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Learning in the 21st Century (3)
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 1/3/11 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 1/3/11

Learning in the 21st Century (3)

Throughout this series, I have been focusing on the learner and the learning experience and trying to reconcile the difficult environment . . .

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Learning in the 21st Century (4)
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 1/2/11 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 1/2/11

Learning in the 21st Century (4)

In Europe, the Bologna process has led to furious discussions about the purpose of universities largely because Bologna . . .

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Emily Carr University Convocation 2010
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 5/2/10 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 5/2/10

Emily Carr University Convocation 2010

Graduations are always auspicious occasions, special moments in time for you, -- students of Emily Carr University, and for us, faculty, staff and administrators — special because this event marks the both the beginning and the end of an important period in your lives and in ours.

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Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine</a>
Neuroscience Ron Burnett 2/28/10 Neuroscience Ron Burnett 2/28/10

Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine

Emily Carr University is developing a Health Design Lab in association with the Children's Hospital in Vancouver.

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Learning in a Participatory Culture
learning communities Ron Burnett 2/27/10 learning communities Ron Burnett 2/27/10

Learning in a Participatory Culture

An important and timely discussion that explores the growing interdependence of learners with digital media and the need to examine how these media are working, what their influence is and how to teach in this new environment.

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Towards a Sustainable World</a>
Science Ron Burnett 7/29/08 Science Ron Burnett 7/29/08

Towards a Sustainable World

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A Definition of Continuum
Science Ron Burnett 7/4/08 Science Ron Burnett 7/4/08

A Definition of Continuum

Mistakenly, humans of the postmodern age have assumed that dream worlds are signs of the experience of sleeping.

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Emily Carr University of Art and Design</a>
learning communities Ron Burnett 4/28/08 learning communities Ron Burnett 4/28/08

Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Emily Carr Institute will now be known as Emily Carr University of Art and Design!

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The Transformation of Culture</a>
interdisciplinarity Ron Burnett 4/14/08 interdisciplinarity Ron Burnett 4/14/08

The Transformation of Culture

In my previous post, I talked about the new world of writing that our culture is experimenting with in which conventional notions of texts, literacy and coherence are being replaced with multiples, many media used as much for experience as expression.

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Communications: The Discipline and its Transformation
Communications Ron Burnett 1/1/08 Communications Ron Burnett 1/1/08

Communications: The Discipline and its Transformation

Strategic Approaches to the Study of Communications. The following list is not intended to be comprehensive, rather it articulates some of the many (too many?) debates and ideas that circulate within the study of communications.

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The Practice of Interdisciplinarity in Design and New Media</a>
interdisciplinarity Ron Burnett 12/20/07 interdisciplinarity Ron Burnett 12/20/07

The Practice of Interdisciplinarity in Design and New Media

This essay examines the history of a multi-disciplinary Centre for Design and New Media developed over a period of three years in Vancouver, Canada.

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Film + Teaching + Vanier College</a>
Research Ron Burnett 11/12/07 Research Ron Burnett 11/12/07

Film + Teaching + Vanier College

In the early 1970's I was involved in the creation and development of a Cinema Laboratory (called Cinema Room) at Vanier College in Montreal.

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Film Studies: Future of a discipline (parts 1 &amp; 2)</a>
interdisciplinarity Ron Burnett 9/13/07 interdisciplinarity Ron Burnett 9/13/07

Film Studies: Future of a discipline (parts 1 & 2)

I have been involved in the area/discipline known as Film/Cinema Studies for over forty years. I began studying film in the mid 1960’s while an undergraduate at McGill University in Montreal.

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Ken Robinson on Education</a>
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 1/6/07 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 1/6/07

Ken Robinson on Education

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Blurring boundaries</a>
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/11/06 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/11/06

Blurring boundaries

I have chosen to pursue a Masters of Applied Arts degree at the Emily Carr Institute (ECI) in order to investigate the emergent roles of artists and designers responding to the challenge of sustainable development and interdisciplinarity.

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Relational Art and Social Value</a>
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/9/06 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/9/06

Relational Art and Social Value

Recent artistic practices employing relational aesthetics have re-legitimized socially driven and performative artistic works.

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Let the Body do the Thinking</a>
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/8/06 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/8/06

Let the Body do the Thinking

To what extent does the physical self of the artist affect the production of art? Many artists create from memory, imagination or research, but what would their art look like if it were created from a purely corporeal charge?

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Tales of Immigration: Documenting an Invisible Chronicle
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/7/06 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/7/06

Tales of Immigration: Documenting an Invisible Chronicle

When the average viewer thinks of Indo-Canadian/American films, the image of Bollywood comes to mind.

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Using Video Games in Immigrant Education and Learning
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/6/06 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/6/06

Using Video Games in Immigrant Education and Learning

As we play we learn. The goal of my project is to provide new immigrants with the best advances in technology and education from the very beginning of their integration into the North American culture.

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Object Connections
Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/4/06 Emily Carr University Ron Burnett 12/4/06

Object Connections

In a time when we are increasingly reliant on the internet and virtual technologies there is a greater need for objects that have a heightened physical sensibility and act as markers of our memories and personal experience.

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