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AIU News + Essay + Smart technology & AI + Education + Culture + Science + Technology + Art + Design + Body + Mind + Spirit + Environment + Human/
Animal Rights + Creative business + Conflict Resolution + About AIU
AIU News + Essay + Smart technology & AI + Education + Culture + Science + Technology + Art + Design + Body + Mind + Spirit + Environment + Human/
Animal Rights + Creative business + Conflict Resolution + About AIU
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campuscampusmundi Image by Jimmy Nelson. Turmi Village, Southern Omo, Hamar Tribe, Ethiopia.
Hamar parents have a lot of control over their sons, who herd the cattle and goats for the family. It’s the parents who give permis-
sion for the men to marry, and many don’t get married until their mid-thirties. Girls, on the other hand, tend to marry at about
17. Before they pass away Project.Source: www.beforethey.com
Image by Jimmy Nelson. Turmi Village, Southern Omo, Hamar Tribe, Ethiopia.
Hamar parents have a lot of control over their sons, who herd the cattle and goats for the family. It’s the parents who give permis-
sion for the men to marry, and many don’t get married until their mid-thirties. Girls, on the other hand, tend to marry at about
17. Before they pass away Project.Source: www.beforethey.com
contents Campus smart business21 5 lessons for creative businesses from the world of music management
Be wise & have fun22 Larry niven’s Laws (part 2/3) Right shear - Innovative scissors Quote from Barbara McClintock Lumir C LED
programs at aIu23 Masters in Conflict Resolution
About us aIu: Who we are25 General information Accreditation The AIU difference Mission & Vision Organizational Structure26 School of Business and Economics School of Science and Engineering27 School of Social and Human Studies Online Library Resources28 Education on the 21st century AIU service
In touch aIu News 4 notes 5 Graduates of the month
student space 8 Testimonials 9 Essay by Emilio J. García 10 Interview with Kogo Manase Levi nganzi11 Smart technology and Artificial Intelligence
Learning Education + culture14 Superior social skills / Kubrick: the lost tapes
science + Technology15 Beyond the Standard Model / Human vs AI Go
art + Design16 A year in space / Science & Design
Body + mind + spirit17 Eat healthy / How autism freed me to be myself / What if?
Environment18 Agar plasticity / Bike washing machine
Human + animal Rights19 One for one bikes / Reading to dogs
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Lecturer and Dean
March 6, 2016. Kogo Manase Levi Nganji has graduated in 2014 and obtained his Masters degree in Business Adminis-tration at Atlantic Interna-tional University.
Recently, he was appointed
as the First Minister of Health and Environment in South Sudan.
He states: “I had served in the previous ministerial posi-tion for only three months and our State was dissolved and broken into three more. I have been appointed as the First Minister for Health and Environment in one of the disputed created States.”
We wish Kogo the best on all his future projects and we congratulate him for this great achievement.
March 20, 2016. Minani Honore, who completed a Masters program in Educa-tional Management, has been hired as a lecturer by different Universities in his country, Rwanda.
Currently he is a lecturer
at the University of Tourism Technology and Business Studies (UTB) as well as the Institute of Higher Learn-ing Education of Ruhengeri where he offers modules related to social science and business studies.
About a year ago, manage-ment appointed him as the Dean of Studies and acting Director of Career Advisory Center at UTB after observing his overall performance.
He states: “I tried to imple-ment the skills and knowl-edge I obtained from AIU in different fields of community development.”
March 13, 2016. Miguel Angel Gonzalez Cernuda,
enrolled in a Doctorate pro-gram in Marketing at Atlantic International University, wrote two works in Spanish on: Good product + Good service. Path to Business Excellence, as well as I, Mar-keting. Both works have been published as e-books through Red Editorial Circular.
you can read his work through the following links.editorialcirculorojo.com/buen-producto-buen-servicio/and editorialcirculorojo.com/yo-marketing/
Multiple books published
March 18, 2016. Omar de Jesús Montilla Galvis, Pro-fessor of the Faculty of
Management Sciences of the Universidad del Valle, Colom-bia, was recently nominated for the third consecutive term as Chairman of the Commit-tee on Ethics and Professional Practice of the Asociación In-teramericana de Contabilidad.Omar studied at AIU Colombia.
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Graduated with HonorsMarch, 2016. 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!
