Gallatin [[electronic resource] ] : America's Swiss founding father / / Nicholas Dungan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458687003321
• Autore: Dungan Nicholas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0-8147-8539-5; 0-8147-2112-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.4092; B
• Soggetti: Statesmen - United States; Swiss Americans; Electronic books.; Geneva (Switzerland) Biography; United States Politics and government 1783-1865
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Son of Geneva, 1761–1780 -- 2. American Beginnings, 1780–1793 -- 3. The Senate and the House, 1793–1801 -- 4. Jefferson’s Secretary of the Treasury, 1801–1809 -- 5. Madison’s Secretary of the Treasury, 1809–1813 -- 6. The Debut of a Diplomatist, 1813–1815 -- 7. American Minister to France, 1816–1823 -- 8. Searching for Stability, 1823–1829 -- 9. The Capstones of a Career, 1830–1849 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- A Note on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: You won’t find his portrait on our currency anymore and his signature isn’t penned on the Constitution, but former statesman Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) contributed immeasurably to the formation of America. Gallatin was the first president of the council of New York University and his name lives on at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, so it is with pride that New York University Press and the Swiss Confederation publish this new biography of Gallatin. Gallatin’s story is the opposite of the classic American immigrant tale. Born in Geneva, ; the product of an old and noble family and highly educated in the European tradition, Gallatin made contributions to America throughout his career that far outweighed any benefit he procured for himself. He got his first taste of politics as a Pennsylvania state representative and went on to serve in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Gallatin became the Secretary of Treasury in Jefferson’s administration and, despite being of the opposite political party to Alexander Hamilton, Gallatin fully respected his predecessor’s fiscal politics. Gallatin undertook a special diplomatic mission for President Madison, which ended the War of 1812 with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent and gave the United States its genuine independence. Gallatin continued in diplomacy as minister to France and to Great Britain, where he skillfully combined his American experience and European background. In the early 1830's, at the age of seventy, he retired from politics and commenced a new career in New York City as a banker, public figure, and intellectual. He helped establish New York University and the American Ethnological Society, became an expert in Native American ethnology and linguistics, and served as president of the New-York Historical Society. Gallatin died at age 88 and is buried in Trinity churchyard at Broadway and Wall Street. In our own day, as we look at reforming our financial system and seek to enhance America’s global image, it is well worth resurrecting Albert Gallatin’s timeless contributions to the United States, at home and abroad. Nicholas Dungan’s compelling biography reinserts this forgotten Founding Father into the historical canon and reveals the transatlantic dimensions of early American history.Co-published with the Swiss Confederation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

Creating new learning experiences on a global scale : second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2007, Crete, Greece, September 2007 proceedings / / edited by Erik Duval, Ralf Klamma, Martin Wolpers

• Record Nr.: UNISA996465829803316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer, , [2007]; ©2007
• ISBN: 3-540-75195-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 520 p.)
• Collana: Programming and Software Engineering ; ; 4753
• Disciplina: 371.33
• Soggetti: Educational technology; Web-based instruction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Full Papers -- From a Specific Tracking Framework to an Open and Standardized Attention Environment Based on Attention.XML -- Cross-System Validation of Engagement Prediction from Log Files -- Exploiting Policies in an Open Infrastructure for Lifelong Learning -- Proposing the Underlying Causes That Lead to the Trainee’s Erroneous Actions to the Trainer -- Smart Indicators on Learning Interactions -- A Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation of Adaptive Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia -- Making Sense of IMS Learning Design Level B: From Specification to Intuitive Modeling Software -- Using MotSaRT to Support On-Line Teachers in Student Motivation -- LOCO-Analyst: A Tool for Raising Teachers’ Awareness in Online Learning Environments -- Supporting Incremental Formalization in Collaborative Learning Environments -- Exploiting Preference Queries for Searching Learning Resources -- How Do People Learn at the Workplace? Investigating Four Workplace Learning Assumptions -- E-Learning on the Social Semantic Information Sources -- Capturing, Management and Utilization of Lifecycle Information for Learning Resources -- Improving the Search for Learning Objects with Keywords and Ontologies -- Exploiting Context Information for Identification of Relevant Experts in Collaborative Workplace-Embedded E-Learning Environments -- ; Negotiating the Path from Curriculum Design to E-Learning Course Delivery: A Study of Critical Success Factors for Instructional Systems Design -- A Game-Based Adaptive Unit of Learning with IMS Learning Design and -- Relevance Ranking Metrics for Learning Objects -- Supporting Attention in Learning Environments: Attention Support Services, and Information Management -- Personalized Links Recommendation Based on Data Mining in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems -- A Media Theoretical Approach to Technology Enhanced Learning in Non-technical Disciplines -- MACE – Enriching Architectural Learning Objects for Experience Multiplication -- ICT Supported Interorganizational Knowledge-Creation: Application of Change Laboratory -- Theoretical Framework of the iCampFolio – New Approach to Comparison and Selection of Systems and Tools for Learning Purposes -- Evaluating the ALOCOM Approach for Scalable Content Repurposing -- Community Tools for Repurposing Learning Objects -- Building Domain Ontologies from Text for Educational Purposes -- Short Papers -- Organizational Learning at University -- FAsTA: A Folksonomy-Based Automatic Metadata Generator -- The Macro Design as an Own Task in WBT Production: Ideas, Concepts and a Tool -- Reasoning-Based Curriculum Sequencing and Validation: Integration in a Service-Oriented Architecture -- Curriculum Model Checking: Declarative Representation and Verification of Properties -- Workplace Learning: How We Keep Track of Relevant Information -- A Digital Library Framework for Reusing e-Learning Video Documents -- A Situation-Based Delivery of Learning Resources in Pervasive Learning -- Web Services Plug-in to Implement "Dispositives" on Web 2.0 Applications -- Flexible Processes in Project-Centred Learning -- A p2p Framework for Interacting with Learning Objects -- A Framework for the Automatic Generation of Algorithm Animations Based on Design Techniques -- The Development of TE-Cap: An Assistance Environment for Online Tutors -- KnowledgeBus – An Architecture to Support Intelligent and Flexible Knowledge Management -- IKASYS: Using Mobile Devices for Memorization and Training Activities -- Pedagogical Validation of Courseware -- Improving Authoring-by-Aggregation and Using Aggregation Context for Query Expansion -- Questioning Usability of Visual Instructional Design Languages: The Case of CPM.
• Sommario/riassunto: You are holding more than 500 pages of combined wisdom on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in your hands! With the advance of metadata, standards, learning objects, Web 2. 0 approaches to rip, mix and burn learning, wikis, blogs, syndication, user-generated content, W- based video, games and the ubiquitous availability of computing devices we can and have to offer more flexible learning services on a global scale. As one of the objectives of the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission puts it: We need “responsive environments for technology-enhanced learning that motivate, engage and inspire learners, and which are embedded in the business processes and human resources management systems of organizations. ” An important challenge is to form a bridge between informal learning strategies of the knowledge society and formal competence development programs of organizations. After the success of EC-TEL 2006, the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2007) provided a unique forum for all research related to technology enhanced learning, including its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments. This is a competitive and broad forum for technology enhanced learning research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops, the doctoral consortium and the main conference. EC- TEL 2007 provided unique networking possibilities for participating ; researchers throughout the week and included project meetings and discussions for ongoing and new research activities supported by the European Commission.