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Contents Campus23 Tools for life 5 essential philosophical schools

24 Be wise & have fun Apogee, moon nightlight lamp Yayoi Kusama pumpkin coin purse Neil Gaiman's 8 rules of writing Quote: Chief Phil Lane Jr. Dialogue of book lovers

25 Programs at AIU Bachelor of Agricultural Economics

About us AIU: Who we are27 General information Accreditation The AIU difference Mission & Vision Organizational Structure28 School of Business and Economics School of Science and Engineering29 School of Social and Human Studies Online Library Resources30 Education on the 21st century AIU service

In touch AIU News 4 Notes 6 Graduates of the month

Student Space 8 Testimonials 9 Essay by George Yaw Segnitome13 Essay by Leidy D. Berroa M.14 Study tips by Edward Lambert

Learning16 Education + Culture Gentleman's club / Kids born today

17 Science + Technology The basis of the Universe / New X-Ray technology 18 Art + Design Birds in flight / Super suit

19 Body + Mind + Spirit Appetite / How does brain process speech?

20 Environment Surf and turf / Palm oil alternatives

21 Human + Animal Rights New tiny house village / Starving wolf saved

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6th book publishedTwo articles publishedJuly 1, 2018. One of our graduates, Jaga-deesha Marigow-da, has

published his 6th book, “Politi-cal and Economic Model”.

Book Summary: This book is intended to create awareness about political volatility, integ-rity of elected representatives

June 23, 2018. One of our graduates, Cleopas Njerekai, has published 2 articles on the Journal of Tourism & Hospi-tality. You can read both of his

in utilizing public revenues for the de-velopment of needy com-munity. Especially young adults must review the current stock of public revenue utilization and active participation in par-liament and legislature debates of their representatives for the welfare of regions; effective utilization of available resourc-es to reduce exploitation. In this direction political party’s role is vital; because most of the young educated generation is ready to take risk in sup-porting their beloved leader and trust his vision in creating more employment opportuni-ties through rural entrepre-neurship as well as SME’s is one of the cornered area. ...

Find more information about his book: https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/political-and-economic-model/isbn/978-613-9-82430-4

Dr. Jagadeesha Marigowda completed a Doctorate pro-gram in International Busi-ness at AIU.

articles on the provided links:Staffing and Working

Conditions of Employees in Chinese Restaurants in Zimbabwe: Justifiable?: https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/staffing-and-work-ing-conditions-of-employees-in-chinese-restaurants-inzimbabwe-justifiable-2167-0269-1000341.pdf

A Critique of the Method-ological Approach to Hotel Guest Green Consumerism Empirical Researches Since 2000: https://www.arcjournals.

org/pdfs/ijrth/v4-i1/2.pdfDr. Cleopas Njerekai com-

pleted a Doctorate program in Tourism at Atlantic Interna-tional University.

Graduated with HonorsJuly, 2018. These graduate students completed the majority of the requirements to obtain

honors, which included a 4.0 GPA, published works, recommendation from their respective advisors, patent a product, etc. Congratulations to all of them!

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Verónica Calderón FuenzalidaBachelor of Science

in Psychology

Richmond AcheampongDoctorate of Philosophy

in Journalism

Uthayaraj Perumal ReddiarDoctor of Education

in Educational Leadership and Mgmt.

Patricio Bakale Mba MedjaMaster of Sciencein Sports Science.

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july 13, 2018. One of our graduates, Emperador Pérez, has received the recognition "Academician of Honor" by Dr. Otto Von Feigenblatt, Earl of Kobryn, Hon. Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo, of the European nobility and Baron of Feigenblatt-Miller, of the Acad-emy of Doctors of Spain and of the International Academy of Social Sciences, during an event held at Unicaribe College.

Dr. Emperador Pérez has completed a PhD program in Business Economics with hon-ors Suma Cum Laude in AIU.

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This month we have graduates from: Argentina · Australia · Botswana · Canada · Cape Verde · Chile · Colombia · DR Congo · Dominican Republic · Ecuador · Equatorial Guinea · Ghana · Guatemala · Guyana · Iraq · Israel · Jamaica ·

