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Faculty Productivity and Costs of a Higher Education
In my most recent blog on what higher education can learn from K-12, I pointed to the potential of the flipped classroom coupled with technology for increasing learning. Essentially, the flipped classroom allows the teacher to concentrate on more active engagement with learners, adapting to the needs of the learner, with students’ applying what is being learned during classroom time rather than listening to a lecture. What makes the flipped classroom a reality today for K-12 – and for colleges and universities – is the role that technology plays.
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What Business Schools Can Learn from K-12
What we have learned about teaching science in high school matters for higher education as well. Over a year ago I wrote about the challenge of limited learning in college, described by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in thier book, Academically Adrift. Among the causes for limited learning at college was how little undergraduates, especially business students, studied. Higher education need not accept this outcome of limited learning, nor should business schools, especially, accept it. Advances in technology coupled with new pedagogical formats can make a difference in higher education, and K-12 is showing the way.
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