By Alex Usher. As I read this story, I thought “if nothing else, that’s a pretty amusing segue to talking about Presidential salaries, which I haven’t done in awhile.” I made some international comparisons on Presidential salaries about four years ago, and basically came to the conclusion that i) being an Australian university President was a really sweet gig and ii) Canadian university Presidents were paid a lot less than their counterparts elsewhere. More...
By Alex Usher. Now, I am in favour of greater experiential learning opportunities, but there are some problems with this recommendation. The good folks at HEQCO have already written about some of these; my concern is basically that good co-op and good internships cost a lot of money. More...
By Alex Usher. The ubiquity of a given technology does not mean that everyone needs to be experts in its nuts and bolts. Pretty much no job is untouched by, say, electricity, or indoor plumbing. Yet the economy works fine without 10 million people knowing how to do preventive maintenance on electrical wiring or install a toilet. More...
By Alex Usher. In the field of higher education, Canada has two genuine claims to having been (at least at one-time) at the forefront of innovation: co-op education, which primarily stems from Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering, and Problem-based Learning as practiced at McMaster’s School of Medicine. More...
By Alex Usher. We often casually refer to China as being a single higher education market, but that’s really not true. It’s probably more accurate to say that it is 32 different markets (34 if you want to include Macau and Hong Kong), one for each of the 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, and 4 major municipalities (Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Tianjin). That’s not just because most higher education funding is local rather than national; it’s also because student mobility is significantly restricted, especially among top universities. More...
By Alex Usher. Barring some sort of catastrophe, it now seems pretty clear that Hillary Clinton will be the 45th President of the United States. There is a reasonable chance (51.6% in Monday’s FiveThirtyEight forecast) that the Democrats could regain the Senate and an outside chance that they could also regain the House. More...
La Fédération de la Formation Professionnelle (FFP) a publié son baromètre annuel 2015, comprenant bilan, perspectives et une enquête auprès de ses adhérents. 2015 a été caractérisé par une baisse du chiffre d’affaires des organismes de formation.
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By O'Neal Spicer. Dan Barrett’s piece over the weekend in The Chronicle, “The Next Great Hope for Measuring Learning,” deserves a close read. He describes in some detail a ground up effort by faculty and administrators across several institutions to define and measure what it is that students are learning and why it’s important. More...
By Michael Feldstein. First, we’re creating a new category of short posts called “Recommended Reading.” We have always appreciated the news digests produced by folks like Stephen Downes and Audrey Watters as ways to keep up on important pieces we might have missed. More...
By Michael Feldstein. Last spring, I had the opportunity to interview some of the top folks on McGraw-Hill Education’s (MHE’s) digital team to get their view on adaptive learning. More...
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