GraduatesGraduates

Fernanda Mendes A. Silva MascarenhasDoctor of PhilosoPhyProject ManageMent

caPe VerDe

Cristian Rodrigo Navarro PalmaBachelor of architecture

Digital Designchile

Verónica Elena Calderón Fuenzalida

Bachelor of sciencePsychology

chile

Alejandro Gaitán Hurtado Doctor of science

Psychology colomBia

Javier Novoa Cuervomaster of ciVil engineering

construction Projects ManageMentcolomBia

Juan Esteban Aguirre Espinosa

master of sciencePolitical science

colomBia

Ernesto Gómez EcheverriDoctor of Business aDministration

Business aDMinistrationcolomBia

Kabera Linga Alain

master of sciencecoMPuter science

Democratic rePuBlic of the congo

Juan Luis Rafael Guerrero PeraltaDoctor of legal stuDies

international criMinal justiceDominican rePuBlic

Sergio Feliz RubioDoctor of sociology

analysis of Bullying in schoolsDominican rePuBlic

Yeral OgandoBachelor of eDucation

english as a seconD languageDominican rePuBlic

Juan Bautista Martinez Morales

master of artsaPPlieD linguistics for sec. lang. teaching

Dominican rePuBlic

Luis Zabdiel De la Cruz PerdomoBachelor of Business aDministration

Business anD financeDominican rePuBlic

Wilson Manuel De Los Santos Matias

Bachelor of sciencecivil engineering

Dominican rePuBlic

Jorge Vinicio Freire Cerveramaster of scienceexterior coMMerce

ecuaDor

Yvonne Margarita Guerra RodríguezBachelor of Business aDministration

accounting anD auDitingecuaDor

Cristian Andrés Viteri CervantesBachelor of Business aDministration

Business aDMinistrationecuaDor

Sandra Mariel Toapanta Pazmiño

Doctor of PhilosoPhyPuBlic health

ecuaDor

Rommel Santiago Salazar CarreraBachelor of science

inDustrial Design engineeringecuaDor

Kleber Ramiro Cabezas Rea

Bachelor of sciencetelecoMMunications engineering

ecuaDor

Pablo Sebastián Buse VelásquezBachelor of science

inDustrial engineeringecuaDor

Pablo Ntutumu Bacale Ayetebe

Doctor of sciencefooD engineering

equatorial guinea

Fernando Ndong Nguema Mayemaster of Business aDministration

Marketing anD salesequatorial guinea

Patricio Bakale Mba Medja

master of sciencesPorts science

equatorial guinea

Baiza Belinda AbdallahDoctor of Business aDministration

Business anD aDMinistrationghana

Ayim Kwadwo Evans

master of scienceProject ManageMent

ghana

Ogu Ikpenma MaureenBachelor of social anD human stuDies

Psychologyargentina

Tethloach Domach Ruey

Doctor of scienceinternational relations

australia

Gaolebe KgatlhegoBachelor of Business aDministration

Banking anD financeBotswana

Matthews Lebogang Phiri

Doctor of Business aDministrationBusiness aDMinistration

Botswana

Giovanni Carlos Lorusso MontielDoctor of science

artificial intelligencecanaDa

Ansu Keifala

Bachelor of scienceMining engineering

canaDa

Sergio Andres CavesasBachelor of science

cyBer securityargentina

Maria Cristina Coronel

Bachelor of human resourceshuMan resources

argentina

Nancy Graciela Elena SavinoBachelor of science

Psychologyargentina

Deri, Angel DarioBachelor of science

neuroscienceargentina

María Eugenia Márquez Piazze

Bachelor of sciencecheMical engineering

argentina

Stella Marys PesoDoctor of eDucation

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Stanley Osazuwa Omobudemaster of science

Business aDMinistrationnigeria

Roberto Edmundo Angulo Alvarez

Bachelor of economicseconomics

Peru

Mahamah Dango, AbdouDoctor of sciencerenewaBle energy

senegal

Yayah Kamarakehmaster of science

lanD surVeyingsierra leone

Derrick Cheong Chak Wah

Doctor of sciencerefrigeration & air-conDitioning technology

singaPore

James Sia Chee BengDoctor of science

refrigeration & air-conDitioning technologysingaPore

Brian Mupindu

Bachelor of scienceelectrical engineering

south africa

Uthayaraj Perumal ReddiarDoctor of eDucation

eDucational leaDershiP anD ManageMentsri lanka

Lilian OchooBachelor of arts

journalisM anD MeDia stuDiessouth suDan

Elfadil Musa Mohamed AhmedDoctor of PhilosoPhyProject ManageMent

suDan

Mohamed TurayDoctor of Business aDministration

health ManageMent inforMation systeMstanzania

Abdi Hussein Saleh

Bachelor of artsjournalisMtanzania

Ahmed Shaker Abdulrahman

Bachelor of scienceinforMation technology

uae

Ammar Imad WasfiBachelor of Business aDministration

Business aDMinistrationuae

Faris Moh'd R. Abed Rabu

Bachelor of Business aDministrationBusiness aDMinistration

uae

Lailat Salim HemedBachelor of Business aDministration

Business aDMinistration uae

Mayar GhazalBachelor of Business aDministration


Sahar Kamal Taleb Naji

Bachelor of Business aDministrationBusiness aDMinistration

uae

Aamna Ikram AbbasiBachelor of Business aDministration


Mohamed Saif E. Abdel Rahim AhmedBachelor of Business aDministration


Magda Dinor Valdez RuvalcabaBachelor of artssPanish language

usa

Dante Christiam Arroyo VegaBachelor of science

environMental, health anD safetyusa

Martha AbdullahBachelor of science

early chilDhooD anD eDucationusa

Jeff Garcia

master of sciencePsychology anD coaching

usa

Gilbert Chimese Kasongomaster of finance

financezamBia

Maria Odete Pedro Filho Melo

Bachelor of sciencePuBlic health

zimBaBwe

Wirimai ChimbongoreDoctor of accounting

accountingzimBaBwe

Christopher Emeka DesmondBachelor of Business aDministration

Banking anD financeluxemBourg

Kone Djakalia

Bachelor of Business aDministrationBusiness ManageMent

mali

Varandinho Alberto AliDoctor of PhilosoPhy

PuBlic Policy anD aDMinistrationmozamBique

Prosper Sinzotuma

master of managementBusiness ManageMent

mozamBique

Mamadou Abdou Gaoh SaniDoctor of management

ManageMentniger

Justina Obiageli OhaiDoctor of PhilosoPhy

eDucational Psychologynigeria

Adetokunbo Modupe

Bachelor of social scienceinternational relations

nigeria

Ochai Ufedo AdejohDoctor of PhilosoPhy

health care aDMinistrationnigeria

Aminu N. Mohammed

master of sciencefinancenigeria

Aniefiok Joe MosesDoctor of PhilosoPhy

PuBlic healthnigeria

Hector A DuarteBachelor of Business aDministration

econoMicsguatemala

Calvin Brutus

Post Doctorate of scienceorganizational DeveloPMent

guyana

Wilmer Eliezer Díaz GonzálezDoctor of science

cheMical engineeringiraq

Aharon Zaide

master of sciencecheMistry

israel

Rowena Colleen LypherBachelor of eDucation

aDult eDucationJamaica

Basem Mohammed Al-loziPost Doctorate of economics

econoMicsJorDan

James Kamau Murango

Bachelor of scienceProject ManageMent

kenya

Sisco Mbindi MbithBachelor of Business anD economicslogistics & suPPly chain ManageMent

kenya

Marwan Monier HatoumBachelor of science

civil engineeringleBanon

Raghda Thini Fawaz

Bachelor of architecturearchitecture

liBeria

Jordan · Kenya · Lebanon · Liberia · Luxembourg · Mali · Mozambique · Niger · Nigeria · Peru · Senegal · Sierra Leone · Singapore · South Africa · Sri Lanka · South Sudan · Sudan · Tanzania · UAE · USA · Zambia · Zimbabwe

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John Tarilanyo AfaDoctor of Electrical Engineering

January 4, 2012

“If sometimes one lack words to express a situation, my experi-

ence in AIU was one. I stumble at this website when my desire for reading for a doctorate was at its peak. I feel quite excited when my submission was approved for the doctorate in Electrical Engineering.

While I was on my first phase with my little knowledge of computer, I felt very degusted with so many unanswered questions. At that time the academic department at every mail became a motivator that kept me moving. The day I checked my records (transcript), I found out that these thing I felt not relevant were the foundation. AIU is unique, in that every thing that is done is given the required attention and priority.

The acceptance and the motivation became a springboard for my acceler-ated advancement. I like AIU be-cause they are up to something, very focused and they do exactly what they have laid down. Due to my personal curriculum design, I have known more about my environment.