Ofelia E. HernandezDoctor of Philosophy
in EducationCUM lAUDE
Romina Izzedin BouquetDoctor of Education in Child Education
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Horácio M. Botelho De VasconcelosBachelor of Science
Petroleum engineering angola
José Alexandre PioDoctor of eDucational PSychology
SPecial educationangola
Edivaldo João Dos SantosBachelor of Science
comPuter Scienceangola
Alberto Cotelo GomesMaSter of Social anD huMan StuDieS
PSychologyangola
Jorge Macaia de Jesus MaSter of huMan reSourceS ManageMent
human reSourceS managementangola
José Chico Bachelor of Science
chemiStryangola
Alberto Cotelo GomesMaSter of Science
PSychologyangola
Silvia Beatriz MainouDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
educationargentina
Ismail A. Abudoros AbdelgadirMaSter of Science
chemical engineeringBahrain
Koketso Addy BuisanyangBachelor of ScienceProject management
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Paulina Afua AmuDoctor of eDucationBuSineSS education
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Nkaka JeanMaSter of Social anD huMan StuDieS
international Peace and conflict reSolutioncaMeroon
Burnard J. SchnellbackMaSter of Sciencecivil engineering
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Benson Ehis Adams Doctor of Project ManageMent
Project managementcanaDa
Víctor R. Jara PobleteMaSter of civil engineering
Project managementchile
Tatihana Elisa Melo SuárezBachelor of Science
child and educational PSychologycoloMBia
Claudia Milena Torres LondoñoBachelor of Science
electrical engineeringcoloMBia
Romina Izzedin BouquetDoctor of eDucation
child educationcoloMBia
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Lester Vinicio RecinosBachelor of SciencerenewaBle energy
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Ramon Casto Nvomo BibangaBachelor of artS
legal StudieSguinea
Rovin Ciliézar GarcíaBachelor of BuSineSS aDMiniStration
BuSineSS and economicShonDuraS
Mari Luz Salazar ÁlvarezBachelor of Science
economicShonDuraS
Claudia Barrientos Bachelor of Political Science
international relationS and diPlomacyitaly
adrian alejandro arceDoctor of PSychology
neuroPSychologyjaPan
Paul Columbus CollinsDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
economicSliBeria
Toagoe T. KarzonDoctor of BuSineSS aDMiniStration
financeliBeria
Ronald Vulaston Webu Chibwe Doctor of Science
environmental ScienceMalawai
Victor Eduardo Tovar TejedaDoctor of Science
educationMexico
Angel Ciro Moran ChuecosDoctor of BuSineSS aDMiniStration
BuSineSS adminiStrationMexico
Heitor Filomeno Manjoro CunaMaSter of BuSineSS ManageMent
BuSineSS management MozaMBique
Donald Alberto Aragón ObandoBachelor of BuSineSS aDMiniStration
Banking and financenicaragua
Mekwuye Eric Davison I.Bachelor of Science
hoSPitality managementnigeria
Adekunbi Odunola WuraolaDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
educational PSychologynigeria
Carlos Máximo Mejía Abreu Bachelor of artSPolitical Science
nigeria
Olomu Babatunde OlukayodeDoctor of international relationS
international relationSnigeria
Itua Joseph ObaituaDoctor of PuBlic health
PuBlic healthnigeria
Dieng AbdourahmaneDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
Political Sciencenigeria
Clement Adetifa TaiwoDoctor of PhiloSoPhyBuSineSS management
nigeria
Jasmin Ynmaculada De La Cruz FríasDoctor of Science
educationDoMinican rePuBlic
Manuel Joaquin Castillo LubranoBachelor of Political Science
Political ScienceDoMinican rePuBlic
Washington Rubén Torres OrtizBachelor of BuSineSS anD econoMicS
marketingecuaDor
Filadelfo Luis Saltos MontielBachelor of Science
architectureecuaDor
Kebba Ngumbo SimaDoctor of DeveloPMent StuDieS
rural develoPmentethioPia
Maria Do Ceu Cassamano Costa Da SilvaBachelor of Science
PuBlic adminiStrationgerMany
John Okwesie ArthurDoctor of Science
accounting ghana
Faustina Ethel AmetepeMaSter of Science
Strategic managementghana
Marcus Tetteh Nettey Bachelor of Science
marketingghana
Stephen Gu-Kwadwo NtowDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
human reSourceSghana
Harold Alvarez CamposDoctor of eDucational technology
educational technologycoloMBia
Lucía Gutiérrez Cárdenas Doctor of PhiloSoPhy
latin american literaturecoloMBia
Sofia Gomez EspañaBachelor of artS
artScoloMBia
Bisimwa Nsibula Zahinda Jean Paul Doctor of PhiloSoPhy
PuBlic healthcongo
Matthew LeBlancDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
international relationSDoMinica
Gavino De Jesús De Los Santos Doctor of eDucation
educational technologyDoMinican rePuBlic
Elizabeth Coronado De De Jesús Doctor of eDucation
educational technologyDoMinican rePuBlic
German Mendoza RudecindoPoSt-Doctorate of literature
literature of the cariBBean regionDoMinican rePuBlic
Gerardo Bautista BrazobánDoctor of BuSineSS aDMiniStration
leaderShiP and adminiStrationDoMinican rePuBlic
Letty Patricia Rivera TorresBachelor of Political Science
Political ScienceDoMinican rePuBlic
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Carlos Manuel Sotomayor GuzmanDoctor of eDucation
higher educationPeru
Wilfredo Gamarra VillanuevaBachelor of Science
