Tag: educational reform
member name: Reid Cornwell
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January 05, 2007 08:54 PM EST --
I was invited to speak at a local rotary club on the subject of educational reform. I presented a brief version of my "Connected Learning" whitepaper. During the Q&A a person asked a question . . .
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September 19, 2006 09:08 PM EDT --
Dr. Socrates P. Aristotle
Provost
Stellar University
Dear Dr. Aristotle,
Is it possible that we are training too many scientists?
In the biology department where I work, every position we have open, . . .
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August 27, 2006 04:21 PM EDT --
"Teaching without learning is just talk." (Unknown)
Any discussion about educational reform must establish a working concept of knowledge and how education serves the acquisition of knowledge. . . .
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September 08, 2006 05:13 PM EDT --
The shiny new auditorium is filled to capacity. The audience is conspicuously silent. On the stage a glass and chrome podium awaits the speaker. In the background a state-of-the art, rear projection, theatre . . .
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August 22, 2006 12:48 AM EDT --
I have been trying to rally consensus for a center for Internet research. I defined target market segments and collected names and email addresses to announce my effort. These were:
Members of Internet . . .
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November 08, 2006 02:33 PM EST --
In writing about scholarly networks in Netspace, Barry Wellman, Emanuel Koku, and Jeremy Hunsinger have described such groups as Invisible Universities. We accept their opinion as both personal and professional. . . .
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August 22, 2006 11:33 AM EDT --
MySpace has been in the news because of the potential and reality of sexual predators exploiting its openness for their nefarious purposes. However, it is estimated that 60 million young people have embraced . . .
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August 22, 2006 09:48 PM EDT --
With the decrease in the number of students qualifying for college, increasingly institutions rely on the reputations of their faculty to attract families to their campuses. They tout the number of Nobel . . .
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August 16, 2006 12:52 AM EDT --
In 1948 I entered South Fork School in Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was a rural school with K-12 in the same building and there was one class per grade. Unlike my peers, I had already learned to . . .
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August 17, 2006 03:33 PM EDT --
Tuition costs are increasing faster than the rate of inflation. Why? Because we don't insist on common sense reforms!
Tenure is granted to professors that do not produce good students.
Senior professors . . .
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