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Senthil SeliyanBachelor of Civil Engineering

January 10, 2008

“One of the best decisions I ever made was to become an

AIU student. Before joining with AIU graduation was nightmare for me as working and studying together is crucial. AIU makes possible gradua-tion while working. I had well expe-rience with AIU as I was preparing assignment with own pace of study at convenient time. Throughout my educational experience at AIU, I have learned to become more independent in everything I do. It was a very chal-lenging time for me.

AIU has changed my life for the bet-ter. The academic activities are struc-tured in such a way that I was able to manage my time and at my pace to comfortably complete the program.

Atlantic International University, thank you very much of the opportunity that you have granted me and I know that with God’s help I will do and see great things from this day forth.

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Lilian OchooBachelor of Journalism

and Media StudiesJuly 3, 2018

“Its been a pleasure studying at Atlantic International Uni-

versity. The learning process at AIU has been so unique and manageable. Though it took me extra time than planned to attain my degree due to financial constraint, I must appreciate the academic team at AIU for mak-ing this a reality. The team kept me going and motivated towards studies. I remember receiving calls/emails from AIU academic staff with encour-agement words towards my educa-tion throughout. Even when I felt like ending the process due to lack of finances, AIU kept me on move.

Thanks to AIU for the scholarship rendered to me, otherwise, I would have not realized my goal. The other interesting part of my academic jour-ney with AIU has been the accelerated learning process –the process is so encouraging, more so to students with experience in the fields of study.

With my degree from AIU, I believe I will be able to move some steps forward in my job and career.

John Roland Jr.Bachelor of Resource Recovery

January 13, 2005

“Due to the nature of my work and the hours involved, it has

been difficult to attend a conven-tional university with set hours for classroom instructions. From the very start, I found the staff and advisors at AIU, both cordial and professional in their advisement to assist me in achieving my goal without loosing the past credits and also incorporat-ing my life experiences into cred-its towards my degree. I found the method of study employed by AIU to be more challenging than that of a conventional classroom. The research involved in writing my final thesis demanded much of my time and energy, yet I feel that it was worth it. I would recommend AIU to anyone seeking a degree because of the above mentioned qualities, but most of all, for the helpful and sincere advice that was given me when I needed help in my endeavor.

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Addressing barriers of nursing and midwifery

practice autonomy in Ghana

Diminishing opportunities for training, education and professional development

The Nurses and Midwifery Board of Australia14 states that nurses in general practice are required to undertake profes-sional development. Midwives too. The accreditation stan-dards of general practices in Australia also require nurses in general practice to be ac-tively participating in continu-ing professional development and therefore infers a respon-sibility of the general practice to ensure that this occurs13. The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana stresses continuous professional development (CPD) and this is contingent with the renewal of professional identification numbers (PIN). That notwith-standing the opportunity to go for further training in the area of long programme is dwin-dling. Informal information re-veals that managers of Ghana Health Service (GHS) no longer sponsors nurses and midwives making advances for degree and masters programmes. Some hold the view that the levels do not bring value. Oth-ers say funds are not available to support long courses. In the contrary, undertaking educa-tion and training and creden-tialing provide nurses with ad-ditional skills to provide wider ranging care and to feel more

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confident about their role13. Similarly, frameworks for edu-cation and career pathways have been found to enhance the development of nurse-led care in the United Kingdom and New Zealand13.

Formal (policy, practice, statutory) barriers limiting services provided by nurses and midwives

Regulations concerning whether or not Nurse Prac-titioners (NPs) can admit, man-age, and discharge patients in a hospital are inconsistent and not always clear. Facil-ity policies may interpret the requirements of the law as restricting NPs in independent practice regarding patient ad-mission to, treatment in, and discharge from health care facilities; even though NPs are authorized to perform these functions in a separate portion of the Arizona Administrative Code. Within Yavapai Coun-ty, Arizona, there are four hospitals –one federal, one rehabilitation, and two acute care hospitals13. Of the four facilities, the federal facility provides the most indepen-dent practice environment by far, in that it permits NPs to evaluate and treat patients in the outpatient, inpatient, and emergency room set-ting. With reference to the latter assertion, it is possible

to make policies that will mandate nurses and midwives to evaluate and treat patients in the outpatient and inpatient setting. Where these func-tions are permitted they are not documented as “extended” roles so as to be considered for recognition.

In a survey conducted by Drennan, J. et al16 it was observed that patients and parents were highly satisfied with the care they received from nurse/midwife prescrib-ers and the majority were of the opinion that that nurses and midwives should have prescriptive authority.

Non-recognition of Spe-cializations in nursing and midwifery practices hampers the growth of nursing and midwifery.

Generally, in Ghana there is no formal or structured rec-ognition for nursing and mid-wifery specializations. Post basic programmes are avail-able in nursing in Ghana. The basic programme places one at the entry point of a nurse or midwife upon completion of the professional course. An example is the three year programme in nursing or midwifery that enables one become a Registered Nurse or Registered Midwife in the case of Ghana. The post basic programmes have a duration of two (2) years at most. The

duration of training might be inadequate for the products to be considered specialist in their field of study. A welcome development is the establish-ment of the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives. The College was established and inaugurated on 23rd April 2013 under the provisions of the Specialist Health Training and Plant Medicine and Research Act 833 of 2011 (Part Three) and has a mission to promote specialist education and con-tinuous professional devel-opment17. Nurse/Midwives specialist programmes would include paediatric nursing,

accident and emergency, palliative care and oncology. The training for residents is for three (3) years full-time. It is hoped the graduates of the specialist programmes would be appropriately recognized by Ministry of Health, Ghana. In other jurisdictions, special-ist posts were valued more by National Health Service trusts but also more by the nursing profession itself. The conclu-sion is that ways need to be found to reward and value the role of the nurse and midwife following specialization so that nursing and midwifery excellence can be recruited,

retained and developed at the Ward or clinical level18.

Rurality

Areas that create barriers for rural providers may provide opportunities in some ways for independent practice of NPs in rural areas. This is not always the case, and NPs are affected by rural practice issues like distance from sup-port networks, professional isolation, lack of anonymity, spousal employment, long hours, and the requirement to be an ”expert generalist”15. One widely reported effects of practicing in a rural setting is

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lack of anonymity. The lack of anonymity refers to the lack of separation between personal and professional lives that occurs in rural communi-ties. This lack of anonymity contributes to the trusted and knowledgeable status con-ferred upon the “old-timer”, or the individual who is known to the community, lived in the community for an extended period, and owns land. Lack of anonymity has been cited as an advantage for the rural nurse practitioner who may interact with patients outside the practice setting raising the question of whether it is a

barrier or advantage15.Another significant bar-

rier faced by the rural nurse/ midwife practitioner (NMP) is professional isolation. Isola-tion has been defined in the literature as “an actual separa-tion from or a deficiency in a resource needed to fulfil professional responsibilities or needs”. Rural professional iso-lation of the Nurse or midwife is a barrier frequently raised in studies on rural practice. Isolation from continuing education has been an issue for both nursing and medicine and the decrease comfort level of providers in performing

complex or infrequently prac-ticed skills may be a quality concern. For the rural nurse/midwife practitioner, issues of role confusion and workplace barriers compound profes-sional isolation, may make it more difficult to collaborate in interdisciplinary settings. Other effects of isolation are lack of peer support and knowledge decay15.