civil engineeringPeru
Luz Elena Geng OlaecheaDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
reSearchPeru
Irene Luna SerranoDoctor of PuBlic health
ePidemiologyPuerto rico
Jesenia Morales SantiagoDoctor of PuBlic health
educationPuerto rico
Magalis Osorio BauzoDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
educationPuerto rico
Muaeyd Essa AldhaminDoctor of Science
Project managementSauDi araBia
Charles Sulson KamaraMaSter of BuSineSS aDMiniStration
human reSource management Sierra leone
Hai Siang Ernest, ChenDoctor of PhiloSoPhySPeech communication
SingaPore
João Almeida MaSter of Science
conflict and diSPute reSolutionSouth africa
Ayii Ayii Zefferino Bachelor of Science
Political ScienceSouth SuDan
Biswajeet Kali MaSter of Science
environmental ScienceSurinaMe
Sthembile Mbatha MbingoBachelor of Science
PSychological counSelingSwazilanD
Elisha David Ole-Memiri Doctor of PhiloSoPhy
human reSourceS managementtanzania
Satya Prakash VermaDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
marketing managementuae
Badraldeen Salah Jaafar Bachelor of Science
information technologyuae
Ammar Zuhaier Abdel Rahim AlqatoBachelor of Science
electrical engineeringuae
Florence Rita MatteDoctor of Science
PuBlic healthuganDa
Dora Juliana Acevedo HenaoBachelor of Science
PSychologyuniteD KingDoM
Luis Fernando Cordero MontoyaBachelor of international relationS
international relationSuSa
Ofelia E. HernandezDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
educationuSa
Linda Carolyn CollazoBachelor of Science
BuSineSS adminiStrationuSa
Melanie Ululani Nahoopii Bathe Bachelor of BuSineSS aDMiniStration
human reSourceS management uSa
Brian Jon Martin Doctor of PSychologyhuman develoPment
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Ghada Yassin Zaki AlelemeeDoctor of ManageMent
Quality managementuSa
Matthew NkhuwaBachelor of Project ManageMent
Project managementzaMBia
Lilian Gertrude DodzoDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
educationziMBaBwe
Hildaberta Edzai Tekere Bachelor of Science
Security managementziMBaBwe
Theresa KamauDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
community StrategieS and PlanningPaPua new guinea
Walter Roberto Vásquez VilaDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
BuSineSS adminiStrationPeru
Lidia Ysabel Pareja PeraDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
leaderShiP and managementPeru
Carlos Enrique Guanilo ParedesDoctor of PhiloSoPhyinternational BuSineSS
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Saadah Muhammad AyeniMaSter of Science
environmental Sciencenigeria
Dorothy WuyepBachelor of Science
PuBlic and community healthnigeria
Isaac Olusegun AyodeleDoctor of Science
PuBlic healthnigeria
Juan Ivan Rogers HarperDoctor of PhiloSoPhy
accounting forenSic StudieSPanaMa
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have yielded excellent results whereas, I have gained much more support and trust of my supervisors and peers to handle supervisory roles and work in harmony and mutual respect with my subordinates, with due respect to diversity and gender.
My experience in AIU gives me tools to work with people in various situations and I value it for better outcome in a workplace. In addition to that, it gives me the possibility to train, guide and supervise more junior level staff too.
I am a very dynamic, posi-tive, eager to learn person and passionate about making dif-ference in other people’s lives. I will remain an ardent believer in AIU values and will continue to make a meaningful contri-bution, to this University.
Fatme Taleb KreidiehBachelor of Business Management
January 17, 2016
“As an University, AIU is so much more than
just the education you receive
or the diploma that you hang on the wall. AIU is where you begin to understand that home is not a place, that sometimes blood isn’t always thicker than water and that change is the only constant. It’s where you’re first able to introduce yourself independently to the world, allowing yourself to be who-ever you want to be. It’s where you initiate the beginning of lifelong friendships with some of the greatest people you’ll ever meet, one of them being yourself. It’s where you learn to love yourself and embrace all the parts you used to hate about yourself little by little.
AIU allows you to feel secure at a time when noth-ing is secure. your acceptance letter may as well have been a really expensive ticket to a place with four years of guar-anteed lessons and beautiful moments.
I’ve learned from AIU more than I expected, and that doesn’t feel the least bit out of context because leaving uni-versity is whole lot similar to leave your second home and also because I really whole-heartedly mean it.
Thank you advisors for all your supports and everything you have ever taught me and given me.
“This is my first time to study in such a won-
derful university, where the learning system is based on Andragogy and Omnology, which is a totally different philosophy and method where study lies upon self-actualized knowledge and information.
