Survival of the Nearest?
The employee/employer dynamic has swung very quickly back to employers holding power. Elon Musk is...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jun 26, 2023 | Culture, Remote Work, Working World | 0 |
The employee/employer dynamic has swung very quickly back to employers holding power. Elon Musk is...
Read Moreby Andrew | Apr 28, 2020 | Cost of Education, Culture, E-learning, Higher Education | 0
The fall term is coming fast and I want you to know that YYY University will support your learning regardless of the status of the pandemic that has upended lives and killed thousands.
Today we are announcing:
Read Moreby Andrew | Aug 12, 2016 | Cost of Education, Culture, Higher Education, K12, Pedagogy, Working World | 0 |
It might have been a particularly devious form of procrastination, or an excellent life hack, but...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jul 17, 2016 | 21st Century Skills, Cost of Education, Culture, Fiction, Working World | 0 |
Zenith by Andrew J. McCann Originally published in Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998,...
Read Moreby Andrew | Apr 10, 2014 | Challenges to Assessment, Culture, ePortfolios, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Writing Instruction | 0 |
Scott Warnock has a nice survey of the coverage of the SAT in his most recent When Falls the...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jan 17, 2014 | Culture, Design, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
We know that corporations are people – at least in a legal sense. Some argue in a more...
Read Moreby Andrew | Nov 30, 2013 | Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Politics and Dysfunction, Sustainability, Working World | 0 |
If you’re following the alleged slow collapse of American higher education, then it’s...
Read Moreby Andrew | Nov 5, 2013 | Accreditation, Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, K12, MOOCs, Outcomes Assessment, Pedagogy, Politics and Dysfunction, Unschooling | 0 |
What would happen if kids took over their school, booted out the teachers, designed their own...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jun 12, 2013 | 21st Century Skills, AACSB, Accreditation, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
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 Moreby Andrew | May 10, 2013 | Analytics, Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, MOOCs, Pedagogy, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
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 Moreby Andrew | Apr 3, 2013 | Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, K12, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
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 Moreby Andrew | Nov 11, 2012 | Analytics, Culture, Outcomes Assessment, Uncategorized | 0 |
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...
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