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The Good, the Bad, and the Meh

Among the many articles related to education which have appeared over the past few weeks are three which I think deserve highlighting:  Mike Moffat & John McNally’s very good Making a Green Recovery Inclusive for All Canadians, Irvin Studin’s unfathomably terrible Canada Needs a Temporary Minister of Education and the needs-some-work “Leveraging the value of Canadian universities is key to our economic rebuild” by John Stackhouse and Andrew Schrumm. Let’s start with the Moffatt/McNally piece, which in truth is only tangentially related to post-secondary education.

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September 15, 2020 No Comments

Credit Hours

It’s hard to tell from the outside what universities are talking about these days, because there is this veil of secrecy up about what planning is happening.  But I’ve heard that, at a couple of schools at least, the focus is very much on the question of credit hours.  As in, “credit hours = contact hours, so if your course isn’t completely synchronous, how do we know students deserve three credits?” Sigh. There are short and long answers to this

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May 6, 2020 4 Comments

For Lifelong Learning, Time to Go Big

I have been thinking a lot lately about the need for greater adaptation to lifelong learning.  I am, as you all know, generally pretty skeptical of any “Fourth-Industrial-Revolution-sky-is-falling-right-this-instant” rationales for institutional change, but that’s not a reason not to think about big change.  First, because even in the absence of radical labour market change there are ways we can do a lot better at lifelong learning than we currently do, and second because given the length of time it takes

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February 26, 2018 1 Comment

Game-Changing Institutional Alliances

A couple of weeks ago, Arizona State University and EdX announced an institutional tie-up, which received a fair bit of publicity.  Basically, the deal was that EdX – a well-known MOOC platform, owned jointly by Harvard and MIT – would help ASU put an undisclosed (but judging by the rollout, somewhere between 15 and 20) number of its big first-year courses online.  There were two startling things about this announcement: 1)      The MOOCs are not time-delimited, requiring students to start and

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May 26, 2015 1 Comment

Credit-Transfer, Korean Style

There are not many genuinely unique ideas in higher education.  Today, we at HESA are releasing a paper about one of them: Korea’s Academic Credit Bank System (ACBS), available here. Korea has long had a problem with credit transfer.  Its higher education institutions are fairly rigid in terms of admissions, and few like accepting transfer students.  Another big problem is that Korean males have to do two years (roughly – it depends on the service) of universal military service, and

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August 18, 2014 1 Comment

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