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"So, don't "expect" work-life balance, but please do take whatever steps you can to achieve it. Work together with others when you can, and support policies that are flexible and inclusive about work-life balance-but don't ever expect anyone to give it to you."

"But when you still find yourself lacking answers, then apparently the FREE stuff doesn't work. You can't come to a professional and ask them to work for free. In essence, that is what you're doing when you ask to pick someone's brain."

Following up on the discussion about expertise.

"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

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."

"As angry teachers in the Midwest shut down more than a dozen school districts in protest Thursday, Republican officials across the nation have made teachers' unions "public enemy No. 1" in a battle to trim budgets and rewrite the rules on how unions and states work together."

"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." "

"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."

Colleges can reap major benefits from meaningful engagement with faculty, yet many institutions find it difficult to do. In partnership with Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, Public Agenda has developed core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing institutions and closing student achievement gaps. This new Cutting Edge Series paper, "Engaging Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty in Student Success Innovation," builds on our existing work in faculty engagement and is based on fresh research with higher education experts and community college faculty.

"A lurker might very well be giving back by performing better at their jobs, by sharing insights with others in the context of their daily work by using the learning gleaned from lurking."

"Sprint provided students in an online marketing class at Emerson College with 10 smartphones with unlimited wireless access. In exchange, students blogged, tweeted, produced YouTube videos and posted Facebook updates about the launch of Sprint's 4G network in Boston. "We're teaming up with the class again this semester it worked so well," says Sprint spokesman Mark Elliott."

I shared this because I see it as a way for colleges and universities to get "funding" from outside government allocations and tuition. Also blogged about it.

We understand that, somehow, learning can be distributed, that active learning is now easier to manage, that social learning has become a fact of life, that authentic learning opportunities are all around us, that information is all around us, that archiving and examining student work produces a whole new harvest of learning--we understand all this and we understand "high-impact learning practices," but we have yet to put it all together.

"Science claims it's working to cure disease, save the planet and solve the greatest human mysteries, but Aasif Mandvi finds out what its really up to."

The Customer Reviews are interesting. For one thing, I've never seen such polarized reviews for a non-political book. Speaking of which, I checked the day before publication of Bill Clinton's thousand-page memoir, and hundreds of people had already posted their reviews, about 50/50 positive/negative, with comments like "there's not a single thing that's new in this whole book."