By Matt Reed. The New York Times had an unusually thoughtful and well-written piece this week (by Kristin O’Keefe) on the wide acceptance of the distinction between community college and “real” college. It’s heartbreaking in its content, and in the fact that it had to be written at all. Read more...15 février 2015
Standing Calvin on His Head
By Matt Reed. The New York Times had an unusually thoughtful and well-written piece this week (by Kristin O’Keefe) on the wide acceptance of the distinction between community college and “real” college. It’s heartbreaking in its content, and in the fact that it had to be written at all. Read more...Shocker: Quick Fix Doesn’t Work
By Matt Reed. There’s plenty to say about Politico’s story about Pearson, but I’ll leave most of it to people who are better versed in the details. Instead, I’ll pick out one lesson that jumped out at me, even though it was only one element of the story. Read more...Hidden in Plain Sight
By Matt Reed. Back in 2000, when George W. Bush was trying to select a running mate, Dick Cheney chaired the search committee to find one. Eventually, of course, Cheney declared the search unsuccessful, and Bush put Cheney himself in the role. Read more...“Dad, Is the University of Phoenix a Good School?”
By Matt Reed. This weekend The Boy and I went on a brief roadtrip in service of a robotics tournament that wound up being cancelled. (New England is under its third repent-your-sins storm warning in the past two weeks.) A few hours in the car each way gave us a chance for some free-ranging conversation. When you have hours of free-range conversation with a thirteen-year-old, you never know what you’re going to get. Read more...We're Destroying Higher Education for Future Generations
By John Warner. On Wednesday, the New York Times asked, “Is Your First Grader College Ready?”
Also on Wednesday, we learned that if Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed cuts to higher education go through we can expect massive contraction of faculty and courses at the flagship LSU campus, which will get off lucky, because it will at least stay open, unlike some of the other colleges and universities of the Louisiana system. Read more...
#ELI2015 Attendee Device Tech: 5 Observations
By Joshua Kim. Now that we are all back from #ELI2015 it is time to talk about what really mattered at the Conference - the gadgets. The whole world is watching the personal tech choices of the elite globe trotting opinion makers who flock each year to the glamorous global ELI confab. Today’s ELI attendee tech is tomorrow’s must own device. Read more...
#ELI2015 in 7 C’s
By Joshua Kim. What showed up for you as the big stories of #ELI2015? This is a hard conference to get a handle on. ELI is small enough that you think you should be able to keep track of the important discussions and key sessions, but too big to actually participate in anything but a small number of the discussions and sessions swirling all around. Read more...
Making Meaning of Twitter at #ELI2015
By Joshua Kim. Twitter is a fabulous platform for our #ELI2015 community. Or maybe #ELI2015 is the community. I’m having trouble separating the virtual network of tweeters from the physical network of people here in Anaheim. Or maybe it is not necessary to all be in one place at one time to build our ELI community, as those attending virtually have just as much access to the Twitter conversation as those of us in California. Read more...
20 Questions & Faculty Ain’t One #ELI2015
By Joshua Kim. I love Jeff’s tweet about my piece 20 Questions at ELI 2015 on so many levels. The Jay-Z reference. That he jumped off the IHE platform, and pushed the conversation (and his critique) into Twitter. Read more...
20 Questions at ELI 2015
By Joshua Kim. Our people are descending on Anaheim for 3 days of geeking out at the intersection of learning and technology. Why are you attending, (or wish you could be attending), the 2015 ELI Annual Meeting? If the ELI Annual Meeting is not on your radar as a “must attend gathering”, why do you think this is so. Read more...
