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Thesis defence

JANUARY 21, 2022. Atlantic International University is delighted to share the Thesis Defense of one of our students, Mboule Andre, from Cameroon, which was graded with an A. The thesis was titled, “Conceptualizing the project-based approach as a model to apply in entrepreneurial initiatives and business development. Application to the “Fountain of Living Water” Foundation in the Christian ministry.” Abstract: One of the reasons that press young people in entrepreneurship might be “to see their ideas realized.” This research topic, the “projectbased approach” (PBAp), aims at providing an entrepreneur with the skills, competences, and processes for a full control of the product or service. This qualitative study used the Delphi method – with a panel of 12 experts - as the research design. It characterized the PBAp with superordinate or “stem” concepts, basic concepts, and specific concepts. The designed PBAp model consists of basic pillars such as People, Processes, and Technologies. The application of the PBAp model in the FOLW... Mboule Andre completed a Doctorate Program in Project Management at Atlantic International University.

Thesis defense

JANUARY 21, 2022. Atlantic International University is delighted to share the Thesis Defense of one of our students, Uzochukwu Nnenyelike, from Cameroon, which was graded with an A. The thesis was titled, “Micro-Financing as a Tool for Poverty Eradication and Economic Growth in Nigeria.” Abstract: The study examined micro-financing as a tool for poverty eradication in the Nigerian economy. The study seeks to explore the most beneficial services of microfinance to the low-income group in Nigeria. Also, the study investigates the contribution of microfinance institutions to business startups among the low-income group and examines the impact of microfinance institutions on poverty reduction and economic growth. Mixed design techniques were employed. Secondary data were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria Bulletin 2019 where primary data were derived from the administration of questionnaires to seventyseven low-income groups in Lagos. Nigeria. IBM-SPSS version 22.0 and E-VIEW 9.0 were used in data analysis. Findings revealed that most of the participants expressed that microfinance provides loans to the low-income group to support existing business operations as well as household support in terms of payment of school fees and other household chores. Also, Findings from the secondary data analysis show that microfinance bank credit, microfinance bank deposit, and microfinance investment contribute positively and significantly to the gross domestic product during the period under investigation. ... Uzochukwu Nnenyelike completed a Doctorate Program in Business Administration at Atlantic International University.

17 TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Call for Papers This Conference will be held 21–23 July 2023 at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - School of Philosophy, Athens, Greece. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/ interactive sessions, posters/ exhibits, colloquia, focused discussions, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. 2023 Special Focus: “At the Crossroads of Paradigms: Considering Heterodoxy in the Social Sciences” Theme 1: Social and Community Studies. Theme 2: Civic and Political Studies. Theme 3: Cultural Studies. Theme 4: Global Studies. Theme 5: Environmental Studies. Theme 6: Organizational Studies. Theme 7: Educational Studies. Theme 8: Communication. Become a Presenter: 1. Submit a proposal 2. Review timeline 3. Register Regular proposal deadline April 21, 2022 Regular registration deadline June 21, 2022 Visit the website: https://thesocialsciences.com

12 TH DISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON Aging & Social Change

Call for Papers This Conference will be held 22–23 September 2022 at Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/ interactive sessions, posters/ exhibits, colloquia, focused discussions, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. 2023 Special Focus: “Considering Aging Policies: Between the Local and the Global” Theme 1: Economic and Demographic Perspectives on Aging. Theme 2: Public Policy and Public Perspectives on Aging. Theme 3: Medical Perspectives on Aging, Health, Wellness. Theme 4: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Aging. Become a Presenter: 1. Submit a proposal 2. Review timeline 3. Register Regular proposal deadline June 22, 2022 Regular registration deadline August 22, 2022 Visit the website: https://agingandsocialchange.com

Thesis defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2022. Atlantic International University is delighted to share the Thesis Defense of one of our students, Nathaniel Ebo Nsarko, which was graded with an A. The thesis was titled, “The art of leveraging ICT to bridge the communication gap between agricultural research, academia, and small-scale farmers in Ghana”. Abstract: The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) is revolutionizing the agriculture sector, and the benefit it brings is enormous. This study explores ICT innovations and solutions in agriculture, by using it as a communication tool through the TeleAgric Programme towards its development in Ghana. Focus is placed on enhancing information ... Nathaniel Ebo Nsarko successfully completed a Doctorate Program in Development Communication at Atlantic International University.

Graduated with Distinction

FEBRUARY, 2022. These graduate students completed their program with a high cumulative grade point average, which reflects the quality of performance within their respective major. Congratulations!

DISTINCTION
Steven Michael Bahler
Doctor of Philosophy
Educational Administration and Leadership

DISTINCTION
Freda Isioma Nwaulune
Master of Science
Psychology

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Boureima Kabore
Doctor of Public Health
Public Health
Burkina Faso
Hobah Rogoto
Doctor of International Relations
International Relations
Burkina Faso
Havyarimana Jean-Marie Vianney
Master of Science
Information Technology
Burundi
Bolomiki Amassoka Jonas
Master of Business Administration
Marketing
Cameroo n
Ramon Miguel Burgos Solis
Doctor of Education
Education
Chile
Patricio Lorenzo Oxa Gallegos
Doctor of Philosop hy
Nutrition
Chile
           
Valeria Fernandes Faria
Bachelor of Project Management
Risk Mangement
Chile
Rony Miguel Sierra Rozo
Bachelor of Network Technology
Network Technology
Colombia
Grace Paluku Kasayi Mawa Claude
Master of Social and Human Studies
Human Rights
Congo (DRC )
Abdillahi Abdourahman Ahmed
Master of Science
Financial Accounting
Djibo ut
Francisco Tamarez Suero
Doctor of Education
Education
Dominican Republic
Julia Elena Rodríguez Bautista
Doctor of Philosop hy
Auditing and Risk Management
Dominican Republic
           
Elbi Morla Baez
Doctor of Science
Scientific Research
Dominican Republic
John Antonio Garaycoa Cárdenas
Bachelor of Science
Criminology
Ecuador
Isabel Adelaida Castro Domínguez
Doctor of Philosop hy
Education
Ecuador
David Isaac Figueroa Avendaño
Bachelor of Science
Industrial Engineering
El Salvador
Héctor Geovanni Aguilera Rivas
Bachelor of Theology
Theology
El Salvador
Adam Sabbagh
Doctor of Science
Science
Germany
           
Keza Nea Vanelli
Bachelor of Science
Psychology
Germany
Emmanuel Kofi Mensah
Bachelor of Science
Civil Engineering
Ghana
Gertrude Kafui Boamah
Master of Music
Music
Ghana
Keren Castellanos Garza
Doctor of Philosop hy
Public Health
Guatemala
Mónica Alejandra Espinoza Cálix
Bachelor of Science
Educational Psychology
Honduras
Audley Gary Facey
Doctor of Philosop hy
Animal Science
Jamaica
           
Agnes Salome Awuor
Doctor of Philosop hy
Educational Administration
Kenya
Aubrey Edward Sumbuleta
Master of Communications
Public Relations
Malawi
Bernard Cyril Percy Kallee
Bachelor of Business Administration
Business Administration
Mauritius
Felipe Morales Camargo
Bachelor of Science
Electrical Engineering
Mexico
Pelwin Norman
Master of Education
Education
Micronesia
Steven Michael Bahler
Doctor of Philosop hy
Educational Administration and Leadership
Myanmar
           
