US Higher Education’s Billion-Dollar Liability
I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...
Read Moreby 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...
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 | Feb 17, 2013 | Accreditation, Challenges to Assessment, Conferences, Cost of Education, E-learning, Education Reform, ePortfolios, Higher Education, K12, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |
Like the forces of good and evil in a Harry Potter knock-off, educators and stakeholders are...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jun 16, 2012 | 21st Century Skills, Accreditation, Analytics, Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
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 Moreby Andrew | May 27, 2012 | AACSB, Accreditation, Ethics, Uncategorized | 0 |
Every business school, particularly if accredited by AACSB, has a “learning goal” concerning ethics. Especially after 2008. Ethics are hard to assess. For instance, if you take the theory/philosophy route, you are...
Read Moreby Andrew | Sep 26, 2008 | Accreditation, Outcomes Assessment, Sustainability, Uncategorized | 0 |
Like a lot of bloggers and teachers interested in technology and education, I’m a geek. It makes perfect sense to me to do just about everything I can with technology. I’m very fast with a computer, and while my...
Read Moreby Andrew | May 7, 2008 | ABET, Accreditation, Rubrics, Uncategorized | 0 |
To continue a summary of our presentation at the NC State Assessment Symposium… Our ‘closing the loop’ example was the most detailed of the best practices that we presented because I was personally involved in...
Read Moreby Andrew | Mar 1, 2008 | Accreditation, Education & NCATE, Rubrics, Uncategorized | 0 |
We have been excited to receive a number of inquiries from California Colleges of Education in the last few weeks. We quickly learned that PACT – a consortium of CA schools – had recently released a library of...
Read Moreby Andrew | Dec 27, 2007 | Accreditation, ePortfolios, Outcomes Assessment, Uncategorized | 0 |
A couple of terrific articles recently that have serious implications (and lots to teach us) as educators. The first, from Campus Technology, argues that higher education has co-opted the ePortfolio from its intended role as a...
Read Moreby Andrew | Apr 21, 2007 | Education & NCATE, Uncategorized, Virtual Worlds | 0 |
We met this week with one of our new clients – a school of education – an excited group of faculty and administrators, working hard to finish the school year, and completely enthralled with their teaching mission and...
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