements of cost, speed, reliability and energy expenditure.

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MISSIoN: To be a higher learning institu-tion concerned about generating cultural development alternatives likely to be sustained in order to lead to a more ef-ficient administration of the world village and its environment; exerting human and community rights through diversity with the ultimate goal of the satisfaction and evolution of the world.

VISIoN: The empowerment of the indi-vidual towards the convergence of the world through a sustainable educational design based on andragogy and omniology.

Atlantic International University offers distance learning degree programs for adult learners at bachelors, masters, and doctoral level. With self paced program taken online, AIU lifts the obstacles that keep professional adults from completing their educational goals. Programs are available throughout a wide range of majors and areas of study. All of this with a philosophi-cally holistic approach towards education fitting within the balance of your life and acknowl-edging the key role each individual can play in their community, country, and the world.

While national Accreditation is common for tra-ditional U.S. institutions of higher learning utiliz-ing standard teaching methods, every country has its own standards and accrediting organiza-tions. Accreditation is a voluntary process and does not guarantee a worthy education. Rather, it means an institution has submitted its courses, programs, budget, and educational objectives for review. AIU’s Distance Learning Programs are unique, non-traditional and not accredited by the U.S. Department of Education. This may be a determining factor for those individuals interested in pursuing certain disciplines requir-ing State licensing, (such as law, teaching, or medicine). It is recommended that you consider the importance of national Accreditation for your specific field or profession.

Although Atlantic International University’s individualized Distance Learning Degree Pro-grams, are distinct from traditional educational institutions, we are convinced of their value and acceptance worldwide. non-traditional programs are important because they recognize knowledge gained outside the classroom and incorporate a broader more comprehensive view of the learn-ing experience. Many great institutions are unac-credited. We invite you to compare our programs and philosophy with traditional classroom-based programs to determine which is best suited to your needs and budget.

AIU has chosen private accreditation through the Accrediting Commission Inter-national (ACI), obtained in 1999. ACI is not regulated or approved by the US Department of Education. ATLAnTIC InTERnATIOnAL UnIVERSITy IS nOT ACCREDITED By An ACCREDITInG AGEnCy RECOGnIzED By THE UnITED

STATES SECRETARy OF EDUCATIOn. note: In the U.S., many licensing authorities require accredited degrees as the basis for eligibility for licensing. In some cases, accredited colleges may not accept for transfer courses and degrees completed at unaccredited colleges, and some employers may require an accredited degree as a basis for eligibility for employment.

AIU is incorporated in the state of Hawaii. As a University based in the U.S., AIU meets all state and federal laws of the United States. There is no distinction between the programs offered through AIU and those of traditional campus based programs with regards to the following: your degree, transcript and other graduation documents from AIU follow the same standard used by all U.S. colleges and universities. AIU graduation documents can include an apostille and authentication from the U.S. Department of State to facilitate their use internationally. Authentication from the U.S. Department of State is a process that will ultimately bind a letter signed by the U.S. Secre-tary of State (permanently with a metal ring) to your graduation documents.

If a student outside the U.S. wishes to carry out a particular procedure within a country’s Department of Education regarding their degree earned at AIU, such procedures are to be carried out independently by the student. AIU respects the unique rules and regulations

of each country and does not intervene or influence the respective authorities. We

recommend prospective students who intend to carry out such procedures outside the U.S. to verify in detail the steps and requirements needed in

order to be fully informed.

