Richard Katz asks, “Is the modern college or university, for example, centrally important as a storehouse of knowledge? As a purveyor of expertise? As a cultural arbiter?”
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Bookmarks | Gary Lewis, May 3, 2010 4:11 pm | 
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Only one bookmark in today’s offering, but what range it considers.
1. Is higher education capable of addressing the considerable challenges that face the world today?
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Bookmarks | Gary Lewis, April 8, 2010 4:40 pm | Comments Off
In this post I respond to George Siemens’ recent request for contributions on the future of education.
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Business Models, Commentary | Gary Lewis, March 26, 2010 8:23 am | Comments Off
What do Big Data and higher education have in common?
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Bookmarks, Commentary | Gary Lewis, March 8, 2010 5:38 pm | Comments Off
Three recent documents offer images of education in the future. I tried that once and concluded it’s better to build the future than anticipate it. Each of the three documents suffers similarly, but they are still well worth reading if the future of learning concerns you.
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Bookmarks, Commentary | Gary Lewis, February 8, 2010 12:45 pm | Comments Off
Lately I’ve found my focus on systemic change in higher education dissolving.
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Commentary | Gary Lewis, November 13, 2009 9:54 am | Comments Off
Education features prominently in the recent report from the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. There’s much to like, much to question, and some to reject.
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Commentary | Gary Lewis, October 21, 2009 6:38 am | Comments Off
Recent bookmarks on delicious.com as garymlewis.
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Bookmarks | Gary Lewis, September 4, 2009 10:32 am | Comments Off
For me higher educational change starts and ends with learning. And I don’t mind one bit trying to influence other people to see things the same way.
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Commentary | Gary Lewis, August 28, 2009 10:12 am | Comments Off
In two important recent posts, George Siemens considers the tension between reform in higher education and the need for a new start. It’s a tension also considered more generally by Kay Ryan in two poems.
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Commentary | Gary Lewis, August 26, 2009 10:17 am | Comments Off
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