Threaded Bookmarks 08-March-2010
What do Big Data and higher education have in common?
What do Big Data and higher education have in common?
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.
Lately I’ve found my focus on systemic change in higher education dissolving.
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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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.
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.
What could you do to guide a college into a tomorrow certain only in its uncertainty? Here’s a list.
Pricing requires answers to tough questions about what, why, and how a college or university does what it does. If not teaching and learning, then what? Read more.
Rhetoric and analysis have limited power to persuade people to act. Emotion is the missing ingredient, and stories provide the best way to unite ideas with emotion. You had a wonderful opportunity to persuade the American people through story, but you essentially passed on the chance. Read more.