I am excited and pleased today because I am holding my new book, Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning (Jossey-Bass, Jan. 2010), in my hands. It lives up to its title, I think, describing how our technology-rich environment, populated with platforms, networks, social sites, and downloads, makes possible a level of access and completion in higher education that has been unattainable up to this point. I illustrate this point with a number of examples. Primary among them is being able to self-assess your experiential learning and then, if you wish, get it reviewed formally for academic credit , all on-line. continue reading
I am sitting at the opening session of the Kaplan University Faculty Retreat in Miami, a biannual event that precedes KU’s graduation ceremonies, listening to my colleague and fellow Rethinking Higher Education blogger Peter Smith talking about his new book, Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent. I am proud to be his colleague and his friend. continue reading
A co-worker recently shared with me this YouTube video:
Maybe you’ve already seen this clip (more than 3.8 million folks have viewed it … I admit to being a bit behind the times, technologically speaking). If you haven’t, then I encourage you to check it out. continue reading
Recently I have seen three articles about the current state of higher education financing which perplexed me greatly. First, Business Week published an article which portrayed proprietary institutions as “cashing in” unduly on stimulus money. continue reading
Mr. President,
Thank you, once again, for your inspirational challenge, calling on all Americans to pursue some form of education beyond high school. Since I am writing a book about rethinking higher education, I have been thinking seriously about the challenge you have thrown down.
Millions of capable learners are excluded from higher education because of the way it is organized. And our post-secondary success rates are largely stagnant for the last 30 years.Yet, against this grim backdrop, we need twice as many college graduates by 2014.
In my previous posts, I have shared a bunch of statistics about adult learners/non-traditional students - their average age, their average household income, etc. While numbers have their uses, I think it is always
A recent article in the USA Today reports a shift to mobile phones from landlines in many businesses across the country. It leads with the observation from a professor at Georgia Gwinnett College, who is giving up her office telephone for a school-supplied mobile phone, that using her cell phone has increased the level of interaction with students because she is “reaching students on the same device they use.” “It’s an incredible educational opportunity,” she observes. continue reading
Talk about disingenuous. Making a proposal that rolls back 65 years of educational progress, Charles Murray has just tried to re-invigorate his sputtering war on America’s middle and working class people. After a career committed to keeping capable people out of higher education based on arguments of intellectual inferiority, Murray has invented a new road to get to his favored destination: De-couple the BA/BS degrees from job qualifications, take most post-secondary education outside of continue reading
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