Red Balloon Resources

"A highly engaged set of respondents that included 895 technology stakeholders and critics participated in the online, opt-in survey. In this canvassing of a diverse number of experts, 72% agreed with the statement: "By 2020, innovative forms of online cooperation will result in significantly more efficient and responsive governments, business, non-profits, and other mainstream institutions.""

A primer on higher education funding in California by CSU Northridge Provost Harry Hellenbrand that can be used as a model to help educate faculty about state funding and related policy choices.

"we need to toss out the old industrial model of pedagogy (how learning is accomplished) and replace it with a new model called collaborative learning. Second we need an entirely new modus operandi for how the subject matter, course materials, texts, written and spoken word, and other media (the content of higher education) are created."

A think piece by CSU Northridge Provost Harry Hellenbrand about Learning Management Systems and how we need to think about them more holistically than just a commercial software package.

A think piece by CSU Northridge Provost Harry Hellenbrand about how to think about change.

These curricular developments (at Chicago, Harvard and Stanford) are harbingers of a third way in liberal education. This new way bypasses the old battleground of the culture wars - the canon - by recognizing the privileged place that certain works and events occupy in past and present societies, without dictating which of these must absolutely pass before every student's eyes. As opposed to the more common "general education requirements," moreover, the courses in this model also provide students with an intellectual meta-narrative, that is, a synoptic perspective linking different periods, cultures, and even (ideally) disciplines. Finally, this model can offer scholars, administrators and policy makers a new language with which to define the goals and ideals of liberal education, and to help define criteria for their evaluation.

Gates-funded project, 26 teachers across the country who have had uncommon success in helping remedial students. Goal of the project is to identify successful teaching strategies to achieve 80% success rates with remedial students.

Hilary Pennington, at the ACE Annual Meeting in March 2010, argues that we're moving toward a circumstance where wealthy and middle class students will attend public institutions, and increasingly poor students will attend higher priced for-profit institutions.

Hilary Pennington, at the ACE Annual Meeting in March 2010, argues that we're moving toward a circumstance where wealthy and middle class students will attend public institutions, and increasingly poor students will attend higher priced for-profit institutions.

"Kotkin (The City) offers a well-researched-and very sunny-forecast for the American economy, arguing that despite its daunting current difficulties, the U.S. will emerge by midcentury as the most affluent, culturally rich, and successful nation in human history."

Liz Coleman (Oct 2007) describes the new curriculum, a series of design labs. It's a terrific paper on core values.

In a recent survey by Pat Callan's group, more than half of Americans voiced the belief three years ago that colleges and universities are more interested in their bottom lines than in providing a good education for students. We have been even more surprised -- and dismayed -- to see that figure jump almost 10 percentage points in just three years.

Texas tech will offer a three (3) year medical degree for family practice doctors

The Princeton Review is entering the distance education market by teaming up with community colleges to offer fast-track allied health-care programs to students who are willing to pay higher tuition to bypass long waiting lists.

Editorial from the book DIY U: Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. She cites 4 trends: 1. 80/20 rule 2. Great Unbundling 3. Techno-hybridixzation 4. Personal Learning Networks and Paths