A Simple Metric to Align Higher Education with the Workplace
It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
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Category: Outcomes Assessment
The Kids Can’t Write? They Write All Day…
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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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 MoreHow Amazon Will Replace Universities
How do we know what anyone knows? For school admissions, for hiring… An experiment in the second category is well under way in US K12. The Common Core has landed, with children and parents boycotting the tough new exams in...
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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 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 MoreStandardized Testing…?
A great take-down of the above from Dr. Scott Warnock: Pay attention: Standardized tests are destroying education, part 1 (of 874) We have always believed that there is a third way: assessment based on expert observation of...
Read MoreNursing, Authentic Assessment, and Rubric Lovers
We just attended the National League for Nursing (NLN) Summit to exhibit and learn more about Nursing Education. Rubrics and continuous improvement are already a big part of most nursing programs, and hybrid and online degrees...
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