Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Higher Education Must Change or It May Die

 


https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/08/16/higher-ed-must-change-or-die-opinion


Jason Wingard, Temple University president 

August 16, 2022


Enrollment for both undergraduate and graduate students at U.S. colleges and universities decreased by 4.1 percent—or about 685,000 students—in spring 2022 compared to spring 2021. The number is compounded even further when you go back to 2020. The overall two-year decline is 7.4 percent, meaning that nearly 1.3 million fewer students are pursuing postsecondary education today compared to just two years ago.


Imagine if a company lost nearly 10 percent of its profits in two years. The situation would be catastrophic. Drastic changes would be expected. We have lost nearly 10 percent of our students, but where is our sense of urgency? The status quo is not working?


The evolution of education can be broken down into four phases: 

agrarian era  (1600–1849), when a privileged few had formal education; 

industrial era (1850–1974), which introduced universal secondary education; 

knowledge era (1975–2009), when the internet transformed life, education and work; and 

post-recession era (2010–2020), where the value of a degree has never been more in question.


Who needs a four-year marketing degree graduate to run social media when you can instead hire someone fresh out of high school and sign them up for HootSuite’s Academy’s social media certification course?  Why pay for a six-figure education when HootSuite can get you some of the same skills in just six hours and for less than $200?


The importance of adapting curriculum on a yearly basis is to be recognized,  and, when doing so, the core curriculum is to be dressed up with a fine-tooth comb.


Podcast as pedagogy

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/podcast-pedagogy-discovering-joys-new-teaching-format


Threshold Concepts


https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/threshold-concepts-what-they-are-and-how-they-help-students-learn

https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/thresholds.html


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1477388018300069#!       Interesting article on threshold concepts



Sunday, March 13, 2022

Industrial Engineering - Faculty Websites and Blogs

Special Promotion of Posts

277.
Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering by L.D. Miles, Book Information, Review and Summary

278.

Value Analysis and Engineering - Examples by L.D. Miles

279.
Work Simplification Education and Training to All - Principle of Industrial Engineering


280.
Human Effort Industrial Engineering - Design of Human Effort for Increasing Productivity, Comfort, Health and Income


281.
Productivity Science - Determinants of Productivity


282.
Productivity Science of Machining I - Industrial Engineering Research by Taylor Part 1.
For every basic production process we need productivity science.
 

283.

Method and Motion Study in a Printing Company - 2019


284.
Taylor Society Bulletin on Industrial Engineering - Taylor's Way


285.
Warehouse Industrial Engineering - Introduction

288.
Zero Defect Movement and Six Sigma Method - Scalingup of Six Sigma in GE 


289.
THE EIGHTH PRINCIPLE OF EFFICIENCY: STANDARDS AND SCHEDULES - Harrington Emerson


290.
Material Handling Analysis in Methods Efficiency Engineering. Based on Operation Analysis by Maynard and Stegemerten.

291.
Productivity and IE in Tire Manufacturing 

292.
Productivity Improvement in Machine Shop - F.W. Taylor


293.
Supply Chain Efficiency - Supply Chain Waste Elimination - Lean Supply Chain


294.
F.W.Taylor - The Principles of Scientific Management and Industrial Engineering


295.
Productivity Incentives - Principle of Industrial Engineering

296.
Industry 4.0 - IIoT - Productivity Engineering

297.
Hand Tools, Cutting Tools and Machine Accessories for Productivity

298.
Industrial Engineering is Redesign of Products and Processes in Different Technologies for Increasing Productivity.

299.
Pennsylvania State University - Industrial Engineering Programs

TAYLOR'S INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - PROF. DIEMER. 





