There's a parable in this about an approach to education and assessment that doesn't take into account different personality types and learning styles, isn't there?
SICCs: A Revolution in Education
February 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to a friend who is a time traveler, I can share this interesting higher education news report he brought back from 2033: A recent study by education specialists could lead to a radical revolution in universities around the world. A multi-year study of a range of classes has discovered that a new approach, referred [...]
Praising Academic Achievement FAIL
February 2, 2013 By 1 Comment
I spotted this at a local high school today:
A Letter from an Online Student
February 2, 2013 By 3 Comments
A friend shared with me a letter that a friend of his wrote, since he knew that I would soon be teaching a course online. Because I am persuaded that this individual’s experience is not unique, and that educators and institutions of higher education can learn from this, I am sharing the letter, with the [...]
Marshall Gregory on Liberal Education
January 10, 2013 By 7 Comments
Here’s a lengthy but rich excerpt from an article by my late colleague Marshall Gregory: Excerpt from Marshall Gregory, “Liberal Education vs. Professional Training, or, Liberal Education Knows a Hawk From a Handsaw,” CCTE Studies LXIII (September 1998): 1-16. In my view, a skills curriculum is deeply culpable on at least one front in its [...]
Is Religious Studies a Useless Degree?
December 28, 2012 By 10 Comments
Scot McKnight shared a link to a Yahoo! News item which listed five “useless” and five supposedly better alternative degrees. The data behind the story seems to be bogus. A quick glance at online surveys of alumni indicates that the matter is, at least, more complex. One survey indicates more business majors unemployed than religion [...]
Les Misérables: The College Parody
December 27, 2012 By 3 Comments
Via Inside Higher Ed, I discovered this parody of Les Misérables which depicts instead the despair not of young revolutionaries in France in a bygone era, but young graduates in the present day: I think the video simultaneously makes a useful point, and undermines it, illustrating in the process what education is really for. On the [...]
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