B On: Seminars
Typical characteristics of UNU/IIST seminars are:
- Two weeks of intensive lectures by 2-3 UNU/IIST staff:
3-4 lectures per day.
- Extensive computer based exercises using advanced
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- 25-30 post-graduate participants.
- Extensive lecture note hand-outs, incl.
copies of all OH foils.
- As a `Bonus': a combination of one or two
state-of-the-art textbooks and technical and/or scientific
monographs and two year subscriptions to one or two international
technical and/or scientific journals are given to each trainee.
- Finally trainees are given Certificates upon successful
seminar completion.
UNU/IIST seminars are either:
- Awareness seminars -- usually 1 week activities in which
typically managers are introduced to what it may take to adopt
(accept, embrace) a new software technology.
- Training seminars -- usually 2-3 week activities in
which typically instruction is given on how to procure, install,
operate and use a specific advanced software package.
or
- Education seminars -- usually 2 week activities in
which lectures are given on specific theoretic and applied
aspects of certain development techniques.
UNU/IIST emphasizes education seminars.
UNU/IIST courses are usually (to be) 3 month intensive,
residential, macau-based education
activities which enlarge upon the scope: depth and breadth, of UNU/IIST
education seminars.
info@iist.unu.edu, March 1993
