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"The primary purpose of educators is to help people improve in some way. In a deep and overarching way, the second purpose of educators should be to improve our ability to educate. "Openness" and "learning analytics" are two of the buzzwords currently in vogue in educational technology. Independently, these two approaches can help educators make some headway toward improvement. When combined, however, these approaches enable continuous quality improvement on a scale never before imagined."

"If that did not work, the raters planned to give the schools an F. That got the attention of educators. Brian Kelly, the editor of U.S. News, said the push-back from education schools was evidence of "an industry that doesn't want to be examined." "

"In investor parlance, the price-earnings ratio on investing in higher education seems to be rising sharply. Where markets operate without external interference, there would be a correction. Sensing lower returns on their investment, the demand for higher education would fall and, with that, enrollments. "

"The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education completed its work in September 2006 with the release of its final report, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education."

Somewhere out there is an ambitious but frugal high-school graduate who wants to avoid a traditional college path. Maybe she has read Anya Kamenetz's DIY U or one of the other end-higher-education-as-we-know-it manifestoes that have circulated in recent years.

The bill would create "higher education curriculum review teams" to review and make recommendations to the State Board of Education on all proposed curriculum revisions. We believe this would be an important step in correcting the problems with recent curriculum adoptions - including science standards.

The General Education Initiative (GEI) provides the foundation from which all students have the opportunity to develop to their full potential. Students, through participation in the First Year Experience, Discovery Learning Experiences, Capstones, and their academic coursework, will have the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge that will enable them to achieve the UD 10 Goals to Success. These goals are designed to prepare students for life in the technologically sophisticated, diverse, highly communicative and globally integrated world in which they will live and work; and to offer students the opportunity to expand their own horizons, areas of interest and intellectual development.

"Despite extensive efforts to better integrate the learning experience during the college years, systemic institutional structures work against such integration--as does only an incipient understanding among educators of the integrative potential of the Web technologies our culture has fully adopted but which educators distrust and even ban."

To improve its public schools, the United States should raise the status of the teaching profession by recruiting more qualified candidates, training them better and paying them more, according to a new report on comparative educational systems.

"What is the Great American Teach-In? A day to remind ourselves and our students that citizenship means asking questions, finding answers and standing up for what you believe in... and that education must mean that too."

"All of these emerging technology pieces - quest-based learning, virtual worlds, augmented reality, mobile learning and game design - overlap, Dawley said. And together, they help EdTech figure out how what's happening in society can translate to education."

Looks like what Taylor was saying.

Backed by olfactory-education experts, parents of nasal learners are demanding that U.S. public schools provide odor-based curricula for their academically struggling children.

Backed by olfactory-education experts, parents of nasal learners are demanding that U.S. public schools provide odor-based curricula for their academically struggling children.

McGill University got hit for deploying an executive MBA program with tuition fees just under $30K. Example of the intervention of the state in education in Quebec.

"Gerald Graff is a professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Chicago in 1959 and his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University in 1963.[1] He has taught at the University of New Mexico, Northwestern University, the University of California at Irvine and at Berkeley, as well as Ohio State University, Washington University, and the University of Chicago. He has been teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2000.[1]"

"Ivan Illich (pronounced /ɪˈvɑːn ˈɪlɪtʃ/[1]) (Vienna, 4 September 1926 - Bremen, 2 December 2002) was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects on the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, and economic development."

See also http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-illic.htm infed.org is a good resource on many topics

At the beginning of this video, David Wiley describes the textbook as the "imposed curriculum". Open textbooks, on the other hand, enable educators to improve the course as they see fit.

An alternative to traditional education?

Just the sort of thing that we were talking about in the first part of last night's class: The influence of a conservative movement that would apply a greater business orientation to Texas higher education came into stark relief this week, when the chancellor of one of the state's university systems unexpectedly resigned and the other seemed to push back against regents who have embraced what some call a heavy-handed ideological agenda.

Virtual professional development for 21st Century educators, Online PD, Web 2.0 tools, free 21st Century curriculum

DIY professional development for K12 educators.

An aggregator of freely available lectures from top-rated higher education institutions, organized by topics. Can be used as a supplement for current students or as a standalone for self-learners.