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Baker/Passmore Make Presentations in Ireland -- Virtually

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 11:23

On May 21, 2010, Rose Baker and David Passmore made presentations at the 10th Annual Irish Learning Technology Association Conference, EdTech 2010 at the Athlone Institute of Technology in Athlone, Ireland. However, ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland resulted in cancellation of their travel to Ireland. They did the next best thing: They delivered their presentations virtually over the Internet.

Baker and Passmore traveled as far as Philadelphia when they found out that their USAirways flight to London (and on to Shannon, Ireland) was canceled.

Your Electrifying Utility Bill

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 11:12

Front cover of preliminary rate cap elimination reportElectricity rate caps, imposed in Pennsylvania about a decade ago, will be eliminated by 2011. The Penn State Workforce Education & Development Initiative created a preliminary forecast of the impact of rate cap elimination on the Pennsylvania economy. Rose Baker and David Passmore presented this forecast to the Penn State Society for Workforce Education & Development.

On 29 February 2008,the Workforce Education & Development Initiative released a preliminary tables and a briefing paper by Rose Baker and David Passmore at http://RateCapPrelim.notlong.com (Revised 7 April 08).

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Playing the Market in Human Resource Futures

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 11:10

HR FuturesThe HR Futures Forum is an elite group of HR executives who address trends and issues through the human resource strategic planning process. David Passmore and Rose Baker of the Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative had the opportunity to present “Playing the Market in Human Resource Futures” at the bi-annual convention held in Beaverton, OR on 6 October, 2005. The presentation focused on ideas future markets in HR.

An idea future market is a speculative (i.e., betting) market created for the purpose of making forecasts.

Self-Organizing E-Learning Opportunities

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 11:07

Self-Organizing E-Learning OpportunitiesE-learning and self-organizing systems are quickly gaining steam as new technologies and web-based interaction become the standard source for gaining knowledge. New educational methods have been derived from self-organizing systems theory and practice. These are applicable to organizational and enterprise learning mediated by networks.

David Passmore of the Penn State Institute for Research in Training & Development has prepared numerous papers on this subject and has had the opportunity to present this topic at a variety of locations including the 2003 E-Learning Conference in Taiwan, the

Stock Markets for Policy and Practice in Patient-Focused Care

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 11:02

PFC Symposium SeriesManagement decisions are crucial to the success of any education technology innovation. Making these types of decisions generally prove to be costly, require extensive research, and can be complicated. Therefore, using ideas futures markets has been suggested as a way to gain these answers by alleviating aforementioned obstacles. Evidence so far suggests that prediction markets are at least as accurate as other institutions predicting the same events with a similar pool of participants.

David Passmore and Rose Baker of the Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative presented “

Teaching Strategies and Effective Emerging Techniques in Distance Education

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 10:59

US Army War College SealIn October of 2006, David Passmore of the Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative presented “Teaching Strategies and Effective Emerging Techniques in Distance Education” to the United States Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA. Passmore focused on enriching social learning pertaining to the college’s education online system.


Passmore suggested three emerging opportunities that have potential to make distance education more collaborative and constructive: collective intelligence, Web 2.0, and information futures markets.

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The Power of Information Markets

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 10:54

stockbrokersDavid Passmore and Rose Baker of the Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative presented “The Power of Information Markets” at the 2006 Human Resource Planning Society Annual Global Conference in Tucson, AZ.

 

 

The concepts and methods used in commodity and financial futures markets are adapted to structure idea futures markets. Rather than trading on future prices for commodities or financial instruments, propositions (ideas) that are specific, identifiable, and operational are traded. Shares in an idea future are bought and sold using standard market methods.

Elimination of Current Electricity Rate Caps in Pennsylvania 2011-2015

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 10:49

Workers on telephone poleElectricity rate caps, imposed in Pennsylvania about a decade ago, will be eliminated by 2011. The Penn State Workforce Education & Development Initiative created a preliminary forecast of the impact of rate cap elimination on the Pennsylvania economy. Rose Baker and David Passmore presented “Elimination of Current Electricity Rates Caps in Pennsylvania, 2011-2015", at the REMI Seminar-Modeling the Current Economic Crisis, in Harrisburg, PA on November 4, 2008. The presentation provided preliminary estimates of the Pennsylvania economic impact through 2015 of the elimination of rate caps.

Sex Life of the Economy

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 10:45

Sex Life of the EconomyRose Baker and David Passmore presented, The Sex Life of the Economy: Where Do Jobs Come From?, at Penn State's 59th Annual Alumni Institute on June 5, 2009. Their presentation highlighted studies they completed over the previous 20 years about how the Pennsylvania economy is structured to create jobs and income.

About 120 Penn State alumni from 1959 and 1964, as well as "Pioneer" alumni who graduated over 50 years ago, participated in lively discussions of their work on the economic impact of the baseball strike of 1994, teenage pregnancy, and the coming removal of electrical rate caps in

Developing a Green Workforce

Submitted by Hsin-Ling
on Thu, 2011-04-07 10:43

On May 7, 2009, Rose Baker and David Passmore presented their paper, Developing a Green Workforce, at the conference, Solar Energy: Awareness, Challenges, and Opportunities, held in State College, Pennsylvania.

Slides from the presentation, links to sites related to "green" jobs and investment, links to social bookmarks related to "green" jobs and investment, and access to "green" analysis from the work of the Workforce Education & Development Initiative are provided at: http://PSU-SolarWorkforce.notlong.com.

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