L'AIU a le plaisir d’annoncer la parution de la 27ème édition du répertoire International Handbook of Universities (2016). Cette édition du Handbook contient des informations sur quelque 18 000 établissements d’enseignement supérieur ainsi que des informations sur les systèmes d’enseignement de plus de 180 pays. Un accès au Portail WHED (Base de données mondiale sur l'enseignement supérieur) de l'AIU est offert pour chaque achat d'un exemplaire du Handbook. Cet accès, qui permet la recherche avancée, l’extraction et l’impression des résultats de recherche, est valide pendant un an à partir de la date de publication du Handbook. Voir l'article...
Vient de paraître - HEP 28/3 - septembre 2015
Le dernier numéro de Higher Education Policy (HEP) vient de sortir et présente 8 articles examinant de divers thèmes. Voir l'article...
The results of the Scientix Conference, in one publication
The outcomes of the 2nd Scientix Conference have been summarised in one publication. More...
New issue of the ICDE Open Praxis journal available online
ICDE, the International Council for Open and Distance Education, has just released a new issue of its journal “Open Praxis”, with contributions from 12 authors who analyse open educational resources and other open practices. More...
PubPeer Creators Launch Foundation, Reveal Identities (Sort Of)
How do you avoid personalizing a website based on critiquing scientific research (or risking professional retaliation for it)? Remain anonymous. That’s what the creators of PubPeer have done for about three years, facilitating crowdsourced critiques of peer-reviewed research published elsewhere. Read more...
Just released - HEP 28/3 – September 2015
The latest edition of Higher Education Policy (HEP) has just been released and brings together 8 papers looking at various themes.
Contents
- The Drive to Internationalize: Perceptions and Motivations of Israeli College Directors – Miri Yemini, Vered Holzmann, Hans de Wit, Efrat Sadeh, Anat Stavans and Dalia Fadila;
- Theory Development and Application in Higher Education Research: Tribes and Territories – Malcolm Tight;
- Translating Governance Ideas in Danish Higher Education – Lise Degn;
- Institutional Policies on Assessment of Pedagogy and Faculty Classroom Practices: Evidence from 4-Year Colleges and Universities in the United States – Carrie B Myers, Scott M Myers, Tammy Stewart and Suzette Nynas;
- Higher Education Expansion in China and the ‘Ant Tribe’ Problem – Yu He and Yinhua Mai;
- The Impact of a National-Goal-Driven Higher Education Policy on An Ethnic Minority Serving Institution in China – Rebecca A Clothey and Diya Hu;
- Towards a New Framework for Analysing Transnational Education - Nigel Healey and Lucy Michael Fabrications, Time-Consuming Bureaucracy and Moral Dilemmas — Finnish University Employees’ Experiences on the Governance of University Work - Arto Jauhiainen, Annukka Jauhiainen, Anne Laiho and Reeta Lehto. More...
Vanity and conceit: the perils of self-citation
All scholars do it, but some are simply blowing their own trumpet, says Pat Thomson. More...
Peer review as a way of validating research is bunk
The current review process has many holes, says Apostolos Koutropoulos. More...
Should I keep the title of my paper brief?
By Matthew Reisz. Academics who want to rise up the citations lists would do well to come up with snappy titles for their papers or even fall back on textspeak. More...
Who Gets Credit?
By Scott Jaschik. If you are reading a research paper, and scan the authors (in some disciplines, an increasingly long list), do you know who played a meaningful role in the work. Read more...