I have been striving to achieve my courses and as-signments all that while, due to my tight time table and busy working programme but I must say that I really appreci-ate the support, encourage-ment and the coaching of tu-tors and student services, who never failed to revive me.
The learning system has given me more added values towards and helped me to improve my skills about criti-cal analysis, problem solving, creativity, and effective com-munication. I have positioned myself as one of the most valuable resource in a variety of situations in my work.
This is one of the most wonderful events that ever happened to me during the past couple of years. Above all, allow me to say a big chapeau to AIU, for the quality of the courses designed for some of us, who are busy and to whom distance learning has been brought closer to home.
As of today and to my satis-faction I can say that, deter-mination, courage and effort
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Lucy Turkson-CofieBachelor in Business Administration
February 7, 2016
“As a child, I had a dream of schooling abroad;
so a family member who lives and works in USA gave me a brochure to select the school of my choice. My excitement dwindled as the promise of helping me through school failed but I did not rest on my oars. The desire to attend a University in my country was not there so I pursued my search for an online university. Amongst so many universities, AIU caught my attention.
Two days after filling a form, I received a call from Ofelia. She explained to me what I needed to understand, and encouraged me to pursue the program. Initially, my chal-lenge was with the fees, but she told me I could pay in install-ment. I just couldn’t hide my excitement.
What fascinated me was the discipline at which students are made to submit assignments.
Once,when an assignment was given, I did not understand it, so I produced without acknowl-edging where I got the informa-tion –then the discipline started. I was marked down and advised to resubmit since the work was not original. Plagiarism is not accepted at AIU.
That experience brought out the CAn DO spirit in me. now I see myself as a refined individual who is able to take up challenges –thanks to AIU. Along the way, I lost my job and so could not pay my tuition balance to graduate. I was heartbroken! I kept asking myself if I was going to throw away what I started, but thank God I managed to pull some funds to complete payment.
Studying online while work-ing has been so exciting. This is really a dream come true. Thanks to the initiators of Online Education. you made a dream come true. To all Tutors and Aides, I say thank you for assisting me through.
Paul Katao SilwambaMaster of Public Health
January 31, 2016
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now that space explora-tion is rising again, it
is a matter of time they start taking seriously concepts such as terraforming. As an intro-duction we can briefly explain that terraforming is the pro-cess by which all life currently living on planet Earth (not only human life) on another planet or satellite is livable and sustainable, as could be the red planet (Mars) or our nearest satellite, the Moon.
Then, just to understand a little our brief definition, what we suggest is to make some kind of surgery on other stars to turn them into “planet Earths”. It sounds easy, but it is not. In fact, this idea has sev-eral very weak factors, such as gravity, the great giant, which can deteriorate quickly an atmosphere created artificially. As you can see, we are still dreaming. But all final outcome of any scientific experiment started as a dream.
Can we terraform Mars? It would be great news –and a challenge– for humanity. For
now it is much easier to in-habit a space station, with the fact of living with meteoroids and the corresponding risk, and not being under an at-mosphere that converts these meteoroids in meteorites, in such a romantic way known as shooting stars.
And what about terraform-ing our own Moon? Accord-ing to some experts it is not a good idea since our satellite has great influence in the maritime field, among other things, but we could establish a scientific laboratory where experiments could be done in situ. We could develop as-tronomical science and study our species and those with which we coexist, both animal and plant kingdom. And by the way, of course, we could have an advanced telescope and radio equipment. Maybe it would be easier to search for other civilizations, why not?
Scientists keep dreaming, they keep doing science. And as we can proof, humankind is getting closer.Scene of The martian, a 2015 Ame-
rican science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. Publications by Students: aiu.edu/StudentPublication.html
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If true peace is to be achieved...Interview with Hon. Kogo Manase Levi nganzi, AIU graduate
what helped you the most to be considered for this great position you have achieved?
I have a background of a Degree in education/econom-ics, Post graduate specialization in International Peace Build-ing, and at the apex the MBA which I achieved at AIU. These formed the basis of my vetting by the State Legislation As-sembly which they passed for consideration for the respective positions. It has a global body of knowledge recognized in my performance.
what are the main problems your Country is facing at this moment? Can you give us a brief context?
The main problems include civil war and non adherence to peace protocol implementa-tion by the rival parties due to lack of political will though parties were forced by inter-national obligation to sign it. Secondly, crumbling economy characterized by a floating economy and the inability to tackle causes of the melt down. There is hyperinflation.
what would be the elements for a future peace in South Sudan? Is it possible?
If true peace is to be achieved, the parties to con-flict must commit themselves through political will to serve their citizens. This is only possible through the opportu-nity that has been improvised by the Compromised Peace Agreement. If the protocols are respected, then peace will be realized in collaboration to adherence to constitutional obligations. I also see the pos-sibility of further fragmenta-tion of the country based on cultural beliefs and differ-ences. Current peace may not
last long if international com-munity relaxes to monitor and perhaps take punitive actions on some leaders.
