From the edge: Nome, Alaska, is at the edge of the Internet. Being at the periphery has been challenging. As new technologies and communications methods were developed, they came our way late. I have been with the University of Alaska since 1990. Take a journey with me as I work from distance delivering courses via the telephone and fax machine until the present, where current technologies are getting closer to being available in Nome and beyond. I present my view of the challenges encountered over the years operating from the edge, and the work I was involved in developing distance delivery methods that worked.

Google Glass has been reported to have great potential for education/training. Demonstrations and observations are common components in education/training. Google Glass can be used to provide demonstrations and observations via its audio/visual components/features. Thus, this study explored various methods for showing on various screens (televisions/monitors, projectors, tablets/computers, smartphones.) what is displayed on Google Glass’ display. Similarities, differences, affordances, limitations, etc. for each method explored for projecting what is seen in Google Glass’ display on various screens are reported. In addition, this study notes various implications regarding using Google Glass in education/training as well as provides suggestions for further research.

Poster board and tri-fold poster projects are a popular way of assessing students’ knowledge of a subject by having them research, write, think, organize and present a topic. Course poster projects encourage students to conduct research, practice writing and presentation skills. Poster projects also prompt students to think, arrange and visually organize content. They are used by instructors as a creative alternative to the traditional, research paper assignment.

Course posters also allow students to acquire applicable skills that are likely to help them in future careers from science and medicine to business, education and non-profits. The poster designing and presenting skills developed in classes may also be beneficial at future business meetings and professional conferences.

Online instructors must find a way to move this traditional face to face project into the online classroom. Blackboard®’s Learning System includes wikis as one of the embedded course tools. A wiki is an ideal Web 2.0 tool for making online, digital or virtual posters. In this online canvas students can design unique, dynamic online posters by formatting the text, adding images and embedding web links, videos, slides and other mash-ups.

In this general session presentation participants will explore skills acquired by students from creating poster presentations, how posters can be used in the professional setting and how these traditional face to face projects can be easily moved to the online classroom setting using wikis.

The present paper is presents for interactive discussion and analysis the utility of a new calculus devised to address IQ measurements’ failings. That is, an internationally-conceived “cultural quotient”, or CQ, will be set forth that has been proposed to measure the “intercultural awareness” that apparently both inheres in general human intelligence as we understand it and that also counts as important in our increasingly common, if not obligatory, “socially-mediated” global dealings in business, politics, and society. What follows comprises a tri-partite discussion of the quintessential CQ and the four features usually said to characterize it, particularly as it is “socially mediated” online in the business arena where it has been most often exploited: First, a brief, research-based overview of social media use from societies around the world will be offered as a cultural backdrop, if not background, for intercultural interaction. Second, four features characterizing (inter)cultural intelligence and its measurement via CQ will be suggested that have been defined most succinctly by Livermore (2010): Drive, knowledge, strategy, and action. As they are presented, these features of CQ will be put to an “international communicability test” (Egros, 2013). And then and ultimately, discussion will demonstrate that Livermore and Egros’s findings and propositions from international business dealings can be locally recruited in electronic social networks to analyze and explain typical communication conundrums in the culturally mixed learning communities that illustrate today’s educational environment

Quantum Teams are highly positive and productive. They are accomplished when the unique abilities of each team member develop and evolve and are then shared with the collective strength, synergy and commitment of the team. There is no status-quo, titles stand only as placeholders for reporting; allowing natural pairs and partnerships to occur across stakeholders. Quantum teams produce holistic, productive environments that are not fixed but are growth-oriented and whose direction and operating is aligned to its sense of a higher purpose.