It is hard to miss the resounding message echoed from classrooms to board rooms, higher education is at a critical juncture. The rapid pace of change is causing a dramatic shift in the knowledge and skills required to thrive in the workforce. The half-life of learned skills has dropped from 30 years in 1984 to … Continue reading Time for Change: The Future of Higher Education is Now
Whose Goals? Re-examining Course Development Process in Higher Education
The most ridiculous thing I ever did as a full-time tenured faculty was to walk in the classroom on the first day of class and hand out a syllabus that told students what they would learn, how they would learn it and how they would be evaluated. I taught human behavior in the social and … Continue reading Whose Goals? Re-examining Course Development Process in Higher Education