Tag: "education & the workforce"
“Academically Adrift” is Methodologically Adrift
That’s the buzz, anyway. You’ve probably read about the latest jeremiad on higher education: Academically Adrift. Among its findings is the claim that 45 percent of students show no academic improvement during the first two years of their undergraduate careers. People are taking exception to the report’s findings and methodology. At the Chronicle of Higher [...]
Higher Education: Will MOOCs Change Everything?
Over at Inside Higher Ed, University of Prince Edward Island graduate student Bonnie Stewart weighs in on the affect that massive online open courses (MOOCs) like MITx will have on higher education: Too often, MOOCs – particularly the emergent big-name university offerings that have essentially harnessed the capacity of open online learning and scaled it [...]
A Model for 21st Century Education?
The New York Times touts the Mooresville, NC school district as an exemplar of 21st Century public education: Many students adapted to the overhaul more easily than their teachers, some of whom resented having beloved tools — scripted lectures, printed textbooks and a predictable flow through the curriculum — vanish. The layoffs in 2009 and [...]
Will Technology-based Education Really Work?
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla thinks so. His perspective, in the words of a genius from another discipline is “you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet:” Children have the natural ability to learn and teach. With socialization, big data analytics and gamification as helpful tools, the future of education lies in providing children with an environment in which [...]
Can gaming help young men learn?
More and more research shows males falling behind females academically. In a recent TED talk, Penn State education professor Ali Carr-Chellman thinks one way to address that problem is to engage young men in learning through game technology. Could this help us improve our middle-skilled workforce who need advanced skills, but don’t necessarily need a [...]
Is College becoming another company store?
You know the old saw about the company stores in mill towns: they made sure they charged enough for their goods so that workers never got ahead and had to keep working at the mill. Well, according to a recent post by Mike Mandel at innovation&growth, the same thing might be happening with colleges. In [...]