The AIU Difference Mission & Vision

organizational Structure

Dr. Franklin ValcinPresident/Academic Dean

Dr. José MercadoChief Executive Officer

Dr. Ricardo GonzálezProvost

Ricardo GonzálezChief Operation Officer

Ofelia HernandezDirector of AIU

Jaime RotlewiczDean of Admissions

Clara MargalefDirector of Special

Projects of AIU

Juan Pablo MorenoDirector of Operations

Paul ApplebaumIT Director

Nadeem AwanChief Programing

Dr. Jack RosenzweigDean of Academic Affairs

Dr. Edward LambertAcademic Coordinator

Dr. Ariadna RomeroAcademic Coordinator

Carlos AponteTelecommunications

Coordinator

Rosie PerezFinance Coordinator

Linda CollazoStudent Services Coordinator

Kingsley ZeleeIT Coordinator

Felipe GomezDesign Director

Giovanni CastilloOperations assistant

Ma. Cristina BlazquezHuman Resources

Maria SerranoLogistics Coordinator

Amalia AldrettAdmissions Coordinator

Alba OchoaAdmissions Coordinator

Sandra GarciaAdmissions Coordinator

Veronica AmuzAdmissions Coordinator

Junko ShimizuAdmissions Coordinator

Nazma SultanaAssistant Programming

Jhanzaib AwanAssistant Programming

Roberto AldrettCommunications Coordinator

Chris BenjaminHosting Server

It is acknowledged that the act of learning is endogenous, (from within), rather than exog-enous. This fact is the underlying rationale for “Distance Learning”, in all of the programs of-fered by AIU. The combination of the underly-ing principles of student “self instruction”, (with guidance), collaborative development of curriculum unique to each student, and flexibility of time and place of study, provides the ideal learning environment to satisfy individual needs. AIU is an institution of experiential learning and nontraditional edu-cation at a distance. There are no classrooms and attendance is not required.

fACUlTy AND STAff PAGE: www.aiu.edu/FacultyStaff.html

Nadia GabaldonStudent Services Supervisor

Monica SerranoRegistrar Office

Daritza YslaAccounting Coordinator

Patricia C. DomenechAdministrative Coordinator

Irina IvashukAdministrative Assistant

Kimberly DiazAcademic Tutor

Liliana PenarandaAcademic Tutor

Renata Da SilvaAcademic Tutor

Lourdes PuentesAcademic Tutor

Rina LehnhoffAcademic Tutor

Renato CifuentesAcademic Tutor

Arturo VejarAcademic Tutor

Arhely EspinozaAcademic Tutor

Paulina GarciaAcademic Assistant

Atlantic International University is accredited by the Accreditation Service for Interna-tional Schools, Colleges and Universities (ASIC). ASIC Accreditation is an internationally renowned quality standard for colleges and universities. Visit ASIC’s Directory of Accredited Colleges and Universities. ASIC is a member of CHEA International Quality Group (CIQG) in

the USA, an approved accreditation body by the Ministerial Department of the Home Office in the UK, and is listed in the International Directory of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). AIU meets all state and federal laws as a degree-granting institution in the United States and the State of Hawaii. The University was legally established by corporate charter in 1998 and is in good standing.

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The School of Business and Econom-ics allows aspiring and practicing professionals, managers, and entrepre-neurs in the private and public sectors to complete a self paced distance learning degree program of the highest academic standard.

The ultimate goal is to empower learners and help them take advantage of the enormous array of resources from the world environment in order to eliminate the current continuum of poverty and limitations.

Degree programs are designed for those students whose professional

The School of Social and Human Stud-ies is focused on to the development of studies which instill a core commitment to building a society based on social and economic justice and enhancing oppor-tunities for human well being.

The founding principles lie on the basic right of education as outlined in the Declaration of Human Rights. We instill in our students a sense of confidence and self reliance in their ability to access the vast opportunities available through information chan-nels, the world wide web, private, pub-lic, nonprofit, and nongovernmental

experience has been in business, marketing, administration, economics, finance and management.

Areas of study: Accounting, Advertis-ing, Banking, Business Administration, Communications, Ecommerce, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Home Economics, Human Resources, International Busi-ness, International Finance, Investing, Globalization, Marketing, Management, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Public Administrations, Sustainable Development, Public Relations, Tele-communications, Tourism, Trade.

organizations in an ever expanding global community.

Degree programs are aimed towards those whose professional life has been related to social and human behavior, with the arts, or with cultural studies.

Areas of Study: Psychology, Inter-national Affairs, Sociology, Political Sciences, Architecture, Legal Stud-ies, Public Administration, Literature and languages, Art History, Ministry, African Studies, Middle Eastern Stud-ies, Asian Studies, European Studies, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies.

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The School of Science and Engineering seeks to provide dynamic, integrated, and challenging degree programs designed for those whose experience is in industrial research, scientific pro-duction, engineering and the general sciences. Our system for research and education will keep us apace with the twenty-first century reach scientific advance in an environmentally and ecologically responsible manner to al-low for the sustainability of the human population. We will foster among our students a demand for ethical behavior, an appreciation for diversity, an un-derstanding of scientific investigation,

With access to a global catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 participating institutions, AIU students have secured excellent research tools for their study programs.