Prof Geza Bottlik
USC, USA
http://www.gezabottlik.com/


Prof K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao
NITIE, India
Definition: Industrial Engineering is Human Effort Engineering and System Efficiency Engineering
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com

Saturday, July 14, 2018

Waldorf - Steiner Method of Education




Dr. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the founder of Anthroposophy, was approached by his friend Emil Molt, a factory owner, to conceptualise  a school that has a spiritual element also. This school would be for the children of his factory workers. Rudolf Steiner responded and the first Waldorf School,  was founded in September 1919 in the German city of Stuttgart. Today, there are over 900 Rudolf Steiner/Waldorf schools worldwide. In India also, they are there.
http://www.waldorftoday.com/2011/08/waldorf-in-india-kashmir-a-meeting-of-three-cultures-and-the-tridha-rudolf-steiner-school-in-mumbai/



https://www.waldorfanswers.org/Waldorf.htm


Why are Steiner schools so controversial?
Chris Cook
Policy editor, BBC Newsnight
4 August 2014
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-28646118

What is Steiner education?

https://www.steinerwaldorf.org/steiner-education/what-is-steiner-education/

Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities



Morrill on Strategic Leadership
ACCA Presentation, 2017
https://www.accca.org/files/Admin%20201/2017/MORRILL%20ON%20STRATEGIC%20LEADERSHIP.pdf

To Make Better Decisions, Break Some Boundaries
By Richard L. Morrill NOVEMBER 26, 2012
https://www.chronicle.com/article/To-Make-Better-Decisions/135892

Strategic Leadership: Integrating Strategy and Leadership in Colleges and Universities

Richard L. Morrill
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 16-Apr-2010 - Education - 318 pages


Strategic Leadership addresses deep and continuing issues relating to strategy, governance, management, and leadership in higher education during a period of rapid change. Each of these themes is at the heart of current debates about the capacity of universities to respond to new expectations, market realities, reduced state funding, globalization, technology, and a long list of other challenges. Dealing with these issues can immobilize colleges and universities, or it can cause them to become so market-driven that they will sacrifice their own legacy of academic values. This book places strategic planning in a new conceptual framework that is oriented to interactive leadership rooted in human agency and values. It will assist academic professionals, stakeholders such as trustees, and students of higher education to better understand and use strategic planning as an effective process and as a method of collaborative leadership.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=36Bw6AiRniwC



The Art and Politics of Academic Governance: Relations among Boards, Presidents, and Faculty

Kenneth P. Mortimer, Colleen O'Brien Sathre
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 15-Feb-2010 - Education - 160 pages


Using case studies and relevant literature, this book illustrates the challenges to legitimate, Shared-governance domains when the routine of the academy is forced to deal with big issues, often brought on by external forces. Mortimer and Sathre have gone beyond a discussion of faculty/administrative behavior by focusing on what happens when the legitimate governance claims of faculty, trustees, and presidents clash. They place these relationships in the broader context of internal institutional governance and analyze the dynamics that unfold when advocacy trumps collegiality. The book closes with a defense of shared governance and offers observations and practical suggestions about how the academy can share authority effectively and further achieve its mission.


Managing the Big Picture in Colleges and Universities: From Tactics to Strategy

Richard L. Alfred
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 - Education - 275 pages


This book is intended to serve as a road map for strategy creation and execution for leaders and decision makers who, by choice or by necessity, are looking to use strategy to optimize the development of their institutions. It is the first book of its kind to focus exclusively on strategy as it applies to postsecondary education. As the authors explain, strategy is a systematic way of positioning an institution within a context of community stakeholders. In today's competitive environment, higher education leaders must become adept at differentiating their institutions from competitors to obtain the resources necessary for growth and sustainable advantage. The book begins by explaining the concept of strategy and its application. The authors describe the evolution of modern strategy and how it is has been applied and developed by strategy theorists and practitioners. The book also explores how strategy is shaped by critical factors related to the mission, control and culture of the institution. For example, strategy that is appropriate in a liberal arts college may be completely inappropriate for community college or a teaching university. Real-world cases are employed to illustrate the applications of strategy in three different settings: a private liberal arts college, a comprehensive public institution, and a special purpose institution. The last section moves to the hands-on world of strategy formulation and implementation inside the institution. The authors end with an outline of key concepts for building a plan for implementing strategy and provide a framework for evaluating its impact.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5L1tXyW8dTEC


Updated 15 July 2018
First published 7 October 2016

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Alphabet Literacy, Numeracy - Digital Literacy is also Important



Technology has to drive education to create digital literacy along with alphabet literacy and numeracy. Teachers are still stuck to their talents in oral and textbook based teaching.

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2016/08/should-pedagogy-always-drive-technology


Global Professors of Excellence - Educating Billions in One-to-One Mode - New Internet Global Education Model
http://nraoblogs.blogspot.com/2016/08/global-professors-of-excellence.html