The New York Times has another look at the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Merit Badge Project:
The MacArthur Foundation is putting millions of dollars into a competition to spur interest in a new type of badge — one that people …
Jan de Roos, the HVS Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration and executive director of the Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance, discusses the effects of the economic downturn and continued market …
At the Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo last month, we saw some great learning and workplace technologies at work. In this session, we will share how organizations like Cheesecake Factory, Best Buy and WalMart are taking training out of the …
Many onboarding programs are off-target. They result in false starts, wrong match up of employees and needs, longer competency build-up and delayed contributions to actual operational performance. It spells out higher costs and lost opportunities for the organization. One apparent …
The web-based, instructor-led courses were authored by Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology. Participants who complete the 6-course certificate will be awarded 1.8 AAHID continuing education units (CEUs), or can take one of three approved individual courses for 0.6 CEU …
Just read a good deal of the 2011 Employee Engagement Report by Blessing White. There are some astounding findings in the study and I felt duty-bound to share the wisdom. Whether you’re a manager, exec or a working individual, there’s …
Hospitality people know how vital regular customers are to staying in business. Regulars may not always run up the biggest restaurant bill or book the most expensive rooms, but over time, those familiar faces and repeat business lead to steady …
On Wednesday, September 28, eCornell will host a complimentary educational webinar presented by NY Times best-selling author Kevin Kruse:
Based on his bestseller We: How to Increase Performance & Profits Through Full Engagement, Kruse will present findings from surveys of over …
As digital natives, they’re practically built to collaborate. And they should be taught accordingly. Do you think companies should reconstruct their learning and development strategies to match learning styles and values prevalent among Generation Y’ers? Or should they …
What motivates people to perform well on the job? High salary? Choice benefits? Workplace pressure? Think again.
In a New York Times Op-Ed, a recent study observed worker engagement and personal job satisfaction as they relate to overall company performance. The …
Perhaps no idea has captivated the imagination of change agents within higher ed to the same degree as Christensen’s theory of “disruptive innovation.” His central observation is that seemingly invulnerable incumbents are displaced not by evolutionary better technologies, what Christensen …
The New York Times Company plans to continue its slow advance into the realm of higher education, teaming with with the University of Southern California this fall to offer continuing-education programs in an effort to tap a growing market of …
Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, coined the term “disruptive innovation” in a series of books (among them The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution) that examined how technological changes altered existing markets …
Online education, all but cleansed of its original stigma, has become commonplace. This is especially true among big public universities, which have clamored to capitalize on new markets by enrolling far-flung students. The University of Massachusetts and Penn State University …
The results of a new meta-study on cheating, published in this fall’s edition of the Journal of Distance Learning Administration, indicate that online courses that rely heavily on unproctored, multiple-choice exams are at greater risk of being cheated on than similar face-to-face courses. …
In an effort ambitiously dubbed the “Learning Genome Project,” the for-profit powerhouse says it is building a new learning interface that gets to know each of its 400,000 students personally and adapts to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their “learning DNA.”
Unlike …
Blackboard keeps losing market share to competitors. Information technology departments keep losing money to budget cuts—though not as many as last year. E-books, despite modest gains, are still marginal. Mobile apps and lecture capture are poised to explode.
These are among …
With budgets tight and the commercial market flush with companies willing to take on various tasks that come with running a university, it has become relatively common for institutions to outsource parts of their operations to outside companies.
It is less …
As higher ed technology leaders convene today in Anaheim for the annual meeting of Educause, the battle for the lecture-capture market is growing more intense—and the definition of the market may be changing as well.
At Educause a year ago, there …
Online learning is often heralded as a way to make college an option for people who would not otherwise have the money or mobility to access it. But for blind students, online learning can present more obstacles than opportunities — …
