Survival of the Nearest?
The employee/employer dynamic has swung very quickly back to employers holding power. Elon Musk is...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jun 26, 2023 | Culture, Remote Work, Working World | 0 |
The employee/employer dynamic has swung very quickly back to employers holding power. Elon Musk is...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jan 13, 2020 | E-learning, Education Reform, Higher Education, Working World | 0 |
I was in a fascinating conversation today: big, brand name employer talking to R1 University about internships, particularly in STEM fields. Employer: Could we get interns and then keep them? They could continue their...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jul 20, 2019 | Authentic Assessment, Working World, Writing Instruction | 0 |
This writing assignment is courtesy of my friend, Dr. Scott Warnock of Drexel University, who has raised the readership of my 1998 short story, “Zenith,” 100x by assigning it to his students in a Literature of...
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 27, 2017 | Product Management, Working World | 0 |
What percent of your software development projects come in under budget and on time? Sounds...
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 1998,...
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 | Nov 30, 2013 | Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Politics and Dysfunction, Sustainability, Working World | 0 |
If you’re following the alleged slow collapse of American higher education, then it’s...
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...
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