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 | 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 | 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
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 | 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...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jul 17, 2013 | 21st Century Skills, Authentic Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, Education Reform, Feedback, Pedagogy, Uncategorized | 0 |
I was catching up on my reading and came across a wonderful essay on the economist Albert O. Hirschman (who I’d never heard of). My wife asked me what I was doing, and I said, “I’m reading this wonderful...
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 | May 10, 2013 | Analytics, Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, MOOCs, Pedagogy, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
A new study reported in Inside Higher Ed takes a dim view to sub-10% completion rates in a sampling of MOOCs. How many people start watching Breaking Bad or Walking Dead on Netflix and don’t get engaged? Technology is...
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