Addendums from 3/5/10:
- Thousands protest financing cuts, tuition increase in US — from news.xinhuanet.com
- March on Everywhere! — from InsideHigherEd.com
- California Students Protest Education Cuts — The New York Times
On 02/24/2010,
in budgets, business side of he, change, changing business models, dangers of the status quo, disruption, future of higher education, game-changing environment, policy, strategy,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
One of the questions mentioned on this posting from learn.5tein.com (which was focused on higher ed), was Question #2:
- What do we provide them that they can’t get anywhere else?
Great question for all of us in higher education to be able to (continually) answer. Also, I would add another question:
- How does my organization of higher education keep from becoming a commodity? What distinctive value is my organization bringing to the table?
- “Leadership and Management: Complementary Skill Sets”
- “Zen and the Art of Higher Education Administration”
- “Techniques of Leadership”
- “A Formal Approach to Facilitating Change”
Other articles in Academic Leadership Qualities for Meeting Today’s Higher Education Challenges include:
- Factors That Affect Department Chairs’ Performance
- Changing Roles for Chairs
- Becoming a More Mindful Leader
- Creating a Culture of Leadership
- There’s More to Leadership than Motivation and Ability
- 10 Recommendations toward Effective Leadership
- Hope-Centered Leadership in Practice
The Online Learning Imperative: A Solution to Three Looming Crises in Education — from all4ed.org by Governor Bob Wise with assistance from Robert Rothman
Excerpt:
CRISIS #2: The funding cliff—declining local, state, and federal revenues mean changing the education content-delivery model
Faced with a declining revenue base, any enterprise must make a choice: continue doing the same with less and hope to weather through, or innovate and institute changes that result not only in survival but in growth (emphasis DSC). Public education and the U.S. automobile industry face a common challenge: declining revenues and lackluster results. In the case of the auto industry, the consumer has finally said that the end product is not acceptable. This raises the bar even higher, forcing companies to operate with less revenue while also improving outcomes.
Some might argue that a rapid expansion of education funding could accelerate improvements in outcomes. The reality is that the current economic recession has taken the issue of continually increasing revenues off the table (emphasis DSC). The only issue for policymakers is how to apply limited funding in a more cost-effective manner that also boosts student outcomes—in short, a reengineering of how education is delivered (emphasis DSC).
Also see:
Press release: First school system in Idaho to require online learning — from Virtual High School Meanderings blog
Currently Michigan, Alabama and New Mexico require all graduating students statewide to take an online course. Sugar-Salem is the first district in Idaho to adopt such a policy.
On 02/11/2010,
in education technology, policy, smart classrooms, teaching & learning,
by Daniel Christian
How well has your institution integrated technology? — from Tony Bates
Simulation Technologies in Higher Education: Uses, Trends, and Implications — from Educause by David A. Damassa (Tufts University) and Toby D. Sitko (EDUCAUSE)
“This ECAR research bulletin focuses on the rapid growth in the use of simulation technologies in higher education and the implications this will have for information technology planning and policy decisions.”