Lecture Capture: Policy and Strategy — University Business by Ellen Ullman
What is happening to the pedagogical process because of lecture capture?
July/August 2010 2010
On 08/24/2010,
in career development, higher education, lecture capture, pedagogy, policy, strategy,
by Daniel Christian
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70 multimedia company websites to peruse for inspiration/internships/jobs — from Innovative Interactivity by Tracy Boyer
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From DSC:
This item is also a good example of the “work swarms” that Gartner’s report was talking about…
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Your workplace in 2020: Gartner’s predictions – from itworldcanada.com by Thomas Wailgum for 
The market research firm forsees 10 major changes occuring in the next decade. Here are five of the most interesting, with some additional context.
- De-routinization of work.
- Work swarms.
- Attention to patterns.
- Hyperconnectedness.
- My place.
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By The Numbers: New Employment Statistics from the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey – National Science Foundation — via Reid Cornwell on the The Center for Internet Research’s NING-based site
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On 07/21/2010,
in 24x7x365 access, Lifelong learning, Using teams, Walmart of Education, adding value/not a commodity, business, business side of he, career development, change, changing business models, colleges, community colleges, competency-based learning/education, corporate / business world, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, disruption, education reform, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, exchanges, face-to-face, faculty, for-profit, for-profits, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, iTunes U, innovation, leadership, learning ecosystem, more choice more control, new business models, online learning, online tutoring, open courseware and systems, pace of change, partnerships, personalized/customized learning, strategy, teaching & learning, traditional / tradition, universities, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From Spring 2010
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From DSC:
If you are even remotely connected to higher education, then you *need* to read this one!
Most certainly, not everything that Thomas Frey says will take place…but I’ll bet you he’s right on a number of accounts. Whether he’s right or not, the potential scenarios he brings up ought to give us pause to reflect on ways to respond to these situations…on ways to spot and take advantage of the various opportunities that arise (which will only happen to those organizations who are alert and looking for them).
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On 07/20/2010,
in Google, career development, professional development opportunities,
by Daniel Christian
Diary of a Summer Intern — from Google
A true win-win situation — all around.
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On 07/13/2010,
in career development, colleges, cost of getting a degree, new business models, universities,
by Daniel Christian
Davenport University offers 25 percent off tuition for the unemployed — from mlive.com
Davenport University is helping the unemployed prepare for new careers by offering them a 25 percent reduction in tuition, the school announced today.
“Current economic environments across the state of Michigan have created challenges for many,” said Larry Polselli, Ed.D., executive vice president for enrollment and student development. “With 14 campuses across the state and programs tied to today’s jobs, Davenport University is uniquely positioned to help students by extending this tuition discount when people need it most.”
From DSC:
Kudos to DU for their creative, innovative thinking here.
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On 06/23/2010,
in K-12 related, career development, change, higher education, strategy, student-related, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
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Colleges not training students for careers that are growing — from ASTD
(From USA Today) WASHINGTON — The United States economy is in serious danger from a growing mismatch between the skills that will be needed for jobs being created and the educational backgrounds (or lack thereof) of would-be workers. That is the conclusion of a mammoth analysis of jobs data being released today by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
Colleges may like much of the rhetoric surrounding the report, which will be released officially today at an event scheduled to feature representatives of the Obama administration and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The clear implication of the report is that the United States needs to spend much more on higher education — and in particular on the educations of those who are not on the fast track to earning degrees at elite institutions. But the lead author of the report said in an interview that the report should also shake up colleges — and challenge most of them to be much more career-oriented than they have been and to overhaul the way they educate students, to much more closely align the curriculum with specific jobs.
The colleges that most students attend “need to streamline their programs, so they emphasize employability,” said Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the Georgetown Center.
From DSC:
Regarding the highlighted sentence immediately above….when it costs a significant amount of money — per student — to get them through college, can todays’ students afford to look at their college investments in any other way?
Really, come on…if things don’t change, can we expect our students to pursue a love of learning for learning’s sake? Or will the ever-growing debt on their backs continue to influence how they view their learning experience? Their expectations? The classes that they take and the programs that they pursue?
It’s one thing to graduate in 1970 with a $1,000 on your back…it’s another, to graduate in 2010 with $65,000 on your back.
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