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Online education is not new. The University of Phoenix started its online degree program in 1989. Four million college students took at least one online class during the fall of 2007.
But, over the past few months, something has changed. The elite, pace-setting universities have embraced the Internet. Not long ago, online courses were interesting experiments. Now online activity is at the core of how these schools envision their futures. 
The Politecnico di Milano, one of Italy’s leading technical universities, has announced that from the beginning of the 2014 academic year, all MSc and PhD courses will be taught exclusively in English. But some of the institution’s professors oppose the switch to English from Italian, and 285 have signed a petition to the rector. 
While much about being a university professor has remained unchanged for centuries, the way today’s academics research, teach and fulfil administrative duties has changed dramatically, as a result of technological change and a cultural shift in what the public expects of academia. En las páginas de este blog hemos analizado diferentes rankings universitarios y, además, hemos publicado dos artículos sobre el valor de los rankings universitarios (primera parte y segunda parte). 
Universitas 21 has developed the ranking as a benchmark for governments, education institutions and individuals. It aims to highlight the importance of creating a strong environment for higher education institutions to contribute to economic and cultural development, provide a high-quality experience for students and help institutions compete for overseas applicants. 
El 46% de los encuestados no sabe el nombre de ningún investigador relevante Un estudio sitúa a España a la cola de Europa en este ámbito... For this post, we have elaborated rankings of universities based on the output they have in each of the major scientific fields. Then we took the Top 100 in each field and saw them by countries. The result is the following table where each row represents a country and each cell shows how many institutions that country has within the Top 100 in the corresponding field. The rank is ordered by the average of institutions that countries have in Top 100. We have used Scopus as the data source, after a disambiguation process of institution names. 
Este mes de abril nuestras noticias universitarias tratan sobre: Tasas, becas, préstamos y algo más; Nace el Observatorio IUNE ; El informe Universidad, universitarios y productividad en España de la Fundación BBVA y el IVIE. El autor critica las últimas medidas adoptadas por el Gobierno que afectan a los profesores universitarios en su tarea investigadora y docente... 
Para muchos científicos su labor acaba cuando publican un paper en una revista científica, sin preocuparse acerca de la difusión de dicha investigación ni de la posible audiencia a la que llega... 
Part Three of a three-part series on student debt and the middle class. Click here to read Part One and click here to read Part Two. 
Massive Open Online Courses are leveraging today's technology to provide (typically) free access to world class education. ... Via Ana Cristina Pratas |
If higher education is truly overpriced, that will self-correct when students and their parents stop perceiving it as being limitlessly valuable... 
Winston Hide, associate editor of Genomics, says its publisher Elsevier effectively denies developing world access to research findings... The US Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit overturned a summary judgement by a lower court ordering a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Dr. Kenneth Jones against Harvard Medical School, its teaching hospitals, Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Marilyn Albert (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Ronald Killiany to proceed to trial. 
Cada vez se acumulan más pruebas que señalan que la investigación está plagada de errores sistemáticos. Si no se controla, esto podría socavar la confianza pública, advierte Daniel Sarewitz 
Universitas 21 has created official rankings based on the results of a year-long study on higher education data. Estos rakings tan generales siempre plantean dudas... pro ahí están los datos 
¿Es que acaso los responsables de Google Metrics desconocen la diferente naturaleza de estos productos que impide su comparación bibliométrica? Pues bien, para aclarar esta cuestión intentemos responder a la que entiendo es la pregunta crucial ¿En qué se parece un repositorio a una revista científica? A mi juicio en bastante poco. El Observatorio IUNE es una herramienta que permite conocer los resultados más significativos de la actividad científica de las universidades españolas públicas y privadas. Para ello, se utiliza una amplia batería de indicadores que abarcan diversos aspectos de la actividad universitaria: profesorado, reconocimiento, actividad científica, innovación, competitividad y capacidad formativa. Actualmente se presenta la información relativa al período 2002-2010, que se actualizará anualmente en todos los indicadores obtenidos. A través de estos indicadores cada universidad puede determinar su perfil de actividad y conocer su posición en el sistema universitario español. 
The universities announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, that will offer vast new learning opportunities for students around the world. En estos tiempos de crisis y de políticas de financiación restrictivas en los que nos encontramos, se hace del todo necesario comunicar a la sociedad de los beneficios que se derivan de la presencia de una universidad en un determinado territorio, más allá de la generación de titulados y producción científica. 
Part One of a three-part series on student debt and the middle class. Click here to read Part Two and click here to read Part Three. 
Despite having the unfortunate distinction of being the first and only industrialized nation to amass over $1 trillion in outstanding student loan debt, the United States no longer leads the world in college graduates. |
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