“Lack of engagement is one of the biggest problems we have today in getting more students through the college and university system,” says Vineet Madan, vice president of strategy and business development for McGraw-Hill. “If we don’t tackle the engagement problem collectively, we’re not going to get more people through the system. … And one [...]
Some schools have been disappointed with the seemingly small gains made by students when IT technology such as laptops have been introduced to the classroom. But as I have been writing for years, proper IT planning involved much more than simply throwing technology at the classroom wall and seeing what sticks. Teachers must know how [...]
The power of the Internet. In the small town of Diller, Nebraska, Blue Valley Meats doubled its employees and saw 40 percent growth by setting up a Web site and selling its beef online. But this happened only after Diller got broadband. Which is why the Recovery Act passed by Congress instructed the Federal Communication [...]
It’s been interesting to watch the reaction to Google’s announcement of open access Internet service to select American homes at a jaw-dropping 1 Gbps. That’s roughly a 100-fold increase in bandwidth from the maximum speeds offered by most of the larger internet service providers today. We have the response from potential consumers of the service, [...]
Interview on the net generation, youth, education and talent for Ericsson’s 2020 Shaping Ideas forum.
In the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review, Anthony D. Williams and I have a 6,000-word essay discussing the urgent issues facing universities, that left unresolved, would see intuitions of higher learning going into a death spiral akin to what we see happening to encyclopedias, newspapers, and music record labels. For fifteen years, we’ve been arguing [...]
The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I posted themes 1 – 5 yesterday. Here are themes 6 – 10. 6. The world needs better governments. Some governments in Central America and Africa [...]
The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I’ll post five today and five tomorrow. 1. The state of the world is not good. The theme of Davos was Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild, which may [...]
Head of State AdvisoryI collaborate with Prime Ministers, Presidents and Ministers about the transformation of their countries for the age of networked intelligence. This often includes working to ensure access for a country’s citizens, support the transformation of schools, achieve collaborative healthcare, and more. Learn more.
This is about engaging the population of a city and its key stakeholders in transforming to a 21st-century, smart and connected city. Our first big project is the city of Bogotá. It is an initiative led by the Chamber of Commerce and is using a number of techniques, such as challenges, electronic town hall meetings, and other engagement strategies to involve key stakeholders in the process. Learn more.
