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27 septembre 2013

Quality not quantity – Measuring the impact of research

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Warwick Anderson, The Conversation. Few things are changing faster in the research world than publishing. The ‘open access’ movement recognises that publicly funded research should be freely available to everyone. Now more than a decade old, open access is changing where researchers publish and, more importantly, how the wider world accesses – and assesses – their work.
As Australia’s medical research funding body, we at the National Health and Medical Research Council, or NHMRC, mandate that all publications from research we’ve funded be openly accessible. More...
27 septembre 2013

The threat of falling behind in international students

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Hiep Pham. Australia is indisputably one of the key players in contemporary transnational higher education. Over the past 10 years, the number of international tertiary students in Australia has increased substantially, from 105,764 in 2000 to 257,637 in 2009. From 2009, Australia overtook France to become the third largest recipient of internationally mobile students after the United States and the United Kingdom and, according to OECD data, it continues to remain in this position. More...
27 septembre 2013

Is there a limit to higher education’s privatisation?

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Roger Y Chao Jr. The privatisation of higher education has been advocated by governments as well as regional and international organisations as a way to fill the supply-demand gap left by the public sector, transfer the finance burden to higher education consumers – for example, students and industry – and increase the efficiency and relevance of higher education and the private returns to consumers.
This privatisation trend is not limited to developing nations, but is increasingly prevalent among developed – and even welfare state – nations. More...
27 septembre 2013

UNESCO-HP initiative supports Africa, Arab brain gain

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Wachira Kigotho. A project backed by UNESCO and Hewlett-Packard, aimed at reversing the brain drain from African and Arab countries, believes it has contributed significantly to strengthening teaching and research in selected universities. The Brain Gain Initiative turned 10 years old this year. A partnership between UNESCO and California-based Hewlett-Packard, or HP, the project uses grid and cloud computing technology to empower lecturers and students who have stayed in their home countries, to engage in real-time scientific collaboration and research with those who have left. More...
27 septembre 2013

Britain’s new strategy to get more students abroad

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Nic Mitchell. With just one UK student studying abroad for every 15 international students coming the other way, Britain is launching a bold initiative to tackle the imbalance.
Unveiled on the same day as the government’s new international education strategy Global Growth and Prosperity, which focuses on attracting even more of the world’s students to British higher education, it was somewhat overlooked when first announced at the end of July. More...
26 septembre 2013

Greater autonomy for universities as foundations

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jan Petter Myklebust. In a memorandum sent to higher education institutions for comment, Sweden’s Ministry of Education has proposed legislation that would grant universities and colleges legal autonomy from the government – by institutions becoming private foundations. Universities have endorsed the need for change, but responses to the legislation have been lukewarm. The legal amendments, outlined in the extensive 136-page memo Høgskolestiftelser, reflect an ideological step towards ‘privatisation’ by conservative Prime Minister John Reinfeldt’s governing alliance. More...
26 septembre 2013

Top universities embrace MOOCs, but opinion is divided

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Karen MacGregor. Elite universities, especially in America, are engaging enthusiastically in massive open online courses, or MOOCs. “They see opportunities for brand enhancement, pedagogic experimentation, recruitment and business model innovation,” says a review of MOOCs published by the UK government last week. But there are conflicting strands of opinion that are dividing the higher education community. Read more...
26 septembre 2013

MOOCs make waves in higher education worldwide

By Karen MacGregor. The development of MOOCs – massive open online courses – outside the ‘Anglo-centric hothouse’ of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia is “characterised by strong involvement with professional needs, wide experimentation and enthusiastic engagement in all significant geographies”, according to a British government review.
An annex to the main report published last week, The Maturing of the MOOC – Literature review of massive open online courses and other forms of online distance learning, finds that opinions on the role of MOOCs in development have polarised. Read more...
26 septembre 2013

Research chemist launches Vietnam’s first MOOCs site

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Hiep Pham. A new Vietnamese-language massive open online courses – MOOCs – system was launched last month, offering free online education that juxtaposes short teaching videos with longer courses from international MOOCs giants edX and Coursera.
Research scientist and entrepreneur Dr Giap van Duong, founder of the new MOOC GiapSchool, left his research position at the National University of Singapore in December to return to Vietnam and devote himself full-time to building the new open education channel. More...
26 septembre 2013

Students to earn credits for MOOCs after passing exams

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Peta Lee. In what is seen as a breakthrough for students, Europe’s MOOCs platform iversity is working with two universities in Germany to award academic credit to students who pass an on-campus exam after taking a massive open online course.
The University of Osnabrück and the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, or FH Lübeck, will be the first to take the step, in a collaboration with iversity, awarding successful students ECTS – European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System – credits for MOOCs. Read more...
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