Malcolm Knowles This is a fascinating biography of Malcolm Knowles, full of personal details that add valuable context to understanding of andragogy as a theory and set of guidelines for practice. Several biographies alluded to his background in Scouting, but this was the first I remember reading about the specifics of his winning a trip…
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Will Richardson on Becoming a Life-Long Learner
The New Face of Learning Will Richardson’s article in Edutopia, the publication of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is an excellent summary of his experience with the evolution of the web from a read-only word of static pages to a web filled with blogs, wikis and podcasts. The read/write web was the major catalyst to…
A Guide for the Stubborn Intelligence
Ron Gross’s book The Independent Scholars Handbook is one of the my favorite adult education works of all time. The book, which was first published in 1982 and then re-released in 1993, contains the stories of individuals from every background whose lives contained a serious commitment to research, investigation, theory building and other intellectual enterprises….
How Mack Ended Up in Skinny Jeans
Swem Review of Technology How to Explain RSS the Oprah Way Mack Lundy has posted a nice example of how using RSS technology can lead to finding some excellent resources that you might otherwise miss. Using an RSS aggregator, like BlogLines, is one of the key skills for making the most of the collective wisdom…
A Competency Model for Lifelong Learning
Half an Hour: Things You Really Need to Learn One of the key objectives of our adult education course is to develop and refine our long-term competency models of what it means to be adult learners. (The best way to think of this particular class is through the principle of recursion: a group of adult…
Key to Successful Project Management
We’ve invested lots of time in the last few months cataloguing all the academic projects that we’re working on or could be working on if we had the time or money. The list of current projects is posted now on the TIP Community blog site, and we maintain a much longer list “awaiting evaluation”. (We…
Flickr Photo Download: weblog
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A Noble Cause for Educators–Scratching the Itch
Abject Learning: Wikipedia and Higher Ed – Glib Answers to Tough Questions Brian Lamb has posted a great set of answers to questions about the use of Wikipedia. As Gardner points out, this is a wonderful synthesis of idealism about the promise of a connected community and the realities of our academic clutures. My favorite…
Two Kinds of People
Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Getting the Cool Job One old colleague of mine used to say that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t. (This was followed by Beker’s corollary: there are 10 kinds of people in…
Teaching Project Discussion
I had the opportunity for an excellent discussion with a group of about 20 faculty today who are participating in the University Teaching project: Many teaching programs at other schools follow what might be called the “expert model,” where purported pedagogical specialists dispense their wisdom to a passive audience of faculty. Our Teaching Project follows…