While rural populations tend to be older, poorer, and sicker than urban populations, they have fewer resources available to provide treat-ment comparable to urban practices15.

Clearly the nurse-midwife is the “expert generalist” in the rural setting where they enjoy some level of health services autonomy. The disadvantages encountered in the area far outweigh the advantages. The factors to attract, retain them and sustain their practices need to be addressed.

For instance, as part of their social responsibility telecom-munication companies should make their services felt at the remotest of communities particularly in localities where health facilities are sited. The government should negotiate for the location of the tele-communication facilities. It has been established that rural people have developed eco-nomic and social links beyond their locality due to improved transport and communica-tion means. Transportation, telephone and internet have superimposed communica-tion and travel patterns that allow rural people to shop, utilise services and partici-pate in recreation well beyond the local community19. The telecommunication network will draw the health personnel towards their peers and the rest of the world. In addition, the employer should institute what is known as Herzberg Factor Two (Hygiene Fac-tors) placing premium on achievements, recognition

and responsibility and of course, working conditions and remuneration20. It has also been found that financial and non-financial incentives such as better housing and acceler-ated promotions were moder-ately effective but preferential access to training and career development opportunities were very powerful non-financial strategies in motivat-ing nurses to work in rural and remote areas.

CONCLUSION

From the discussions we reckon that teamwork among health providers, opportu-nity for training, education and professional continuous development, clear policy blue-print, according special-ist nurses and midwives the needed recognition, sup-porting and promoting the Herzberg Factor Two (Hygiene Factor) in the urban as well as the rural settings are essential means by which nursing and midwifery autonomy can be realized. The absence of these factors would make nursing and midwifery autonomy a non-starter.

RECOMMENDATIONIt is my candid opinion that

the following be considered in the promotion of nursing and midwifery autonomy:

To ensure that other

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professionals recognize the worth of nurses and mid-wives, we should demon-strate competence by design-ing and implementing models of patient care. The need to revive the Nursing Care Plan and make it user-friend in the clinics and hospital is long overdue. In addition nurses should demonstrate solidar-ity towards one another and be assertive and supportive of nursing and midwifery agenda.

Need to develop Frame-works for education and career pathways to enhance the development of nurse led care. Responsibility lies with NMCG, GRNMA and GCNM.

The NMCG and GRNA should collaborate to identify or review and document the expanded and or extended roles of nurses and midwives for determination by the MOH/GHS as policy

There is the need to display the roles so identified at facil-ity levels for appreciation by the public.

NMCG and GCNM should determine and declare spe-cialty programmes in nursing and midwifery and recom-mend same for appropriate recognition by the employer so that nursing and midwifery excellence can be recruited, retained and developed.

Government should

consider financial and non-financial incentives such as better working environments and housing as effective strat-egies for the rural nurses and midwives

Accelerated promotions, in-service training and career development opportunities are powerful non-financial strate-gies in motivating nurses and midwives to work in rural and remote areas MOH/GHS to be responsible.

Government should facili-tate the provision of telecom-munication services at the remotest of communities particularly in localities where health facilities are sited.

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Challenges to be overcome on our way to the 21st century is to train teachers and students to achieve competence and mas-tery over the use of technol-ogy instead of letting them be enslaved by it. The widespread use of ICT in all areas has a direct effect on the way in which the world is perceived. The permanent presence of telematic networks in all areas of life allows unlimited access to information and a relax-ation of time and space barri-ers. ICT has shaken traditional approaches to teaching and learning and poses new chal-lenges to the educational com-munity, challenges that arise along with new teaching and learning environments and modes of instruction, mainly set in virtuality.

A deep integration of new technologies in education as a central means for teaching and learning processes will inevitably require teachers to change attitudes and teaching paradigms, such changes will force them to adapt to new

methodological approaches, educational concepts and aspects of management, which will have to be established in technology-rich environments. Therefore, open and flexible teaching and learning process-es, especially the use of inter-active whiteboards, interactive and bidirectional communica-tion systems, together with the emergence of alternative spaces designed to promote communication generate new needs and expectations that must be met the educators.

The use of ICT in education favors interaction and col-laboration among participants in the education sector. The focus of this research focuses on three main subjects: on the use and competence of ICT, on the teacher and the school community, and on the learn-ing environment and teach-ing practices. This research is closely related to the national education policy, which seeks the implementation of ICT in pedagogical practices in all areas and institutional levels.

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choices, opportunities and challenges due to the omni-present trend of technology in all spheres of life: business and administration, govern-ment, education, economy and society itself. The pro-found changes experienced in the academic field must be seen with thoughts about the possibilities that new tech-nologies imply.

The history of the interac-tive whiteboard goes back to

the year 1990. It was similar to the computer with touch screen and mainly used for commercial presentations. The first plate that used the projec-tion was the Smart Board in 1991 (Benassi, V.A., Overson, C.E., and Hakala, C.M., 2014). The cost of this new presenta-tion device was quite high, so the IWB took several years to pass from use at busi-ness meetings to universities and even later to elementary schools. During the last ten years, the number of IWB in

schools has increased very rapidly. The first IWB in the Czech school was in 1998 (Neumajer, 2012). By way of illustration, ZŠ Komenského in Trutnov has 17 IWBs at this time, when the first was purchased in 2006 (ZŠ Komen-ského, 2017).

The traditional paradigms of teaching and learning have been shaken by the impact of the integration of Information and Communication Tech-nology (ICT) in educational practices, while teachers and trainers face challenges rang-ing from the acquisition of skills and literacy in the use of ICT for the delivery of the necessary tools that will lead students to become creators of knowledge and users. Thus, deeply immersed in the knowledge society, a society based on the critical, rational and reflective use of global and distributed information (Badarch, 2013) in which the most outstanding commu-nication media are telematic networks, one of the largest

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your assignment as you study.What are the advantages of

started an assignment before you study?

