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: Pedagogy
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 MoreThe 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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Procrastination
It might have been a particularly devious form of procrastination, or an excellent life hack, but...
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Response To The Changes in the SAT
Scott Warnock has a nice survey of the coverage of the SAT in his most recent When Falls the...
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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...
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An Ed Tech Design Manifesto
We don’t always know what we want, or what we’ll really use. Visionaries can see what...
Read MoreDesigned for Suffering: Student Retention Through Adaptive Pain
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 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 MoreMOOC Completion Rates – The Netflixing of Education (Part 1)
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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