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Connecting the Dots in Distance Learning - GLD V Success
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| Figure 1: East Cape, Siberia in 1921 |
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| Photo courtesy of NOAA - see Photo Credits |
All participations in GLD were great challenges:
And this concentration before the event is a powerful driving force in self-development. A positive and friendly reaction from different parts of the Globe on all my contributions showed me a green light in virtual traffic regulation.
Just after GLD V our institute achieved remarkable success!
Moscow Government has approved our project to create the International Virtual University on the basis of the Moscow State institute of business administration, and I became a manager of this project.
Yury Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow city, has selected our institute as the base for the distance educational network for students from the New Independent States.
Our rector Tamara Kostina acts decisively attracting foreign partners to the project: we have already agreements with two Ukrainian regions and with Baku University. We are working with the President of the Russian-Scandinavian Cooperation Fund, (Mr.) Oke Blomdahl to attract the Scandinavian Universities and Business Schools to the project.
| Figure 2: Russian Spacecraft Phobos 1 & 2 |
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My presentation to the GLD V was named Hybrid Intellect.
In opposition to the Artificial Intellect approach I am developing quite another, more realistic model of the person-to-computer interaction. In my approach the person plays an active role in the computational process, using his or her own intuition.
The person formulates the model of the problem on a computer language and defines some parameters. The computer represents results in a visual form and the person makes a decision or can change parameters, or to change models.
This process can result in a more perfect model of the investigative process. The requirements for the computer do not overcome ordinary norms for personal computers and it opens possibility to use this approach in an effective online education process, where an instruction flow from teacher to learner is very small as compared to the information exchange between the student and the computer.
I have used the Hybrid Intellect approach to data analysis in the statistical physics and it resulted in a number of new theories and basic principles.
| Figure 3: Collage of Images from Mission to Mars |
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Photo courtesy of Ted Stryk, NASA Collection
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Soon after the GLD V I published quite new, more constructive and understandable definitions for temperature and entropy, based on the experience received during computer modeling.
Just before GLD V, I reported to the NATO Advance Study Institute in Italy new models of liquids and gases discovering new mechanisms of the interatomic interaction and a quantum nature of the evaporation process.
The following is a summary of the model:
In the result of the computer analysis of the reference data on thermophysical properties of real gases, liquids, and solids a new statistical model of simple condensed matter is developed. The model is based on a new approach to the forbidden and free volumes evaluations, on an approach to the interatomic links as quazyparticles with statistics similar to the Fermi-Dirac statistics, and on the assumption about a forced anisotropy of links during the solidification process.
Calculated thermodynamical functions for a number of condensed media have proven to be in a good agreement with the experiment that confirms the correctness of the found model and permits to make a number of principally new conclusions about the atoms propagation and interaction in simple condensed media.
For further details see my article: "An Analysis of Interatomic Interactions in Simple Condensed Matter".
Computer models of economic processes let me formulate quite new and natural approaches to economy, technology, management and profit principal dependence on the human-to-Nature interaction. This approach gives a more solid basis for business education and shows perspectives of the management education development with coming to the Sustainable Development Future.
Soon after the GLD V my article 'Sustainable Development and the Philosophy of Management' has been published in the Proceedings of the Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Conference, held at Deakin University, Australia, November 2001.
These ideas may be found in my web article "Philosophy of Management".
To my joy, Colette Mazzucelli, an active player at GLD V, found something useful there for her article to the UNESCO journal. I am glad that the GLD movement opens ways to a scientific cooperation between participants!
| Figure 4: Photo of Martian Moon Phobos |
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Photo courtesy of Ted Stryk, NASA Collection
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So, the Hybrid Intellect approach, announced at the GLD V, has proven to be useful both in technical and humanitarian fields of science and education. I am ready to develop this approach further and dream about a reliable Western partner to push it forward together.
An online interaction opens fantastic possibilities for distant scientific cooperation and it is foolish not to use these possibilities.
Quite recently John Hibbs suggested that I become one of the Deans for his Socrates Academy that is in a process of creation. It is a great honor and a large responsibility for me.
(Editor's note: Xenia Stanford, Editor-in-Chief of KnowMap, has also been appointed a Dean of the Socrates Academy. More details are provided in New Ventures. See also News Release.)
More so I see the idea of the Academy as very effective and promising. It can transform education drastically, showing the best educational achievements to the entire World.
Thank you for a challenging proposal to remember the successes connected with the GLD V. Best wishes to your idea to collect these success stories!
Sedunov, Boris.
"An Analysis of Interatomic Interactions in Simple Condensed Matter" in Investigated in Russia. http://zhurnal.ape.relarn.ru/articles/2001/079e.pdf
"Philosophy of Management", Featured Article at EarthNet Institute. www.eni.edu/page6.html. Approved July 20, 2001.
The photographs credited to either NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) or NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) are from collections available for public use. The use here does not imply direct permission nor constitute endorsement of the contents of this page by either NASA or NOAA.
Figure 1: NOAA Image ID: theb1292, Historic C&GS Collection. Magnetic observation party of J. T. Watkins Station about 10 miles west of East Cape, Near Whalen, Siberia, August 1921; Credit: C&GS Season's Report Watkins 1921-97
Figure 2: Courtesy of NASA's National Space Science Data Center - USSR Spacecraft to Mars launched July 7, 1988 (Phobos 1) and July 21, 1988 (Phobos 2) in July 1988 by launch vehicle: Proton; Mass: 2,600 kilograms (5,720 pounds); 6,220 kilograms (13,685 pounds) with orbital insertion hardware attached; Power System: Solar panels.
Figure 3: Courtesy Ted Stryk from NASA collection - collection of images taken by Phobos 2 and processed by Russians at (their Space Research Institute) IKI followed by Ted Stryk to reduce the color enhancements.
Figure 4: Courtesy Ted Stryk from NASA collection - image taken of Martian moon called Phobos by the VSK instrument on the USSR Spacecraft called Phobos 2 in March of 1989 shortly before the spacecraft failed. Image enhanced by Ted Stryk.
Read more about Boris I. Sedunov.
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