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Unsiloing in the Information Age

In Evolving Education, Human Development, Systems Development on 01/27/2010 at 1:20 AM

Unsiloing

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Ten years into the new century, one could argue that while we are in the Information Age we have yet to break down many of the confines of the industrial era. A characteristic of industrialization being the linear organization of work and people to maximize efficiency—in short, the “siloing” of our work and our world.

Digitization of incomprehensible amounts of information, moving freely, in unpredictable directions, compels us to rethink and explore how to adapt and “unsilo” our antiquated thinking and systems. Technology not only allows for, but also pushes us to think and learn in new ways. It demands that we redefine the ecosystem we inhabit and move from linear pathways to infinite points of contact; from reliable certainty to mental agility. …read more

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The Quality-Quantity-Cost Relationship

In Higher Education, Systems Development on 01/22/2010 at 1:18 PM
Tuning, higher education

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When budgets are cut, reduced spending is a natural consequence. This is a widely accepted cause and effect relationship being proved out all over the world.

There is also a pervasive notion that if spending is reduced, then a decrease in quality or level of output must follow. For instance, there are countless examples of companies reducing their quality standards or giving you less for the same price in an effort to reduce their costs.

In higher education, this thinking can translate into the assumption that increasing the number of students an institution graduates in a given period of time, without an increase in spending, must lead to a reduction of quality in the education those students will receive. …read more | watch video

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