Amadou Roufaye Ousmane Mahamane
Doctor of Finance
Finance
Niger
Ebozele Angela Izanale
Doctor of Economics
Economic and Social Development
Nigeria
Mercy Eberechukwu Opara
Doctor of Education
Education
Nigeria
Freda Isioma Nwaulune
Master of Science
Psychology
Nigeria
Frank Obiora Ibezim
Doctor of Science
Operations Management
Nigeria
Beetseh, Christopher Egu
Bachelor of Science
Business Administration
Nigeria
           
Stephen Gowon John-Oti
Doctor of Philosop hy
Forensic Accounting
Nigeria
Ore Lateef Olanrewaju
Bachelor of Management
Travel and Tourism Management
Nigeria
Bixby Beauty Tapiero Candanedo
Doctor of Science
Nutrition
Panama
Héctor I. Rivera Maldonado
Doctor of Education
Education
Puerto Rico
Abdirahman H Osman Ahmed
Bachelor of Project Management
Project Management
Somalia
Thul’sile Alice Mamba
Master of Business Administration
Finance
South Africa
           
Rosario Jean-Baptiste
Certificate of Education
Spanish Language
St. Kitts and Nevis
Thandolwenkosi Amelia Shongwe
Master of Human Resource Management
Human Rights
Swaziland
Sithembiso Vuhahulla
Doctor of Education
Educational Psychology
Tanzania
Gürol Mumcu
Master of Arts
Business Administration
Turkey
Yücel Başoğlu
Bachelor of Science
Computer Engineering
Turkey
Rose Ejoru
Bachelor of Public Health
Public Health
Uganda
           
Inés Guerra Martinotti
Bachelor of Marketing
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Uruguay
Crystal Peña Felix
Bachelor of Education
Educational Psychology
US A
Samuel Chukwunwike Ogbogu
Doctor of Philosop hy
Environmental Science
US
Ruth Gabriela Rojas
Bachelor of Science
Nutrition
US A
Amstrong Joseph Jean-Charles
Doctor of Political Science
Business Management
US A
 
           

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TESTIMONIALS

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Ivan Craig
Master of Agricultural Science
November 19, 2021
“My name is Ivan William Craig of Zimbabwe. I was enrolled with Atlantic International University for a Bachelor in Technology Advances in Agriculture and Extension which I was so excited about to complete. My wish was to improve academically but due to pressure of work I failed to accomplish that, in many cases I got carried away and registered with several local colleges and the other time I tried with South African correspondence colleges but my dear friends it was just in vein until a friend introduced me to Atlantic International University (AIU), from then I never looked back on my education life, which started to improve positively. I found it exciting at the same time challenging to go through the program, it excited me in the sense that the knowledge I was using in my course work, most of it was from my day today work and acquiring knowledge from the farmers and fellow technocrats I worked with in the agriculture and extension fraternity, I owe it to the farmers and technocrats of Zimbabwe of which the repayment is easy, I just have to deliver for the betterment of my country on food security and balanced nutrition. My focus as I implement my acquired knowledge is to see the rural economic recovery of Zimbabwe through skilled empowerment and employment creation as cushion against rural-urban migration, to curtail urban population pressure and related health risks while balancing rural/ urban population distribution and per capita living standards. Let me openly admit that the program prepared me sufficiently to face the food security, nutrition and poor living standards challenges being faced by Africa as a whole if not the world. ... READ FULL TEXT: https://www.aiu.edu/Testimonialdetail.html?It emID=1781&rcid=73&pcid=63&cid=73.

Cynthia Sukhai
Master of Forensic Psychology
December 3, 2021

“I, Cynthia. S. Sukhai, applied at Atlantic International University (AIU) in December, 2020 to continue my studies in Psychology. My field of study was Forensic Psychology, I applied to the Master’s program in Forensic Psychology. The estimated time for completion of this program was two (2) years, however, I completed it in approximately one (1) year. The time I spent studying at this university was very productive, I gained more knowledge on my field of study which made me improved my recognition as it relates to employment. The courses were structured to ensure learning would take place without any confusion. I was extremely pleased with the fact that I was able to work at my own pace, due to my work schedules it would have been difficult for me to have a set class time. Another factor that I experienced while studying at AIU was the fast-marking period. When I submitted an assignment, it was graded in a few days, the most. Besides the academic satisfactions, during my time at AIU I had the pleasure of communicating with a few of the staff members. Ms. Judith Brown, Ms. Liliana Penaranda and Dr. Edward Lambert, they were extremely pleasant and encouraging throughput my time at this university. Ms. Judith Brown was my Admissions Counselor, she was one of the first representatives of the university that I spoke with, and from her encouraging words I knew this was the right university for me. Ms. Liliana Penaranda was the tutor assigned to me, she assisted me to the best of her abilities and her efforts were appreciated. Dr. Edward lambert assisted me with my final thesis, he gave me great ideas and was very supportive. Overall, I can say with no hesitation that my experience here at AIU was the best experience I had with any university, that is why I applied at AIU to further my studies in attaining a PhD ... Read full text: https://www.aiu.edu/Testimonialdetail.html?Ite mID=1783&rcid=73&pcid=63&cid=73 Christian Nnatuanya
Doctor of Information Technology
December 10, 2021

“My name is Christian Nnatuanya, a PhD student of Atlantic International University (AIU). I got to know about AIU online while on my usual way of surfing the internet. I applied to be admitted as one of their students and within a very short interval, I was contacted by the University admission official. I was right away interviewed, and it was more of a conversation. I was and am still happy with the manner I was approached and orally examined. After fulfilling all the admissions requirements, I was offered an admission in the school with a parttime scholarship. This made schooling easy and very affordable for me, coming from a developing country with a very weak economy. Schooling at AIU made me have an all new experience of healthy and enjoyable education. I was able to combine my demanding job with education. Learning was made interactive and interesting for me. The tutors I met in AIU were always supportive and available to assist. With the manner the school activities were designed, learning became more entertaining for me ... Read full text: https://www.aiu.edu/Testimonialdetail.html?Ite mID=1785&rcid=73&pcid=63&cid=73

Understanding theories and beliefs on Animal’s Behavior

Sabrina E. Donaldson | Master Degree in Animal Science | Part 2/2


Ethology & Neuroscience Ethology is the term used to study animal behavior. This means that the person who studies ethology is known as an; ethologist. Scientists who study the behavior of animals and work with animals know when they are in a certain mood. This knowledge will help scientists who breed animals to know when it is their mating season based on signs and symptoms displayed by the animal. Ethologist do believe that the secrets to how an animal behave is dependent upon the animal’s gene (Grandin & Deesing, 2013). Then and there, ethologist have a different point of view of belief than the founder of “Behaviorism”, J.B. Watson (1930). Ethologists believe that firstly, identifying the genotype and phenotype of animals which lead them to observe their genes to discover and figure out why animals behave a particular way. Neuroscience helps to defend or co-relates with Darwin’s point of view as it relates to his theory or belief on emotions in animals. From this, scientist looked at brain systems that control emotions. The four main emotional systems located in the subcortical areas of the brain are; FEAR, RAGE, PANIC and SEEKING (Grandin & Deesing, 2013). Scientists discovered that these emotional systems in the brain show or explain animals behavior or those that looked deeply into things and realized the differences between an animal’s and a human’s brain. This is how the sub-topic “Neuroscience”, comes about and how it’s relates to the information discussed.

