- Nov 2017
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wrapping.marthaburtis.net wrapping.marthaburtis.net
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institutionally controlled assessment and collection of data
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events.educause.edu events.educause.edu
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Moving to a Web of Linked Data for Credential Ecosystems
Oh? Credentials going Semantic? CBE going TBL?
Might be worth a deeper discussion with @jeffgrann, at some point.
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- Jul 2016
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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school often neatly reinforces the hierarchies of our socio-economic world
Though it came out a few years after the texts listed in the previous paragraph, Randall Collins’s Credential Society would be relevant.
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our education system is controlling, exploitative, imperialist
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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The phrase “diploma mills” came into popular usage during the era.
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www.seattletimes.com www.seattletimes.com
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Craig doesn’t think elite schools need to worry; their degrees will still be used by employers as a sign of quality.
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www.alfiekohn.org www.alfiekohn.org
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putting grades online (thereby increasing their salience and their damaging effects)
Grades are often an obstacle to learning.
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- Jun 2016
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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At the same time, those positions that can still be acquired without a college degree are disappearing.
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www.jisc.ac.uk www.jisc.ac.uk
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Businesses are not saying "I want someone who went through a programme that promised them a job".
In the Ivory Tower, we hear less about that part of the relationship between Higher Ed. and businesses. Those colleagues of ours who are so against the 100-year push for universities to become more vocational tend to assume that employers are the ones doing the pushing. While it’s quite possible that some managers wish for universities to produce optimised employees, many people on that side of the equation argue that they’re quite able to train employees, as long as they’re able to learn. Now, there’s a whole thing about the “talent pipeline” which might get faculty in a tizzy. But it’s not about moulding learners into employees. Like much of Higher Ed., it’s about identifying (and labeling) people who conform to a certain set of standards. Not less problematic, perhaps, but not so much of a distinction between academia and employability.
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