Q-and-A: Back to school with Arne Duncan By Arne Duncan on August 26th, 2013 http://smartblogs.com/ What is the biggest challenge that teachers face as they go back to school this fall? What guidance would you give them to help them meet the challenge The large...
Tendencias tecnológicas y el futuro de la educación superior
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...
EEUU: Severo juicio sobre formación de profesores
June 18, 2013 'An Industry of Mediocrity': Study Criticizes Teacher-Education Programs By Dan Berrett, The Chronicle of Higher Education Colleges of education are "an industry of mediocrity" that churns out unprepared teachers to work in the nation's elementary and...
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...
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...
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...
Enseñanza del inglés en Chile
Evaluación de Educación mostró que 34% de los docentes no tiene los conocimientos mínimos del idioma 36 planteles dictan casi 100 pedagogías en Inglés: la mayoría tiene baja acreditación Expertos aseguran que en Chile no existen suficientes especialistas como para...
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...
Obligatoriedad del Kínder
Obligatoriedad Kínder: muy temprano para aplaudir Por: Catalina De la Cruz Pincetti; El Dínamo, 24 de mayo de 2013 - 10:59 Se abren una serie de dudas en términos de financiamiento y medición de calidad. ¿Se financiará este nivel a través de una subvención por...
MOOC Professors Claim No Responsibility for How Courses Are Used May 21, 2013, 4:59 am By Steve Kolowich Robert Ghrist, a professor of mathematics and electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, knows that wielding vast networks on behalf of...
Meritocracia versus habitus
Behind the elite university’s ‘visage of meritocracy’ Nathan M Greenfield 01 February 2023 ,Far from being bastions...
Vodolazkin: Historia rusa
AMERICA'S MOST INFLUENTIAL JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE AT LENIN'S TOMB by Eugene Vodolazkin, February...
ChatGDP: reacciones desde el mundo universitario
Sciences Po bans ChatGPT amid HE quality, integrity fears Karen MacGregor 03 February 2023 Leading French grande...
Deuda estudiantil: plan Biden
DECEMBER 8, 2022 | ALEX USHER The Politics of Student Loan Debt I am sure most of my readers are aware of the Biden...