By Steven Mintz. As the threat of MOOCs and for-profit education fades, so too does the sense of urgency that drives innovation.
Yet anyone who thinks that a decade from now higher education will look much as it does today is sadly mistaken. Read more...
26 avril 2016
Why Higher Education Needs to Be More Future-Focused
An Underserved Market
By Margaret Andrews. According to this morning’s Wall Street Journal, in the ongoing war for technology talent, firms are increasingly looking to recruit women returning to the workforce. Why this demographic? Because they have the talent firms need . . . and there is less competition for workforce returnees. Read more...
Changing Times / Changing Ways
By Margaret Andrews. There was a blog post and an article from Margaret Sullivan, the departing public editor of the NYT, within the past week – and both bear reading for an interesting look into a tough job in a rapidly evolving industry. Read more...
My Life as an Instant Challenge
By Laura Tropp. My son has been participating as a member of a team for Destination Imagination. It’s a pretty interesting organization, which I think of as a kind of sports league for geeks, culminating in a giant nerd Olympics (being a nerd myself, this is something I can get behind). Read more...
The Membership Economy and School Lunches
By Laura Tropp. I set up one of those school lunch accounts for my children. I did this at the beginning of the school year, and now every time they want to buy lunch or purchase a snack, they can just give their names at the register. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Advice to Young Scholars
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In Labor Economics, we often talk of education as “human capital investment.” A person attending school of some kind is seen as making decisions similar to the investments made when people purchase capital, usually in the form of machines or equipment, for their companies. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: April Fools!
By Rosemarie Emanuele. In one of my math classes, my students learn how to calculate the day of the week on which any selected date falls. On what day of the week was your grandmother born? On what day of the week did the Civil War begin? Answers to these questions can be answered easily. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: “That Sunk Theory”
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Years ago, a former student told me that he suspected that I found examples of Economics everywhere I looked, which is basically true. I thought of this comment a few weeks ago when one of the top economists in my sub-field sent me a reference to the classic paper “A Disneyland Dilemma: Two-Part Tariffs for a Mickey Mouse Monopoly” when he heard that I would be going to Disneyworld for my daughter’s spring break. Read more...
Math Geek Mom: Things They Will Never Do
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Central to the study of Calculus and much of Science is the examination of how things change over time. Indeed, “comparative statics” also plays an important role in Economics, where the way things are (such as a combination of price and output at any time) are compared with the way things were (such as a combination of price and output at an earlier time.) Read more...
What's Love Got to Do With It?
By Barbara Fister. Want to buy a classic piece of internet history? A dorky-looking link-heavy platform that will remind some of us of our youth, spending hours on Netscape thinking “wow, this is way cooler than Gopher.” Yahoo goes on sale today. Though it's an antique, you probably can't afford it. Read more...
