I’ve began working seriously on the syllabus and activities for my adult education for the fall. This is the first time in eight years that I’m getting back to my roots in adult learning, and preparing for the course is exhilarating and overwhelming at the same time. There’s lots of new literature to try to…
Category: Adult Education
Which User’s Life Have You Changed Today?
Creating Passionate Users: Which user’s life have you changed today? Back in my former life as a career counselor, one of my favorite articles was social psychologist Albert Bandura’s “The Psychology of Chance Encounters and Life Paths”, a journal article that highlighted how often the intentional career planning advocated in college career centers was subverted…
Keeping Up Can Make You Dumber
Creating Passionate Users: The myth of “keeping up” Kathy Sierra, who blogs at Creating Passionate Users, has written a nice reminder of the dangers of the “myth of keeping up.” As Gardner points out in a recent comment, you know you’re engaged in an exercise in futility when your “books I have to get list”…
Finding Happiness in a Harvard Classroom
Link to: NPR : Finding Happiness in a Harvard Classroom Interesting NPR piece on Harvard’s most popular course–Psychology 1504: Positive Psychology. Over 900 students take the course which is offered in a Harvard theater. While some question the “fluffiness” of the course, and its appropriateness as a full credit offering at Harvard, others see a…
The Ends of Education
There have been a number of thought provoking comments on one of Rachel‘s recent posts on a paper she’s working on that focuses on what it means for a New Media Center or other organization to “have an impact on campus.” Gardner commented on the original post asking: Hmmm. What *does* it mean to have…
Limitations of the Education Industry
Link to: CogDogBlog » Blog Archive » The Dissonance of “Blogs in Education” There’s lots to chew on in this post from the CogDogBlog. Seems like the whole crew at the Northern Voices conference got their juices flowing and there are more provocative ideas floating around than I can absorb. I think Alan’s discomfort with…
Twelve Habits of Successful IT Professionals
Link to: EDUCAUSE REVIEW | January/February 2006, Volume 41, Number 1 Educause President Brian Hawkins has an article in the latest Review in which he outlines 12 skills that he sees as essential to becoming successful and effective IT professionals in higher education. In the introduction, he makes the key point that there are two…
