FORO Foro es una revista electrónica bimestral de opinión sobre temas, en educación, cultura, economía, política y actualidad, entre otros, relacionados con el desarrollo. MARZO–ABRIL, 2020 VOL. 4, NUM. 2, PAGS. 22–40 El Desencanto de los Chilenos ¿Tiene la Educación...
Estudiantes de college y multitasking cursos presenciales versus online
College Students’ Multitasking Behavior in Online Versus Face-to-Face Courses Show all authors Andrew Lepp, Jacob E. Barkley, Aryn C. Karpinski, ... First Published January 13, 2019 Research Article //doi.org/10.1177/2158244018824505 Article information ARTICULO PDF...
Nuevo libro de Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty: ‘Economists are no different from other social scientists’ As the monumental follow-up to his best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century is published, the celebrated French economist speaks to Matthew Reisz about why a detailed historical...
¿Cuánto trabajan algunos académicos?
Should you be working 100 hours a week? Mary Beard’s recent admission that she is a ‘mug’ who works 100 hours a week caused a Twitter storm. But how hard is it reasonable for academics to work? Who should decide? And should the mugs be obliged to keep quiet? Seven...
Nuevas concepciones del PhD
The New Ph.D. Momentum grows to rewrite the rules of graduate training By Marc Parry February 16, 2020 PREMIUM (c) Meg Berkobien couldn’t do it anymore. She’d finished about three-quarters of a doctoral dissertation in comparative literature. Her advisers at the...
Consultas antes de definir políticas: Inglaterra y Australia
How to Make Policy February 12th 2020 - Alex Usher Take a ride with me. First stop, London, England. UK university funding is handled by an intermediate institution known as the Office for Students (OfS). The Government decides on the amount of money it wants to spend...
Pago de la deuda estudiantil en USA
Growing Federal Subsidies for Graduate Loan Debt Almost half of federal student loans are being repaid through more generous income-driven repayment plans, new data show, with 80 percent of government subsidies now going to graduate student borrowers. Almost half of...
¿Investigación interdisciplinaria?
Is interdisciplinary research really the best way to tackle global challenges? Politicians, funders and university leaders all intone the mantra of interdisciplinarity. But what does the concept really mean? Will it really yield the insights it promises? And how best...
Acuerdo IESALC – OEI
educación superior en Iberoamérica FIRMA DE CONVENIO DE COLABORACIÓN ENTRE LA OEI Y LA UNESCO-IESALC PARA IMPULSAR LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR EN IBEROAMÉRICA 11 FEBRERO, 2020 El secretario general de la OEI, Mariano Jabonero, y el director de la UNESCO-IESALC, Francesc...
Barreras a la movilidad social en EEUU
The Barriers to Mobility Why Higher Ed’s Promise Remains Unfulfilled Kevin Van Aelst for The Chronicle December 31, 2019 By KARIN FISCHER For generations of Americans, higher education was a ladder — study hard and you could climb into the middle class. A college...
La tradición de la universidad europea y el sur global
El nuevo tablero global de las universidades: sin la tutela occidental y con otros objetivos Ocho figuras académicas...
Ideales formativos desde antiguo hasta hoy
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ChatGPT y educación
ChatGPT y educación: ¿un nuevo enemigo o aliado de los profesores? La irrupción de las herramientas de inteligencia...
Universidad de Oxford, admisión y elites
Oxford University’s other diversity crisis Good luck trying to become a professor if you don’t have family money Mar...