Young animals raised in separate environments can have an effect on the development of their nervous system of the animals. For example; wild animals are mostly reared in wild areas or woodlands, deserts etc. These animals are mostly prone to being wild or more active than animals raised in a zoo (enclose area), house (pets) etc. Animals reared in a household, their behaviors are generally different than those raised in the field where all other animals are and entangles with multiple different animal, observing and attracting their behaviors. An Animal’s behavior is dependent upon a lot of factors, it can also be the case where they live in the field or woodland amongst many different or same species. These animals tend to behave wilder, aggressive, etc. This is why the scientist discovers that the environment can play a major factor on the development of an animal’s nervous system. Animal’s behavior can be due to a whole lot of factors. Animals do produce hormones that are somewhat similar to those produces or secretes in a human’s body especially for mammalians. The adrenal glands do have an effect on an animal’s behavior. Why? The adrenal gland secretes hormones; adrenaline and noradrenaline. In human biology and physiology, (It is expressed/outlined/stated that) the inner and outer portion of the adrenal glands are responsible for the secretion of these hormones. The inner portion of the animals’ adrenal gland will secrete the adrenaline. This hormone is usually released when the animal is under attack (FEAR / PANIC), and this goes right back to the emotional system of the animal which is reflected based on their response in behavior. If an animal is being attacked by a predator, this means that the animal will become FEARFUL of the other and tries to get out of its reach, to be able to survive. These signs can be detected based on the animal facial expressions sometimes, they might run, they might portray some escape behavior. Wilder species would protract stronger fearful response compared to domestic animals such as; cattle and sheep (Grandin & Deesing, 2013). If an animal is undergoing their mating season for example; swine (pig) they display behavioral signs such as; restlessness, standing heat etc. These are responses or signs given off to animal breeders or artificial inseminators would look out for in an animal behavior to know when it’s their mating season. This is how animal reproduction comes in place. Ethologist also looked into several means to know reason why animals behave a particular way.

Difference between innate and learned behaviors Animal’s behavior can also be summarized into two terms; “innate” and “learned” behavior. In a regular situation, if you place your index finger in a baby’s hand middle or foot bottom, they will automatically grab unto your finger (Bozeman Science, 2012). Babies aren’t born with any knowledge of anything, but with this behavior or reaction babies give when place your finger there, it shows that babies are born with this instinct of theirs. This way of action is called innate. There are some animals that naturally born portraying a particular activity which isn’t something they learn but they just naturally do it. This is what innate behaviors are all about animals displaying a certain behavior that they are born doing without learning it from any other organism.

Learned behavior is much more detailed then innate behavior. Learned behavior is self-explanatory, meaning, these animals would learn these types of behaviors that they portray. Ethologist studies the different behaviors animals display by observing them, and placing them around certain animals or even humans and carrying out researches and experiments to see and know how animals react differently to stimuli. Learned behaviors are as follows; imprinting, associative learning, trial & error, observational learning and insight (Bozeman Science, 2012). Imprinting is a type of learned behavior where the baby/offspring of animals watch and observe their mother’s behavior. For example; a duckling can imprint on humans when they are very young. If you take away the mother the ducklings and replace with a human (woman or man), they will imprint on the human, thinking it’s their mother. Ducklings often imprint on humans and this is how we discuss the process of the animals learning this particular behavior by imprinting on humans. (Bozeman Science, 2012) Associative learning is a process through which animals go through to learn and react to a particular stimuli based on what is being taught. Ethologist studies many different ways to see how animals will behave or react to a particular stimulus, however the theory on “Pavlov’s dog”, where he rings a bell and each time in ringing the bell he observes and watched the reaction of the dog by observing his salivary discharge. Dogs are very smart and observant animals in the animal kingdom, they are so smart that they can sense and identify their food with ease. Sometimes when the bell is rung and there was no food, the saliva of the dog would not be so much, if you show them food alone their saliva might not be enough either. If you ring the bell and show the food at the same time, their saliva will be longer or increase than the first two trials. This is showing that the animal is reacted to this stimulus the best, he reacts faster when the bell was rung along with the presence of food. (Bozeman Science, 2012)

Trail & Error Learning is a method of observing animal’s behavior by carrying out experiments to test their reaction and see how they will behave as well as to teach them. This type of behavior learnt by animals is associated with the B.F. Skinner experiment with his skinner box in which he used to teach the rat a lesson and know when to and when not to go for the food and know the difference between the two lights. This is how this learning technique can be applied to B.F. Skinner experiment by teaching the animal and allowing them to learn and see how they will react based on applying rewards such as food and a shock to let them know not to go when it’s a red light.

(Bozeman Science, 2012) Observational learning is basically when animal’s watch and observe each other as well as watching and observing humans and is following what they do. For example, based on scientific research, it was said that monkeys are almost or close to being humans. Why do you think that conclusion was made? Monkeys are smart and very observant. They will watch you and mimic or follow your every move and action. That’s how they learn easily and adopt to their very own environments. This brings us back to realizing that animals learn based on the environment s they are living in. If a monkey is placed in a home with only humans, he will follow their every movement and attempt to behave like humans e.g. monkeys can stick out their tongue if they catch you doing it to them. If you place them in the jungle or zoo they will behave like their family. At the zoo, monkeys sometime behave like humans because they are seeing visitors (people) and they copy the humans’ behavior towards them. That’s how they learn and portray that behavior as well. Animals can observe their surroundings and learn based on the actions displayed. If someone places a finger on the top of their forehead, the chimpanzee will follow and copy the action; placing its finger to its forehead just the same. Motor neuron and mirror neuron are what helps with their learning and observation to follow what they saw. This is how they observe what you are doing and learn from your actions.

(Bozeman Science, 2012) Insight, this is where animal’s such as chimpanzees are given something to try and solve a particular puzzle or challenge. For example; placing a chimpanzee in a room that has boxes or crates and the objective is for the animal to reach a bunch of bananas hanging from the ceiling. In order for the chimpanzee to reach the bananas, it has to place boxes or crates on top of each other to reach them. It must be taken into account their brain isn’t fully developed or as developed as humans to know what do at the same time, hence they will try and try until they finally solve the problem by placing the boxes on top of each other to complete its goal. This is called insight, they might not born or have the essential knowledge needed to complete or solve problems but they try and try until they finally figure out what is required to get something done. This is how animals learn and this is how ethologist discover what they are capable of and how to work with them and improve on their learning abilities. (Bozeman Science, 2012)

Conclusion There is a very complex interaction or relation with observing animal’s based on genetic features as well as environmental factors which determines an animal’s behavior. An animal’s temperament can be influenced or affected (positively) by both an animal’s genetics (genotype and phenotype) as well as learning. Animal’s behaviors can be detected through; genetics’ according to scientist and physiologist that studies behaviorism and how genetics can affect animal’s behaviors, the study of ethology can show and explain how animal’s behavior based. They will be teaching the animals or showing the animal’s a particular item, which leads back to learned behavior which is a part of the study of animal’s behavior. Animals can learn how to behave by: learning whether they will watch and observe another organism, habituate just by them seeing or viewing the same stimuli over and over, learning through trial and error which is associated with what B.F. Skinner theory is about. Animals can learn a variety of ways and their behaviors can be detected by carrying out test and experiments. “Animals are interesting living organisms which play important roles in biodiversity, it is important that their behaviors are understood”. The End

