Posted in future, organization, policy on Oct 28th, 2008
Habit changes nature
Habit and Nature
Some might suggest we are human doing, rather than human being. I believe it was Aristotle who suggested it is what we do that makes us what we are. There is no essential being underneath our actions, per se, but the actions and the beings are concomitant. If so, then what [...]
This blog post is about information technology and how we can actually interact with it quite differently than we do. What are the opportunities? And better, do you know how much money we can save? OMG!
Ok, IT is about outsourcing. What parts can you outsource? What about that fancy new email storage that was recently [...]
As blogged by Inside Higher Ed, MIT is proposing changes to the core to shrink the mandatory courses and allow a set of choices for the remaing core classes. This is an attempt “to balance rigor and flexibility,” which I encourage and applaud. Why is flexibility important? Scientific and engineering progress cannot be made along [...]
Rik notes that Pew has released a second future of the Internet report.
Scenario 5 is about virtual reality addition. This is a silly concept (as many respondents have noted), and will become the fodder of luddite television, as the old vs. new media battle continues. Remember the scourge that calculators were to become, crippling our [...]
NYTimes opinion piece from September 18, 2006
The countries that outperform the United States in math and science education have some things in common. They set national priorities for what public school children should learn and when. They also spend a lot of energy ensuring that every school has a high-quality curriculum that is harnessed to [...]
The New York Times reported today on the third (and perhaps final) draft of the Department of Education Commission on the Future of Higher Education report.
Long anticipated, the panel’s report portends the beginning of a “no child left behind” for Higher Ed. Signed by 18 of 19 of the Dept. of Education Commission on the [...]
Sooner or later every plan deteriorates into real work.
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