I hope you find the following quotes about education, innovation, and transformation as inspiring, cutting, or controversial as I do. I hope they parlay into great arguments, excellent debates, and help you weave a tapestry of ideas that have meaning and importance to what academia is supposed to do. Enjoy.
Communication, Education, and the Real World
The intersection of theory and application for many is the job interview.
Bad vs Good in the Brain (…you won’t like the winner)
Our brains focus on negative experiences far more easily than positive ones. What should educators do with that knowledge?
Education in 2050?
What will education look like in the future? While it has not changed much in the last 100 years, there is every likelihood it will look very different in the next 25…
We Are Winning – Be Thankful
Educators are moving forward. No longer needing to be convinced of the problems, more leaders than ever are open to talking about (tough) solutions that will actually produce results. My team and I have been given the honor and privilege of executive coaching, institutional consulting, and team development, all of which have begun to transform at scale.
Friday Campus Connections
Join us every Friday to see how connectedness shows up in “real-world” stories and scenarios. Here are 5 articles, blogs, or other resources that illustrate the power of connectedness. Of course, we’ll keep blogging away too. We hope you’ll stop back by on Monday, to see our newest post. And don’t forget to follow us on twitter (@IICEorg). Happy Friday!
The Strangest Keynote Situation I’ve Ever Experienced
When I was with eCollege, we always heard from integration partners which schools were truly ahead of the curve and which ones simply had a good marketing story, but were in fact awful to work with. Likewise, we would hear which companies were great to work with and which ones were not. That even translated to a company’s values or ethical practices. But embarrassingly, I did not include vendor referrals as part of my research. I solely relied on college / university recommendations. And at this point in my career, having worked on both sides of the fence as well as sitting on committees like the CWiC Executive Advisory Board, we all know that there are thousands of failed technology initiatives which have little to do with the technology and everything to do with the implementation. Yet I contacted school after school, both the solid and the weak, asking if they recommended a vendor.
If I told you to care about something, would you?
Savvy administrators now realize that placing all of the responsibility and accountability around retention on the academic offices was unfair. For too long we told students what to connect to (academics, programs, instructors, etc), instead of allowing them choices by which to connect to things that mattered to them.
Learning That Sucks…in the best way possible
If you allow a robotic vacuum to work, it will get your floors cleaner than you can yourself. Likewise, if you create a student-led model for learning, and you cultivate it, your students will learn better than through the traditional, teacher-centric model. And learning won’t “suck” either.
Impression Management – it’s more important than you think…
Profiles are more and more a crucial component of our lives. It’s not quite as reported today as it was five years ago when we were still figuring out just how profiles worked, but the web is littered with reports of people who lost jobs, scholarships, marriages, or worse, because a profile was not private enough, a person had multiple profiles, or because someone shared a profile of another person without their permission. Those things still happen, they just aren’t newsworthy anymore. But just because our information hungry brains also crave novelty doesn’t mean this isn’t an issue. Especially for younger parts of our society. It’s called impression management and it’s worth talking about.