REFERENCES. Bozeman Science. (2012, April 26). Animal Behavior {Paul Andersen steps you through eight types of animal behavior. He starts by defining ethology and explaining that behavior varies from innate to learned. He discusses each of the following with examples; instinct, fixed action pattern, imprinting, associative learning, trial and error learning, habituation, observational learning and insight.}.Retrieved from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hREwakXmAo&t=1s • Gillian P. McHugo, Michael J. Dover & David E. MacHugh. (2019, December 02). Unlocking the origins and biology of domestic animals using ancient DNA and paleogenomics. Retrieved from BMC Biology: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/ 10.1186/s12915-019-0724-7 • Grandin & Deesing. (2013). Behavorism. In G. &. Deesing, Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals (pp. 10-462). Colardo : Academic Press. • Grandin & Deesing. (2013). Ethology. In M. J. Temple Grandin, Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals (p. 12 of 462). Colorado, USA: 2nd edition. Amsterdam : Academic Press. • Temple Grandin & Mark J. Deesing. (2013). Basic Genetics More Complex Than Other Traits. In T. G. Deesing, Genetics And The Behavior of Domestic Animals (pp. 9-426). Colorado: Academic Press.

The AIU extraordinary curriculum design

By Dr. Rosa Hilda Lora M. Advisor at AIU | rosa@aiu.edu


We are observing the world in which we live, we analyze our lives and we come to the conclusion that we have to do something: that something is to see where the truth is to work with it and that can only be achieved with science. We look here and there and everything seems to be chaos; human beings with so much technology and also with science, which seeks something other than good, it seems that we can’t find a solution at the moment we are living. We see that every day things seem to be more complex. We already know that according to some scientists like Ilya Prigogine (Moscow 1917- Brussels, Belgium 2003) from chaos comes order. Prigogine is the Father of Chaos Theory. According to Prigogine, human actions have many directions and don’t go in the same proportion on the arrow of time backwards or forwards. Human actions have many variables, and their consequences can’t be determined as Classical Mechanics does. The accumulation of disorder determines a new order according to Prigogine.

It seems that we are in the process of structuring a new order, only from what can be seen we are looking for it in the deterministic sciences. We continue with our desire to find stability, well-being in our lives and the conclusion we reach is that we have to study to find solutions to the society in which we live in which a pandemic has revealed what we as human beings have done: create all a chaos. To study we search here and we search there in which university to do it. We see Atlantic International University (AIU) and we are struck by the fact that they have an Open Curriculum. We are going to see what a Curriculum is because whenever we hear or see the word written we think about the life story and work experience to apply for a job. A Curriculum, in this case, a Curriculum Design refers to the way in which the teaching-learning of a school institution is organized. Reviewing the literature on the subject we have to go first to the classics. José Gimeno Sacristán says: “...the Curriculum is a nuclear reference element to analyze what the school is in fact as a cultural institution and when designing an alternative institution project”. (Gimeno Sacristan, 2013, p. 19). https://profejhonny. weebly.com/uploads/2/2/8/1/22818782/el_ curr%C3%ADculum_una_reflexi%C3%B3n_ sobre_la_pr%C3%A1ctica_libro.pdf According to what should be the Curriculum Gimeno Sacristán says: “In an advanced society, knowledge has a relevant and progressively more decisive role.” (Gimeno Sacristan, 2013, p. 21) According to José Antonio Arnaz, the Curriculum is: “...a plan that rules and explicitly guides a concrete and determined teaching-learning process that takes place in an educational institution.” (Arnaz, 2016, p. 9)

In current works, from 2021, such as that of Joaquín Moreno Flores; “Curricular Design as a bridge between university and society”, he says: “…should the curriculum be designed in permanent concert with socio-economic needs? or on the contrary. Should it conform to the challenges that society poses?” (Moreno Flores, 2021, p. 3) In the Curriculum Design that AIU asks you to complete by making your Study Plan with your Descriptive Letters or courses, you have the freedom to generate your best skills for the future you want. Let's go to see the parts of a Curriculum Design so you can see what AIU gives you and what you have to do because there are students who think that they determine everything. Also your document that you will do will be evaluated. A Curriculum Design is made up of the following: a) Curriculum Objectives. They are the educational purposes of the Institution b) Curriculum. Content set. c) Descriptive Letters. The course guides d) Evaluation System. It includes the admission, evaluation and promotion system. All that is a Curriculum in AIU you have the Objectives: a Philosophy and a Policy. The Philosophy is manifested in: you are unique and unrepeatable. The Policy: the student will always be listened to. From the above you can infer that what is asked of you when AIU tells you: you have an open Curriculum Design, is that you can write your descriptive letters to build your study plan or program. You can freely do what you want your content set to be. Taking into consideration that according to Mario Bunge: science is the best style of thought and what Gimeno Sacristán says that knowledge has a relevant role: we have to seriously consider what science is useful for. You have at AIU the opportunity to build the part of your Curriculum that corresponds to your Program or Study Plan: your curriculum design or syllabus with the topics that you consider to have a way to grow as a human being and to have a job anywhere in the world. AIU ask you that each one of the works presented ends with an application for your community and for the solution of an international problem.

This requirement makes you investigate and learn to know the way the world is and to be able to acquire skills to enter the company that you propose or be an entrepreneur. You may think: I know little. How am I going to do it? You are going to do it looking for information in the electronic media that we have nowadays. I remind you Prigogine in his Chaos Theory. It means what AIU also asks of you: don't stay in the quantity. Your work must reach the holistic model. What do you resolve for human life? Nowadays we are in the way we see: in chaos because we want to do everything quantitatively and human actions have many variables: These human beings just want money. Those human beings don’t want to grow up doing something: working. Other human beings don’t want to be vaccinated but when they were children they gave them a series of vaccines.

These other human beings don’t think about the poor people they generate. Those other human beings give them the same not to study. Those rulers want to be rich until their nth generation. The chaos in which we are as a consequence of not finding solutions as a society to the Covid-19 pandemic and all its mutations, will continue until the prevailing disorder seeks its bifurcation to generate the balance of the crazy system in which we live nowadays. We have to work, all of us, as a society, towards solutions that allow human life and that will be by doing science that has human life as an end. Not with this global warming, not with each group of human being pulling for their convenience instead of the convenience of all. You have to make a curriculum design or syllabus

for everyone’s life. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Arnaz, J. 2016. La Planeación Curricular. México: Trillas. • Gimeno Sacristán, J. 2013. El curriculum: una reflexión sobre la práctica. Madrid: Morata • Moreno Flores, J. 2021. El diseño curricular como puente entre universidad y sociedad. Madrid: Paraninfo. • Pansza, M. 2005. Pedagogía y Currículo. México: Gernika.



Learning

Respectful parenting

Here you have 8 useful tips.

Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) was founded by Magda Gerber in 1978. ... The basis RIE philosophy is respect for, and trust in the baby to be an initiator, an explorer, and a self-learner. 1. Encourage independent play from birth. There are many studies about the importance of boredom for children and how it allows them to develop imaginative play and creativity. 2. Acknowledge and accept children’s emotions. Don’t teach them to bottle their emotions saying everything’s OK. “I know you wanted that treat and now you’re upset because I won’t let you have one. I’m here if you need a hug.” 3. Communicate authentically. Using correct language can help babies develop their language skills. 4. Model the behaviour you want to see in your children. Be an example. 5. Don’t put labels on your children. They will have a negative outlook on themselves and they will find it harder to correct their behaviour. 6. Allow children to independently problem-solve. Children need to get stuck and they need to figure out how to solve problems on their own. 7. Allow children to participate in household duties. This allows children to feel like they are contributing members of the home. 8. Ask children to participate in their own caregiving. For example, asking permission before changing a diaper or giving them time to brush their own teeth before stepping in to finish the job ... Read full text:

Self-sufficiency?

Humans evolved to be interdependent, not self-sufficient.

For countless Americans, there was a dull but persistent pain to prepandemic life: high-priced housing, nearly inaccessible health care, underresourced schools, wage stagnation and systemic inequality. It was a familiar ache, a kind of chronic hurt that people learned to live with simply because they had no other choice. Faced with threadbare safety nets and a cultural ethos championing nationalist myths of self-sufficiency, many people did what humans have always done in times of need: they sought emotional comfort and material aid from their family and friends. But when COVID-19 hit, relying on our immediate networks was not sufficient. Americans are gaslit into thinking that they are immeasurably strong, impervious to the challenges people in other countries face. In reality, our social and economic support systems are weak, and many people are made vulnerable by nearly any change in their capacity to earn a living. ... Anthropologists have long recognized that exceptionally high degrees of sociality, cooperation and communal care are hallmarks of humankind, traits that separate us from our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos. This interdependence has been key to our success as a species. Viewed this way, we humans have an evolutionary mandate to be generous and take care of one another. ... Read full text:


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Brain organoids

...gene-edited, are unlocking the secrets of autism.

Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a complicated range of conditions affecting the behavior, social development, and communication of tens of millions people worldwide. But teasing out exactly what effect those genes have and how they relate to ASD has been devilishly difficult. “Nobody can study an actual human brain as it develops,” says Paola Arlotta, a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University. But a new approach is now yielding promising results. Arlotta and her colleagues at Harvard and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT have been working with organoids —three-dimensional clumps of brain tissue grown from stem cells— usually just a few millimeters across. When organoids grow, they start to develop different types of brain cells, and begin to organize into primitive networks that mimic some of the architecture of the human brain. Organoids grown from stem cells donated by people with ASD have been used to study the condition in the past. But Arlotta and her team, as they describe in a paper published recently in the journal Nature, created genetically modified organoids of the human cerebral cortex, each with a mutation in one of three genes thought to be linked to autism. ... Arlotta and her colleagues noticed the timing of cell development in the modified organoids seemed to be off compared to those with the “normal” version of the gene. ...
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Wild animals prized as delicacies

...in some countries contain a bevy of threatening viruses.

Wild animals sometimes found on the menu in Asian countries harbor a bewildering panoply of viruses, a new study has found —including many that can infect humans. Although none is closely related to the coronavirus that touched off the COVID-19 pandemic, the study sends a clear warning that other viral threats are lurking in the animal kingdom, scientists say. Live-animal markets are known to have sparked outbreaks, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 2 decades ago. But the study underscores the extent of the threat, showing “there is an enormous amount of unsampled viral diversity” in the animals, says Harvard University evolutionary biologist William Hanage, who was not involved in the work. “We humans need to understand that for a virus, different mammal species can look pretty alike, provided their cells have appropriate receptors.” China has clamped down on the sale of the animals sampled in the study, but other countries in the region have not. The researchers, led by veterinarian Su Shuo of Nanjing Agricultural University, took samples from nearly 2000 animals in China including fur farms, zoos, and natural habitats. Most were species that are traditionally eaten as delicacies in China, including civets, raccoon dogs, badgers, bamboo rats, and porcupines. Using a “metagenomics” ... Read full text


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Ring splint

By pwapwap

Swan style finger splint I customized for a friend who has arthritis loses finger splints which are a pain to replace. I took the designs uploaded from @orange_pla_ftw and printed them, but they were too short in length, and when lengthened they didn’t fit the target fingers comfortably. A slight taper was added and they fit well. I used tinkercad to do my tinkering. Sharing in case people find them useful. I am printing using an Anycubic Photon Mono, and the best fit I have found is at ~110% of this model size. Printed using rafts and supports, and a quick sand with 400 grit wet and dry sandpaper. Given how little resin is used printing these, I would suggest printing a range of sizes and doing test fits. ... Note: Thingiverse is a website dedicated to the sharing of usercreated digital design files. Providing primarily free, open-source hardware designs licensed under the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses, the site allows contributors to select a user license type for the designs that they share. Read full text:

Alexandra Leese

Boys of Hong Kong

Born in 1985 in Hong Kong, she moved to the UK at the age of 11. Graduated at Chelsea College of Art, Leese focused on fashion photography, training at London College of Fashion. Alexandra Leese only recently decided to concentrate her works on her own identity and reshaping the female narrative as a woman herself. Leese’s subjects may seem soft and discreet, but they can quickly envelop the viewer. Alex’ first zine Boys of Hong Kong focuses on the new generation of male Hongkongers; by means of these photos, she aims to free firstly and foremost her subjects from the western stereotypes involving Asian men. ... Read full text

2DPA-1

Plastic stronger than steel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemical engineers have invented a new type of plastic that is twice as strong as steel and could one day be used as a building material. Dubbed 2DPA-1, the material is light and mouldable like plastic but has a strength and resistance that the researchers behind the project liken to steel and bulletproof glass. The MIT engineers envision 2DPA-1 being used in the near future as a coating to enhance the durability of objects, and eventually as a structural material. “We don’t usually think of plastics as being something that you could use to support a building, but with this material, you can enable new things,” said MIT chemical engineering professor Michael Strano. ... Read full text

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Bladder health

The “just in case” pee habit is wrecking it.

Like many people I know, I always pee right before I leave the house. This has been a non-negotiable habit. ... However, while the “just in case” pee seems like a smart strategy, it might actually be pretty bad for your bladder. At least, that’s according to a recent viral TikTok video from Bethany Henry Clark, PT, DPT. In the video, she says that making yourself pee when you don’t feel the immediate need to do so can, over time, actually make you have to pee more and more often. I got in touch with board-certified urologist Lamia Gabal, MD, to get her thoughts on “just in case” peeing. First off, a normal bladder capacity is about 10-15 ounces, Dr. Gabal says. ... In general, it’s normal to pee six to eight times in a 24-hour period if you drink 64 ounces of fluid a day, but this depends on how much you drink. Dr. Gabal says that e the “just in case” pee strategy can be helpful for people with urinary incontinence issues, she says, because they will leak less. But for otherwise healthy adults, Dr. Gabal agrees with Clark that this practice can be potentially problematic. “It can send a message to your brain that this is a correct volume for your bladder to have the sensation of needing to urinate, almost training your bladder to have to void at smaller volumes,” she says. ... Read full text:

Random acts of kindness

They bring great health benefits.

