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Category Archives: Online Learning
I Was Thinking…
I have a small 2” x 8” aluminum plate from an old IBM plaque that sits under glass just below the keyboard on my desk that reads ‘Think’. Each time I look at it, it gets me thinking about thinking (metacognitive awareness). As I think about this, it is somewhat of a paradox as, in […]
4 Essential Competency-Based Education Commitments for HigherEd Leaders
Originally Published on Getting Smart – October 4, 2015 In July, the Chronicle for Higher Education (CHE) released a white paper entitled ‘A New Measure for Collegiate Learning – What Presidents Think about the Promises and Pitfalls of Competency-Based Education’. That survey to nearly 200 college presidents found that there was widespread support for granting credits based on competencies. […]
Mental Models, Change, and Time – Thoughts on Competency Based Education
I recently took a trip back to the university where I got my first undergraduate degree. I had forgotten how beautiful the campus was – old red brick, ivy, and what seemed like endless pathways cutting their way through freshly cut green grass. I even walked through a few of the buildings and stood outside […]
Peaked in High School
Originally Published on Education Dive – February 2015 I love the Direct TV ads with Rob Lowe. My new favorite is the ‘Peaked in High School Rob Lowe’. It reminded me of where we are today in the evolution of online learning. With the release of Babson Survey Research Group’s 12th Annual Higher Education Online […]
The College Rating Framework
“The only reason to carry out a test is to improve a process, to improve the quality and quantity of the next run or of next year’s crop. Important questions in science and industry are how and under what conditions observations may contribute to a rational decision to change or not to change a process to accomplish improvements. […]
Where The Jobs Are…
As the year draws to a close, many people are beginning to look ahead to 2015. For millions of students across the country, advancing their education and expanding their career opportunities is top of mind. They will be google’ing, looking at US News & World Report College Rankings (watch for their 2015 rankings – coming out on […]
Online Learning Is No Longer About Access
5587.5587 are the number of days that I have spent living, breathing, thinking and working on online learning. Over that time we have made remarkable progress in a space that virtually did not exist 20 years ago. Below is a brief, high-level summary of what has transpired over those 5587 days (at least how I […]
Coding Is The New Black
Is Coding The Key to Innovative Thinking? With this week being Computer Science Education Week, I thought I would share a hypothesis. It is that coding can be a key to innovative thinking… This story starts in a land far far from here, many years ago. The setting was Mr. Hildebrand’s Computer Science class and […]
Do Performance Funding Models Work?
I will start by saying I am a big believer in performance funding models in education. Maybe it is due to my time working with Julie Young at Florida Virtual or maybe it is because I am a big goal setter – both in my personal life and work life. Without clearly defined goals […]