Are Undergraduates Learning Anything? examines current approaches to learning in colleges and universities. I think this recent book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press), asks good questions. It challenges the way we define quality. As Clayton Christen posits (in Disrupting Class), I believe we are watching a disruption at … [Read more...] about Are Undergraduates Learning Anything? #edu
Archives for January 2011
My Reaction to The Observer’s 20 predictions for the next 25 years now at Lifeboat.com
I just posted My Reaction to The Observer’s 20 predictions for the next 25 years now at Lifeboat.com. It starts like this... The UK’s Observer just put out a set of predictions for the next 25 years (20 predictions for the next 25 years). I will react to each of them individually. More generally, however, these are the kinds of ideas that get headlines, but they don’t … [Read more...] about My Reaction to The Observer’s 20 predictions for the next 25 years now at Lifeboat.com
Botswana Needs Improved Education to Compete
From: 6/22/2009 9:16:18 PM That isn’t the headline. This is: Weak Human Resource Is Botswana's Undoing - World Bank (read more here) but it is the embedded message. Africa needs to broadly drive to education access and reform. Many African nations could easily adopt the latest techniques in education as they have no burden of deep labor union entrenchment or old … [Read more...] about Botswana Needs Improved Education to Compete
Evidence-Based Management and Education – The Obama Dilemma
The US push toward improved education needs to be careful. As I read simultaneously about the $4.35 billion Race to the Top fund and the rise of evidence-based management, I see a discontinuity. The top bullet in the Department of Education’s release says: “Adopting internationally benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the … [Read more...] about Evidence-Based Management and Education – The Obama Dilemma
Save the Desktop! Why the Computer Industry Needs to Save the Desktop Computer
Everything is mobile. That is the mantra we all face. Every angel, every VC, every IT manager, wants to know the mobile angle. Information Week's Alexander Wolfe, like many before, has declared the desktop dead. We need to save the desktop computer. Fresh off a briefing about Intel's experimental Cloud on a Chip, I think we are being premature about the death of the desktop. … [Read more...] about Save the Desktop! Why the Computer Industry Needs to Save the Desktop Computer