Spreading kindness not only helps others feel better about themselves —it can also boost the giver’s health and happiness, according to research. It’s a win-win for all. Here’s why. Putting the well-being of others before our own without expecting anything in return —being altruistic— stimulates the reward centers of the brain, studies show. Those feel-good chemicals flood our system, producing a sort of “helper’s high.” Volunteering, for example, has been shown to minimize stress and improve depression. The same activity can also reduce the risk for cognitive impairment and even help us live longer. Kindness contributes to our sense of community and belonging. And that is a key contributor to a healthy, longer life. Lower blood pressure. Prosocial spending (giving donations) has been shown to reduce blood pressure and improve heart health. Pain reduction. A recent study found that regions of the brain that react to painful stimulation appear to be instantly deactivated by the experience of giving. Happiness. In the UK, researchers found that being kind could boost happiness in as little as three days. Kindness suggestions. While driving, make room for the car that wants to enter your lane • Give a genuine compliment to a family member, friend or colleague, walk a neighbor’ dog as often ... Read full text:


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US west ‘megadrought’

It is the worst in at least 1,200 years, new study says.

The American west has spent the last two decades in what scientists are now saying is the most extreme megadrought in at least 1,200 years. In a new study, researchers also noted that human-caused climate change is a significant driver of the destructive conditions and offered a grim prognosis: even drier decades lie ahead. “Anyone who has been paying attention knows that the west has been dry for most of the last couple decades,” says Park Williams, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles and the study’s lead author. “We now know from these studies that is dry not only from the context of recent memory but in the context of the last millennium.” Turning up the temperature —the result of human caused warming— has played a big part. Other studies show how the climate crisis “will increasingly enhance the odds of long, widespread and severe megadroughts”, the researchers write. Noting that as the west is now in the midst of the driest 22-year period in knowable history, “this worst-case scenario already appears to be coming to pass”. The research builds on conclusions from a previous study, also led by Williams, that ranked the period between 2000 and 2018 as the second driest in 12 centuries. The last two incredibly dry years —marked by record-setting heatwaves, receding reservoirs, and a rise in dangerously erratic blazes that burned both uncontrollably and ...
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Do you know where you’re at?

Find out the answers to all these questions.

In 1981, Coevolution Quarterly published a 20 question quiz written by Charles, Dodge, Milliman, and Stockley that is designed to reveal how well you know your local natural environment. Here are the questions: 1. Trace the water you drink from precipitation to tap. 2. How many days til the moon is full? 3. What soil series are you standing on? 4. What was the total rainfall in your area last year? 5. When was the last time a fire burned in your area? 6. What were the primary subsistence techniques of the culture that lived in your area before you? 7. Name 5 edible plants in your region and their season(s) of availability. 8. From what direction do winter storms generally come in your region? 9. Where does your garbage go? 10. How long is the growing season where you live? 11. On what day of the year are the shadows the shortest where you live? 12. When do the deer rut in your region, and when are the young born? 13. Name five grasses in your area. Are any of them native? 14. Name five resident and five migratory birds in your area. 15. What is the land use history of where you live? 16. What primary ecological event/process influenced the land form where you live? 17. What species have become extinct in your area? 18. What are the major plant associations in your region? 19. From where you’re reading this, point north. 20. What spring wildflower is consistently among the first to bloom where you live? ... Read full text:

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Consent

Why it doesn’t stand a chance against porn culture.

If ever there was cause for a cultural reckoning, the Hurt Locker of female student trauma compiled by Chanel Contos is it. It is Exhibit A in our collective failure to cultivate the social conditions conducive to the flourishing of healthy young human beings. The horror archive now contains more than 5,000 accounts of sexual assault, unwanted sex, and coercion shared by female students and former students in response to a question posed by the 23-year-old former Kambala student on Instagram. ... Every day more girls come forward to add to the trauma tome, offering their testimony of being violated by teenage boys. Some of the girls are as young as thirteen or fourteen years of age. ... Chanel Contos is now calling for better sexual consent education. I support her aims ... But with every school workshop I run, I see that ... Consent education won’t be effective if women are not first seen as human and worthy of dignity and respect. ... I have sometimes heard it said that the boys didn’t know what they were doing. That they needed to be taught more about consent, or that, in the heat of the moment, they simply misunderstood the girl’s wishes. But surely we can all agree that if a boy rapes a girl while she is asleep, there was no attempt to gain consent. If a boy sexually assaults a girl while his friends film it and they then share the footage, there was no intention to gain consent. In both instances, sexual gratification triumphs over empathy. ...
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Animal liberation front

How did it all start?

Someone has finally written a biography on the real father of the animal liberation movement —Ronnie Lee. Lee’s lifelong work for animals spans five decades and counting. During this time, he has been involved in just about every form of animal advocacy imaginable —direct action, grassroots vegan outreach, political campaigning, public interest campaigns, and animal fostering, to name a few. Perhaps best known for founding the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and being jailed numerous times for illegal direct actions, Ronnie Lee now focuses exclusively on above-ground animal advocacy, having retired from his earlier, extensive underground career. ... Lee’s moment seems to have been a confluence of events —no single one having been definitive. ... Lee’s involvement with the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) began to blossom into more pointed forms of direct action as time went on. In an effort to refine the efficacy of his hunt sabbing efforts, Lee became more and more motivated to declare full scale war on all animal exploiters. ... Editor’s note: We stand against factory farming, vivisection, and other forms of animal testing and abuse. As an organization, however, we do not advocate veganism —and in fact, DGR co-founder Lierre Keith wrote a book called The Vegetarian Myth arguing that vegetarianism and veganism are not a political or ecological solution. ...
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Campus

Murdering the planet just to perpetuate a worldview

The following is an extract from Derrick Jensen’s 2016 book The Myth of Human Supremacy. Find the book here: https://derrickjensen.org/myth-of-human-supremacy/

You’ve probably noticed I haven’t talked about the origins of human supremacism. Some say it began with the domestication of nonhuman animals, as we came to think of these as our dependent inferiors, as our slaves, our beasts of burden. Some say it began with agriculture, where the entire landbase was converted to human use. Some say the model for human supremacism is male supremacism: women are physically differentiable from men, and some men decided that differentiability meant inferiority, and validated their own superiority by repeatedly violating and controlling women; this model was then applied across racial, cultural, and species differences. Some say human supremacism really got its start with the creation of a monotheistic sky god and the consequent removal of meaning from the material earth.

