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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby Andrew | Mar 13, 2017 | 21st Century Skills, Authentic Assessment, Challenges to Assessment, Higher Education, Outcomes Assessment, Rubrics | 0 |
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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 | Apr 19, 2013 | Analytics, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Higher Education, K12, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Rubrics, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
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...
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 | 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...
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 | May 23, 2011 | Authentic Assessment, K12, Outcomes Assessment, Uncategorized | 0 |
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 Moreby Andrew | Oct 11, 2010 | Authentic Assessment, Outcomes Assessment, Technology, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
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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