by andflywrite | Apr 1, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
Huge changes have occurred in the circumstances of young adults in the US, and in what expectations are for future employment opportunities. These realities have stimulated numerous ideas for what might be instituted to address the problems. Few of them seem to...
by andflywrite | Mar 15, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
In several midsize cities across the U.S., unusual software teams are programming apps and websites. In past lives, these workers delivered pizzas and parcels, tended stores and taught in schools, or drove Ubers and forklifts. This train-and-hire model...
by andflywrite | Oct 31, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
In a nation whose large-scale educational institutions often feature a “one size fits all” approach, vocational learning has been a kind of patch/ add-on to the main focus on higher ed. On one extreme there are advocates for everyone having some form of...
by andflywrite | Sep 14, 2016 | BEST LINKS EVER
Interns are an echo of what was formerly called apprenticeship, which goes way back to the “guilds” in medieval europe, where you learned very valuable skills OTJ. Cloud tools make OTJ learning feasible in many many circumstances, where a...