These questions of origins, while interesting and on some levels important, are not vital to the current discussion. Right now this narcissistic, sociopathic human supremacist culture is killing the planet, and we need to stop it. Asking where it started feels a bit to me like wondering about the childhood traumas of the axe murderer who is tearing apart your loved ones. Sure, it’s a discussion to be had, but can we please stop the murderer first? Because human supremacism —like other supremacisms— is not based on fact, but rather on pre-existing bigotry (and the narcissism and tangible self-interest on which all bigotries are based), I don’t expect this book will cause many human supremacists to reconsider their supremacism, just as books on male or white supremacism don’t generally cause male or white supremacists to reconsider theirs. The book isn’t written for them. This book is written to give support to the people —and there are a lot of us— who are not human supremacists, and who are disgusted with the attitudes and behaviors of the supremacists, who are attempting to stop the supremacists from killing all that lives. It is written for those who are appalled by nonhumans being tortured, displaced, destroyed, exterminated by supremacists in service to authoritarian technics. It is written for those who are tired of the incessant —I would say obsessive— propaganda required to prop up human supremacism. It is written for those who recognize the self-serving stupidity and selective blindness of the supremacist position. It is written for those who prefer a living planet to authoritarian technics. It is written for those who prefer democratic decision-making processes to authoritarian technics. It is written for those who prefer life to machines. ... I’m sitting again by the pond. The wind still plays gently among the reeds, plays also with the surface of the water. This time I do not hear the sound of a family of jays softly talking amongst themselves. This time I hear the sound of chainsaws. The forests on both sides of where I live are being clearcut. I don’t know why. Or rather, on a superficial level I do. The people who “own” both pieces of land had a “problem” they needed to “solve.” “Problem”? They needed money. Or they wanted money. Or they craved money. It doesn’t matter. “Solution”? Cut the trees and sell them. Never mind those who live there. So for weeks now I’ve been hearing the whine of chainsaws and the screams of trees as they fall. For weeks now I’ve been feeling the shock waves when the trees hit the ground. Such is life at the end of the world. ... We end on the plains of eastern Colorado, where as I write this a friend is trying desperately to protect prairie dogs. A “developer” wants to put in a mall on top of one of the largest extant prairie dog villages along Colorado’s Front Range. The village has 3,000 to 8,000 burrows.

Prior to this human supremacist culture moving into the Great Plains, the largest prairie dog community in the world, which was in Texas, covered 25,000 square miles, and was home to perhaps 400 million prairie dogs. The total range for prairie dogs was about 150,000 to 200,000 square miles, and population was well over a billion. Now, prairie dogs have been reduced to about five percent of their range and two percent of their population. Yet because yet another rich person wants to build yet another mall (in this economy, with so many empty stores already?), much of this prairie dog community will be poisoned. That community includes the twenty or more other species who live with and depend upon prairie dogs. The prairie dogs (and some others) who are not poisoned will be buried alive by the bulldozers, then covered with concrete. This includes the pregnant females, who prefer not to leave their dens.

If you recall, prairie dogs have complex languages, with words for many threats. They have language to describe hawks, and to describe snakes, and to describe coyotes. They have language to describe a woman wearing a yellow shirt, and different language for a woman wearing a blue shirt. They have had to come up with language to describe a man with a gun. Do they, I wonder, have language to describe a bulldozer? Do they have language to describe the pregnant females of their community being buried alive? And do they have language to describe the murderous insatiability of human supremacists? And do others? Do blue whales and the few remaining tigers? Do the last three northern white rhinos, all that’s left because some human supremacists believe their horns are aphrodisiacs? Do elephants? Did the black-skinned pink-tusked elephants of China? Did the Mesopotamian elephants? And what about others? What about the disappearing fireflies? What about the dammed and re-dammed and re-dammed Mississippi? What about the once-mighty Columbia? What about the once-free Amazon? Do they have language to describe this murderous insatiability? ... And perhaps more to the point, do we? ...

By the time you read this, the prairie dogs my friend is fighting to protect will probably be dead, killed so someone can build yet another cathedral to human supremacism. And by the time you read this, yet another dam will have been built on the Mekong, on the upper reaches of the Amazon, on the upper Nile. By the time you read this there will be 7,000 to 10,000 more dams in the world. By the time you read this there will be more dead zones in the oceans. By the time you read this there will be another 100,000 species driven extinct. And all for what? To serve authoritarian technics, to serve an obsession to validate and re-validate a self-perceived superiority that is so fragile that each new other we encounter must be violated, and then violated, and then violated, till there is nothing left and we move on to violate another. This is not the future I want. This is not the future I will accept. ... What I want from this book is for readers to begin to remember what it is to be human, to begin to remember what it is to be a member of a larger biotic community.

What I want is for you —and me, and all of us— to fall back into the world into which you —and me, and all of us— were born, before you, too, like all of us were taught to become a bigot, before you, too, like all of us were taught to become a human supremacist, before you, too, like all of us were turned into a servant of this machine culture like your and my parents and their parents before them. I want for you —and me, and all of us— to fall into a world where you —like all of us— are one among many, a world of speaking subjects, a world of infinite complexity, a world where we each depend on the others, all of us understanding that the health of the real world is primary.

The world is being murdered. It is being murdered by actions that are perpetrated to support and perpetuate a worldview. Those actions must be stopped. Given what is at stake, failure is no longer an option. The truth is that it never was an option. So where do we begin? We begin by questioning the unquestioned beliefs that are the real authorities of this culture, and then we move out from there. And once you’ve begun that questioning, my job is done, because once those questions start they never stop. From that point on, what you do is up to you. Read full text:

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Teacup and coaster.

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Nothing ear(1).

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Adam Grant (1981–)

“Too many people spend their lifes being dutiful descendants instead of good ancestors. The responsibility of each generation is not to please their predecessors. It’s to improve things for their offspring. It’s more important to make your children proud than your parents proud.” Adam Grant (1981–).

American popular science author, and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology.

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Good Advice

21. WHEN YOU QUIT, YOU FAIL.
The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit. But fatigue, discomfort, and discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.


Bachelor's of Adult Education

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN STUDIES

The Bachelor of Adult Education (BA) program objective is to provide students with technical training necessary to work in the broad field of adult education; including community development, training coordination, mentorship, staff development, corporate and career training. Courses focus on training fundamentals, educational psychology, and adult learning behavior. The Bachelor of Adult Education (BA) program is offered online via distance learning. After evaluating both academic record and life experience, AIU staff working in conjunction with Faculty 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 distance learning programs. Our online program does not require all students to take the same subjects/courses, use the same books, or learning materials. Instead, the online Bachelor of Adult Education (BA) curriculum is designed individually by the student and academic advisor. It specifically addresses 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 constantly changing environment of working professionals by helping adult students in reaching their professional and personal goals within the scope of the degree program.

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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 example. Want to learn more about the curriculum design at AIU? Go ahead and visit our website, especially the Course and Curriculum section: http://aiu.edu/course-curriculum.html

Orientation Courses:

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

Core Courses and Topics

Interpersonal communication
Theory and motivation
Adult education methods and procedures
Adult education assessment strategies
Effective verbal presentations
Fundamentals of training
Educational psychology
Adult learning
Training perspectives
Adult learning and development
Introduction to sociology
Cultural anthropology
Human behavior and development credits
Organizational communication
Business mathematics
Principles of Psychology

Research Project

Bachelor Thesis Project
MBM300 Thesis Proposal
MBM302 Bachelor Thesis (5,000 words)

Skills for Success

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

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Accreditation

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 philosophically holistic approach towards education fitting within the balance of your life and acknowledging the key role each individual can play in their community, country, and the world. Atlantic International University is accredited by the Accreditation Service for International 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). The University is based in the United States and was established by corporate charter in 1998.

