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- Apr. 28, 2010
Education and the Workforce Crisis
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In these days of high unemployment, it’s hard to imagine a worker shortage. The shortage, however, is real. The book Workforce Crisis states that, “the United States will need 18 million new college degree holders by 2012 to cover job growth and replace retirees, but, at current graduate rates, will be 6 million short.”
But is more public financing of education the answer to alleviating the crisis?
The facts generally don’t support this conclusion. Nearly two trillion dollars is spent on education worldwide each year. The U.S. is currently the world’s single...
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- Apr. 27, 2010
Are Educators Willing to Adapt to Technology?
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The Web allows forward-thinking entities to thrive while wiping out others unwilling to adapt. Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, described how a company like Google has so successfully adapted itself to the changing nature of the Web.
Citing author Paul Graham, he writes: “The Web naturally has a certain grain, and Google is aligned with it. That’s why their success seems so effortless. They’re sailing with the wind, instead of sitting becalmed praying for a business model, like the print media, or trying to tack upwind by suing their customers, like...
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- Apr. 26, 2010
Navigating Knowledge
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New forms of social collaboration and social networking worldwide are growing as the Internet and wireless devices continue to evolve. Use of blogs, wikis, Facebook and MySpace is exploding. And, of course, search engines such as Google and Bing have universalized access to knowledge.
As journalist John Battelle stated: “Search is no longer a stand-alone application, a useful but impersonal tool for finding something on a new medium called the World Wide Web. Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world and our place within it. It’s how we...
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- Apr. 23, 2010
Technology Supports Achievement at JIU
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Excerpt from Assessing Student Learning in the Knowledge Age: The Jones International University Assessment Model by Joyce A. Scott and Robert W. Fulton:
“…the JIU technological infrastructure has facilitated frequent and responsive interaction between student and teacher, permitted more timely feedback, encouraged student-to-student interactions, documented student learning, and supported collection, analysis and dissemination of data such as surveys, student success reports and institutional research.
“The infrastructure has taken learning to the students...
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- Apr. 22, 2010
New Educational Demands
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Critical issues must be addressed to ensure that education meets the demands of the emerging knowledge society.
William B. Johnston and Arnold H. Packer, in their landmark study, Workforce 2000, cited education and training as the primary systems by which human capital is both developed and protected. The speed and efficiency with which these systems transmit knowledge and influence the rate of growth in human capital are more important than the traditional gauge of rate of investment in plant and equipment, the same study noted.
The sequel book called Workforce...
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