The Course Creators’ Achilles Heel
However, many course designers fail miserably when it comes to the actual design of their courses. Very few people have mastered the art of curriculum development, the process of planning and organising all of the course content.
Veblen on Higher Education and Department Stores
Sociologist Thorstein Veblen applied his analyses of consumer behaviour and social class to institutions, including higher education.
No Floor Beneath Us
Stubbs’ description struck me head-on. I could see now what was going on around me: The need to feel something solid, real under our feet — the “terrain” — is a nice metaphor for the increasingly fast and disjointed experience of postmodernity. It’s become more difficult to believe anything — cultural forms, our institutions — is worthy of our unconditional faith.
Leading in International Online Higher Education: Notes on “Canada U”
Coordinated initiatives to attract international students are not uncommon (International Education Strategy, Government of Canada). But this proposal calls for international students to begin their studies with Canadian universities through online learning, then complete the last two years on-campus in Canada.
Stackhouse and Schrumm anticipate this strategy will help recoup the international students lost as a result of COVID 19. It also serves as a vehicle for investing the nation’s leadership in online learning.
The plan is nothing if not ambitious.
The Lecture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
In a world where more and more of the information we consume is disconnected from location and time, the idea that we would find it logical to have students meet in a single location at a specific time to hear a presentation seems increasingly odd.
Education and Consumer Technology Interplay in Higher Education
At the same time, new technologies are more frequently taking hold in consumer markets first, rather than in institutions (hospitals, government, corporations, military), which was once the norm. As the size of the consumer market for technology swells, investment and talent follow. (For more information, see the “Consumerization of IT”.)
Consider how consumer technologies interact with education technology.