Mike Mathews (my colleague at SunGard Higher Education) has asked "What if Steve Jobs had been an educator." In his paper, Mike uses the now familiar applications based on the “Global Positioning System” (GPS) technology as a metaphor for imagining an “Educational Positioning System” (EPS) enabling a suite of integrated technologies and massively interconnected data that would help deliver many benefits that are easy to imagine in analogy to the GPS. I've been arguing that many of these same benefits would accrue to the"Education Leadership Commons" described in"Adaptive Leadership for the Completions Priority: Establishing an Education Leadership Commons." Mike, I, and others are working to create the ELC from an adaptive economic governance model to make the current completions marketplace more portable, transparent, productive, and mutually affordable and beneficial to education providers and their external investors, especially to their students. We want the completions marketplace to feature a rich set of apps and data based on a universally accessible Educational Positioning System.
Books
- William H. Graves: El Gran Reto de la Educación: Equidad | Logro Académico | Rendición de Cuentas
This 2013 publication is a compilation of my major papers from 2005-2012 translated into the Spanish Language. I'm indebted to my colleague, Joaquin Huerta, for his effort and kindness in conceiving and completing this project on behalf of our clients and colleagues in the Spanish-speaking world. Larry Downes and Chunka Mui: Unleashing the Killer App
Economics Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase observed in the 1930s that that organizations were growing in size and, thus, becoming more bureaucratic, all because there was too much friction in externally acquiring the services and products necessary to the provision of an organization's core products and/or services. Downes and Mui make a persuasive case that the Internet changes that internally focused paradigm by removing the friction from external sourcing, thus enabling new "leaner, meaner" operational models in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Downes' and Mui's "killer app" is Thomas Friedman's set of "flattenting" forces. (*****)Steven D. Levitt: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Levitt asks interesting questions and uses statistical regression and his impressive habits of mind to answer them. I'd like to know what he might find if he asked why nonprofit higher education has not improved productivity in light of its major investments in information technology. (****)Michael Treacy: The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market
Read this and then determine your institution's current "value discipline" -- and what it actually should be. Be honest! (*****)Thomas L. Friedman: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
This is must reading! Ask yourself how you would "flatten" higher education -- and your institution! (*****)
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