Researchers embracing ChatGPT are like turkeys voting for Christmas The technology threatens to impoverish research and destroy humans’ ability to understand the social world, says Dirk Lindebaum Dirk Lindebaum, May 2, 2023 Since the launch of ChatGPT at the end of...
Rankings de universidades en perspectiva de regiones del mundo
MAY 3, 2023 | ALEX USHER Rankings Discourse: West, East and South As I mentioned yesterday, I was at a conference of the International Rankings Expert Group (IREG) in Tashkent last week, hosted at the Tashkent...
Una lectura del Chat GPT desde China
Xu Jilin on ChatGPT Xu Jilin, “A Discussion: Does ChatGPT Signal the Birth of a New World, on the Beginning of the End?”[1] Introduction and Translation by David Ownby, Blog "Reading the China Dream". This web site is devoted to the subject of intellectual life in...
El iliberalismo que se cierne sobre la educación superior
To survive illiberalism’s attacks on HE, we must resist Andrea Peto 29 April 2023 The optimism of my colleagues working in higher education that illiberalism will not impact tenured academics, their academic freedom and the status of higher education in the global...
Educación superior en India
Realism about Indian Higher Education Philip G. Altbach Abstract Indian higher education is open- ing to the world, but there are many aspects of the world’s second largest system that need to be understood by the global community. A stress on expansion has prevented...
Bienvenido Programas de Doctorado UDP
IA y colonialismo de datos
AI as colonial knowledge production: The resistance begins here Nick Couldry 11 April 2023 In recent months, both the tech press and general media have been full of hype about artificial intelligence (AI), and specifically ChatGPT and rival advanced AI programmes....
UCH: Juicio ético respecto tesis sobre pedofilia
A la comunidad: Informe de la Comisión sobre dos tesis de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades que abordan temas de pedofilia La instancia académica, constituida en enero pasado, estuvo integrada por los académicos y académicas: Claudio Pastenes, vicerrector de...
Michio Kaku: El futuro y la computación cuántica
Physicist Michio Kaku: ‘We could unravel the secrets of the universe’ David Shariatmadari Quantum computers will transform our world, curing cancer and fixing the climate crisis, says the scientist and sci-fi fan – but can they be made to work? Sat 22 Apr 2023 09.00...
Internacionalización de la educación superior
When HE internationalisation operates as an industry Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit 11 April 2023 There is a facade of higher education internationalisation that paints an idealistic picture of providing students with a global experience, stressing collaboration in...
Manuel Gil AntónAl profesor Juan Manuel
Por: Manuel Gil Antón (Colaboración para El Universal) Cuando Martí, mi hijo mayor, era muy pequeño, casi a media...
Universidad pública: matar a la ‘alma mater’
El pasado 27 de noviembre, en Madrid, se produjo un hecho insólito. Con la Puerta del Sol a punto de llenarse de...
Alejandra Castillo: Una conversación con Sofía Brito, Javier Agüero, Miguel Valderrama y Ernesto Orellana
El título de esta conversación parece una exageración o, tal vez, una desproporción. Habíamos aprendido de las...
El derrumbe ideológico de las izquierdas: ¿qué sigue ahora?
El reto es reconciliar a la izquierda con la sociedad actual. La derrota del 14-D debe desencadenar un proceso de...