The AIU online library contains over 2 billion records and over 300 million bibliographic records that are increasing day by day. The sources spanning thou-sands of years and virtually all forms of human expression. There are files of all kinds, from antique inscribed stones to e-books, form wax engravings to MP3s, DVDs and websites. In addition to the archives, the library AIU Online offers electronic access to more than 149,000 e-books, dozens of databases and more than 13 million full-text articles with pictures included. Being able to access 60 databases and 2393 periodicals with more than 18 million items, guarantees the information required to perform the assigned research project. Users will find that many files are enriched with artistic creations on the covers, indexes, re-views, summaries and other information. The records usually have information attached from important libraries. The user can quickly assess the relevance of the information and decide if it is the right source.

knowledge of design innovation, a critical appreciation for the importance of technology and technological change for the advancement of humanity.

Areas of Study: Mechanical Engineer-ing, Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electri-cal Engineering, Computer Engineer-ing, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Math-ematics, Communications, Petroleum Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, nutrition Sci-ence, Agricultural Science, Computer Science, Sports Science, Renewable Energy, Geology, Urban Planning.

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AIU is striving to regain the significance of the concept of education, which is rooted into the Latin “educare”, meaning “to pull out”, breaking loose from the paradigm of most 21st century universities with their focus on “digging and placing information” into students’ heads rather than teaching them to think.

For AIU, the generation of “clones” that some tra-ditional universities are spreading throughout the real world is one of the most salient reasons for today’s ills. In fact, students trained at those educational institu-tions never feel a desire to “change the world” or the current status quo; instead, they adjust to the environ-ment, believe everything is fine, and are proud of it all.

IN A woRlD where knowledge and mostly informa-tion expire just like milk, we must reinvent university as a whole in which each student, as the key player, is UnIQUE within an intertwined environment.

This century’s university must generate new knowledge bits although this may entail its separation from both the administrative bureaucracy and the faculty that evolve there as well.

AIU thinks that a university should be increasingly integrated into the “real world”, society, the economy, and the holistic human being. As such, it should con-centrate on its ultimate goal, which is the student, and get him/her deeply immersed into a daily praxis of paradigm shifts, along with the Internet and research, all these being presently accessible only to a small minority of the world community.

AIU students must accomplish their self-learning mission while conceptualizing it as the core of daily life values through the type of experiences that lead

to a human being’s progress when information is con-verted into education.

The entire AIU family must think of the university as a setting that values diversity and talent in a way that trains mankind not only for the present but above all for a future that calls everyday for professionals who empower themselves in academic and profes-sional areas highly in demand in our modern society.

We shall not forget that, at AIU, students are responsible for discovering their own talents and po-tential, which they must auto-develop in such a way that the whole finish product opens up as a flower that blossoms every year more openly.

THE AIU STANCE is against the idea of the cam-pus as a getaway from day-to-day pressure since we believe reality is the best potential-enhancer ever; one truly learns through thinking, brainstorming ideas, which leads to new solutions, and ultimately the rebirth of a human being fully integrated in a sustain-able world environment. Self-learning is actualized more from within than a top-down vantage point, that is to say, to influence instead of requesting, ideas more than power. We need to create a society where solidar-ity, culture, life, not political or economic rationalism and more than techno structures, are prioritized. In short, the characteristics of AIU students and alumni remain independence, creativity, self-confidence, and ability to take risk towards new endeavors. This is about people’s worth based not on what they know but on what they do with what they know.

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AIU offers educational opportunities in the USA to adults from around the world so that they can use their own potential to manage their personal, global cultural development. The foundational axis of our philosophy lies upon self-actualized knowledge and information, with no room for obsoleteness, which is embedded into a DISTAnCE LEARnInG SySTEM based on AnDRA-GOGy and OMnIOLOGy. The ultimate goal of this paradigm is to empower learners and help them take advantage of the enormous array of resources from the world environment in order to eliminate the current continuum of poverty and limitations.

This will become a crude reality with respect for, and practice of, human and community rights through experiences, investigations, practicum work, and/or examinations. Everything takes place in a setting that fosters diversity; with advisors and consultants with doctorate degrees and specializations in Human Development monitor learning processes, in addition to a worldwide web of colleagues and associations, so that they can reach the satisfaction and the progress of humanity with peace and harmony.

Contact us to get startednow, it’s possible to earn your degree in the comfort of your own home. For additional information or to see if you qualify for admissions please contact us.

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