December 2012 – Censemaking

design thinking education & learning evaluation innovation

The Job Market Metric In Education

December 30, 2012December 30, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 141 Views complex systems, complexity, contemplative inquiry, continuing medical education, design thinking, developmental evaluation, disruption, education, educational design, evaluation, foresight, jobs, journalism, learning, learning organization, mindfulness, path dependence, professional education, resilience, teaching, university

Post-secondary and continuing education is continuing to be rationalized in ways that are transforming the very foundation of the enterprise.

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education & learning

Rationalized Education and The Futures of the University

December 26, 2012January 8, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 144 Views disruption, education, evaluation, health sciences, jobs, learning, metrics, school, teaching, university

Next to the church, the university may be the most enduring formal institution in our society. And like nearly every

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innovation psychology

Creativity in the Wild: How Wilderness Exposure Enhances Problem Solving

December 14, 2012December 14, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 69 Views creativity, Keith Sawyer, Outward Bound, wilderness

Keith Sawyer points to a remarkable study that shows how exposure to the outdoors enhances creativity. The mechanisms are unclear,

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knowledge translation public health science & technology social media

The Fourth Estate of Health and Medicine

December 11, 2012December 11, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 128 Views Andre Picard, blogging, Darwin the monkey, evidence, health evidence, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, Malcolm Gladwell, media, Mitch Waldrop, news, newspapers, public health, science, social media, Stan Glantz, Steven Johnson, the fourth estate, tobacco control

Journalists occupy an important, yet often unacknowledged, role in the health system by providing a dispassionate account of the system’s

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