June 2010
3 posts
Write-only articles →
I saw this on Twitter yesterday:
About 200,000 academic journals are published in English. The average number of readers per article is 5.
I don’t know where those numbers came from, but five…
Write-only articles →
I saw this on Twitter yesterday:
About 200,000 academic journals are published in English. The average number of readers per article is 5.
I don’t know where those numbers came from, but five…
Results from FeedbackArmy
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May 2010
4 posts
Trying out Feedback Army →
NETWORKING FOR CAREER SUCCESS
The last decade has seen considerable progress in the scientific appreciation of how networks are structured. There are two reasons for this; the increase in the availability of data and information about real world networks, and the increased attention paid to the field by the scientific and mathematical research communities. Analysis was hitherto primarily the domain of sociologists and was...
My beautiful girls
April 2010
5 posts
The coming melt-down in higher education (as seen... →
For 400 years, higher education in the US has been on a roll. From Harvard asking Galileo to be a guest professor in the 1600s to millions tuning in to watch a team of unpaid athletes play another…
“Adult learners: One of the real growth areas for education in the future will be...”
– http://www.changinghighereducation.com/2010/02/the-business-model-for-higher-education-ii-how-might-it-be-fixed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+changinghighereducation%2FLFzB+%28Changing+Higher+Education%29&utm_content=Gmail
“RedBubble makes money because we don’t have to spend money on marketing...”
Famous Brand Slogans →
Read all the most popular slogans of our time. www.historyofbranding.com
A Vision of Students Today
January 2010
1 post
cpaaustralia: RT @roberthalf_au: 3/4 of... →
cpaaustralia: RT @roberthalf_au: 3/4 of Australians want a new job. Was that your New Years resolution? http://ow.ly/USez ^ZH
December 2009
5 posts
"Engagement" - Global Workforce Study by... →
The Global Workforce Study is the largest study of its kind. We surveyed nearly 90,000 employees in 18 countries, focusing on what drives attraction, retention and engagement. …
"Engagement" - Global Workforce Study by Tower... →
The Global Workforce Study is the largest study of its kind. We surveyed nearly 90,000 employees in 18 countries, focusing on what drives attraction, retention and engagement. …
You don't have the power →
A friend is building a skating rink. Unfortunately, he started with uneven ground and the water keeps ending up on one side of the rink. Water’s like that, and you need a lot of time and power and…
“The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer...”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” -Jim Rohn”
November 2009
2 posts
cpaaustralia: Interesting prediction on the... →
cpaaustralia: Interesting prediction on the decline of the MBA. Will it come true in 2010? http://ow.ly/CSoN ^AD
The Fan Economy: Becoming Fan Focused
The Fan Economy: Becoming Fan Focused
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October 2009
1 post
How to best package higher education →
Inside Higher Ed details how “skill training” is delivered at Kellogg Community College in Michigan. This is a story of breaking up the standard way that postsecondary education is packaged. …
September 2009
3 posts
Collective Intelligence and E-Learning 2.0: ... →
I am pleased to announce the book, “Collective Intelligence and E-learning 2.0: Implications of Web-Based Communities and Networking,” that I co-edited with Professor Harrsion Hao Yang…
If Craigslist cost $1 →
Some things are better when they’re not free.
If Craigslist charged a dollar for every listing, what would happen?
Well, the number of bogus listings and repetitive listings would plummet, making…
August 2009
13 posts
'Chronicle' Readers Debate the Merits of Online... →
The debate over how online courses compare with face-to-face ones is old. But readers were quick to re-engage it in response to a Chronicle article today that reported on the findings of a …
joshkaufman: "On average, students in online... →
joshkaufman: “On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.” http://su.pr/1SFFR5
cpaaustralia: Ideally a would-be protégé should... →
Shared by nigelburke
Substitute peer group for team of mentors?
cpaaustralia: Ideally a would-be protégé should build up a team of mentors from all areas of their life…MIT Sloan Review…
Open Textbooks Gaining Ground: Flat World in 400... →
Do you remember college and all the textbooks you couldn’t sell back to the bookstore? I do. I own one of the most expensive doorstop collections in existence. For this very reason, Flat…
P2P U., an Experiment in Free Online Education,... →
A group of professors and graduate students from around the world has started a new university of their own online, with an unusual model that is more like a book group than a traditional course.
