Why Does Corporate E-Learning Fail?
This is a really good article. While it begins with a comprehensive list of the reasons e-learning fails, its real strength is the comprehensive list of "interventions" it suggests to address those causes of failure. More...
The End of the Course as We Know It
Good article that traces how the use of learning objects is redefining learning delivery, as evidenced by this perspective: "A course should fit the learner's needs, the skills required and their learning style. More...
I Have My Rights!
The purpose of this article is to argue that people have no constitutional right to copy intellectual property, not even under fair use provisions. Of course, as this article is based in the U.S. Constitution, it has little applicability to the world at large. More...
By Cathy Davidson. Every day, since the Sept 5 publication of The New Education, I have received 5-10 emails from people who are changing their universities-- or are hoping to do so. In the latter group, a comment I'm asked often asked is: "How can you be such an optimist? How can you believe higher education can change?" And then often, more personally, they ask: "How can we do this? What are the steps? Can you help us?". More...By Cathy Davidson. For well over a decade, I've been studying the science of learning, cognitive neuroscience, research on memory, and studies of pedagogy as well as reading everything I can get my hands on having to do with techniques and methods for meaningful, engaged classrooms. I'm constantly learning, always trying new things. Here are things I wish I knew when I started down this exciting, productive, rewarding, and, ultimately, better path for higher education. More...By Cathy Davidson. "Black Listed: African American Writers and the Cold War Politics of Integration, Surveillance, Censorship, and Publication" English 80300, IDS 81630 S 2018. More...Broken Links: Just How Rapidly Do Science Education Hyperlinks Go Extinct?
The point of this short item is to track the number of URLs used in the science education community that disappear over the course of a year or so. Not surprisingly, there is a decline. More...
Stop Fixating on the Size of Your Audience
Mark Carrigan, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/02/01
"Social media carries risks for scholarship, and many of them hinge upon these popularity metrics," writes Mark Carrigan. "Many scholars seem to think the huge scale of social media means they are talking to a vast undifferentiated public whenever they post anything. In reality, most of the time we are connecting with only the tiniest subset of potential readers." This seems reasonable to me. More...
By Patrick Blessinger and Mandla Makhanya. The growing importance of education at all levels and the inclusion of more stakeholders in the educational enterprise has sparked debate about the fundamental nature and purpose of higher education (that is, what type of good is education?). Traditionally, viewed from an economic perspective, higher education has been treated largely as a public good. More...By Susan V Berresford. The world today needs a fresh pipeline of leaders to strengthen work on inequality and exclusion. The old ways of generating leaders are sound, but on their own insufficient to meet the world's need to address inequality. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
