An Author of ‘Academically Adrift’ Strikes Again Last week Richard Arum, a co-author of the influential book “Academically Adrift,” unveiled an effort to measure the complexity of learning inside the classroom. The kickoff event took place at the U. of California at...
Canadá: Agenda de política universitaria / de investigación
Honing the University Party's Growth Agenda September 16th, 2019 - Alex Usher It’s election season, and so everyone is trotting out promises and coming up with manifestos. These manifestos are lists of specific promised policy initiatives, but they are also –...
La economía como disciplina: encrucijadas
The Economists' New Clothes? With economists struggling to derive credible explanations of macroeconomic conditions from the prevailing models, those who have long criticized the discipline for its scientific pretensions are feeling vindicated. And it remains to be...
Media Lab del MIT: Fantasía y realidad
Hype vs. Reality at the MIT Media Lab By Nell Gluckman September 11, 2019 Cambridge, Mass. It was a validating moment for Caleb Harper. Norman Foster, the renowned architect who designed Apple’s circular headquarters, had come to the Massachusetts Institute of...
Humanidades y STEM
Long Reads Mind Over STEM Aug 30, 2019 NICHOLAS AGAR With universities around the world cutting liberal-arts programs and even eliminating entire majors such as history, there is every reason to worry about the fate of the humanities. In an era of deepening...
Formación en políticas públicas
Don’t Blame Economics, Blame Public Policy Sep 1, 2019 RICARDO HAUSMANN Engineering and medicine have in many respects become separate from their respective underlying sciences of physics and biology. Public-policy schools, which typically have a strong economics...
Academia ultra rápida, profesores lentos
The ‘slow professor’ could bring back creativity to our universities August 25, 2019 7.31am EDT Author Julien Lefort-Favreau Assistant Professor, French Studies, Queen's University, Ontario Disclosure statement Julien Lefort-Favreau has received funding from the...
Estado de la educación superior en Polonia
Poland’s higher education reforms: power grab or necessary adjustment? Poland’s authoritarian government is routinely compared to its widely criticised counterpart in Hungary, and its university reforms sparked a wave of protest by students and academics fearful of...
Revista temas sociológicos: estudios sobre juventud en Chile
Apreciadas y apreciados colegas, junto con saludarles y por medio del presente correo, nos contactamos con ustedes para hacerles llegar el último número 24 publicado por la Revista Temas Sociológicos. En este número encontrarán una sección dossier dedicada a...
Desafíos de la Educación Superior Chilena
Participación en el en el seminario "Desafíos de la Educación Superior Chilena" realizado los días 8 y 9 de agosto en la ciudad de Iquique, Universidad de Tarapacá. Video-conferencia en el siguiente enlace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6W6dlf_Xfo [Minuto...
¿QUÉ PASA SI IA NO MEJORA MUCHO MÁS QUE ESTO?
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Financiación de las universidades: ¿hay una salida al laberinto?
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