Earlier this month, I interviewed Arthur Harkins on our approach to innovating in human capital development (Leapfrog!). Specifically, I asked: What is Leapfrog? What are some examples of leapfrogging? What are the Leapfrog Institutes? What are the global implications for Leapfrog? Watch his responses in this video: A little background: Leapfroggingmeans to jump over obstacles [...]

In Japan, promotion of university-industry collaboration has been a key topic at many levels since the early 90′s, and especially since 2004 when all the former national universities became semi-privatized. With this drastic reform in Japanese higher education in 2004, Japanese former national universities need to be transformed into a new mode of knowledge creation. [...]

Two articles related to the Singularity Summit have appeared on preparing for the Technological Singularity: First, Jamais Cascio writes on a Metaverse Roadmap Overview: In this work, along with my colleagues John Smart and Jerry Paffendorf, I sketch out four scenarios of how a combination of forces driving the development of immersive, richly connected information [...]

Dan, the guy behind Higher Ed Chat, is starting-up a Codex of Terrible Higher Ed Marketing. He writes: There will be a few categories: 1. “They Paid Someone to Design This?!” A list of the most poorly designed college websites. 2. “This Video is Supposed to Inspire… Whom?” A list of the cheesiest and most [...]

The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, finds that 2.35 million people took an online course in 2004. Furthermore: The overall percent of schools identifying online education as a critical long-term strategy grew from 49% in 2003 to 56% in 2005. The largest increases were seen in Associates degree institutions where 72% now agree that [...]