Arthur Levine, President
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
http://woodrow.org/
Three Expertise Keywords:
access-to-learning, education-innovation, schools-of-education
Read More: http://www.woodrow.org/about/directory/president.php
Why Digital Media and Learning?
America’s education system today, created during the industrial era, resembles an assembly line, the era’s quintessential method of production. It rests upon putting all students through a common process.
This approach to education no longer makes sense. Current research shows that students are learning in new ways, relying more on interactive, self-paced digital technologies than traditional methods of instruction. While they continue to learn in schools and via contact with teachers and textbooks, they are also learning after school, before school, on weekends and during summers through social networks, contact with online experts, interaction with software, and an inexhaustible supply of online resources.
The nation is not yet ready to move in this direction, however. We do not yet have an adequate body of knowledge to build an education system based upon student learning styles, the software to support it, or the teacher preparation, school structure, and school leadership to implement it. We are not yet preparing the teachers to lead such an education system. It is crucially important to explore digital media and learning, and to start considering how to implement these changes.
Recent Posts:
Description of Current Work:
As president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Arthur Levine has focused on creating a new Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship that brings the Foundation’s expertise in fellowship implementation and administration, along with its historic emphasis on developing the nation’s best minds, to bear on one of our most urgent challenges: The achievement gap, and the preparation of a new generation of teachers who can help close that gap. At the same time, Dr. Levine - a sociologist of higher education by training - continues his own longstanding program of research into student life, access to higher education, and innovations in education.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Recent major research:
The Education Schools Project (http://www.edschools.org)
Books:
When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today’s College Student (with Jeanette S. Cureton)
Beating the Odds: How the Poor Get to College (with Jana Nidiffer)
Higher Learning in America
Shaping Higher Education’s Future
When Dreams and Heroes Died: A Portrait of Today’s College Students
Handbook on Undergraduate Curriculum
Quest for Common Learning (with Ernest Boyer)
Opportunity in Adversity (with Janice Green)
Why Innovation Fails
