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4 juin 2016

Three Unconnected Thoughts on PSE and Aboriginal Peoples

By Alex Usher. In the last five years or so, I’ve seen a real change in the way Aboriginal students are moving through the country’s PSE system. For a whole number of reasons, aboriginal students were traditionally concentrated either in humanities disciplines like history and sociology, or they were in disciplines which led to careers in social services or direct band employment (child care, police foundations, education, nursing). STEM and Business fields simply weren’t in the picture. More...

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4 juin 2016

Taking Advantage of Course Duplication

By Alex Usher. I recently came across an interesting blogpost from a professor in the UK named Thomas Leeper (see here), talking about the way in which professors the world over spend so much time duplicating each others’ work in terms of developing curricula. More...

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4 juin 2016

Unbundling

By Alex Usher. It’s a metaphor that’s been used in more than one way. The unbundling allusion is mostly to the music industry which has seen technology allow consumers to unbundle its main product (albums) into smaller discrete chunks (songs), but there are also allusions here to the cable TV industry and to journalism. Universities, it is argued, provide a whole bunch of disparate services, not all of which are of equal quality or are equally desired by the customer. More...

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4 juin 2016

Innovation Policy: Beyond Digital and Cleantech

By Alex Usher. So, earlier this month, federal Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains wrote an op-ed in the Toronto Star which lays out, as clearly as possible, where the current government’s thinking is with respect to Innovation policy. Some of it is good, but some of it is dreck. More...

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4 juin 2016

The Times Higher Education “Industry Income” Rankings are Bunk

By Alex Usher. A few weeks ago, the Times Higher Education published a ranking of “top attractors of industry funds”. It’s actually just a re-packaging of data from its major fall rankings exercise: “industry dollars per professors” is one of its thirteen indicators and this is just that indicator published as a standalone ranking. What’s fascinating is how at odds the results are with published data available from institutions themselves. More...

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4 juin 2016

Canadian B-Schools and Economic Growth

By Alex Usher. If there is one thing university Presidents desire, it is to be useful to society – and preferably to the government of the day, too. After all, post-Humboldt, universities exist to strengthen the state. The better a university does that, the more it will be appreciated and, hopefully, the better funded it will be. So it has always struck me as a bit odd how little universities (an business schools in particular) have really done in order to help work on the causes of Canada’s perennially sluggish economy. More...

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4 juin 2016

How Rich are China’s Universities?

By Alex Usher. Last week, Mike Gow at the Daxue blog linked to some interesting data recently published by the Chinese government with respect to the budgets of the country’s top universities. It only covers those institutions which report to the Ministry of Education (and therefore misses some important institutions like the University of Science and Technology of China (which reports to the Chinese Academy of Sciences) and the Harbin Institute of Technology (which reports to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology). It suggests that, at the very top of the Chinese system, there are some jaw-dropping amounts of money being spent. More...

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4 juin 2016

The New-Brunswick Step-Function

By Alex Usher. So there’s a kerfuffle going on in New Brunswick about the government’s new “tuition-free” policy for students from families with under $60K in income which I mentioned in passing a couple of weeks ago. Basically, the problem is that the government drew up the program hurriedly, on the back of an envelope, and didn’t think through the consequences. More...

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4 juin 2016

UC Davis, Sakai, and Open Source

By Michael Feldstein. Phil has been a busy boy, putting out two pieces about some Blackboard research that had gotten some negative responses and two more on a horrifically bad LMS outage for UC Davis and other universities using support vendor Scriba. More...

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4 juin 2016

SRI’s Study on Gates Personalized Learning Grants Is Out

By Michael Feldstein. This is almost old news now, but we just haven’t been able to dig into it yet. As part of its Adaptive Learning Market Acceleration Program (ALMAP) program, the Gates Foundation funded SRI to do a study of the results of the grants after two years. More...

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