• As you study, you will be able to write as you develop ideas. Normally as you read, you have opinions and reac-tions fresh in the moment that you are reading. You want to write those ideas im-mediately into your assign-ment. Then all you have to do is edit the writing before you submit the essay. The editing part is easy because the ideas are already written.

• It forces you to focus your studies in your topic. When you write your assignment as you study, the assignment is actually guiding your studies. As you write, you will think of a topic to write about, then you can focus your read-ing on that topic. Then you can develop that topic better because you are reading and developing the ideas directly into your assignment.

• You can measure how many pages that you need to write each day in order to fin-ish your essay. Suppose that you want to write an essay of 15 pages. Consequently, you want to write roughly 1 page per day in your assignment. If after 10 days of studying, you

have 6 pages written, then you know that you need to write 9 pages in the next 10 days. Or if you have written 12 pages in 13 days, then you know that you need to write 3 pages in the next 7 days. As you see how many pages you need to write, you can better measure the topics that you need to study to complete your assignment.

• If you need to write more pages, then you can do more research. If you have complet-ed the reading, but still do not have enough pages written, then you can choose supple-mental study material to get more ideas. You can search for another source of material, like another book or video. Then include your thoughts and opinions about the other book or video. You will know earlier in your writing process if you need more material, because you have been writing as you study.

All you need to do is try this for one assignment. Then you will know that this is the best way to write an assignment. Start writing your assign-ment with a template even before you start studying. It will much easier to finish an assignment each and every month.

At AIU, a student is required to submit an

assignment each month. So how can you start and finish a course in one month? The secret is to start writing your assignment even before you start to study the material.

Normally a student will study a course by completing all of the reading before they

start to write the assignment. This is not the best way to do an assignment.

The best way is to get an idea of what the assignment will be about, then start writ-ing and preparing the assign-ment right away before you start to study.

You open the template of an assignment for AIU. The

template has a cover page, in-troduction, place for the body of the assignment, a conclu-sion and a bibliography. You prepare the cover page with your name and title of the course. Then you write a brief introduction to the subject matter that you will study.

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Kids born today...

For many, learning how to drive is a rite of passage that teenagers pine

for. Getting behind the wheel for the first time, passing drivers ed, getting your license, and buying your first car symbolize your first steps towards independence. But one expert believes it’s a milestone that teens of the future won’t experience.

“My own prediction is that kids born today will never get to drive a car,” says Henrik Christensen, who heads UC San Diego’s Contextual Robotics Institute. “Autonomous, driverless cars are 10, 15 years out. All the automotive companies –Daimler, GM, Ford– are saying that within five years they will have autonomous,

driverless cars on the road.”By now, we’ve already learned to

live with all the downsides of driv-ing. Sitting in traffic is certainly better walking to and from work; wasting time looking for parking is better than elbowing through crowds to get a seat on the subway. But Christensen argues that these activities could soon be a thing of the past. Driverless cars will not only allow us to put twice as many vehicles on the road, with little to no effort to improve current infra-structure, they also give us a chance to be more productive. ...

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A teacher is going above and be-yond to help young boys in his

community become young gentlemen. Every Wednesday nearly 60 students at Memminger Elementary School dress for success and meet for the "Gentlemen's Club." Raymond Nelson is the student support specialist at Memminger Elementary in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina. He works with at-risk children and over winter break thought of an idea to teach his students life lessons.

“I was thinking maybe if I have the boys dress for success,” Nelson said to WCSC-TV. “When was the last time you saw someone fighting in a tux-edo?” Nelson started The Gentlemen's Club. Their motto is: “Look good, feel

good, do good.” Every Wednesday, dozens of first through fifth graders walk into class in their Sunday's best. “I know a lot of them struggle because a lot of them don't have men at home, so I just want them to grow up and think of the things that I teach them,” Nelson said. “They like the reaction of walking up to classrooms and say, 'Oh, you look so nice and handsome,' they just love it.” Nelson even keeps a stash of donated jackets, vests and ties at school for kids who don't have their own. “A lot of my students perform well when they know someone cares about them,” Nelson said.

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Gentleman's ClubTeacher creates it to teach life lessons to boys.

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There are lots of theories on what the basis of the universe is. Some

physicists say its subatomic particles. Others believe its energy or even space-time. One of the more radical theories suggests that information is the most basic element of the cosmos. Although this line of thinking emanates from the mid-20th century, it seems to be enjoy-ing a bit of a Renaissance among a sliver of prominent scientists today.

Consider that if we knew the exact composition of the universe and all of its properties and had enough energy and know-how to draw upon, theo-retically, we could break the universe down into ones and zeroes and using that information, reconstruct it from the bottom up. It’s the information, purveyors of this view say, locked inside any singular component that

allows us to manipulate matter any way we choose. Of course, it would take deity-level sophistication, a feat only achievable by a type V civiliza-tion on the Kardashev scale.

Mid-20th century mathematician and engineer Claude Elwood Shan-non, is thought the creator of classical information theory. Though few know of him outside of scientific circles, he’s being hailed today as the “father of the digital age.” Shannon’s spark of genius came in 1940 at MIT, when he noticed a relationship between Boolean alge-bra and telephone switching circuits. Soon after, he was hired by Bell Labs to devise the most efficient way to transfer information over wires. ...

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A new medical imaging device uses technology developed by particle

physicists to produce full-color, 3D images of the human body.

Phil and Anthony Butler, a father and son team in New Zealand who teach physics and bioengineering, respectively, have been developing the technology for a decade through their company MARS Bioimaging.

The scanner uses hybrid-pixel technology called Medipix3, which was initially developed for the Large Hadron Collider.

“The original concept of Medipix is that it works like a camera, detect-ing and counting each individual particle hitting the pixels when its electronic shutter is open,” reads a

statement from CERN “This enables high-resolution, high-contrast, very reliable images, making it unique for imaging applications in particular in the medical field.”

Traditional X-rays produce a black image when passing through soft tis-sue and a white image when absorbed by denser bone material. The Medip-ix3 detector, however, “is able to mea-sure how specific energies of X-rays are being attenuated” and can differ-entiate between bone, muscle, metal, fats and liquid. This level of sensitivity enables the technology to produce a strikingly realistic representation of the internal body. ... Read full text: https://

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Birds in flightSyntopia is the latest haute couture collection from Dutch

fashion designer Iris van Herpen. The line of beautifully pleated garments explores the increasing convergence of our organic bodies and inorganic elements of technology, while also incorporating designs inspired by birds in flight.

