Category: Higher Education

How to Make $60k Tuition Work

by Andrew | May 20, 2020 | Cost of Education, E-learning, Education Reform, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction | 0 |

Another great flag from Robert Gibson: father of a George Washington University student is suing...

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The Letter i wish i would receive from my daughter’s university

by 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:

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US Higher Education’s Billion-Dollar Liability

by Andrew | Oct 22, 2018 | 21st Century Skills, Accreditation, Authentic Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, Education Reform, Feedback, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |

I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...

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A Simple Metric to Align Higher Education with the Workplace

by Andrew | Jul 18, 2018 | 21st Century Skills, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Higher Education, Information Literacy, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |

It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...

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The Kids Can’t Write? They Write All Day…

by Andrew | Jul 25, 2017 | 21st Century Skills, Authentic Assessment, Blackboard, Higher Education, Information Literacy, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World, Writing Instruction | 0 |

Cross-post from 11trees.com… Infographics are often quite silly. They try to boil down complex issues into simplistic graphics, with stick figures and stylized pie charts. The good ones, though, unveil some central truth...

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A Response to AAC&U’s ‘On Solid Ground’ Report on UG Performance

by Andrew | Mar 13, 2017 | 21st Century Skills, Authentic Assessment, Challenges to Assessment, Higher Education, Outcomes Assessment, Rubrics | 0 |

First...

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Procrastination

by 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...

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Zenith

by 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,...

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Response To The Changes in the SAT

by 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...

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Contingent Faculty & Departments: Who Will Be First Out the Door?

by 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...

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What Happens When Kids Take Over School: Unschooling the Viking Way

by 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...

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An Ed Tech Design Manifesto

by Andrew | Oct 11, 2013 | Blackboard, Design, E-learning, Higher Education, K12, Pedagogy, Technology | 0 |

We don’t always know what we want, or what we’ll really use. Visionaries can see what...

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