Big Beacon presents a FREE WEBINAR 4 Reasons Why “Everybody Needs a Coach” Business leaders, Eric Schmidt and Bill Gates say that “everybody needs a coach", and the C-suite, (CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, etc.) increasingly hire leadership coaches to help them…
Check out this summary pamphlet of "A Whole New Engineer" put together by EIWG member University of Twente:
Asian American history teacher Alan Suemori was inspired to write a post after reading A Whole New Engineer: It is this simple, but powerful theme of courage and risk-taking that resonates repeatedly throughout “A Whole New Engineer,” Somerville’s and Goldberg’s provocative…
A new higher education radio program has hit the Voice America airwaves: Big Beacon Radio, Transforming Higher Education. Each month the show interviews a mover and shaker from the world of higher education transformation & reform or discusses topics of interest to change in…
Cindy Veenstra of Veenstra & Associates, was inspired to write a post after reading A Whole New Engineer: The authors, David E. Goldberg and Mark Somerville, propose an increased focus on a real student-centered culture. Their five-pillar educational transformational model of values joy, trust, courage,…
David Goldberg shares how learning jazz guitar has shown him new ways to best empower students to learn: Whereas many music sites and teachers treat their students as largely unmotivated and incompetent, Jimmy trusts that students who come to his site are…
The Journal of Petroleum Technology recently published a piece by David Goldberg on how the Six Minds of a Whole New Engineer can be applied to the petroleum industry: Petroleum engineers have played a pivotal role in the rise of the modern…
Today, Kate MacArthur of the Blue Sky blog of the Chicago Tribune posted an interview with A Whole New Engineer co-author Dave Goldberg. In it Goldberg was quoted as saying: We realized how completely we had underestimated [our students] capability all…
