A Paradigm Shift for Education (2)
“Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat” – Caroline Schoeder Mirror, mirror… This post was delayed by a trip to a conference on creativity in education in...
View ArticleInvest in STEM or in Humanities? Perils of a false dichotomy
Thomas Friedman is writing in ‘New Rules’, a widely quoted article recently published by The New York Times “It’s fascinating to read about all this while visiting Shanghai, whose public school system...
View ArticleThe Perfect Storm for Universities
Even if universities may look well on the surface there is an increasing (and justified) concern that all will change soon. New data and analysis increase the anxiety that the current monopoly of...
View ArticleMOOCs and The Change of Higher Education
The American writer H. L. Mencken once said that there is always a well-known solution to every human problem: neat, plausible, and wrong. MOOCs look neat, are plausible and… too many get it wrong!...
View ArticleDevaluation of Teaching and Learning
In the current debate about the future of education a radical position is increasingly popular: teachers and teaching are obsolete, a part of a decrepit model of education. According to this, the...
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