Education is seeing unprecedented support from education technology during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Connectedness in the News
We put a lot of pressure on academics if the classroom is the only place students can find or build community.
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – Education Edition
How connected are your students to people, support, content….really?
The Fifth Discipline – Revisited
Having taken all manner of personality indicators, I agree with their consistent findings that people who do not perform effectively, in a collaborative fashion, nor with a proper prioritization of goals, are easily waived off in my brain as “morons.” I struggle to give second chances and I quickly look for workarounds to people and departments that appear obstructivistic regarding forward thinking initiatives, student support, or even student learning, etc.
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.