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

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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

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


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


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

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Productivity and IE in Tire Manufacturing 

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Productivity Improvement in Machine Shop - F.W. Taylor


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Supply Chain Efficiency - Supply Chain Waste Elimination - Lean Supply Chain


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


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Productivity Incentives - Principle of Industrial Engineering

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Industry 4.0 - IIoT - Productivity Engineering

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Hand Tools, Cutting Tools and Machine Accessories for Productivity

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

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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

Saturday, March 5, 2016

SMART Classroom - Role of Teachers and Students

S  - Social
M - Mobile
A - Active
R - Responsive
T - Technology

SMART Classrooms are made possible by technology. But many teachers are yet to use them to their full power. I my self still do not know how to use mobiles and tablets fully. I am a very active blogger for ten years. But till recently, I did not use laptop much.  So in this SMART every socieity teacher has to learn first how to use mobiles and tablets and then how to use them for improving learning.

Excerpts from a paper

Today the concept of “bring your own device (BYOD)” makes any classroom a “smart classroom.”

As of 2014, 86% of undergraduate students own a smart device, and 47% own a tablet.

Make yourself available on social channels.

http://thecoursekey.com/edtech-highered/creating-engagement-in-the-classroom-mobile-enabled-students-and-social-learning/


http://www.businessbecause.com/news/mba-distance-learning/3779/b-schools-are-embracing-digital-innovation

Thursday, February 4, 2016

New Virtual University - Founder - Prof. Christine Ortiz - Former Dean MIT



1 Feb 2016

http://chronicle.com/article/MIT-Dean-Takes-Leave-to-Start/235121


The plan is to begin with a campus in the Boston area that she hopes will grow to about 10,000 students and 1,000 faculty members — about the size of MIT.


The fundamental idea is to put all knowledge on web servers and make knowledge acquisition process virtually online. There’s a great quote by [the former MIT president Charles M. Vest] on the emergence of the metacurriculum, and he predicted it 10 or 15 years ago, that the virtually open curriculum metacurriculum would be emerging. It is happening today. The bet is that  the evolution is now growth phase in the life cycle. It is time to  take advantage of that contribute to the development of new learning institutions based on reengineered learning and teaching practices using new technology.



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Monday, March 30, 2015

Perceptual Learning

Scientists are working in a little-known branch of psychology called perceptual learning and trainer are trying use to enhance learning.   The idea is to train specific visual skills, usually with computer-game-like modules that require split-second decisions. Over time, a person develops a “good eye” for the material, and with it an ability to extract meaningful patterns instantaneously.

Perceptual learning is  an elementary skill that  children use to make distinctions between similar-looking letters, like U and V. They can't read but they know the symbols are different. It’s the skill needed to distinguish an A sharp from a B flat  or between friendly insurgents and hostiles in a fast-paced video game.


The perceptual skills  trainable. We use them anytime we try to learn new material: say, different software for work, or differences in native trees and plants after moving across the country. Once our eyes — or other senses — have mastered these subtle perceptual differences, we can focus on putting that  knowledge to work.

In such learning the process is automatic; there’s no thinking involved. “We don’t just see, we look; we don’t just hear, we listen,” wrote the field’s founder, Eleanor J. Gibson, in 1969. We are mssing some steps in our linear process of perception.

In the 1980s a cognitive scientist named Philip Kellman, designed an air plane training program based on perceptual trianing.

Dr. Kellman designed a video-game-like lesson: The student sees a panel and decides quickly what the dials are saying, collectively (there are five or six of them, depending on the plane). A quiz type questioins are asked and evaluated. Then up comes the next screen, with another instrument panel, and then another: all fast-paced, with the same instant feedback.

In 1994, Dr. Kellman,  tested this perceptual learning module, as he calls it, on amateur pilots. After one hour of training, novices could read the panel as accurately and quickly as pilots with an average of 1,000 flying hours.  They’d built the same reading skill, at least on the ground, in a fraction of the time. So a portion of the training was made faster and it was reassuring to trainee pilots when they went for flying the plane.

Dr. Kellman and others have used variations on this method to quickly ramp up instincts in other complex fields, including dermatology, chemistry, cardiology and even surgery.

In a recent experiment at the University of Virginia, researchers used a perceptual-learning module to train medical students about gallbladder removal. Half the students practiced on a computer module that showed short videos from real surgeries and had to decide quickly which stage of the surgery was pictured. On a final exam testing their knowledge of the procedure, the perceptual-learning group trounced their equally experienced peers, scoring four times higher. Their instincts were much sharper.

The medical school at U.C.L.A. has adopted perceptual modules as part of its standard curriculum, to train skills like reading electrocardiograms, identifying rashes (there are many varieties, which all look the same to the untrained eye) and interpreting tissue samples from biopsies.

