Posts Tagged ‘ quality ’

Bulgarian students dream about future schools

8/17/2011

As we shared earlier, Project Dream School started with a simple question: If you could build a dream school, what would you do?

This morning, I received some inspiring ideas. [...]


A plutocratic education

5/28/2011
Panelaky v Piestany

If the ultra wealthy are concerned about America’s competitiveness, the schools aren’t failing. They’re failing the schools. The nation’s ranking on the PISA tables continues to slip, but if we control for poverty, we’re darn near the top.


Is YouTube bursting higher education’s bubble? Not so fast…

6/9/2010

Last Sunday, Jeffrey Young wrote about the use of the Internet to deliver lectures in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article centered on the work of Salman Khan, who posts home-made lectures on YouTube: The lo-fi videos seem to work for students, many of whom have written glowing testimonials or even donated a few [...]


Leapfrogging to the New Basics

3/25/2009

Are the old basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic relevant in the 21st century? Or, is it time for an upgrade? Arthur Harkins and I assembled a list of New Basics for education that can help us leapfrog to an education paradigm that is both innovative and relevant for the 21st century and beyond. These [...]


How higher education wound up in this mess … and how to get out

3/9/2009

The March 13 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education has a list of 13 reasons why colleges are hurting in the current economic downturn. They write that colleges managed their investments poorly, failed to show leadership in building quality institutions, ignored their customers’ needs, failed to get the support of state legislatures, and dodged [...]


Can furloughs save land grant universities?

2/2/2009

A friend and colleague at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington wrote to me that, “UNCW MAY be doing furloughs like we saw at ASU. [...] they will say ‘take off a day a week.’” As more state-funded universities are looking at furloughs to help remedy financial crises, I’m starting to think that furloughs might not [...]


Toward a smarter planet

12/8/2008

Last month, IBM took out a two-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that touted their vision for a smarter planet. They believe: The world continues to get “smaller” and “flatter.” But we see now that being connected isn’t enough. Fortunately, something else is happening that holds new potential: the planet is becoming smarter. That is, [...]


Canadians think smaller is better (among universities)

10/23/2008

Canada’s undergraduate university students have given the country’s smallest universities higher ratings than the large institutions for overall satisfaction and quality of education.   This is one of the findings of The Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report available in today’s newspaper and online at www.globecampus.ca. The Report is presented in association with The Strategic Counsel [...]


Daily Champion: Improving engineering education policy in West Africa

11/28/2004

Article link: Issues in Engineering And Technology Education Cut-and-pasted from the article’s abstract: University of Lagos (UNILAG) lecturers, Prof. S. A. Balogun and Dr. D. E. Esezobor in this piece from African Regional Conference on Engineering Education (ARCEE) examine the factors affecting the quality of engineering education at the tertiary level and ways by which [...]


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This year’s April/May issue of Innovate includes an interview by James Morrison with Joel Barker and Scott Erickson, who: propose an ecological model that classifies technology according to different clusters or regions, each of which entails its own perspective of technology and how such technology should be utilized. Their five regions model thus shifts the [...]


Are colleges “endangered?”

Article link: Colleges: an endangered species? Andrew Delbanco ponders in the New York Review of Books (March 10, 2005) what a college education means today: “for the relatively few students who still attend a traditional liberal arts college—whether part of, or independent from, a university—what do they get when they get there?“ Read the entire [...]


Edge: What do you believe is true, but cannot prove?

Article link: What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? The Edge Foundation posted an article containing the responses of leading thinkers who were asked: “what do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” They note there is a focus on individuals’ consciousness of certainty in the responses [...]


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