…
Education at the crossroads →
Actually, there isn’t one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.
Should this be scarce or abundant?
MIT and Stanford are starting to make classes…
How To Get Into Business School →
Matt Symonds on Forbes, 05 Aug 2009
Applications to business school are up. Way, way up. The economic downturn, the demographic boom of Gen Y and … dare we whisper it? A handful of top…
Bits of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing... →
Bits of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 4
Written by Bernard Lunn / August 17, 2009 1:11 PM / 2 Comments « Prior Post Next Post » In this fourth part of our investigation into the ongoing changes in the book publishing business, we look at the author’s point of view. What are they getting today? What would they like to get? What can they reasonably expect...
If they say it's a $99 value, and they give it... →
Ross Hill
If they say it’s a $99 value, and they give it to you for free, the real value is $0. (via @jasonfried)
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Business Schools And Edupunks →
I am grateful to Janet Clarey, industry analyst at Brandon Hall, for distributing a link to this Fast Company article, How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education.
Photo: The Social Media Book Bubble →
I shot the photo above last weekend at my local bookstore. Barnes and Noble is featuring a special table of titles devoted to social media.
When I first spotted the table I did a…
“To survive in this market of courses and degrees, a supplier will have to...”
– http://feeds.chronicle.com/~r/chronicle/wiredcampus/~3/D1YYcRIEpos/
The marginalized training function →
Tony Karrer clarifies his comments about traditional training becoming “marginalized”, which is worth a full read but I’d like to pick up on this comment:
If you look at what makes a good…
Litmos: Online Training Management That Needs... →
Affiliated with both Rackspace and BizSpark and armed with an aggressive PR strategy, Litmos is an online training management app suite poised for a big splash in the startup pool. …
July 2009
10 posts
Ten Leading Indicators of Organizational Success →
Many metrics exists to focus an organization on important organizational objectives and drive the company forward. Key organizational metrics are more controversial. Many organizations will…
What is the Edgeless University exactly? →
I blogged recently about the launch of Demos’ report The edgeless university: why higher education must embrace technology. At the launch, the author, Peter Bradwell, contended that UK…
Monday Dots Describes Christensen’s Disruptive...
Sent to you by nigelburke via Google Reader: Monday Dots Describes Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation via 800 CEO Read Blog by Todd Sattersten on 7/24/09 Jeff Monday at Monday Dots has focused his latest video on the process of disruptive innovation. Jeff’s source material is Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma (a 100 Best selection) and The Innovator’s...
Textbook approach →
Tim Birkhead says it’s time to broaden students’ horizons
Promotional publishing
Promotional publishing. Traditional brochures have lost all credibility and value in this online world. And everyone has a blog; blogs are no longer differentiators. So, published books are the new blogs. Consultants can charge more if they have a book published. To be credible, the book would need a published price (preferably a high one), but all potential clients would get one for free. This is...
Learning to work smarter →
Anne Marie McEwan’s Smart Working nicely summarizes the shift that is taking place in how we work. These shifts have happened before – when we developed agriculture, moved into cities, or created…
Bits Of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing... →
“Bits of destruction” is a phrase Fred Wilson uses to describe the destructive part of creative destruction brought on by digitization. We hear a lot about the destruction wrought on the…”>”[more]”
Ultimately it’s line managers that determine the... →
A week or two back I attended an interesting presentation, Great employers need great line managers, by John Purcell, Strategic Academic Adviser, Employment Relations for ACAS and a part-time…
Facts always win, right? →
If you’re selling a business to business service and you can prove that it’s better, that it delivers more value, that it’s cheaper or more durable or more efficient, shouldn’t that mean you will…
New thoughts on getting started in e-learning →
As you can see, I’m really having to rough it at the ITU Regional Human Capacity Development Forum for Africa here in Kampala. However, this abundance is not representative of the…
June 2009
1 post
Report: EReader and EBook Market Ready for Growth →
According to a new report from Forrester, the eBook and eReader market has now hit a point where it is ready to break out of its niche and become a mainstream phenomenon. In the report,…
May 2009
17 posts
Building Your Team Pre-Financing →
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. In our 10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start, we…
Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst? →
Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst? asks:
According to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, over the past 25 years, average college tuition and fees have…