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Transparency and Social Regulation in Higher Education

Universities must be accountable, yes, but to whom? Whether public or private, universities cannot be exempt from regulation, but it should come in the form of self-assessment and a duty to society, not politics. The most radical critics suggest that the best law on university action is one that refers to an institution’s mission and […]

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University change is inevitable. Progress and innovation is a choice

The future of universities is closely linked to their capacity to change and innovate and their internal coexistence. To remain in the same place, you must keep moving; otherwise, you will get left behind. However, higher education has shifted many times to and from positions based on individuals who learn and advance to corporate structures that […]

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How to hack your happy hormones: A sample list

How to hack your happy hormones from a psychological, psychosomatic, and mental health point of view. The neurotransmitters of well-being are dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. Each hormone is generated in response to a particular activity and has specific bodily and mental functions. Here are some basic examples of my Preventive Mental Hygiene classes. Dopamine: […]

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Distance Higher Education and Academic Socialization

Rereading some of my works from decades ago, I read with anguish that the world has changed, not universities or education. We have replaced the blackboard and chalk with LCD screens, PowerPoint presentations, virtual toys, or sophisticated ways to plagiarize with ChatGPT. We make assumptions with Artificial Intelligence, but genuine education, with valuable exceptions, remains […]

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Humanism and Educational Technology Must Coexist

The segmentation of fields of knowledge has led to the fragmentation of language, producing a generation of professional people in­capable of communicating between one branch of knowledge and another and, increas­ingly, between the cultures of science and the humanities. The false dichotomy between formative education in the sciences and the arts requires a radical change […]

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The Academic and Administrative Ethnocentrism of the Contemporary University

Much of the crisis in the quality of university education has this dichotomy as its background: the crisis of the relationship between the person who teaches and the person who learns. A university where professors and students must foremost be lifelong learners; and where the study programs are designed, modified, and transmitted daily based on […]

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