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Technology in art education

2005-10-19T21:56:30Z

I am interested in knowing what is happening in the educational environment concerning the relevance of technology in art education. What is the dominant direction of the current trends in this regard. Is it the use of computer technology in the teaching of academic content such as art history? Is it the teaching of skills needed in the design process? Is there consensus in any regard concerning the use of computer technology in the creative process?

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Recognizing future business leaders - L'Oréal and academici

2005-04-20T18:53:02Z

L’ORÉAL’S FIRST BUSINESS GAME COMMUNITY ON “academici. The Virtual Academy”

Paris, Birmingham, 13 April 2005 –. L’Oréal launched today the first online networking community for its business game e-Strat Challenge 5. The L’Oréal e-Strat Challenge is the ultimate international corporate business game open to students worldwide. Over 93,000 undergraduates and MBA students from 2,190 universities from Northern Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, Africa, Eurasia, North America and South America, Asia and Pacific have registered since the year 2000.

To facilitate contact between the students who registered on the e-Strat Challenge 5 and to enhance their relationship with L’Oréal, the virtual e-Strat Community starts at https://www.academici.com/net/estrat5/ today. This community will be part of the wider academic network “academici. The Virtual Academy” which includes members from leading universities and business schools in over 100 countries.

According to Prof. Dr. Markus Vinzent, University of Birmingham and one of the founders of academici, “the e-Strat Members from United States who join will actively communicate, interact with each other, exchange knowledge, discuss the beauty and cosmetic industries and further develop this specific network within the wider academici community”.

Geoff Skinglsey, L’Oréal’s Executive Vice President in charge of Human Resources said: “The L’Oréal e-Strat Challenge is a great adventure for the students and for the Group. The competition has become, over the years, an incredible human resources opportunity for us. The L’Oréal e-Strat Challenge has grown into a worldwide event that puts L’Oréal in touch with the best and brightest business students around the world, in a way that is original and powerful.²

David Rivier, Project Manager of the “L’Oréal e-Strat Community” at academici suggests: “It is the first time a international corporate like L’Oréal takes advantage social software through a wider online network to strengthen participants links with L’Oréal and keep in contact with each other”

About L’Oréal

L’Oréal’s credentials as the organiser and arbitrator of the e-Strat Challenge are undisputable. The Group is the world’s number one cosmetics company with an impressive portfolio of 17 international brands, sold in 130 countries, comprising L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Vichy, La Roche-Posay, L’Oréal Professionnel, Lancôme, Biotherm, SoftSheen-Carson, Maybelline, Matrix, Redken, Kiehl’s, Shu Uemura, Helena Rubinstein, as well as Cacharel, Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren perfumes. The Group is also one of the world’s most successful businesses ever; having reported its 20th consecutive year of double-digit growth.

About academici Ltd.

academici Ltd is a privately funded company registered in England & Wales. It operates an online interactive network for academics and scientists, improving communication across disciplines and across borders. The platform also offers links and forums with a number of free services useful to research and higher education at http://www.academici.com

Basic membership to academici is free.

Press Contacts:

academici Press Officer:

https://www.academici.com/hp/Klaas_Brumann/

Tel. +44 8700 110131

Further information on academici Limited: www.academici.ac

This press release as Word document with logos: http://www.uni-partners.de/academici/loreal/LOreal%20Academici%20PR%20ENappr%20comp.doc

This press release as Word document with logos: http://www.uni-partners.de/academici/loreal/PDF_UK_Soparfi.pdf

L’Oréal

Noëlle CAMILLERI
Phone: +33 1 47 56 48 43 email: ncamilleri@dgc.loreal.com

Further information on L’Oréal e-Strat Challenge available at: www.e-strat.loreal.com

Further information on L’Oréal available at: www.loreal.com

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academici. The Virtual Academy

2005-04-20T18:37:50Z

Birmingham, Cambridge, Mandelbachtal 7 March 2005. During the past two years, one of the fastest growing business trends on the internet has been social networking, with over 20 million registered users on the top five on-line social networks. Now eggheads are getting their own exclusive club. British start-up company, Academici Ltd., has just launched its networking platform at www.academici.ac. Prof Dr Markus Vinzent (University of Birmingham), one of the founders of academici, states “Academici is about networking with academics and researchers across continents and about content, facilitating (free of charge) the exchange of ideas, discussing research findings.” Prof Vinzent expects academici to thrive where, according to him internet portals and websites fail: by virtue of the interaction of and communication between its members.

Academics often work worlds apart even when in the same location. University websites have not necessarily been designed to facilitate co-operation. Academici.ac has been set up to promote co-operation across disciplines. Klaas Brumann, Head of Countries at Academici, is convinced that the network will help to overcome these so-called “structural holes”. Mr Brumann points out that a key feature of this network, the fact that membership is free, will facilitate networking for people in higher education and scientific research institutes.

Dr Jonathan Grix, co-founder of ‘academici’, believes that such software “can function as a form of intranet for local, national or international societies by linking all members of a given society with one another on an interactive platform, thereby producing an on-line community with the potential to generate social capital between members”. The opportunities for cross-fertilisation between academic disciplines and cross-disciplinary collaboration are unlimited.

Leading academics and scientists are now joining ‘academici. The Virtual Academy’ at www.academici.ac. The Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany, is one of the first to sign up a “corporate membership”. A number of scholarly societies and scientific publishers have committed to moderate academic forums and publishing boards on www.academici.ac, the launch of which will be announced by Academici within the next few weeks.

