In “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education,” the first Futures Initiative course, co-taught with President Emeritus William Kelly, we focused on pedagogy,… Continue Reading Building Equity and Innovation Into a Syllabus: Or, We May Not Be Able to Change the Word But We Can Change Our Classrooms
Hi everyone, For anyone who wants more theory about co-learning, Howard Rheingold (father of Mamie, who visited our class) has retired from… Continue Reading Howard Rheingold Offering Online Course on Cooperation and Co-Learning
(Another version was posted to our Futures Initiative group on hastac.org) This week our “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” course had… Continue Reading Is Educational Freedom and Choice Always Free? Reflections on Our Conversation with Dean John Mogulescu
Hi everyone, Before I forget: We need you to make edits to the language for the Futures Initiative Scholar certificate (and for… Continue Reading CHE Piece About Our Course Comes Out On Friday, April 17
Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying a great break. After break, one consistent and serious focus for our course will be… Continue Reading What Does It Mean To Earn a Futures Initiative Scholar Certificate?
We are often asked to carefully break down exactly how the “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education” course is structured. It seems… Continue Reading How It All Works: Breaking Down the Structure and Purpose of “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education”
[This is reblogged from hastac.org, April 2, 2015] Stanford announced a remarkable new program today, that in the future students whose parents… Continue Reading Stanford Offers Free Tuition If Your Family Earns Less than 125K. What if you earn 12.5K? Poverty and College Success Rates
Over on Facebook, where I get a lot of my education on pedagogy, one of my former students posted a very modest… Continue Reading What If Group Work Led to Papers and a Panel?
Yesterday, in “Mapping the Futures of Higher Education,” a student-led graduate course for Graduate Center students currently teaching in the CUNY system,… Continue Reading Why Graduate Training Must Change If We Want To Reverse Income Inequality #FuturesEd
What’s in that water in Finland? First they abolish standardized, summative, high stakes testing —and come out in the top 5 in… Continue Reading Reflection: Finland Does It Again!
