“college attendees are often left wanting when it comes to preparing for the workforce and wish to have more workforce experience and opportunities for applied learning as part of their college education”
“What, precisely, would a liberal studies degree, especially one from a School of Continuing Education, mean? My experience suggests that degree completers are especially like to want something different: A career-aligned degree with well-defined return on investment. I simply don’t know what employers make of such a degree from such a unit., the biggest question is whether highly selective private institutions, no matter how richly resourced, actually know how to work with students who aren’t extremely smart and self-motivated., That’s a mission that community colleges and broad … read more >
“Now, students were given the opportunity to compare. And they discovered that the often lackluster college classroom is not much better than what usually happens online.”
Look around. Do you see what’s happening here? The digital landscape is providing tools and strategies to understand the marketplace better. So B2B and B2C enterprises are sharpening their focus and driving more sales, right? Not always. Sales and marketing teams continue to compete over the same leads. A major step towards successfully implementing the available tools that can help improve sales is to tear down the wall that separates the two disciplines. read more >
Is anyone else blown away by the quality and potential impact of the #AiWriter #AI #Writing work products from tools like Jasper, ChatGPT, or wherever? I routinely write, edit, buy writing, and buy editing, and this seems like it’s going to be hugely disruptive at least in the “middle” writing world that I mostly inhabit … blogs, brochures, marketing copy, etc. Most of the few random first-draft tests I’ve done are at least as good as the product from experienced human writers in these areas. read more >
It seems like #Twitter pro-democracy users are not just fleeing but being driven away, in order to de-platform and fragment this group. Is there a way #mastodon could ever become the same sort of “central” meeting/finding/discussing place?
On the surface, this seems difficult because of certain Mastodon design/features, most important the lack of algorithmic discovery.
Would it be possible to “train” new users to use hashtags and hashtag-based search until their follow-bases were established?