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eSchool News This Week: April 30, 2012



April 30, 2012
   

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   In this week's top news: A new website with teacher tools, from nonprofit TED, could spur more video use in the classroom. Plus, mobile learning tips, states' progress in implementing digital texts, how special education faces problems in schools, and more.
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Dillard University CTLAT Faculty Workshops: "Developing and Assessing Meaningful SLO's" & "Course Redesign: Internationalizing Your Course"




When: Friday, May 11, 2012 12:00 AM to Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:00 AM (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada).

Where: TBA

Please save the date for a workshop with Dr. Peggy Maki (http://www.peggymaki.com/), a well-renowned expert on developing and assessing meaningful Student Learning Outcomes.


Expect more details soon!
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Dillard University Spring 2012 Final Grading Procedures - myDU Grade Entry Guide


MEMORANDUM

To:                  Faculty

Cc:                  Dr. Phyllis Dawkins, Associate Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs


                        Dr. Toya Barnes-Teamer, Vice-President for Student Success


                        Dr. Alecia Cyprian, Assistant Vice-President for Enrollment Management

From:             Pam England, Registrar/Director of Records & Registration

Date:               April 29, 2012

Re:                  Spring 2012 Final Grades   


The myDU portal for the entry of final grades is OPEN.  Final grades are due Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 12 noon.


Guidelines for myDU grade entry:

  • If a student does not appear on your roster please contact me immediately via your DU email account
  • Enter the last day of attendance and the number absences for each student.  The system will not let you submit your grades without the last date of attendance and number of absences.
·         Every student should receive a final grade of either A, B, C, D, P, F, NC, FA or I (incomplete)

·         All zero credit courses should issue a grade of “P” for pass and “NC” for no credit.
·         Only issue “I” (incomplete) for those students whom you have made arrangements with to submit final work at a later date.  Please see page 20 in the current catalog.

·         For students who did not successfully complete the course due to the Attendance Policy should be issued a grade of “FA” Failure for Attendance.

  • ALL FINAL GRADES ARE DUE at 12noon on Tuesday, May 8th.

Please contact me via email pengland@dillard.edu if you are unable to access your course(s) on myDU and if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation!
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Dillard University Spring 2012 Final Grading Procedures

Please note that those faculty members with graded prospective graduates will not be able to utilize the “Set Default LDOA” link you will have to enter the last date of attendance for each student to submit your grades on those rosters.  Please share with all Faculty.



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MEMORANDUM

To:                          Faculty

Cc:                          Dr. Phyllis Dawkins, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
                               Dr. Toya Barnes-Teamer, Vice-President for Student Success
                               Dr. Alecia Cyprian, Assistant Vice-President for Enrollment Management

From:                    Pam England, Registrar/Director of Records & Registration

Date:                     April 29, 2012

Re:                         Spring 2012 Final Grades




The myDU portal for the entry of final grades is OPEN.  Final grades are due Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 12 noon.

Guidelines for myDU grade entry:


 *   If a student does not appear on your roster please contact me immediately via your DU email account


 *   Enter the last day of attendance and the number absences for each student.  The system will not let you submit your grades without the last date of attendance and number of absences.


·         Every student should receive a final grade of either A, B, C, D, P, F, NC, FA or I (incomplete)



·         All zero credit courses should issue a grade of “P” for pass and “NC” for no credit.



·         Only issue “I” (incomplete) for those students whom you have made arrangements with to submit final work at a later date.  Please see page 20 in the current catalog.



·         For students who did not successfully complete the course due to the Attendance Policy should be issued a grade of “FA” Failure for Attendance.



 *   ALL FINAL GRADES ARE DUE at 12noon on Tuesday, May 8th.

Please contact me via email pengland@dillard.edu if you are unable to access your course(s) on myDU and if you have any questions or concerns.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation!

