12 tech trends higher education cannot afford to ignore Education Dive, July 31, 2013 By Davide Savenije Higher education faces an onslaught of disruptive forces right now—and no one should be suprised to hear that news. Burgeoning technologies such as MOOCs...
Preparación (mala) de los profesores – en EEUU
Study: Teacher Prep Programs Get Failing Marks by June 18, 2013 2:56 AM The U.S. spends more than $7 billion a year preparing classroom teachers, but teachers are not coming out of the nation's colleges of education ready, according to a by U.S.News & World...
Rector UCH propone plan para formación profesores
Iniciativa Bicentenario: formar profesores de excelencia A través de un fondo de US$ 500 millones en 10 años se pueden financiar propuestas de cinco universidades -al menos tres de ellas estatales-, distribuidas en todo el territorio, y que se comprometan a...
Tratando de evaluar la efectividad de los MOOCs
New Research Effort Aims to Examine Effectiveness of MOOCs By Sara Grossman, June 10, 2013, 3:20 pm As more and more colleges experiment with massive open online courses, or MOOCs, a new project hopes to cut through the hype and gauge the...
EEUU: ¿Nuevas reglas para acreditación de programas de pedagogía?
Accreditor Considers New Standards for Teacher-Training Programs By Kelly Field Washington, June 11, 2014 Teacher-training colleges, which have come under fire from the Obama administration, are facing new scrutiny—this time, from their accreditor. On Tuesday, a...
Docencia “externalizada” y “adoptada”: ¿Un tema para pensar en Chile y América Latina?
Outsourced Lectures Raise Concerns About Academic Freedom By Steve Kolowich, May 28, 2013 Students at Massachusetts Bay Community College this year got a rare opportunity to take a computer-science course designed and taught online by some of the top professors...
Escolarización no es educación
El colega Jeff Puryear nos informa que se ha dado a conocerel estudio titulado Schooling Is Not Education! Using Assessment to Change the Politics of Non-Learning, de Lant Pritchett and Rukmini Banerji, chairs, Charles Kenny, project director. A Report of the Center...
Qué podemos aprender del aprendizaje on line masivo
What Professors Can Learn From 'Hard Core' MOOC Students By Jeffrey R. Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education, may 20, 2013 If people who sit at their computers for tens of hours each week zapping virtual monsters are hard-core gamers, then massive...
Deserción en el mundo de la educación superior
Chile está a la misma altura de los Estados Unidos. (Cortesía de Online Colleges)
MOOCs: ¿El fin del comienzo?
Coursera Jumps the Shark Posted on May 31, 2013 by Alex Usher Remember when Coursera – the world’s largest purveyor of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – was going to disrupt higher education, and put hundreds if not thousands of public institutions out of...
López Obrador responde a los críticos de los libros de texto
López Obrador responde a los críticos de los libros de texto: “Ni siquiera los han leído” El mandatario mexicano...
México: Polémica por los libros de texto
Polémica por los libros de texto: la justicia pide revisarlos y el Gobierno busca entregarlos sin cambios a las...
Imaginando escenarios de innovación en la educación superior de América Latina
Imaginando escenarios de innovación en la educación superior de América Latina José Joaquín BrunnerUniversidad Diego...
Hilary Mantel sobre la ficción histórica
Booker winner Hilary Mantel on dealing with history in fiction Hilary Mantel, Sat 17 Oct 2009 00.05 BST Hans Holbein...