Can Corporations be Brave? Independence Blue Cross, Pearson, and Spotify
We know that corporations are people – at least in a legal sense. Some argue in a more...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jan 17, 2014 | Culture, Design, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
We know that corporations are people – at least in a legal sense. Some argue in a more...
Read Moreby Andrew | Oct 1, 2013 | Cost of Education, E-learning, Education Reform, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized, Unschooling, Working World | 0 |
Two great reads today: Ev William’s, as reported by Wired: “Here’s the formula if you want...
Read Moreby Andrew | Sep 27, 2013 | Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Uncategorized, Unschooling | 0 |
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Read Moreby Andrew | Jul 21, 2013 | Cost of Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
In “Frayed Prospects, Despite a Degree” journalist Shaila Dewan takes the mainstream media’s sob-story around employment (and unemployment) to the front pages of the New York Times. Culprits aren’t named...
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 | Jul 12, 2013 | Cost of Education, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Sustainability, Uncategorized | 0 |
Two stories today in Inside Higher Ed are all the more powerful for their proximity. Not only are mid-tier schools, without strong brands or big endowments, beginning to suffer, but the numbers of international students on...
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...
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 | Apr 3, 2013 | Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, K12, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
A wonderful piece in today’s NYTs fills my mind with metaphors: A golf ball, struck 300 yards, starting off-course by only a degree…where does it wind up? What would happen if you corrected course after just 10 feet...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jan 27, 2013 | Authentic Assessment, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Formative Assessment, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
My daughter is in seventh grade. She’s reading Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff (and that Homer guy), and enjoying it. She was sitting on a Saturday morning (after a good shot of cartoons) reading – every...
Read Moreby Andrew | Dec 4, 2012 | Cost of Education, E-learning, Education Reform, Higher Education, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
We all like to think we’re doing things first. We don’t like to ape others. David Copperfield wanted to be the hero of his own life. Is there such a thing as life plagiarism? Given the desire in Western life for...
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