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...
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Category: Accreditation
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,...
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How much will I earn? How much will I learn? Cost vs. Value of Higher Education in the US
Like the forces of good and evil in a Harry Potter knock-off, educators and stakeholders are...
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 MoreSustainability – high school students care…
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 MoreCourse-Embedded Assessment, Part Two – Closing the Loop
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 MorePACT – Performance Assessment for California Teachers – and Waypoint Course-Embedded Solutions
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 MoreePortfolios hijacked…and the teacher as test pilot…
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 MoreCollaboration and Virtual Worlds
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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