The modules sharpen the ability to make snap judgments so people “know” what they’re looking at w

The most important question when dealing with reams of digital data is not whether perceptual skills will be centrally important. The question is when, and in what domain, analysts will be able to build a reliable catalog of digital patterns that provide meaningful “clues” to the underlying reality, whether it’s the effect of a genetic glitch, a low-pressure zone or a drop in the yen.

When that happens data scientists will gain a foothold on the digital data analysis area and a means to build a prototype for applying perceptual-learning techniques. Given the importance of defusing terrorist plots and mining health and economic data being acquired in digital format, digital instinct-building is likely to become crucial, a discipline where people with computational and science specialty will have to grow their visual sixth sense,







http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/sunday-review/learning-to-see-data.html

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Business and Management - Online Books



Business Communication for Success by By Scott McLean - Online Book

Financial Accounting by Joe Ben Hoyle and C. J. Skender - Online Free Access Book

Human Resource Management by Laura Portolese Dias - Online Book Contents

Introduction to Economic Analysis  - Ralph Preston McAfee, Tracy R. Lewis

Marketing Management - Online Book - Compilation by Narayana Rao

Marketing Management Online Text Book by Tanner and Raymond - Principles of Marketing

Mastering Strategic Management by Dave Ketchen and Jeremy Short

Operations Management - Nigel Slack 4th Edition - Student Resources

Organizational Behavior by Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan - FWK Online Book

Principles of Accounting - Larry Walther

Principles of Management - Open Access Book - Mason Carpenter et al.

Psychology: An Introduction by Russell A. Dewey - Free Access Online Book

Selling Skills: Strategies and Methods: Online Book - Compilation by Narayana Rao

Supply Chain Management - Free Online Book Chapters  - Collection

The Business Ethics Workshop by By James Brusseau - Online Book

The Power of Selling by by Kimberly Richmond - Free Online Book

Value Engineering - Online Book - Compilation by Narayana Rao



Books on Archive.org



Financial Management


Strategic Financial Management - Alan Hill
https://archive.org/details/StrategicFinancialManagement


Marketing Management


A Philosophy of Marketing for Management,
Four lectures, `1959
https://archive.org/details/philosophyofmark00nati

Marketing Management,  1963
John A. Howard
https://archive.org/details/marketingmanage00howa

International Journal of Marketing and Technology, Issue February 2013
https://archive.org/details/InternationalJournalsOfMarketingAndTechnologyijmt

Principles of Management




Management and Administration in Manufacturing Industries

Vol. 6 July 1923
https://archive.org/details/managementadmini06newyuoft

Vol. 7 Jan 1924
https://archive.org/details/managementadmini07newyuoft

Vol. 8 - July - Dec 1924
https://archive.org/details/managementadmini08newyuoft

Vol. 11 - January 1926
https://archive.org/details/managementadmini11newyuoft

Management Engineering - A Discussion Paper - 1953 - George Washington University
https://archive.org/stream/discussionofmana19532colq_1#page/n1/mode/2up

Scientific Managment


Principles of Scientific Management - Original Paper by F.W. Taylor
https://archive.org/details/theprinciplesofs06435gut

Scieintific Management in Practice - 1 February 1915 - Article - QJE
https://archive.org/details/jstor-1884960

Systematized and Scientific Management - Kendall - JPE - 1 July 1913
https://archive.org/details/jstor-1820169

Scientific Management Simplified - 1 December 1918, Keir Malcolm
https://archive.org/details/jstor-7089

Project Management


Project Management Primer
https://archive.org/details/Project_Management_Primer

Learn Marketing Management from Philip Kotler - Free - New Internet Global Education Model

Learn Marketing Management from Philip Kotler - Free - New Internet Global Education Model

Learn Marketing Management from Philip Kotler - Free - New Internet Global Education Model

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Everybody in the world with an internet connection can listen to lectures of Philip Kotler, ask questions and get answers from him for any length of time and if he wants to can give an examination and  can get certification. Kotler, the marketing professor excellence can educate everybody in the world in the subject of Marketing Management. That is the new education model of internet age. The ancient Plato's academy concept will be back with the difference that every person in this globe can learn through the Plato's academy.

We have video streaming technology now with which lectures can be viewed by anybody in the world.
We have artificial intelligence capability to understand and answer oral questions. Any body in the world can stop the lecture at any point of time and ask a question. He will get the reply from Kotler in the sense, in the voice of Kotler and the lecture will restart and continue. IBM Watson, the listening and talking computer will do this listening and answering by Kotler possible. ( IBM Watson - The IBM Super Computer  )

Whenever a person is ready, he can pay examination fee, the paper will be set by Kotler and will be evaluated and certificate will be given.

The model is free. World body of Global Education Excellence will employ all Professors of Excellence in various subjects and will provide the opportunity of free education to all in the world.

We have await the model to become reality. It will be a reality shortly. Already distance education programs made interaction with professor reality.  In the proposed model, we are talking of a virtual model, wherein Kotler can communicate to millions of people in one-to-one mode at the convenience of the learner.

In the mean time we have Kotler's print publications, online articles and  videos to learn directly from Kotler free.


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