At the time, I was focused primarily on how colleges would get thru this, noting that agility, flexibility, and resiliency aren’t just crucial skills for 21st-century students. They’re also vital skills for 21st-century institutions.
(In that newsletter I also noted that I realized i had left out one other vital 21st Century skill: dealing with ambiguity.)
The "grand pivot" to remote education and remote operations has been a major piece of this story, So last week in The Edge, I shared what I was hearing from IT leaders at colleges, academics, and edtech company execs. That included....
One of the big themes I heard from colleges IT leaders was, for now at least, they were relying primarily on existing relationships and taking advice from trusted sources or peers. That might change in a couple of months.
I was struck not only by the commonalities of what they shared -- a focus on emergency aid for low-income students, the online transition, and preserving academic supports for students already disadvantaged in getting to and thru college -- but also ...
.....that each of these influential organization had different take on how they planned to press their agendas.
I& #39;m already at work on my next newsletter. But as I consider how to cover this ongoing crisis in the weeks to come, I& #39;d love to hear from you about issues and topics I might consider, especially if they fit the lens of The Edge, to cover "innovation in and around academe." So....
.... my email is in my bio above. If you& #39;ve got ideas, send em my way. Meanwhile, hope you& #39;re all staying safe, sane, and humane. Also #StayAtHome
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