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29 janvier 2014

The future of MOOCs

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Marguerite Dennis. The internet has rendered geography irrelevant and digital options are changing consumer purchasing decisions all over the world. Computers assist pilots in airplanes, automatic teller machines replace the bank teller in most cities in the world, robot-guided mechanical arms operate in hospitals and digital newspapers and magazines are the preferred method of reading for an increasing number of people. And when was the last time you booked a flight through a travel agent? Read more...
29 janvier 2014

Incheon’s international higher education plans expand

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Crystal Tai. Plans to open more branches of foreign universities in South Korea’s Incheon Free Economic Zone – IFEZ – are back on track, say managers of the development. The United States-based George Mason University and University of Utah, and Ghent University in Belgium, are planning to open branches at Incheon this year. Read more...
29 janvier 2014

Aiming for at least one world-class university by 2020

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Hiep Pham. Vietnam is aiming for at least one ‘world-class’ national university to emerge by 2020, while also upgrading regional research-led universities to compete with the best in Asia by 2015 – in time for the formation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, economic community. Read more...
29 janvier 2014

MOOCs creator George Siemens gets connected

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Steve Kolowich, The Chronicle of Higher Education. When George Siemens was in the seventh grade, in the early 1980s, he committed what his parents believed to be a sin: he used a computer. It was a Commodore PET, a precursor of the personal computers that would soon reshape the world and everything in it.
[This is an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, America’s leading higher education publication. It is presented here under an agreement with University World News.] Read more...
28 janvier 2014

New educational technology network wins award

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Nicola Jenvey. Massive open online courses – MOOCs – are potential game changers for African education, radically enhancing access to knowledge and creating borderless education. In that light it is a boon that a network for educational technology practitioners and researchers, e/merge Africa, has won a major award. Read more...
28 janvier 2014

Eurydice student mobility report throws up surprises

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Peta Lee. There appears much to be learned from the publication last week of Eurydice’s first ever report outlining and scoring European Union member states’ policies to encourage higher education students to spend part of their studies or training abroad. Apart from covering all 28 European Union member states, the report, Towards a Mobility Scoreboard: Conditions for learning abroad in Europe, also included Lichtenstein, Turkey and Norway. Read more...
28 janvier 2014

Graduate job hunt still tough despite economic upturn

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Suvendrini Kakuchi. Armed with notebooks and folders Rika Nogochi, a third-year liberal arts student, is attending job seminars in Tokyo. “It's not too early to begin this gruelling search for a good job despite the fact that I graduate next April,” she said as she marched through company booths listening to lectures and picking up brochures at a recent job fair. Read more...
28 janvier 2014

Understanding and resolving high youth unemployment

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Peta Lee. The failure of companies, education institutions and young people to understand one another is one of the reasons why employers are not getting the skills they need and there are now 5.6 million young people jobless across Europe, according to a report by McKinsey & Company. Read more...
28 janvier 2014

Business, HE leaders propose foreign student grants

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jan Petter Myklebust. A group of leaders of Swedish companies and universities have proposed a new model for financing international students through 1,500 grants. The grants will be calculated on a cost-benefit analysis of at least 20% of the students working and paying taxes in Sweden for five years after graduating. Read more...
28 janvier 2014

Universities feel stabbed in the back by minister

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jan Petter Myklebust. Over the Christmas period Morten Østergaard, Denmark’s minister for science, innovation and higher education, told a leading newspaper there were far too many courses at universities and the number would be significantly cut. There have also been challenges to the university funding system. Universities have now struck back. Since 1990 there has been a four-fold increase in the number of bachelor degrees offered by Danish universities. Read more...
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