“As a former dancer, the transformation within movement has hypnotized me,” explained van Herpen. “For this col-lection I looked closely at the minutiae of bird flight and the intricate echoing forms within avian motion.”

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Super suitAs the global population ages,

many more people will experi-ence challenges with mobility. One solution? Clothing that actually helps the wearer move.

Electronics that can be worn on the body are about more than personal convenience. A new kind of wearable technology may help. A lightweight, comfortable ‘super suit’ designed by Seismic –a wearable robotics spin-off from the non-profit research centre SRI International– works with the user’s muscles to help boost their power.

The suit’s ‘electric muscles', powered by tiny motors, contract in a way that mimics human muscle. These elec-tric muscles are integrated into the clothing around the joints of the body and attached via grips in the clothing. These grips function like tendons in the human body.

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We all need food every day, but our changing relationship with

it through the years can have a big impact on our health. While hunger –our body’s way of making us desire food when it needs feeding– is a part of appetite, it is not the only factor.

Our appetite is also not fixed, it changes across our lifespan as we age. As Shakespeare might have put it, there are seven ages of appetite, and a better understanding of these phases could help us to develop new ways of tackling under-eating and over-consumption, along with the health effects, such as obesity, that follow.

In early childhood, the body goes through rapid growth and dietary behaviour built up in early life can extend into adulthood, leading a fat

child to become a fat adult. In the teenage years, a growth in ap-

petite and stature driven by hormones, signals the arrival of puberty. How a teenager approaches food during this critical period will shape their lifestyle choices in later years.

As young adults, lifestyle changes such as going to college, getting mar-ried or living with a partner, and par-enthood can promote weight gain.

Adult working life brings other chal-lenges beyond a rumbling stomach, but also the effects of stress, which has been shown to prompt changes in ap-petite and eating habits in 80% of the population ...

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AppetiteHow your age affects it.

How does brain process speech?

Neuroscientists have known that speech is processed in the

auditory cortex for some time, along with some curious activity within the motor cortex. How this last cortex is involved though, has been something of a mystery, until now. A new study by two NYU scientists reveals one of the last holdouts to a process of discovery which started over a century and a half ago. In 1861, French neurologist Pierre Paul Broca identified what would come to be known as “Broca’s area.” This is a region in the posterior inferior frontal gyrus.

This area is responsible for process-ing and comprehending speech, as well as producing it. Interestingly, a fellow

scientist, whom Broca had to oper-ate on, was post-op missing Broca’s area entirely. Yet, he was still able to speak. He couldn’t initially make com-plex sentences, however, but in time regained all speaking abilities. This meant another region had pitched in, and a certain amount of neuroplasti-city was involved.

In 1871, German neurologist Carl Wernicke discovered another area responsible for processing speech through hearing, this time in the supe-rior posterior temporal lobe. It’s now called Wernicke’s area. ...

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We need action on palm oil, that is absolutely not open for

debate. But, a new report suggests that the alternatives we have to this envi-ronmentally damaging edible oil actu-ally might do more harm than good.

This alarming report comes from the respected International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), perhaps most familiar to animal lovers as the organization that composes the endangered wildlife list, the Red List.

The IUCN report, “Oil Palms and Biodiversity“, takes an impartial look at current palm oil forestry practices and compares them with other crops that could substitute for palm oil. The

report found that palm oil’s impact on threatened species is as terrible as other reports have also suggested.

In fact, the forest-clearing required to grow and harvest palm oil currently impacts 193 threatened species on the IUCN Red List. Those are just its en-dangered animals and does not neces-sarily cover species that are currently faring okay but may be vulnerable in the future.

Orangutans and tigers are among the most severely at risk from oil palm cultivation and harvesting. ...

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Scientists think they can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by

tweaking the food that cows eat. A recent experiment from the Univer-sity of California, Davis suggests that adding seaweed to cattle feed can dramatically decrease their emissions of the potent gas methane.

Livestock is a major source of green-house gases worldwide. About quarter of the methane emissions due to hu-man activity in the U.S. can be chalked up to gas released from these animals, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. There's a pen at the University of California, Davis, where scientists were closely observing 12 research cows on a recent morning.

Each animal is known by a four digit number —except for the friendliest one. “We just call her Ginger, she's the only one with a name,” laughs gradu-ate student Breanna Roque.

On this morning, Roque is mixing up breakfast for the research cows. She's pulling out dark, gooey clumps of a seaweed species called Aspara-gopsis armata. “I'll sprinkle it in, I'll kind of rub it together with the hay, mix it around, and then we actually come through and pitchfork the whole ration,” she says. ...

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Surf and turfTrying to reduce gas emissions from cows,

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An endangered Indian wolf was spotted in a lake area in Nagpur,

central India, by a group of amateur nature photographers, and their images show the state of the starving animal. It is thought the wolf would have been looking for food inside the container, and ended up getting stuck, becoming more and more malnourished over time.

Tanay Panpalia, a 26-year-old ac-countant from Nagpur, spotted the wolf while out taking photos with his friends, and the group embarked on a rescue mission. After calling the Nag-pur Forest Department, they spent two hours tracking the wolf until a rescue team arrived and were able to cut the container off. Mr Panpalia said: “It was a plastic container ... I and two friends had ventured to the lake in order to

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Atiny, new community is taking shape within Seattle’s Ballard

neighborhood with the aim of helping homeless women return to sheltered living. The homes in what’s called Whittier Heights Village, north of 80th Street, are part of a growing trend in Seattle of using 100-square-foot struc-tures to provide housing, security and stability to unsheltered people.

This tiny house village —funded through public and private dona-tions— will be the eighth of its kind in Seattle but the first that will serve ex-clusively one gender. “It’s a need in the community. There’s a lot of homeless women. Some of them feel more com-fortable in a single-sex environment,” said Sharon Lee, executive director

of the Low Income Housing Institute, an affordable housing developer that manages the city’s tiny house villages.

Lee said the village will welcome women who are mothers or are preg-nant, seniors, veterans and same-sex female couples. Whittier Heights Vil-lage should be completed by the end of this month, Lee said. Some of the first residents are already lined up. Not only is the new tiny house community for women, it’s being built predomi-nantly by women, too. Weekend work parties have drawn dozens of female volunteers skilled in trades —carpen-ters, electricians, plumbers, painters and more, Lee said. ...

