The Other Lobe of The Brain

A Blog About Experiential Education, Social Media, and the Brain…

We have been TACEd
 
Jim Stellar and Rick Porter
 
TACE is the Thailand Association of Cooperative Education.  It aims to spread co-op throughout Thailand and is doing a pretty good job.  We just finished a 4 day in-country Institute with them, working practically 24/7 with 40 dedicated professionals in Bangkok and are posting this from Hong Kong [...]

Building a Confidence Growth Curve through Work Experiences
 
Alisa Duhaney NU ’08 and Jim Stellar
 
Sometimes the work experience begins before College. In the case of Alisa, we have that example and can see how that work experience is built upon by a Cooperative Education work experience and finally experience on a regular job.  The field is [...]

Two adjustments at once
 
Nawal Ali NU‘11 and Jim Stellar
 
In the continuing effort to capture what happens in the real-world of cooperative education experience, I got an e-mail over the summer from one of my mentees at Northeastern who had just started her 6 month cooperative education experience.  We decided to present it here, because it [...]

Industry-Academic Co-creation
 
Thami Msubo and Jim Stellar
 
Thami is Chief, HR, Corporate Affairs & Empowerment of Tata Steel KZN (South Africa), and Jim is known to this blog as the Provost and Academic Vice President of CUNY Queens College.  Jim and Thami met a number of times at the World Association of Cooperative Education Conferences.  Thami [...]