I consider the special task force at MIT that I described in Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series to be a special event, mainly because it could affect all of education in multiple (and tangible) ways. It shows real leadership vision. For my final post in this...
In my last post, I reported that “MIT has just launched a bold, brave and public initiative to reimagine what the university could be in seven years.” MIT (as a community) involves a lot of people (it employs 11,000 people — 1000 of which are...
MIT has just launched a bold, brave and public initiative to reimagine what the university could be in seven years. This is the kind of nextsensing initiative that so many public and private enterprises desperately need to do but either (a) don’t know it, or (b)...
If you have been to London, you probably rode the famous Underground. And, if you did that in years past, you may recall the famous “mind the gap” announcement that was played every time a train stopped for passenger exchange. This was a warning to...
Last October, I commented on the current trend of relying on “big data” to help in decision thinking [ see post ]. David Brooks, in a recent post for The New York Times, gave an interesting twist to the same area of discussion. He opens with the story a...
I like listening to music, and I like the fact that I can now obtain most music in a matter of seconds. Digitally. Columbia Professor Rita McGrath shared a great deal of insights about the current music industry in her recent post on billboard.com. Titled “The...