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Group finds it with its head trapped in a plastic container.take photos of birds, but we were also hoping to capture some images of wolves. When we saw a pack of them we were so excited and decided to follow them for a while to take photos when we suddenly found a young wolf whose head was stuck in a plastic container. The other wolves watched us from a distance –we were scared as there were only three of us and ten of them. ... Thankfully, the plastic container had holes in it which was al-lowing him to breathe and drink water –it's probably what kept him alive. ... I documented the whole story so that it might make people more aware of how their rubbish affects wildlife.”

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1 PESSIMISM. Pes-simism invites a consid-

eration of the negativity of existence and reflection on it. It’s no secret that life presents pain, suffering, illness, death and similar situations and emotions. Do we do well to evade them? Pessimistic phi-losophers would say no, that to do so is to amputate life itself, to take away something that is its own and, even, that

these things are necessary for the experience of life in its fullness.

What to read? Arthur Schopenhauer (The Wisdom of Life, The World as Will and Representation), Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science and Ecce Homo).

2 NIHILISM. Nihil means “nothing” in Latin. The

“nothingness” to which the

philosophical current refers might be compared to the primordial nothing hypotheti-cally preceding the beginning of the Universe. Practically everything surrounding us is the result of change and acci-dent. Morals, customs, social institutions, ideas, and all of our most common practices: everything can also not be, and therefore, everything is also susceptible to change.

What to read? Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zara-thustra, Twilight of the Idols).

3 EXISTENTIALISM. If philosophy was in itself

intended as a discipline for the examination of human life, it might be said that the roots of existentialism extend from the days of Plato’s Symposium to contemporary discussions of Byung Chul-Han. But don’t think that this makes it am-biguous. Perhaps our species is the only one able to make an enigma of itself, and perhaps we’re the only ones who need

to understand our lives in order to live them.

What to read? Albert Ca-mus (The Myth of Sisyphus) and Jean-Paul Sartre above all. But their ramifications are a little more vast and diverse. Søren Kierkegaard (Repeti-tion) was an avant la lettre ex-istentialist, and some consider Tolstoy’s essays and even Dostoevsky’s novels (House of the Dead) as true explorations of the human soul. Also read Miguel de Unamuno and José Ortega y Gasset.

4 STOICISM. Especially popular in the days of the

Roman Empire. It might be said that the essence of Sto-icism is a reminder that life is a continual opportunity to be virtuous, fortune and mis-fortune, happiness and pain, daily tasks and pleasures. Virtue is the compass allow-ing us to navigate these seas of existence without losing our direction or forgetting the heights of our mission.

What to read? The Medita-tions of Marcus Aurelius, the Moral Epistles of Lucilius or

De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) by Seneca the Younger, and The Dis-courses by Epictetus.

5 HEDONISM. A philoso-phy of life and reflection

with pleasure as its guiding principle. Although it sounds like a life of sensuality, par-ties, and banquets, the truth is that, philosophically, pleasure is also a category that needs to be examined to be exer-cised. Would you be happy if you ate what you like every day? Is the pleasure you feel for any activity genuine? Or is it merely that you learned to enjoy what you were taught?

What to read? A fresh and luminous approach to the subject can be found in a contemporary French thinker, Michel Onfray. His book Theorie Du Corps Amoureux (Theory of the Body in Love) is a scholarly, intelligent re-view of the ways philosophy and society have approached sexual pleasure. The book also includes a passionate defense of the ideas of Epicurus (the greatest of the hedonists).

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4. Put it aside. Read it pre-tending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.

5. Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

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The Bachelor of Agrictultural Eco-nomics degree unites economic

analysis with the practical aspects of agriculture. The program is intended to specialize students for careers in research, teaching, analysis, business administration and similar fields of agricultural economics. We will guide you to be successful in the field and to raise awareness of the social and environmental responsibilities of agri-culture. The Agrictultural Economics program is designed to advance the professional development of expe-rienced economics graduates and professionals in the economics arena by extending their knowledge and

equipping them with broad research and process economics skills, enabling them to make a key leadership contri-bution to their chosen fields.

AIU’s Bachelor's degree in Agri-cultural Economics goes one step further by allowing students to study and research multiple key areas of computer science to develop a unique foundation of practical knowledge and computer science theory.

Your AIU Distance Learning Bach-elor program in Agricultural Econom-ics will be a custom-made program, designed just for you by you and your advisor. This flexibility to meet your needs is seldom found in other

distance learning programs. Our pro-gram does not require every student to study the same subjects and use the same books and other learning materi-als as every other student. Instead our online Bachelor programs are de-signed just for you. They are individu-ally designed to meet your needs and help you to reach your professional and personal goals.

IMPORTANT: 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 ex-ample. Want to learn more about the curriculum design at AIU? Go ahead and visit our website, especially the Course and Curriculum section:www.aiu.edu/CourseCurriculum.html

Core Courses and TopicsEfficiency and Productivity Analysis Deterministic and Stochastic ApproachesTime Series Analysis: Applications in Agricultural and Food EconomicsTheory and models for an integrated analysis of ecosystem servicesHousehold Behavior: Theory and ApplicationsTopics in Industrial Organization Risk Analysis and Risk Management in AgricultureAgent-based Modelling in Agricultural and Resource Economics Theory, Analysis and Empirical Study of Institutions and OrganizationsAdvanced Supply Chain Management

The Political Economy of Agriculture in high-income CountriesIntroduction to Geographic Information

Orientation Courses Communication & Investigation (Comprehensive Resume)Organization Theory (Portfolio)Experiential Learning (Autobiography)Academic Evaluation (Questionnaire) Fundament of Knowledge (Integration Chart) Fundamental Principles I (Philosophy of Education)Professional Evaluation (Self Evaluation Matrix) Development of Graduate Study (Guarantee of an Academic Degree)

Research ProjectBachelor Thesis Project MBM300 Thesis Proposal MBM302 Bachelor Thesis (5000 words)

Publication. Each graduate is encouraged to publish their research papers either online in the public do-main or through professional journals and periodicals worldwide.

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MISSION: To be a higher learning institu-tion concerned about generating cultural development alternatives likely to be sustained in order to lead to a more ef-ficient 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 indi-vidual towards the convergence of the world through a sustainable educational design based on andragogy and omniology.

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 philosophi-cally holistic approach towards education fitting within the balance of your life and acknowl-edging the key role each individual can play in their community, country, and the world.

While National Accreditation is common for tra-ditional U.S. institutions of higher learning utiliz-ing standard teaching methods, every country has its own standards and accrediting organiza-tions. Accreditation is a voluntary process and does not guarantee a worthy education. Rather, it means an institution has submitted its courses, programs, budget, and educational objectives for review. AIU’s Distance Learning Programs are unique, non-traditional and not accredited by the U.S. Department of Education. This may be a determining factor for those individuals interested in pursuing certain disciplines requir-ing State licensing, (such as law, teaching, or medicine). It is recommended that you consider the importance of National Accreditation for your specific field or profession.

