by Jeff Ritter | Sep 19, 2020 | New Education Models
Photo: Ying Ang for The New York Times In you haven’t heard, a giant in the field of education in the Internet era has died. It was about a month ago but it took time to have his obituary in the New York Times. Since he didn’t die of Covid-19 he...
by Jeff Ritter | Aug 19, 2020 | New Education Models
Alright, it was predicted, prognosticated, pooh-poohed, ignored, trivialized, and debunked. Ok, well, now we know. It’s happening. Right in the middle of it today. The higher education industry is in the middle of being radically changed forever. Google will...
by Jeff Ritter | Aug 10, 2020 | New Education Models
Just by luck, I happened into a possible consulting job. A major, large-size institution (not in the US wants) to be more competitive and is willing to put all their cards on their somewhat rickety table. When they asked a local authority to take a look at this, he...
by Jeff Ritter | Aug 8, 2020 | New Education Models
There’s no date on this blog post on Peter Diamandis’ tech blog, but I know I saw him just the other day on Abundance 360 answering the question, “what industry is the ripest for disruption?” He answered, almost quaking as he did it,...
by Jeff Ritter | Jul 30, 2020 | New Education Models
I was recently chatting with a professor in India about the curriculum and teaching at his (unnamed here to protect the guilty) Institution. Transforming their curriculum and teaching methods was happening very slowly. I discussed this with him for a while and then...
by Jeff Ritter | Jul 27, 2020 | New Education Models
“Will I really need to know about artificial intelligence? I just want to get a job, not be a computer geek.” Somebody said this in the past 5 seconds somewhere, any time, day or night. Maybe it was a teacher lecturing in a virtual classroom, or a parent...