Do you think that you have been able to help your community?
yes, the community have benefited from my knowledge and that explains the trust for my subsequent appointments to the ministerial portfolios.
How can education help the world during this trou-bled times?
Through sharing of knowl-edge and experiences and learning from successful stories, not on bad past, and strategies. It can help one ad-dress global challenges using international approaches if internal solutions fail.
How has the learning process based in Andragogy from AIU impacted your life profession-ally and personally?
Professionally, I have be-come a renowned person in the political arena and that is not far from my experimental learning and prospects which I had dreamt about. I stand in most cases above others in my analysis of issues and it gives me confidence.
Personally, it is a boost in terms of respect to my fam-ily and community. non ever since God’s creation has climbed to this ladder and in my lineage, the only person so far to attain a Masters Degree. Secondly, if it weren’t for the bad economic situation charac-terized with hyperinflation, my personal income would have doubled in terms of salary. I
Kogo manase levi completed a program of Master in Business Administration at AIU. Presently,
he is working as Hon. Minister of Health and Environment for
Yei River State, in the Republic of South Sudan. Before the creation
of the new states, he served as State Minister of Labor, Public Service and Human Resource
Development for CEG-RSS
have also undertaken personal investment in form of micro finance and other small scale business –retail shop and transportation– which has increased my family income besides employing six people. All credits go to the andragogy principles. I have gained self satisfaction and further de-mand for a PhD in the nearest future possible.
How is your AIU Degree helping you in your career?
With this education attain-ment from AIU my perfor-mance in terms of productiv-ity and analysis has greatly improved in comparison to my previous experiences. I have become an advocate for AIU. Also, some of my friends from South Sudan are undertaking courses over there.
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For many humans it seems we are in societies
of antiquity, “and we seem condemned to work” like slaves, bearing their neck chain so they might don’t escape from work.
We should contextualize what work is, it is the devel-opment of the skills of a hu-man being while growing on them they get the resources necessary for their existence. So the first thing we have to change is the concept that the
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job is to be a slave and it is a punishment; the work is an opportunity.
But what we think about the work in this 21st century society? We listened as the most important news giving information about the rate of people who don’t have formal work, concept called the unemployed population. We know that people have to hold some income but sometimes those revenues are obtained in an occupation not recorded by governments so it is called informal employment or often underground economy.
The thing that we have is technology as a product of science that allows machines running through logical pro-cesses performing functions that make activities that hu-mans no longer have to run. The technology developed creates the communication society where there are many digitized functions.
The question many people ask by themselves is whether there will be more increasing-ly digitized work and man will be replaced by a machine.
yes, we are seeing that many functions, in many
companies, each day, are made through computer technology.
The first thing we have to do is to identify technologies and then analyze what can happen and why.
The first; technology is functional applications made as a result of Basic Sci-ence; Technology is Applied Science.
Today we talk about smart technology and artificial in-telligence; intelligent technol-ogy is one in which a logical software by certain functions are performed whenever the programmed circuits iden-tify the specific elements of the program performing the activity for which they were designed.
In the case of artificial intelligence system that performs the operations for which it was programmed it must also possess deci-sions based on emotions, like humans.
now what workers fear. Workers fear to be replaced first by the smart technol-ogy. Workers also think that this technology helps a lot to work. Where is the problem?
The problem is when there are so many smart technol-ogy, and human occupation is in a small proportion.
The solution for a balanced society will agree on how to do their job the human be-ing. If we don’t deal in your activities well and in time we will have more technology itself replacing the work that humans do.
Why will it happen?
Simply because the ma-chines or robots don’t have to receive extra services, machines or robots not bother and go on strike and the machines shouldn’t be given severance pay of a job or social security.
If you want to get a job with all that it implies, you have to be smarter than machines or robots because humans are created but will become
the masses of workers in the future, if we want.
What do you think we need to do for a gift as pre-cious as water, work: we have to do our job well and on time: Effectiveness and efficiency and above humans with smart technology and artificial intelligence for if we be-lieve will be intelligent to live more and better.
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Learning more than one language enables new conversations and
new experiences. But in recent years, psychology researchers have demon-strated some less obvious advantages of bilingualism, too. For instance, bilingual children may enjoy certain cognitive benefits, such as improved executive function –which is critical for problem solving and other men-tally demanding activities.
now, two new studies demonstrate that multilingual exposure improves not only children’s cognitive skills but also their social abilities.
One study from Katherine Kinzler’s developmental psychology lab –con-ducted in collaboration with psycholo-gists Boaz Keysar, Zoe Liberman and Samantha Fan at the University of
Chicago, and published in the journal Psychological Science– shows that mul-tilingual children can be better at com-munication than monolingual children.
