Platform on a pedestal

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The Harvard Business School Course Platform was developed as a course management system for both students and staff. The Harvard Business School also uses an Oracle database and a Java-based polling tool. The technology allows the business school to cater for the needs of its students on and off the campus. The developments in the use of technology were instigated in 1996, by the newly appointed Dean Kim Clark. The school has been visited by many interested parties from abroad including two representatives from the British National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education.

Usage, Computers, Product development, Digital computers, Equipment and supplies, Intranets, Harvard Business School

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Why engineers must go back to nature

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The Royal Academy of Engineering is placing sustainable design at the heart of its courses as it seeks to encourage engineers to become more aware of their responsibilities in relation to environmental protection. It has appointed four top engineers as visiting professors to assist in establishing a curriculum that highlights social and environmental problems. It hopes to have 50 visiting professors eventually. Making sustainable design a natural element of analyzing engineering problems will require significant changes in teaching.

Planning, Engineering, Environmental aspects, Study and teaching, Industrial design, Royal Academy of Engineering

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