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 | 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 1998,...
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 | Nov 21, 2012 | 21st Century Skills, Cost of Education, Education Reform, Higher Education, K12, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |
One of my favorite design stories has nothing to do with software. Building software, especially...
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 3, 2012 | 21st Century Skills, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, K12, Technology, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
It is easy to slam manufacturing: manufacturing is synonymous with pollution, lost American jobs, and an overall national slide from prominence. American ingenuity is focused on big budget Hollywood films, reality TV, and...
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