Our founding principles are based on the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights; per article 26, AIU believes that Higher Education is a Human Right. The University has implemented a paradigm shifting educational model for its academic programs that have allowed it to move closer to this goal through the self-empowerment of its students, decentralization of the learning process, personalized open curriculum design, a sustainable learning model, developing 11 core elements of the Human Condition within MYAIU, and utilizing the quasi-infinite knowledge through the use of information technology combined with our own capacity to find solutions to all types of global issues, dynamic problems, and those of individuals and multidisciplinary teams. Due to these differentiations and the university’s mission, only a reputable accrediting agency with the vision and plasticity to integrate and adapt its processes around AIU’s proven and successful innovative programs could be selected. Unfortunately, the vast majority of accrediting agencies adhere to and follow obsolete processes and requirements that have outlived their usefulness and are in direct conflict with the university’s mission of offering a unique, dynamic, affordable, quality higher education to the nontraditional student (one who must work, study what he really needs for professional advancement, attend family issues, etc.). We believe that adopting outdated requirements and processes would impose increased financial burdens on students while severely limiting their opportunities to earn their degree and advance in all aspects. Thus, in selecting the ASIC as its accrediting agency, AIU ensured that its unique programs would not be transformed into a copy or clone of those offered by the 10,000+ colleges and universities around the world. Since ASIC is an international accrediting agency based outside the United States, we are required by statute HRS446E to place the following disclaimer: ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IS NOT ACCREDITED BY AN ACCREDITING AGENCY RECOGNIZED BY THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF EDUCATION. Note: In the United States and abroad, 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. Potential students should consider how the above may affect their interests, AIU respects the unique rules and regulations of each country and does not seek to influence the respective authorities. In the event that a prospective student wishes to carry out any government review or process in regards to his university degree, we recommend that the requirements of such are explored in detail with the relevant authorities by the prospective student as the university does not intervene in such processes. AIU students can be found in over 180 countries, they actively participate and volunteer in their communities as part of their academic program and have allocated thousands of service hours to diverse causes and initiatives. AIU programs follow the standards commonly used by colleges and universities in the United States with regards to the following: academic program structure, degree issued, transcript, and other graduation documents. AIU graduation documents can include an apostille and authentication from the US Department of State to facilitate their use internationally.

The AIU Difference

It is acknowledged that the act of learning is endogenous, (from within), rather than exogenous.

This fact is the underlying rationale for “Distance Learning”, in all of the programs offered by AIU. The combination of the underlying 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 education at a distance. There are no classrooms and attendance is not required.

Mission & Vision

MISSION:

To be a higher learning institution concerned about generating cultural development alternatives likely to be sustained in order to lead to a more efficient 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 individual towards the convergence of the world through a sustainable educational design based on andragogy and omniology.

Organizational Structure

Dr. Franklin Valcin
President/Academic Dean
Dr. José Mercado
Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Ricardo González, PhD
Provost
     
Dr. Ricardo Gonzalez
Chief Operation Officer
and MKT Director
Linda Collazo
Logistics Coordinator
Dr. Silvia Restorff
Academic Advisor
     
Dr. Miriam Garibaldi
Viceprovost for Research
Irina Ivashuk
Alumni Association
Coordinator
Dr. Prakash Menon
Academic Advisor
     
Dr. Ofelia Miller
Director of AIU
Clara Margalef
Director of Special Projects
of AIU
Carlos Aponte
Telecommunications
Coordinator
     
Juan Pablo Moreno
Director of Operations
David Jung
Corporate/Legal Counsel
Dr. Nilani Ljunggren De Silva
Academic Advisor
     
Paula Viera
Director of
Intelligence Systems
Bruce Kim
Advisor/Consultant
Dr. Scott Wilson
Academic Advisor
     
Felipe Gomez
Design Director / IT Supervisor
Thomas Kim
Corporate/
Accounting Counsel
Dr. Mohammad Shaidul Islam
Academic Advisor
     
Daritza Ysla
IT Coordinator
Camila Correa
Quality Assurance Coordinator
Dr. Edgar Colon
Academic Advisor
     
Nadeem Awan
Chief Programming Officer
Maricela Esparza
Administrative Coordinator
Deborah Rodriguez
Academic Tutor Coordinator
     
Dr. Jack Rosenzweig
Dean of Academic Affairs
Chris Benjamin
IT and Hosting Support
Cyndy Dominguez
Academic Tutor Coordinator
     
Dr. Edward Lambert
Academic Director
Mayra Bolivar
Accounting Coordinator
Kinmberly Diaz
Admissions Support Tutor
     
Dr. Ariadna Romero
Advisor Coordinator
Roberto Aldrett
Communications Coordinator
Amalia Aldrett
Admissions Coordinator
     
Nadia Gabaldon
Academic Coordinator
Giovanni Castillo
IT Support
Sandra Garcia
Admissions Coordinator
     
Jhanzaib Awan
Senior Programmer
Jaime Rotlewicz
Dean of Admissions
Jose Neuhaus
Admissions Support
     
Leonardo Salas
Human Resource Manager
Dr. Mario Rios
Academic Advisor
Junko Shimizu
Admissions Coordinator
     
Benjamin Joseph
IT and Technology Support
Michael Phillips
Registrar’s Office
Veronica Amuz
Admissions Coordinator
     
Rosie Perez
Finance Coordinator
Rene Cordon
Admissions Support
Alba Ochoa
Admissions Coordinator
     
Chris Soto
Admissions Counselor
Jenis Garcia
Admissions Counselor
 
     

FACULTY AND STAFF PAGE: www.aiu.edu/FacultyStaff.html


School of Business and Economics

The School of Business and Economics allows aspiring and practicing professionals, managers, and entrepreneurs 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 experience has been in business, marketing, administration, economics, finance and management.

Areas of Study:

Accounting, Advertising, Banking, Business Administration, Communications, Ecommerce, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Home Economics, Human Resources, International Business, International Finance, Investing, Globalization, Marketing, Management, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Public Administrations, Sustainable Development, Public Relations, Telecommunications, Tourism, Trade.

School of Social and Human Studies

The School of Social and Human Studies 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 opportunities 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 channels, the world wide web, private, public, nonprofit, and nongovernmental 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, International Affairs, Sociology, Political Sciences, Architecture, Legal Studies, Public Administration, Literature and languages, Art History, Ministry, African Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies, European Studies, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies.

School of Science and Engineering

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 production, 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 allow for the sustainability of the human population. We will foster among our students a demand for ethical behavior, an appreciation for diversity, an understanding of scientific investigation, knowledge of design innovation, a critical appreciation for the importance of technology and technological change for the advancement of humanity.

Areas of Study:

Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Communications, Petroleum Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Nutrition Science, Agricultural Science, Computer Science, Sports Science, Renewable Energy, Geology, Urban Planning.

Online Library Resources

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 thousands 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, reviews, 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.

Education on the 21st century

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 traditional 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 institutions never feel a desire to “change the world” or the current status quo; instead, they adjust to the environment, believe everything is fine, and are proud of it all.

IN A WORLD where knowledge and mostly information 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 concentrate 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 converted 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 professional areas highly in demand in our modern society. We shall not forget that, at AIU, students are responsible for discovering their own talents and potential, 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 campus 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 sustainable 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 solidarity, 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.

Read more at: www.aiu.edu

AIU Service

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 ANDRAGOGY 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 started

Now, 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.

Pioneer Plaza / 900 Fort Street Mall 410 Honolulu, HI 96813
800-993-0066 (Toll Free in US) info@aiu.edu
808-924-9567 (Internationally) www.aiu.edu

Online application:

https://www.aiu.edu/apply3_phone.aspx