Education

Extreme Review: A Tale of Nakedness, Alsatians and Fagan Inspection

Posted by Les Chambers on May 16, 2012
Education, Quality, Safety / 2 Comments

Two naked babies amble across a busy freeway. Trotting after them is a guy in a suit. The guy is me. Looking back on that day it’s clear that this was an omen, for within the hour I was to encounter extreme review and understand why, that for systems engineers, public nakedness is sometimes a good thing. Continue reading…

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New Learning and the Post Apocalyptic Fate of the University

Posted by Les Chambers on March 30, 2012
Education, Quality / No Comments

The uptake of web enabled learning technologies is far too slow in educational institutions. This will inevitably mean extinction for some. If our universities are the dinosaurs then the coming meteor is the “category killer course”. The university course that is so good, so cheap, so universally available, so universally respected and so universally job procuring that it wipes out its traditional competitors. On the brighter side fantastic careers abound for talented educators who embrace a career in teaching with the new media. Continue reading…