Teaching in an Age of ‘Militant Apathy’ Immersive education offers a way to reach students. But can it ever become the norm? By Beth McMurtrie, FEBRUARY 15, 2023 It is a strange time to be an undergraduate. Life may feel apocalyptic, buffeted by climate crisis,...
EEUU: Docencia de pregrado en debate
Course Correction Students expect ‘total flexibility’ in the pandemic-era classroom. But is that really what they need? By Beckie Supiano FEBRUARY 13, 2023 For all the well-known frustrations of remote instruction, Mark A. Sarvary anticipated that moving back...
Podcast conversación de Alex Usher con Jamil Salmi
FEBRUARY 23, 2022 | ALEX USHER The World of Higher Education Podcast Access Gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries S1 E4: Access Gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Guest: Jamil Salmi Morning all. Today is Thursday and hence podcast day. Today’s guest is my...
¿Sesgo político en la academia?
La derecha estadounidense gira contra la educación Desde el auge del trumpismo, los republicanos creen que los profesores universitarios enseñan propoganda liberal PAUL KRUGMAN 18 FEB 2023 - 05:45 CET Ron DeSantis, actualmente gobernador de Florida y aspirante a...
Meritocracia versus habitus
Behind the elite university’s ‘visage of meritocracy’ Nathan M Greenfield 01 February 2023 ,Far from being bastions of intellectual inquiry and meritocracy, in both Britain and the United States elite universities reproduce the ethnic, racial and class divisions...
Intervención de universidades en el Estado de Florida
What Is Happening in Florida? Demands for diversity data, a governing-board overhaul, and a pledge to strip “trendy ideology” from higher ed. Is Ron DeSantis just getting started? By Francie Diep and Emma Pettit JANUARY 30, 2023 It’s been a dizzying month for...
Suecia: Educación superior en nuevo contexto político
What will a shift to the right mean for higher education? Jan Petter Myklebust 21 January 2023 Since the Sweden Democrats (SD) became the largest member of the country’s right-wing bloc in last year’s elections, questions have been raised about how much impact the...
Reino Unido: Contexto político y educación superior post-Brexit
Post-Brexit educational mobilities – What’s next? Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters 21 January 2023 Following its departure from the European Union in 2020, the United Kingdom left the Erasmus+ programme, which funded international mobility for higher education...
Contexto político global y educación superior
Higher education can reverse its democratic recession William G Tierney 21 January 2023 One need not be a linguist to acknowledge the fluidity of language. In 1977 Lewis B Mayhew, one of academe’s preeminent scholars of higher education, penned Legacy of the...
¿Quién le tiene miedo a ChatGPT?
Why I’m Not Scared of ChatGPT The limits of the technology are where real writing begins. By Christopher Grobe! JANUARY 18, 2023 Each time I embark on a new writing project, I find that I’ve forgotten how to write. I type and delete sentence fragments. I list claims...
Hong Kong: Artes liberales y AI
Liberal arts universities in a ChatGPT era – How to adapt? Yojana Sharma 13 September 2023 A small liberal arts...
Inversión, acceso y aprendizaje
Inversión, acceso y aprendizaje: el equilibrio necesario para una educación de calidad ¿Qué tienen en común los...
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Novelas de campus universitarios
Five of the best campus novels Donna Tartt’s cult tale of toxic friendship, John Williams’s anti-campus must-read and...