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...
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...
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...
Certificación internacional de rankings universitarios
Some Developments in Rankings Posted on May 28, 2013 by Alex Usher I was in Warsaw the week before last for the International Rankings Expert Group (IREG) Forum. The forum is designed both for those interested in rankings, and for rankers themselves – the principals...
International Higher Education, Summer Issue #72
Number 72: Summer 2013 Brain Drain or Brain Exchange? Internationalization: Trends and Critiques Rankings and Their Implications India Issues England's Present and Future Regions and Countries CIHE on the Web Read our blog on Inside Higher Ed.com Dear Colleagues:...
Hungría en el ranking del THE: ¿conflicto de interés?
Hungary’s big deal with ‘THE’ rankings: What’s going on? Ellen Hazelkorn and Philip G Altbach 25 May 2024 On 22 April...
Revista de Prospectiva y Estrategia
Revista de Prospectiva y Estrategia Nº92, abril 2024 Ponemos a su disposición la revista nº92 del Consejo Chileno de...
CADEM y el CAE
Cadem: CAE aparece como el séptimo problema a resolver en materia de educación y solo un 25% cree prioritario condonar...
Alex Usher: Diseño de políticas para la educación superior europea
MAY 16, 2024 | ALEX USHER European Universities Association Alex Usher (AU): Thomas, the European Union is a...