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...
¿Por qué no la gratuidad? Una reflexión desde USA
Free Public College Is a Terrible Idea By Brian Rosenberg SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 PREMIUM Now that the race for the Democratic nomination for president is becoming more serious, it is time to take an equally serious look at the proposal for tuition-free public college...
¿Existe el mérito y hay meritocracia?
Does meritocracy stall social mobility, entrench an undeserving elite, and undermine trust in higher education? Joan Wong for The Chronicle September 13, 2019 That seems to be the emerging bipartisan consensus. “On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up...
Historia del sistema universitario argentino
“Historia del sistema universitario argentino” 11 septiembre, 2019 Viedma.- (APP) El viernes 20 de septiembre se estrena la serie en Canal Encuentro. Desde ese día, se emitirá cada viernes, a las 19.30. La serie producida por el Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional...
Revista Iberoamericana de Educación Superior
Número actual Vol. 10 Núm. 28 (2019) Publicado: 2019-06-01 Territorios ¿Puntos de partida y llegada simétricos? Una tipología basada en la relación educación-empleo Jorge-Alberto Arellano-Martínez, Iván-Alejandro Salas-Durazo 3-24 PDF HTML Análisis comparativo entre...
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...
Evaluación de aprendizajes en educación superior
Destacadas El IESALC presenta las conclusiones de su informe sobre tendencias internacionales en la evaluación de los aprendizajes en educación superior 16 agosto, 2019 calidad, Educación Superior, Francesc Pedró, UNESCO Los días 15 y 16 de agosto de 2019 se llevó a...
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...
Enseñando a la Generación Z
Teaching Generation Z: a biting blizzard or a breath of fresh air The current generation of students often come under fire for supposedly being excessively brittle and demanding. But does the reality bear that out, and what are the teaching techniques to which they...
José María Lemaitre : con admiración
La Fundación AEQUALIS lamenta profundamente comunicar el fallecimiento de María José Lemaitre, quien formó parte del...
Mal uso de datos en la investigación
How Shoddy Data Becomes Sensational Research Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other...
China: dilema de los graduados
China’s Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Xi Jinping Says to ‘Eat Bitterness.’ With youth unemployment at a record, the...
Cuentas y acusaciones
Cuentas y acusaciones ''El segundo recuento anual del Presidente Boric no significa cambios de relevancia para la...