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By Dayna Catropa. The Wall Street Journal recently posed this question: “Why aren’t companies getting graduates with the skills they need?”
“The Experts” responded with their perspectives. Reasons cited ranged from “our college graduates can’t write” (Bruce Nolop, former CFO of Pitney Bowes, Inc. and E*Trade Financial Corp.) to “The world has changed since the industrial revolution, but universities have not” (Kenneth Freeman, Allen Questrom professor and dean of Boston University School of Management). 
Eric Speigel, President and CEO of Siemens USA, shared a different perspective. Among other ideas, one of his suggestions focused on the need for companies to provide more on-the-job training for their employees. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. During his keynote address at EDUCAUSE 2013, Sir Ken Robinson reminisced about his own days at as a graduate student. He talked about hitting the library at the “crack of noon” for three or so hours of grueling work before hitting the pub.
Sir Ken may have been exaggerating somewhat the life of an academic in the 1970s, but his description of a typical day in the life of an aspiring academic conforms pretty well to my own graduate school experience circa 1992. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. My most productive interactions at the EDUCAUSE conference are the discussions that I have with leaders from the corporate participants. 
The CEOs, Presidents, VPs, and Directors. 
The people responsible for the strategic directions and new initiatives for the services, software, hardware, and publishing companies whose presence (in the exhibitor hall, in corporate sessions, and through sponsorships), that make up so much of the value of attending EDUCAUSE. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. Every tech person that I speak with agrees that the problems with healthcare.gov were totally predictable.  
The basic lesson that the academic tech community seems to be taking from the healthcare.gov debacle is that something similar would never happen to us.
This is the wrong lesson.
We need to learn from healthcare.gov so as not to repeat the same mistakes that the federal government made in our new platform rollouts. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. If I worked at Google I’d spend all my time pursuing one goal.  
That goal would be shift education from a scarce good to an abundant good.
That’s it. One goal. All my time. Nothing else. Education: Scarcity to Abundance.  
I figure that Google has done a pretty good job moving other things that we value from scarcity to abundance (such as information, but other things like productivity tools), why not take a run at education?
This would be very hard. Google would probably fail at reaching this goal. I’d probably fail at Google. But nothing worthwhile is ever easy. Read more...