By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Two calls for papers/proposals below:
Open Educa Berlin or OEB2016
Conference dates: 30 November - 2 December 2016.
Deadline for submitting a proposal: 1 June 2016.
Submission page can be found here.
The OEB conference gathers over 2000 participants from around the world. It is inspiring, as well as a great networking conference. Read more...
The Universitas 21 Ranking is the only one in the world to assess national higher education systems, and meets a longstanding need to shift discussion from the ranking of the world’s best universities, to the best overall systems. The essential logic behind the development of national rankings is that it is the higher education system as a whole, not just research intensive universities, that matters for the economic and cultural development of a nation. It has been developed as a benchmark for governments, education institutions and individuals, and aims to highlight the importance of:
The 2016 Ranking includes the same 50 countries as in previous reports, which have again been ranked separately by four areas and also given an overall rating. New for 2016 is the productivity and drivers of research for the higher education sector, taking into account the relationships between inputs (resources and Environment) and outcomes (output and connectivity). More...
At the U21 Educational Innovation (EI) Conference at NUS in November 2012, we agreed to conduct a survey of EI-related strategic priorities among member institutions in order to ensure strong relevance of our shared EI activities. The results of responses shaped the cluster's Strategic Priorities, which are listed below.
In 2011, the U21 Teaching & Learning network decided to embark on a series of publications, looking at themes that held resonance within the U21 network and beyond.
The first in the series grew from the 2011 Teaching & Learning Conference and focused on the internationalisation of the curriculum and how this could and should affect the way in which universities adpat their teaching models. The paper provided an overview of the research landscape for the benefit of practicing educators across a range of disciplines. The paper addresses a range of issues, drawing on existing research, to provide expert advice on questions such as “What is an internationalized curriculum (skills versus content and the role of pedagogy)?”, “Why does an internationalized curriculum matter?”, and “What do we know about how it can be delivered?” More...
Under the auspices of a recent U21 Education Innovation Grant, members of the U21 network participated in a two-day cross-institutional workshop at the University of Hong Kong aimed at capitalising on 2012 U21 Award-winning work undertaken by members of the U21 Health Sciences Group and establishing a collaborative cross-institutional project targeting enhancement of students’ international experiences and global citizenship through online engagement. More...
The U21 Deans of Education group has met regularly since the first meeting in 2000 to discuss issues of common interest and to promote collegial interaction and collaborative projects.
Initially, meetings were annual, coincident with the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), but, as a variety of projects emerged, the group has met twice-yearly, the second meeting coinciding with the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association (EERA). More...
The EI Cluster holds annual conferences to enable practioners and educational administrators to come together to discuss issues of importance, share best practice and exchange ideas and suggestions for way in which teaching and learning practices and policies can be enhanced and improved around the network. More...
The EI Steering Group (EISG) aims to connect key institutional leaders in teaching, learning and innovative educational practices across U21 universities in order to promote collaboration, share good practice and combine resources with the common objectives of enhancing student learning in research-intensive universities. A broad set of Strategic Priorities have been identified and activities within the cluster will seek to address these issues within their unique areas of activity. Periodically, these priorities will be reviewed for relevancy to the current issues facing the research-intensive universities as they seek to enhance student learning in a global society. More...
The new U21 SOC (Shared Online Course) is based on the University of Edinburgh’s MOOC, Critical Thinking in Global Challenges and it being offered here exclusively to students in Universitas 21 universities. The course is suitable for undergraduate students from any discipline.
Why should I take this course?
The introductory course will give you the opportunity to understand what critical thinking is, and to practice and enhance your critical thinking skills. Completing the course will give you extra ideas and new ways of examining and analysing key issue which, in turn, will help enhance the way you study. More...
The Forum for International Networking in Education (FINE) is an international group of post-graduate research students and early career researchers from Universitas 21 schools of education who cooperate and collaborate in order to better understand educational issues from a global perspective.
The group seeks to provide opportunities for social and professional networking, and possibilities for collaborative research and enhanced academic and career prospects. More...
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