Matchbook Learning

October 14, 2013 - Sajan George

What does professional hockey have to do with public education? Well, surprisingly little. However, the greatest hockey player to ever play the game, Wayne Gretzky,...

Visting Touchstone Education’s Merit Prep Charter School in Newark, NJ

October 04, 2013 - Sajan George

This week we had the privilege of visiting Merit Preparatory Charter School in Newark, New Jersey. Highly personalized education through blended live and technology-based learning...

The Greatest

September 12, 2013 - Sajan George

“I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a...

What Education Can Learn From Kung Fu

August 22, 2013 - Sajan George

What Education Can Learn From Kung Fu

GA Tech

August 19, 2013 - Sajan George

The Georgia Institute of Technology (GA-Tech) is planning to offer a MOOC-based online computer science master degree for $6,600. This represents 15% of the cost of its...

Slow Ideas

August 13, 2013 - Sajan George

Why do some innovations spread so rapidly? Their viral adoptions and super-scaling are the kinds of stories writers love to write about and readers love to read about. ...

Finland

August 13, 2013 - Sajan George

Finland's public education system, in the top 3 of the international ranking tables, is often both lauded as a model to follow and critiqued as one that could never be applied here...

Master Influence for Dramatic Change - How to Gain it

July 08, 2013 - Sajan George

Last week I blogged about the research from this month’s Harvard Business Review’s article “The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents” by Julie Battilana and Tiziana...

Mastering Influence for Dramatic Change – How to Find It

July 03, 2013 - Sajan George

This month’s Harvard Business Review magazine features the topic of influence, both on how to both find it and gain it. Authors Julie Battilana & Tiziana Casciaro in...

Did you do that on purpose?

June 02, 2013 - Sajan George

I am both a friend and fan of Shawn Parr, CEO of Bulldog Drummond, a preiment design and innovation consultancy firm. See his blog entry on how organizations can and...