Procrastination
It might have been a particularly devious form of procrastination, or an excellent life hack, but...
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Category: Culture
Response To The Changes in the SAT
Scott Warnock has a nice survey of the coverage of the SAT in his most recent When Falls the...
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Can Corporations be Brave? Independence Blue Cross, Pearson, and Spotify
We know that corporations are people – at least in a legal sense. Some argue in a more...
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Contingent Faculty & Departments: Who Will Be First Out the Door?
If you’re following the alleged slow collapse of American higher education, then it’s...
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What Happens When Kids Take Over School: Unschooling the Viking Way
What would happen if kids took over their school, booted out the teachers, designed their own...
Read MoreWhat Can Higher Education Learn from the Disney Store?
What do students get for investing four to six years in higher education? The opportunity cost, the tuition dollars, the resulting debt? What is the return to taxpayers footing billions of federal and state dollars for loans,...
Read MoreMOOC Completion Rates – The Netflixing of Education (Part 1)
A new study reported in Inside Higher Ed takes a dim view to sub-10% completion rates in a sampling of MOOCs. How many people start watching Breaking Bad or Walking Dead on Netflix and don’t get engaged? Technology is...
Read MoreReimagining Our Education Landscape
A wonderful piece in today’s NYTs fills my mind with metaphors: A golf ball, struck 300 yards, starting off-course by only a degree…where does it wind up? What would happen if you corrected course after just 10 feet...
Read MoreMotivation to Change: Staring Down the Double Barrels of Analytics and Culture
Educause, Higher Education’s big technology dance, was last week. Just about every booth, even the one with the elephants, had analytics in every phrase of copy, every piece of collateral. I attended LoudCloud’s...
Read MoreWhere Do Our Students Go?
I created the early versions of Waypoint to begin answering these questions for myself – and only myself. I was teaching 100+ first year engineering students per term, with 50% turnover across three terms (a trimester...
Read MoreGiving Manufacturing a Bad Name: Sir Ken Robinson and Education
It is easy to slam manufacturing: manufacturing is synonymous with pollution, lost American jobs, and an overall national slide from prominence. American ingenuity is focused on big budget Hollywood films, reality TV, and...
Read MoreGoing on Faith?
When I was an RA (Residential Assistant) in college my floor got new carpets over the summer. I walked out to my first floor meeting, with my 20 or 30 freshman who would soon be (already were) smoking cigarettes, consuming vast...
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