Interpreting someone’s utterance of-ten requires attending not just to its con-tent, but also to the surrounding context. What does a speaker know or not know? What did she intend to convey? Chil-dren in multilingual environments have social experiences that provide routine practice in considering the perspec-tives of others: They have to think about who speaks which language to whom, who understands which content, and the times and places in which different languages are spoken.
Last year, a handful of excellent documentaries exploring the lives
of late artists allowed their subjects to tell their own stories through archi-val audio interviews. From “Amy” to “Sinatra,” “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck,” “Listen to Me Marlon” and more, these docs resurrected the voices of their artists and returned the narratives of their lives back into their own hands. It’s a thrilling aesthetic choice that yields intimate rewards, and now the style has been applied to the iconic Stanley Kubrick.
In a short documentary by Jim Casey that debuted online last year, the early life and feature films of the great Stanley Kubrick are explored and discussed by the filmmaker himself. According to Casey’s notes,
the narration was pulled from interviews that took place in 1966 with Jeremy Bernstein, who was writing a profile on the director for The New Yorker and who used these recordings as a chance to gather information.
The short 24-minute documentary, entitled “Stanley Kubrick: The Lost Tapes,” is a must-see for anyone who considers himself/herself a Kubrick fan. In talking about his childhood frustrations and his early obsessions with photography, Kubrick reveals what kind of person he really was before his great masterpieces turned him into the legend we know today.
Watch video: www.indiewire.com/article/watch-
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Kubrick: the lost tapes
Superior social skills
Humans have been taking a beating from computers lately. The 4-1
defeat of Go grandmaster Lee Se-Dol by Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence (AI) is only the latest in a string of pur-suits in which technology has triumphed over humanity. Self-driving cars are already less accident-prone than human drivers, the TV quiz show Jeopardy! is a lost cause, and in chess humans have fallen so woefully behind computers that a recent international tournament was won by a mobile phone.
There is a real sense that this month’s human vs AI Go match marks a turn-ing point. Go (the game) has long been
held up as requiring levels of human intuition and pattern recognition that should be beyond the powers of number-crunching computers.
AlphaGo’s win over one of the world’s best players has reignited fears over the pervasive application of deep learning and AI in our future –fears famously expressed by Elon Musk as “our greatest existential threat”.
We should consider AI a threat for two reasons, but there are approaches we can take to minimise that threat.
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We might very well be if recent results from the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, hinting at activity beyond the Standard Model of physics, are confirmed.
Physicists working at the LHC particle accelerator at the European Organization for nuclear Research (CERn) saw traces of physics beyond the standard model of particle phys-ics. This indication emerged from the latest analysis of data collected by the LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment in 2011 and 2012.
Currently, the Standard Model is the best explanation we have for how the universe works and how it’s held together. However, there are also large
discrepancies in the model, including the fact that it does not account for gravity. This is the reason why scien-tists have spent decades trying to find signs of any activity that the Standard Model can’t explain –and now they finally might have.
Shortly after starting the analysis, an anomaly was discovered surround-ing a particle called a B meson. These mesons are composed of a light quark, which we can find in protons and neu-trons that form matter all around us, as well as a heavy beauty antiquark, which can be created in the LHC col-lider. Image: Ádám Szedlák/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
Read full note: thescienceexplorer.com/universe/
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Beyond the Standard ModelAre we about to enter a new era in physics?
Google’s Go victory shows AI thinking can be unpredictable, and that’s a concern
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returned from his 340-day mis-sion aboard the ISS (International Space Station). The record breaking mission has seen Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko spend almost a year in space, and scientists hope to gain an insight into what long stays in microgravity do to the body, with views on missions to Mars in the future.
Over the last year, Commander Kelly has not only been in charge of the ISS and conducted important scientific experiments, but he has also been an avid scientific communicator, posting incredible photos on his Twitter page. Here’s a couple of his best shots.
Read full note: www.iflscience.com/space/10-amazing-
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Last fall Joi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, stood onstage
during the Lab’s 30th anniversary celebration and made a declaration. “Connecting science and design is the future of the Media Lab,” he told audience members, many of whom are experienced in both disciplines. The subtext of Ito’s statement was that the world is quickly changing. Science, design, art, and engineering, long con-sidered their own areas of focus, are no longer domains to be explored in isolation, but together, in the hopes of expediting progress and discovery.
Ito’s announcement was very much in keeping with the Lab’s unorthodox approach to collaborative research. Since its inception in 1985, the Me-dia Lab has embraced the ideals of antidisciplinary work, which is not the same thing as interdisciplinary work. As Ito himself describes it in the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS): “Interdisciplinary work is when people from different disciplines work together. But antidisciplinary is something very different; it’s about working in spaces that simply do not fit into any existing academic disci-pline –a specific field of study with its own particular words, frameworks, and methods.” Read full note: www.wired.com/2016/03/mit-media-labs-journal-design-science-radical-new-kind-publication/
In this tweet, Kelly said: “#Bahamas, the strokes of your watercolors are always a refreshing sight.” The image of the Caribbean archipelagus was taken July 2015.
