Bullying, the market for education and the damaged quest for learning
A recent study found looked into the experience of cyberbullying by university professors at the hands of their students. This disturbing
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Defining the New Designer
It’s been suggested that anyone who shapes the world intentionally is a designer, however those who train and practice as
Read moreScaling Education: The Absurd Case of the MOOC
The MOOC offers enormous potential to re-shape the way people learn and promoting access to content and expertise that many in this world could have only dreamed of years ago. But the naivete that such learning can be done in an monocultural way without losing something special about the context in which people learn and use what they learn might lead to some expensive lessons.
Read moreMuch Ado About MOOC
It’s fair to imagine that one of the 2013 ‘words of the year‘ will be MOOC (which is not really
Read moreThe Quality Metric in Education
What is quality when we speak of learning? In this third post in series on education and evaluation metrics the issue
Read moreThe Knowledge Metric in Education
Higher education is asking itself some big questions and making substantive changes to the way it sees itself and produces
Read moreThe Job Market Metric In Education
Post-secondary and continuing education is continuing to be rationalized in ways that are transforming the very foundation of the enterprise.
Read moreRationalized Education and The Futures of the University
Next to the church, the university may be the most enduring formal institution in our society. And like nearly every
Read moreAdvice for a Scholar Seeking a Life in Academia
The need to train professionals, educate citizens and advance knowledge of our world has never been less, yet the academic
Read more(Un)Building a Mystery: Peeking Behind the Curtain in the Academic Land of Oz
The gap between what academics do and what those outside of the academy think they do is enormous. The mysteriousness
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