On behalf of the Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee, Kaplan University is proud to announce our upcoming online conference, KU Village 2010.
KU Village 2010 will be held September 20-23, 2010.
The theme of KU Village 2010 is Connect, Communicate, and Collaborate. With over 45 presentations (archived for later viewing also!), a virtual showcase of [...]
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There is an Alice-in-Wonderland quality to the arguments being used against the proprietary sector in recent weeks. As a founding president of a community college and a state university, I was especially disappointed to see the litany of arguments against for profit higher education paraded out in a recent article in the Huffington Post by [...]
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Technology-based techniques are beginning to be applied in education, but often just for the solo learner, whether on their own at home, or to do work away from class on their own. Nothing wrong with this - in fact, matching a challenge to student skills (”Hard but not too hard” as Vygotzky might put it, [...]
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Recently there has been a spate of articles in journals as diverse as Dow Jones, The New York Times, and Inside Higher Education which, when boiled down, ask about the fundamental value of a college education and raise the question of how, when we see that value, we will know what we are looking at. [...]
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I’ve written about how cognitive science should inform learning, and the importance of getting the match between media, the type of knowledge, and the student right. I intend to write more along these lines , e.g., the potential role of cognitive task analysis to more deeply identify what the real cognitive tasks are behind expert [...]
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It is an undeniable fact that with the blending of economic/political spaces between countries and continued growth of international trade, the movement of people between countries is becoming more fluid. There is a steady increase in competition for talented global workforce and businesses are fast becoming increasingly aware that creating a cross cultural environment in [...]
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Interest in green jobs may be starting to take root, although more must
be done to make that interest really blossom. The Career College
Association (CCA) today released the results of a new commissioned
survey, conducted...
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Last sunday’s New York Times “News of the Week in Review” had an article by Jacques Steinberg entitled “Plan B:Skip College”. He is reporting on a fairly short list of people, including Charles Murray, who are serious about capping postsecondary education opportunity for currently marginalized people – read poor and/or of color. I am always impressed [...]
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I have been the founding president of both a community college and a state university. And in both cases, we (me, my co-workers, and the pioneering students at these schools) were subjected to the public skepticism that comes with making change.
· It was a “waste of money”.
· The colleges were “low quality”.
· The [...]
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In “Midnight Class Is Latest Sign of Higher Education’s Demand,” the Baltimore Sun reports on community colleges that are offering “graveyard shift” classes, including a psychology class - “Midnight Madness” - 12-3 a.m. coming up this fall at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland. It certainly provides access and relieves pressure on crowded community college [...]
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