How to Fund (3) Alex Usher. Posted on February 16, 2017 by Paul You all may remember that in early 2015, the province of Ontario announced it was going to review its university funding formula. There was no particular urgency to do so, and many were puzzled as to “why...
Alex Usher: Cómo financiar la educación superior (2)
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
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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...
Coyuntura educacional: paro de profesores y Mineduc
Exministro Brunner pide "sentido de urgencia" a Ávila por paro de profesores y crisis en educación Tras el paro...
Paro profesores
"El peor momento para un paro": Expertos cuestionan el anuncio del Colegio de Profesores y la "tibia" reacción del...
Derecha chilena: once consideraciones y un modelo para armar
Derecha chilena: once consideraciones y un modelo para armar ¿Hay una forma iliberal de democracia en ciernes, con...
IA y propiedad intelectual
Authors call for AI companies to stop using their work without consent Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen and 8,000...