“#GoodMorning #Egypt! Your colors never cease to amaze! #YearInSpace “ tweeted Kelly after taking this breathtaking picture of the Governorate of Wadi Al-Jadid, Egypt.
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1 Try to steam, bake, grill or eat foods raw.
2 Fill the majority of your plate with fresh and col-
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3 Avoid processed sugars and refined food.
4 Drink 1/3 your body weight in lbs of water
every day in ounces (oz). For example: 200 lbs x 33% = 66 oz (equivalent to 8 cups).
5 Combine protein with carbs to stay full longer.
6 Do not count calories, just watch portion sizes.
Remember to purchase items made with natural ingredients. If it is impossible to locate an item that can’t be purchased without processed ingredients i.e. ketchup or mustard, prepare it yourself at home.
See the clean eating grocery shopping infographic here: www.changeinseconds.com/clean-eating-grocery-list/
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Rosie King is bold, brash and autistic. She wants
to know: Why is everyone so worried about being normal?
Just an excerpt from her TED Talk: “I haven’t told many people this, but in my head, I’ve got thousands of secret worlds all going on all at the same time. I am also autistic.
People tend to diagnose autism with really specific check-box descriptions, but in reality, it’s a whole variation as to what we’re like. For in-stance, my little brother, he’s very severely autistic. He’s nonverbal. He can’t talk at all. But I love to talk. People often associate autism with liking maths and science and noth-ing else, but I know so many
autistic people who love being creative. But that is a stereo-type, and the stereotypes of things are often, if not always, wrong. For instance, a lot of people think autism and think “Rain Man” immediately. That’s the common belief, that every single autistic person is Dustin Hoffman (‘s character), and that’s not true.
But that’s not just with au-tistic people, either. I’ve seen it with LGBTQ people, with women, with POC people. People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with re-ally specific labels.”
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What if religion was each other?If our practice was our life?If prayer was our words?What if the Temple was the Earth?If forests were our church?If holy water —the rivers, lakes and oceans?What if meditation was our relationships?If the Teacher was life?If wisdom was self-knowledge?If love was the center of our being
Ganga White is the founder of the White Lotus Foundation and is recognized as an out-standing teacher and exponent of Yoga. He has been called one of the “architects of American yoga” and a “pioneer of yoga” by the Yoga Journal.
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Exercise while cleaning your clothes.Bike Washing Machine combines
a stationary bicycle and a washing machine, so you can exercise while at the same time washing your clothes. When you ride this bike, the pedal-ing motion causes the drum of the washing machine to rotate, this way superfluous electricity is generated which can be used to power the dis-play screen or stored for future use.
Designers: Xuefei Liu, Di Fang, Linhao Su, zhanbing Li, Xiaoyu Gao Xueyi Wang, Wen Fan, Liying zhu, Deqian zhao, Huan Li, Mengmeng Hu, and Weiwei Li, of Dalian Na-tional University. Source: www.tuvie.com
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Agar Plasticity
This project combines two activities into one. Riding a bike is a popular
exercise, washing laundry is something that you might do on daily basis or at least once a week (unless you keep buying new clothes and underwear), so why not combine them into a single useful equipment/appliance?
Plastic is ubiquitous in packaging for food, toys, and every type of
product in between. And even with significant recycling efforts, plastic cannot –unlike aluminum and glass–be recycled over and over again. Plas-tic is also notorious for its resistance to decomposition, with estimates placing its life cycle somewhere between 500 and 1,000 years.
Concerned about the implications of using so much plastic, a new Japanese design company, AMAM, is devel-oping a more earth-friendly way to package goods. Called Agar Plasticity, the product is derived from agar, a gelatinous material that can be readily found in red marine algae. The design team’s project is one of four finalists for the 2016 Lexus Design Award, which is pairing each team with a design mentor to bring a prototype to life for Milan Design Week.
The trio behind AMAM, Kosuke Araki, Noriaki Maetani, and Akira Muraoka, are all working designers, and they teamed up in 2015 to create things beyond their respective areas of interest. Araki says that Agar Plastic-ity is the group’s first collaborative project. Read full note: www.good.is/articles/agar-
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Seaweed-based material could replace plastic packaging
At this Missouri Humane Society, the Shelter Buddies Reading
Program pairs kids age 6 to 15 with fearful dogs to prepare them for life in a forever home. After completing a 10 hour training program, the kids sit in front of a she dog’s kennel and read to them from a book.
“We wanted to help our shy and fearful dog without forcing physical interaction with them to see the posi-tive effect that could have on them,” program director Jo Klepacki told The Dodo website. “Ideally that shy and fearful dog will approach and show interest. If so, the kids reenforce that behavior by tossing them a treat.”
