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Sandy Smith

June 2015 - TD Magazine

A professional and peer coaching program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has improved individual and organizational performance.

Expanded Coaching Culture Drives Results

(From vancouversun.com) VANCOUVER - Attempts to deal with complaints of sexual harassmentand discrimination against female workers appear to be stalled, thehead of the BC Maritime Employers Association has indicated.BCMEApresident and CEO Andy Smith said a management proposal to deal withthe problems can't proceed until a union demand to clear up a backlogof job applicants is dealt with.But since only 132 of the nearly2,000 applicants are women and jobs on the waterfront are scarce, itwould be a long time before any real gender equity would be achieved atthe port. Only 4.7 per cent of Vancouver longshore workers are womennow, and only some of them are union members."This is an issueof under-representation," Smith said in an interview. "We won't get theculture changed with the tiny fragment of women working on thewaterfront."Read the entire article.

Changing workplace culture on the waterfront stalled by lack of women workers

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of individuals, institutions and organizations of higher education committed to quality online education, recently presented its 2012 Effective Practice Awards at the 5th Annual International Symposium for Emerging Technologies for Online Learning.  The winning practices were selected for recognition because they provide evidence of innovation and replicability. The practices advance the goals of access, learning effectiveness, faculty and student satisfaction, and scalability. The recipients of Sloan-C’s 2012 Effective Practice Awards are:Integration of Technology Into Undergraduate Education via Cross-Disciplinary Pollination, Nancy Konigsberg Kerner, Brenda Gunderson (University of Michigan)Comprehensive Online Student Support Services, Marwin Britto, Susan Rush (Lone Star College System)A.R.G. - Creating Alternative Reality Games for the Classroom, Jeff D. Borden (Chaminade University, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Northern Colorado)The CUNY Academic Commons: Social Network as Hatchery, George Otte, Matt Gold, Boone Gorges, Michael Smith, Chris Stein(The City University of New York)Cell Phones in the Classroom: Collaborative or Calamitous?, James May (Valencia College)Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning: Taking the Classroom Experience Online, Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Randy Newbrough, Julie Banks, Tom Janke, Lorie Shuck, Lin Zhu, John Sours, Joshua Smith (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Florida International University, Purdue University).The Sloan-C Effective Practice Awards Selection Committee members are Darrell Naylor-Johnson, Vice President for SCAD eLearning, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD); Alexandra M. Pickett, Associate Director, State University of New York, SUNY Learning Network; Shari McCurdy Smith, Associate Director, Center for Online Research and Service, University of Illinois, Springfield; Kaye Shelton, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership, Lamar University; and Janet C. Moore, Chief Knowledge Officer, The Sloan Consortium, Non-voting committee chair.  Details about the awards are available at http://sloanconsortium.org/effective.

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