Many years ago, when a new dean at my university referred to the faculty as “content providers,” my colleagues and I rolled our eyes. It was the latest hokey label for an old profession.
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The Death of College
Great article about the death of college, as I knew it. Some things need to change. My liberal arts college needs to understand how to email market if they want my money, but let's not throw out baby with bathwater.
The death of free time and an understandable desire to make money in an uncertain world doesn't mean we stop teaching the strange, crazy stuff called sociology, history and art. Life is about MORE than making money and that crazy stuff can help you make money.
The problem with the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world is these lottery winners make winning as an entrepreneur look so easy. It is NOT (trust me I've started 4 companies and have yet to get anywhere near that kind of success). I have a good education; an education that helps me put things in perspective.
For example I know that in a bell curve most of us are stuck at the top. There are outliers on either end. Mega-hit entrepreneurs are on the far right while many muddle through the middle.
I will retire next year to write my memoirs (lol). Thankfully I have that option and I have options because my crazy liberal arts college who can't email market their way out of a wet paper bag taught me how to THINK and WRITE thought not necessarily in that order :).
My suggestion to today's college students is prepare to become a linchpin, a person of substance who can make a difference. The best route to such a job is to think asynchronously as early and as much as possible. Don't run with the herd fly with the eagles (sorry couldn't resist some goofystupid entrepreneurship cliché).
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In my last post, I promised readers a special post on a topic of great importance to me. Fighting cynicism is that topic. It is one of the most important issues for me and needs to be one of the most important goals for all schools.
Cynicism can rot out a school the way termites rot out a wooden home. A cynic is someone who has given up hope that things can better. They are not realists or skeptics, who often ask hard questions or demonstrate care before accepting the first new thing that comes along.
Cynicism is a plague that kills dreams. It sucks the life out of teachers and robs students of hope. No student deserves to have a teacher who has given up hope.
Five Strategies to Help Teachers Stop Cynical Feelings Here are five powerful strategies that can help when you feel cynical or that you can use to help another teacher if you are a colleague, administrator or school consultant. Remember why you became a teacher and why you stay a teacher. Adopt a hopeless student.Adopt a cynical teacher.Communicate with those who affect you in school. Feel good about what you can control.Here are some examples of what we can control:Being preparedDesigning great lessons (see my previous post)Helping colleaguesDoing things to make the school a better placeOrganizing events that bring joy to colleagues, like a bagel and coffee morning before classes start (donuts and bear claws are better left in the bakery)Reclaiming the power to make ourselves feel good minimizes the emotional risk that leads to disappointment and cynicism. Via Gust MEES 
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Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how you can improve how you navigate future scenarios... Via Susan Bainbridge 
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Will online education dampen the college experience? Yes. Will it be worth it? Well... Via Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 
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In some respects, this is the latest chapter in an old story of faculty entrepreneurship. By the mid-twentieth century, the president of the University of California, Clark Kerr, was already describing the Berkeley faculty as “individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.” Today, as star professors increasingly work for themselves, more faculty members at less prestigious institutions face low wages, meager benefits, and—since many lack tenure—minimal job security. But if the new technology threatens some professors with obscurity, others face obsolescence. Language instructors may someday be replaced by multilingual versions of Siri on your iPhone. One of my colleagues speaks of the imminent “evisceration” of graduate study, once young people who might have pursued an academic career are deterred as it becomes harder and harder to find a dignified job after years of training. 
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I just checked out Udemy.com as a venue for a course on planning and one on environmental scanning. I was intrigued to see that some courses were attracting thousands of students; professors get 70% of the tuition (which they set). I suspect that there will be more Udemys in the future and more professors using this route to supplement their incomes.
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Welcome to your personal poetry reading!
lyrikline.org is the platform on the internet on which poems are available to listen to, and to read both in their original languages and various translations: a concert of verse in the voices and languages of the authors.
At the moment lyrikline.org presents 862 poets, 7.844 poems, 58 mother tongues and 10.660 translations into 55 languages. Via Paulo Tomás Neves Delete the scoop?
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La plataforma está en camino a convertirse en el 'Linux del e-learning'. Las entidades que lo utilizen podrán cambiar y mejorar el código. A partir del primero de junio, las universidades que quieran Via Angel Pio Gonzalez Soto, juandoming Delete the scoop?
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A handful of technology CEOs somehow managed to beat the odds by successfully reinventing themselves and their companies. - Steve Jobs, Apple - Lou Gerstner and Sam Palmisano, IBM - Andy Grove, Intel - Lee Kun-hee, Samsung - Irwin Jacobs, Qualcomm - Larry Ellison, Oracle ...
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Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how you can improve how you navigate future scenarios... Via Susan Bainbridge
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The future of learning lies not only in an open classroom but with gateways and parameters to help navigate the information. Highways of information need structure.
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We need innovative movements. This does not mean schools are obsolete. They will look different and should be different. What works is an important consideration.
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The Death of College
Great article about the death of college, as I knew it. Some things need to change. My liberal arts college needs to understand how to email market if they want my money, but let's not throw out baby with bathwater.
The death of free time and an understandable desire to make money in an uncertain world doesn't mean we stop teaching the strange, crazy stuff called sociology, history and art. Life is about MORE than making money and that crazy stuff can help you make money.
The problem with the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world is these lottery winners make winning as an entrepreneur look so easy. It is NOT (trust me I've started 4 companies and have yet to get anywhere near that kind of success). I have a good education; an education that helps me put things in perspective.
For example I know that in a bell curve most of us are stuck at the top. There are outliers on either end. Mega-hit entrepreneurs are on the far right while many muddle through the middle.
I will retire next year to write my memoirs (lol). Thankfully I have that option and I have options because my crazy liberal arts college who can't email market their way out of a wet paper bag taught me how to THINK and WRITE thought not necessarily in that order :).
My suggestion to today's college students is prepare to become a linchpin, a person of substance who can make a difference. The best route to such a job is to think asynchronously as early and as much as possible. Don't run with the herd fly with the eagles (sorry couldn't resist some goofystupid entrepreneurship cliché).
I also left a comment on Bloomberg.