Best,
Ms England




Pam England
Registrar/Director of Records and Registration
Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70122
504.816.4705 (Office)
504.816.4391 (Fax)

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HIS 2012 - First Call for Papers

** HIS 2012 -- First Call For Papers **

12th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'12)

Pune, India

04 - 07 December, 2012

http://www.mirlabs.org/his12

http://www.mirlabs.net/his12

Conference Theme: "Hybrid Intelligent Computing Towards a Greener
Future"

Conference Objective:

Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research field of
modern artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the
development of the next generation of intelligent systems. A
fundamental stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent
Systems (HIS) is the awareness in the academic communities that
combined approaches will be necessary if the remaining tough problems
in artificial/computational intelligence are to be solved. Hybrid
Intelligent Systems are getting popular due to their capabilities in
handling several real world complexities involving imprecision,
uncertainty and vagueness. HIS'12 builds on the success of last
year's. The 4-day conference will feature prominent keynote speakers,
workshop, tutorials, poster and paper presentation in parallel tracks.

HIS 2012 invites novel contributions/papers of soft computing and
pattern recognition from fundamental aspects to various practical
applications.

HIS'12 will focus on the following themes:

A) Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Architectures

* Interactions between neural networks and fuzzy inference systems.

* Artificial neural network optimization using global optimization
techniques.

* Fuzzy clustering algorithms and optimization techniques.

* Fuzzy inference system optimization using global optimization
algorithms.

* Hybrid computing using neural networks - fuzzy systems -evolutionary
algorithms.

* Hybrid optimization techniques (evolutionary algorithms, simulated
annealing, tabu search, GRASP etc.).

* Hybrid of soft computing and statistical learning techniques.

* Models using inductive logic programming, logic synthesis,
grammatical inference, case-based reasoning etc.

* Autonomic computing.

* Hybridizatiion with novel computing paradigms: Qantum computing, DNA
computing, membrane computing etc.

B) Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Applications

* Image and Signal Processing

* Internet Modeling, Communication and Networking

* Data mining

* Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

* Business Information Systems

* Control and Automation

* Special topics

Papers:

Submission of paper should be made through the submission link in HIS
2012 official website (http://www.mirlabs.org/his12
). Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare
your manuscript. Like previous years, all accepted papers will be
compiled in conference proceedings published by the IEEE (getting
approval). It is mandatory at least an author registers for every
paper that is included in the conference proceedings. Proceedings will
be made available during the conference.

Important Dates:

Special session proposals: June 15, 2012

Acceptance of special sessions: June 30, 2012

Paper submission due: August 31, 2012

Notification of paper acceptance: September 30, 2012

Final manuscript due: October 15, 2012

Registration and full payment due: October 15, 2012

Organizing Team :

Patrons

Vishwanath D. Karad, Founder and President, MAEER Group of

Institutions, Pune, India

Mangesh Karad, Executive Director, MAEER MIT College of Engineering,
Pune, India

General Chairs

Ajith Abraham , Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA

Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Vijay Wadhai, Principal, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Technical Program Chairs

Ronald Yager, Machine Intelligence Insititute, Iona College, USA

Azah Kamilah Muda, UTeM, Malaysia

Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

International Advisory Board

Adel M. Alimi, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Andre Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca,Spain

Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy

Francisco Herrera, University of Granada,Spain

Henri Prade, IRIT, France

Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University , Japan

Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Mo Jamshidi, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Jeng-Shyang Pan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Yuehui Chen, University of Jinan , China

Jun Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK.

Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt

Krzysztof Cios, Virginia Commonwealth University,

Sankar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India

Shahrin Sahib, UTeM, Malaysia

Vaclav Snasel, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Witold Pedrycz, Uinversity of Alberta, Canada

Local Organising and Program Committee

Rajneeshkaur Bedi, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

P. Kumar, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

B. S. Kothavale, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Virendra Shete, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Bharati Dixit, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Vivek Deshpande, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Rekha Sugandhi, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

S. B. Barve, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

M.S. Nagmode, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Avinash Singh, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

B.N. Jagdale, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

S.V. Dhingre, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

P.E. Choudhari, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

S.B.Somani, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Amit Savyanavar, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Anita Thengade, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Lalit Kulkarni, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

P.P.Gundewar, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Priti Kale, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Ramaa Sandu, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Shantini Bokil, MIT College of Engineering, Pune, India

Publicity Chairs

Siby Abraham, University of Mumbai, India

Yun Huoy Choo, UTeM, Malaysia

International Program Committee

(Please see web site)

For more information, please contact:

Local Information and Venue:

Rekha S. Sugandhi

email: rekha.sugandhi@mitcoe.edu.in


Technical matters:

Ajith Abraham

email: ajith.abraham@ieee.org

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