Fwd: [Moderator Action] Re: draft agenda, DPUB IG concall 20140609 15UTC

Forwarding Jean's comment

Ivan

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> From: Jean Kaplansky <Jean.Kaplansky@aptaracorp.com>
> Subject: [Moderator Action] Re: draft agenda, DPUB IG concall 20140609 15UTC
> Date: 10 Jun 2014 13:34:09 EDT
> To: "liam@w3.org" <liam@w3.org>, Peter Krautzberger <peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org>
> Cc: Bill Kasdorf <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>, Markus Gylling <markus.gylling@gmail.com>, "public-digipub-ig@w3.org" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
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> Not one to go without getting my $.02 USD in…
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> I’ve never seen STEAM used in the states going back to 1992.
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> It was always LSA (Literature Science AND THE Arts) and STM in both big 10
> college towns I lived in.
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> (I didn’t live in a non big 10 college town until I was 33, so I consider
> myself pretty well versed in at least what US midwest big 10 colleges use
> in terms of acronyms.)
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> On 6/10/14, 12:26 PM, "Liam R E Quin" <liam@w3.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 14:59 +0200, Peter Krautzberger wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>>> The "E" in STEM
>>>> I always thought the E was Engineering, not Education. Another
>>> ambiguity:
>>>> the S sometimes means "Science" and sometimes means "Scholarly".
>>>> (I think it means "Science", which is why I often say "Scholarly and
>>>> STM" or "Scholarly and STEM.")
>>> 
>>> I like referencing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEM_fields.
>> 
>> Peter, thank you for that helpful link!
>> 
>> That helps me a lot for one, as I see now it's overloaded in different
>> fields.
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>> (1) STM in publishing for Scientific, Technical, Medical, e,g,
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STM#In_publishing
>> (which is where I knew it, e.g. from the online journal reader project
>> we had at SoftQuad years ago)
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>> (2) STEM or STEAM in graduate or college-level education in the US (and
>> elsewhere??) where the E includes Education, and similar to MINT for
>> Maths, Information science, natural science and technology.
>> 
>> An additional E creeps in to journal publishing for engineering or
>> education sometimes, probably because of this confusion.
>> 
>> See e.g. http://www.stm-assoc.org/ for the international association of
>> scientific, technical and medical publishers.
>> 
>> Liam
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