About academici Ltd.

academici Ltd is a privately funded company registered in England & Wales. Its aim is to operate an online social network for academics and scientists, improving communication across disciplines and across borders. The platform also offers links and forums with a number of free services useful to academics.

For press enquiries:
Lic. Klaas Brumann
Academici Limited
1050 Pershore Rd, Sally Oak
Birmingham West Midlands
B29 7PX United Kingdom
Tel +44 8700 110131
Fax +44 8700 110241
https://www.academici.com/hp/Klaas_Brumann/

The Management Team:

Markus Vinzent is H.G. Wood Professor at the University of Birmingham. He holds a Doctorate from the Ludwig Maxilian’s University in Munich with his Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg. Prof Dr Vinzent’s research interests cover Social Networking; Intercultural Communication; Diversity Management; Management in Higher Education (including Rankings, Benchmarking, Bologna Process); International Human Resource Management, Post-post modern Critical Theory; History of Cultural Encounters in Europe; Philosophy of Religion and Culture. Prof Vinzent counts on many years of experience in the field of higher education marketing and graduate recruitment. He has been called one of the leading visionaries in connecting higher education to business.

Otto Vinzent was founder and Managing Director of Uni-Partners GmbH. Mr Vinzent is one of the leading business figures in the Continental European academic recruitment market and in the interface between higher education and business.

Tobias Conrad, is one of the managing directors of academici Ltd. He previously worked for the Marketing Society of the University of Hamburg and for Uni-Partners GmbH, Germany. He has a PhD in progress at the University of Birmingham. He holds an MBA from University of Hamburg, Germany, and is one of the founders of academici.

Klaas Brumann is an economist (Lic Eco) from the Universidad Regiomonatana, Mexico where he received an academic scholarship for outstanding achievement. He is currently undertaking postgraduate research in ‘online social networking for business’ at the University of Liverpool. Brumann has set-up and run technology and service companies in Mexico, the USA, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Britain. He lives in Cambridge, UK and has many years of experience in international business development in software, media and internet businesses serving distinguished international blue chips like Canon, Compaq, HP, NEC Packard Bell, Xerox.

Dr Jonathan Grix is Senior Lecturer in German Politics and Research Methodology at the University of Birmingham and co-founder of ‘academici’. He has published widely on politics, contemporary history, German Studies, intercultural communication, research methods and sociological themes, including work on ‘social capital’ and ‘social networking’.

David Rivier is in charge of on-line business development at academici. Mr Rivier holds a Masters degree (high honours) in ICT management from Limoges’ University. He is currently writing his MBA thesis on Online Communities at Montpellier Graduate Institute of Business (Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier). He worked previously as junior country web manager for HP in the EMEA e-business team, and has been internet project manager or business analyst for several IT consultancies and Internet start-ups.

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Content outline of academici

2005-02-24T14:54:40Z

During the coming weeks, we are working on a rough structure of the categories and forums of the forthcoming academici-network.

The basic structure will be threefold:
a) Open Forums for the main academic disciplines, scholar's organizations, Universities, Libraries, Museums, Publishing Houses ...
b) Closed Forums for Research Projects, Organizations ...
c) Open Forums for Knowledge Transfer, Sponsoring/Fundraising, Business to Higher Education, Students, Life Style

The Open Forums for the main academic disciplines [under a)] will be peer reviewed by the moderators of these Forums. Applications for the creation of such Forums and for becoming Moderators of them are taken from now on the following basis. Applicants suggest:
* a title for the requested Forum
* a short title for the Forum
* choose one of the categories below (either a discipline or one of the other categories)
* a short proposal for the Forum (if you choose a discipline as a category, we'll ask two peers for reviews which we will pass on to the applicants for consideration)
* in short your personal/scholarly background for proposing this Forum
* a rough estimate about the expected number of members of this Forum
* name at least one co-moderator who is member of the present academici-tribe on tribe
* indicate your personal aims with this proposal
* a rough estimate of the time you would like to invest into running the Forum

Please choose from one of the following, suggested categories:
a) Academic disciplines, scholar's organizations, Universities, Libraries,
Museums, Publishing Houses ...:
1. African Studies
2. Agriculture/Agricultural Economics (suggested by Aimee Riecke)
3. American and Canadian Studies
4. Ancient History
5. Anthropology
6. Archaeology
7. Biochemistry
8. Biology
9. Brazilian Studies
10. Business Studies
11. Chemistry
12. Chinese Studies
13. Classics
14. Cultural Studies
15. Development Studies
16. East European Studies
17. Earth Sciences
18. Economics
19. Education
20. Engineering
21. English Language/Studies
22. European Studies
23. Geography
24. German Studies
25. History
26. History of Art
27. International Relations
28. IT
29. Japan Studies
30. Law
31. Mathematics
32. Media Studies
33. Medicine
34. Medieval History
35. Medieval and Modern Languages
36. Modern History
37. Music - Arts - Performance
38. Oriental Studies
39. Philology
40. Philosophy
41. Physics
42. Plant Sciences
43. Politics
44. Psychology
45. Religious Studies/Theology
46. Social Policy/Social Work
47. Sociology
48. South Asian Studies
49. Sports
50. Interdisciplinary Studies

51. Scholar's networks
52. Scholar's organizations
53. Universities
54. Libraries
55. Museums
56. Publishing Houses

b) Closed Forums for Research Projects, Organizations ...
57. applies for all Closed Forums of this type

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