Although Atlantic International University’s individualized Distance Learning Degree Pro-grams, are distinct from traditional educational institutions, we are convinced of their value and acceptance worldwide. Non-traditional programs are important because they recognize knowledge gained outside the classroom and incorporate a broader more comprehensive view of the learn-ing experience. Many great institutions are unac-credited. We invite you to compare our programs and philosophy with traditional classroom-based programs to determine which is best suited to your needs and budget.

AIU has chosen private accreditation through the Accrediting Commission Inter-national (ACI), obtained in 1999. ACI is not regulated or approved by the US Department of Education. ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IS NOT ACCREDITED BY AN ACCREDITING AGENCY RECOGNIZED BY THE UNITED

STATES SECRETARY OF EDUCATION. Note: In the U.S., 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.

AIU is incorporated in the state of Hawaii. As a University based in the U.S., AIU meets all state and federal laws of the United States. There is no distinction between the programs offered through AIU and those of traditional campus based programs with regards to the following: your degree, transcript and other graduation documents from AIU follow the same standard used by all U.S. colleges and universities. AIU graduation documents can include an apostille and authentication from the U.S. Department of State to facilitate their use internationally. Authentication from the U.S. Department of State is a process that will ultimately bind a letter signed by the U.S. Secre-tary of State (permanently with a metal ring) to your graduation documents.

If a student outside the U.S. wishes to carry out a particular procedure within a country’s Department of Education regarding their degree earned at AIU, such procedures are to be carried out independently by the student. AIU respects the unique rules and regulations

of each country and does not intervene or influence the respective authorities. We

recommend prospective students who intend to carry out such procedures outside the U.S. to verify in detail the steps and requirements needed in

order to be fully informed.

The AIU Difference Mission & Vision

Organizational Structure

Dr. Franklin ValcinPresident/Academic Dean

Dr. José MercadoChief Executive Officer

Dr. Ricardo GonzálezProvost

Ricardo GonzálezChief Operation Officer

Ofelia HernandezDirector of AIUClara Margalef

Dir. of Special Projects of AIUJuan Pablo Moreno

Director of OperationsPaul Applebaum

IT DirectorNadeem Awan

Chief ProgramingDr. Jack Rosenzweig

Dean of Academic AffairsPaula Vieira

Admissions ManagerDr. Edward Lambert

Academic CoordinatorDr. Ariadna Romero

Academic CoordinatorMaricela Esparza

Administrative CoordinatorJaime Rotlewicz

Admissions Coordinator

Carlos AponteTelecom. Coordinator

Rosie PerezFinance Coordinator

Linda CollazoStudent Services Coordinator

Kingsley ZeleeIT CoordinatorFelipe Gomez

Design DirectorGiovanni Castillo

Operations assistantLiliana Peñaranda

Logistics CoordinatorAmalia Aldrett

Admissions CoordinatorAlba Ochoa

Admissions CoordinatorSandra Garcia

Admissions CoordinatorVeronica Amuz

Admissions CoordinatorJunko Shimizu

Admissions CoordinatorRoberto Aldrett

Communications CoordinatorNazma Sultana

Assistant ProgrammingJhanzaib Awan

Assistant ProgrammingChris BenjaminHosting Server

Nadia GabaldonStudent Services Supervisor

It is acknowledged that the act of learning is endogenous, (from within), rather than exog-enous. This fact is the underlying rationale for “Distance Learning”, in all of the programs of-fered by AIU. The combination of the underly-ing 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 edu-cation at a distance. There are no classrooms and attendance is not required.

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

Michael Phillips-CorreaRegistrar Office

Daritza YslaAccounting Coordinator

Leonardo SalasHuman Resources

Irina IvashukAdministrative Assistant

Kimberly DiazAcademic TutorRenata Da SilvaAcademic Tutor

Lourdes PuentesAcademic TutorRina LehnhoffAcademic Tutor

Renato CifuentesAcademic Tutor

Arturo VejarAcademic Tutor

Arhely EspinozaAcademic Tutor

Luisa VillarAcademic Tutor

Cyndy DominguezAcademic TutorPaulina Garcia

Academic Assistant

Atlantic International University is accredited by the Accreditation Service for Interna-tional 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). AIU meets all state and federal laws as a degree-granting institution in the United States and the State of Hawaii. The University was legally established by corporate charter in 1998 and is in good standing.

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The School of Business and Econom-ics allows aspiring and practicing professionals, managers, and entrepre-neurs 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

The School of Social and Human Stud-ies 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 oppor-tunities 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 chan-nels, the world wide web, private, pub-lic, nonprofit, and nongovernmental

experience has been in business, marketing, administration, economics, finance and management.

Areas of study: Accounting, Advertis-ing, Banking, Business Administration, Communications, Ecommerce, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Home Economics, Human Resources, International Busi-ness, International Finance, Investing, Globalization, Marketing, Management, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Public Administrations, Sustainable Development, Public Relations, Tele-communications, Tourism, Trade.

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, Inter-national Affairs, Sociology, Political Sciences, Architecture, Legal Stud-ies, Public Administration, Literature and languages, Art History, Ministry, African Studies, Middle Eastern Stud-ies, Asian Studies, European Studies, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies.

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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 pro-duction, 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 al-low for the sustainability of the human population. We will foster among our students a demand for ethical behavior, an appreciation for diversity, an un-derstanding of scientific investigation,

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 thou-sands 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, re-views, 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.

knowledge of design innovation, a critical appreciation for the importance of technology and technological change for the advancement of humanity.

Areas of Study: Mechanical Engineer-ing, Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electri-cal Engineering, Computer Engineer-ing, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Math-ematics, Communications, Petroleum Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Nutrition Sci-ence, Agricultural Science, Computer Science, Sports Science, Renewable Energy, Geology, Urban Planning.

School of Science and Engineering Online Library Resources

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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 tra-ditional 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 institu-tions never feel a desire to “change the world” or the current status quo; instead, they adjust to the environ-ment, believe everything is fine, and are proud of it all.

IN A WORLD where knowledge and mostly informa-tion 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 con-centrate 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 con-verted 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 profes-sional areas highly in demand in our modern society.

We shall not forget that, at AIU, students are responsible for discovering their own talents and po-tential, 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 cam-pus 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 sustain-able 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 solidar-ity, 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.

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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 ANDRA-GOGY 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.

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