How to Fund (2) Posted on February 15, 2017 by Alex Usher As I noted yesterday, in Canada we have some kind of phobia about output-based funding. In the 1990s, Ontario and Alberta introduced, and then later killed, key performance indicators with funding attached....
Alex Usher: Cómo financiar la educación superior (1)
How to Fund (1) Posted on February 14, 2017 by Alex Usher Over the next three days, I want to talk about funding formulas. I know I did this a couple of years ago, at the start of the Ontario funding formula review exercise (see here, here, and here, but it’s...
La poderosa economía de la educación
La poderosa economía de la educación El sector tiene ante sí el desafío de reducir la desigualdad en los pupitres Ninguna industria se levanta sobre unos materiales tan sólidos ni tan frágiles. Números y palabras, textos y voces, ideas y pensamientos; delicada...
Inequidad educacional a la luz de PISA
Social inequalities in education are not set in stone Posted: 31 Jan 2017 02:00 AM PST by Carlos González-Sancho Analyst, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills Most people see social inequities in education as stubbornly persistent. Children of wealthy and highly...
Uso del iPad en la docencia universitaria
One Campus’s iPad Revolution Results in Education Evolution Mark Lombardi, president, Maryville U. By Lee Gardner February 03, 2017 Mark Lombardi, president of Maryville University, in Missouri, describes some of the interesting changes it has recently made in the...
Gratuidad en perspectiva comparada: USA, Canadá y Chile
New York, New York Posted on February 8, 2017 by Alex Usher With the Republicans in control of both Congress and the White house for at least the next two years, the fight for “free tuition” is moving to the state level. And so to New York, where Governor Cuomo has...
DeVos Makes Clear She’ll Trash Rules That Curb Predatory Colleges
DeVos Makes Clear She’ll Trash Rules That Curb Predatory Colleges 01/31/2017 11:19 am ET | Updated 4 days ago The Huffington Post, 01/31/2017 11:19 am ET | Updated 4 days ago There were plenty of hints in the past few weeks, but now it seems clear as day: The...
Pensamiento crítico
What Is Critical Thinking, Anyway? Rob Jenkins, February 2, 2017 The longer I teach (I’m now in my 32nd year) the more I’m convinced that the best thing we can do for our students is help them learn to think for themselves. That involves explaining what...
Nuevas Ues estatales corren contra el tiempo para iniciar sus clases
Las actividades comienzan el 13 de marzo y ambas casas de estudio aún presentan varios impedimentos para funcionar 5 de febrero de 2017 Nuevas Ues estatales corren contra el tiempo para iniciar sus clases Son más de 500 los estudiantes que en poco más de un mes...
Brecha de destrezas (skills gap)
The Idea That Launched a Thousand Strategic Plans By Dan Berrett JANUARY 22, 2017 PREMIUM A single idea has come to shape colleges’ plans for the future and assumptions about their role and purpose. It’s called the skills gap. Simply put, the skills gap is when...
GPT-4 y las aulas universitarias
GPT-4’s launch ‘another step change’ for AI and higher education New version of OpenAI’s chatbot can interpret images...
Alex Usher desde Japón
Letter from Japan March 20, 2023 | Alex Usher Morning all. I’m in the midst of a couple of weeks in Japan (the sumo...
Los Nuevos Realistas filósofos
¿Todo es relativo? Los Nuevos Realistas, un grupo de filósofos, dicen que no Son la respuesta filosófica a tiempos de...
Universidades del Estado reclaman antención
Una educación superior pública, fortalecida y priorizada por Fernanda Kri 23 marzo, 2023 El fortalecimiento de la...