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Why haven’t colleges and universities kept up with the dramatic changes to the way we work and live? One big reason is that not enough presidents, provosts, and deans have science/tech backgrounds.
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Universities are no longer ashamed of online education. They’re ashamed of the students who enroll. But Covid marks the end of the era of plausible deniability.
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Taking a few bits and bytes from machine learning could go a long way to improving K-12 and postsecondary learning.
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The many education and training offerings U.S. employers are now making available to their employees are a lot of courses, but a long way from a whole meal.
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Like Jeremy Strong, our current process of accreditation is tightly wound but clueless.
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Just as you can’t take a tax deduction for donating a building to your country club for the benefit of a few hundred already fortunate members, you shouldn’t get one for donating a building to benefit a few thousand already fortunate students.
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In attempting to emulate the concierge-like career services model at selective universities, regional publics and community colleges are creating a job mirage and contributing to alumni anger.
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Tag line: In online learning, the biggest difference between self-proclaimed experts and real experts is that real experts are too busy with their day jobs to think about packaging and selling courses.
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Within the current nursing school timeframe, no amount of work-integrated learning or clinical rotations could allow nurses to master hundreds of care protocols before taking the NCLEX. What’s needed is on-the-job training, which takes time and costs money.
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America has always had an economic elite. It’s also always had an intellectual elite. But never the twain did meet until college became the country’s sole pathway to economic advancement.
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