Reading to the dogs helps to bring comfort to and reduce the anxiety of shelter pets, and it nurtures empathy in children.
Reading helps shy dogs learn to relax around people and teaches high energy dogs that calm behavior is desirable. When children tell stories to the dogs, it also helps them develop their own reading skills!
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One for one bikes
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The need for more bicycles in the developing world is big. In fact, it’s
huge –an estimated 80 million bikes. So Vélosophy, a Swedish bicycle brand that gives back, took the decision –to donate a bicycle for each one sold. One for one they’ll pay it forward.
Their promise is achieved in co-operation with UnICEF, with whom Vélosophy have set up a 3-year project to donate bicycles to young schoolgirls in Ghana.
There, a bike stands for so much
more than just a way to move forward in style. Bicycles actually empower women –and girls increase attendance in school with almost 30% and their results with nearly 60% when they have access to a bike of their own– and that’s why this company donates bicycles to young girls.
So, when you buy a Vélosophy, you are so much more than just a custom-er –you are actually making a positive social footprint.Source: www.velosophy.cc/one-for-one
Each purchase of this brand means a new bike for a young school girl in Ghana.
Children practice their reading skills to calm shy shelter dogs.
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course, creativity and commerce are not natural bedfellows. But they can be complementary, rather than contradictory, disciplines. It takes a special kind of person to be equally comfortable with rock musicians and accountants.
“My belief is that, when God gives you something special –a tal-ent– he takes a little bit away from
somewhere else. If you look at any artist, they’ve all got something missing. And I’m the guy that re-places it.” Bill Curbishley, manager, the Who.
Creatives should cherish account management precisely because they “love the jobs you hate”.
We should embrace the inherent dissonance between commerce and creativity as a healthy tension in a business that thrives on diversity.
Inevitably the music industry supplies numerous stories of commercial hero-ism. When CBS offered Elvis Presley an unprecedented $50,000 to appear on the Ed Sullivan TV Show, his man-ager Colonel Tom Parker replied:
“Well that sounds pretty good to me. But what about my boy?”
Clearly a creative business should celebrate commercial as well as creative success. It should lionise the people that arbitrate on its behalf; that pioneer new sources of revenue; that realise creative value.
5 seize the opportunity inherent in change. The best commercial
brains see opportunity rather than threat in changing market conditions. Even amidst the turmoil that is the modern music industry.
One of the curiosities of creative businesses is that they are often quite conservative. They get set in their ways, wedded to the processes and practices that delivered success in the past. We need more commercial optimists addressing the opportuni-ties inherent in change; more business minds focused on re-engineering the model; re-inventing the fundamentals of how we work.
2 Believe in the value of creativity. It’s clear that the best music indus-
try managers believe passionately in the value of creativity. They are robust negotiators who do everything in their power to realise that value.
In the broader creative sector we should do more to demonstrate our own belief in creativity: that it has a value; that that value is worth protect-ing; that without proper commercial advocacy that value will be diluted, commoditised, exploited.
3 Recognise the special talent of empathy. Scooter Braun is one
of a new generation of talent manage-ment. He took Justin Bieber from you-Tube star to global brand. He suggests that management can bring to the table a common touch; an understand-ing of how popular tastes are changing and how the public will respond to new ideas.
The best managers, while not creating work themselves, are brilliantly em-pathetic: they recognise ideas that will resonate with ordinary people and they can therefore gently steer a concept towards its most effective execution.
4 celebrate the commercial skills that realise creative value.
Read full article by Jim Carroll: www.theguard-ian.com/media-network/2016/mar/21/five-lessons-creative-businesses-music-management
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7. any damn fool can predict the past. Generals are famous for this, and certain writers too.
8. History never repeats itself.
9. Ethics changes with technology.
10. anarchy is the least stable of social structures. It falls apart at a touch.
11. There is a time and a place for tact. (And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.)
12. The ways of being human are bound but infinite.
13. The world’s dullest subjects, in order: a. Somebody else’s diet. b. How to make money for a worthy cause. c. Special-Interest Liberation.
14. The only universal message in sci-ence fiction: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently. Niven’s corollary: The gene-tampered turkey you’re talking to need not be one of them.
15. Niven’s law for musicians: If the applause wasn’t louder than the music, something’s wrong. Play better or softer.
16. fuzzy pink Niven’s law: never waste calories. Potato chips, candy, or hot fudge sundae consumption may involve you, your doctor, your wardrobe, and other fac-tors. But Fuzzy Pink’s Law implies:
Don’t eat soggy potato chips. Or cheap candy. Or an inferior hot fudge sundae. Or a cold soggy pizza.
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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
Mario CruzAdministrative Coordinator
Yolanda LlorenteAdministrative 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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