News & views about higher & continuing education.
via chronicle.com ________________________________ A Stanford University professor who taught an online artificial intelligence course to more than 160,000 students leaves his tenured position to aim for an even bigger audience. ________________________________ Leaving a tenured position at a top university like Stanford is no small decision. This is and will be discussed by deans and is a significant harbinger of things to come in higher education. Excerpted: The Stanford University professor who taught an...
The present and the future may lie in unbundling, including releasing the parental role much further than ever in higher education. This includes professors (as parent surrogates & lecturers), administrators, and anything involving the one-way communication / control-oriented route. Photo via pathwaypr.com Some are studying existing adaptive systems in business to evolve, revolutionize and innovate. This includes the social web, including higher education on-line social communities. ______________________________...
I've got some new tools going that have implications, probably BIG implications for learning & education. For example, consider these terms: Personal Learning Networks Private Social Media Peer...
via flickr.com Originally posted on my personal blog early today: debnystrom.posterous.com This is a photo essay of an optional walking tour of the new EMU science complex and NEW planetarium. Included are the A2Y Chamber (Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce) crew that I joined to walk over to the planetarium from the new Student Center. The program planned is a part of the local Chamber's monthly programs, Early Edition, which tends to be well attended by local business owners. ____________________________...
I'm just back from the Association of Change Management Professionals conference in Orlando, early May 2011. Four concurrent sessions were about change process / case studies and social media. Two...
Higher education, not necessarily a place, in general, for high creativity and agile movement, could use a bit of rethinking, based on this excerpt below. For the same reason, awhile back, I asked a young friend, Scott to write a guest post for Reveln, I entitled Right Sizing Your Education Options on this blog channel here based on hearing of his inventive and innovative approach to reducing a high education cost for his post-secondary education. ______________________________________ To question education...
Im sharing a few excerpts from a thought provoking article by the WSJ on the unique blend of soft science, students, higher education, and big brands & business. via online.wsj.com March...
Slate magazine has taken on the often quoted gender bias in math and science and offers a more nuanced, evidence based perspective. The chicken and egg dilemma, evident in so many scenarios regarding...
I had the pleasure of taking a phone call today from Gregg Mazzola, Director of Communications at Southern New Hampshire University. In the case of trying to get rankings information on @PeerIndex...
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