By Kevin Currie - Evolllution. Many years ago I earned my private pilot’s license and began to fly small planes all around the Northeastern United States. Being a successful pilot is all about studying and planning and then contingency planning. It’s about doing things as safely as possible while experiencing something that is inherently dangerous. More...
By Thomas Lindsay - Evolllution. As the presidential nomination races for both the Democratic and Republican parties get underway, public higher education has once again emerged as a topic of interest and debate. The role of elected officials in the oversight of higher education is regularly evolving and changing, but today but state and federal government bodies have a great deal of sway in the management of postsecondary institutions. More...
By . So, we’ve been in this ghastly election period for several weeks now, but it’s just starting to get interesting, with parties releasing actual platforms. I’ll be putting together briefs on each of the parties as they come out, starting today.
Let’s start with the Green Party, which is the first to have released a complete platform. This platform is slimmer than the sprawling 185-page monstrosity the Party had up on its website for the first weeks of the campaign, and which contained all sorts of fun stuff, like family policy that had been outsourced to Fathers 4 Justice. It’s slicker, and presumably represents what the party thinks are the most salable bits of their full-range of endorsed policies. More...
By . Recently, I did a fascinating set of roundtable discussions with employers and employer associations, and it brought home to me how one-dimensional much of our talk is regarding skills.
Broadly speaking, there are four sets of skills employers care about. The first are job- or occupation-related skills: can a mechanic actually fix a car? Can an architect design buildings? And so on. More...
By . In yesterday’s blog, I ended on the observation that over the period 2000-2012 at the 12 major universities where we have data (UBC, SFU, Alberta, Calgary, USask, Manitoba, Carleton, York, Toronto, Waterloo, Western, and Memorial) the rate of growth of support staff and administration was 16% faster than the rate of growth of academic staff. More...
By Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein. Today we are thrilled to release the the final episode in our new e-Literate TV series on “personalized learning”. In this series, we examine how that term, which is heavily marketed but poorly defined, is implemented on the ground at a variety of colleges and universities. While today’s episode is the final one released due to its analysis of what we learned in the five case studies, it was designed to be used as an introduction to the series. More...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. With Routledge sharing some free chapters, it is easier (and more tempting) to choose some of their book titles. So gladly sharing the free online chapters Routledge is offering at this moment, or as they promote it:By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Shaf Cangil, an educational consultant (and Open University alumni: hooray!), who has a strong experience in SCRUM mailed me last week with a challenge: find a quiz (preferably for free) that allows multiple grading, so you can use those grades to visualize or distill a profile. Shaf wanted to set up a survey that will immediately provide feedback to the user of that feedback and tell him or her which type of scrum-person they are. Read more...
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