- March 1, 2023
- distance learning, EdTech, Educational Philosophy, Learning, Lifelong Learning, Psychology
The education system will rediscover its true role of serving the individual, helping to educate people in mastering cognitive skills and the ability to think, developing a critical awareness of reality, developing affective domains, and cooperating with others around them. Information will no longer take pride of place in this system since it can be […]
Innovation for Change in Higher Education Management
- January 19, 2023
- Development, Higher Education, HigherEd Management, Institutional Change, Strategic Planning
The development of universities and the intermittent reforms that they undergo are a reflection of the whims of their leaders, although these may sometimes result in appropriate decisions being taken. Reforms and counter-reforms are almost always the results of the appointment of a new president or rector, provost or dean, and not of a consistent […]
Issues Comparing Classroom and Online Education
- December 12, 2022
- distance learning, e-Learning, EdTech, Education, Educational Philosophy, Online Ed, open education
Open education consists of the reason and essence for education, as it would be inadequate to contrast the term open education with closed education. It would be impossible to understand any type of closed education. The concept of open education embraces all types of true education and guides it in four directions: open to all populations, […]
Can We Transfer Science From One Culture To Another?
- August 4, 2022
- Anthropology, Essay, Philosophy, Philosopy of Science, Research Methodology, Sciences, Technology, Technology Transfer
Can we transfer science from one country to another or from one culture to another culture? Is a scientific fact different in the United States and China? Who owns science? Are we confusing science with technology? Science does not come into existence by spontaneous generation. Scientific knowledge is not an only inheritance from the past […]
Shared University Governance: Authoritarianism or Authority
A university culture centered on the student, not on the faculty or administration. The authority of governing is gained through the existence of levels of participation and cooperation in decision-making. The picture above shows the signature ceremony of the Magna Charta Universitatum signed in Piazza Maggiore at Bologna on September 18, 1988, by 388 Rectors of worldwide main […]
My Teaching Philosophy: An Intimate Reflection
- April 16, 2022
- Educational Philosophy, Essay, Ethics, Higher Education, Psychology, Social Philosophy
Education should prepare the human being for ongoing change and for the eventual crisis that might arise as a result of the transition. I believe the aim of education should be to build in each student strong theoretical foundations, to help future teachers to be educated rather than trained, to be capable of understanding the […]
The Psychological, Social and Cultural Nature of Education
- January 24, 2022
- Education, Educational Philosophy, Emotional Intelligence, Intercultural, Learning, Psychology, Social Skills
Let me share with you on the International Day of Education some thoughtful ideas about the psychological, social, and cultural nature of education in a few paragraphs, extending them to education professionals, teachers, mentors and professors. How we should instill in their teaching profession the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are related to the affective […]
Corporate Management Is An Unfit Model for Education
- December 20, 2021
- Accountability, EdTech, Education, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, HigherEd Management
Among all the social forces that are intervening in the development of the education systems is the productive sector of the economy, which has a direct impact on the labor market. However, this sector has failed to forecast the type of jobs and professions that it will need in the medium and long-term (and many […]
Is Higher Education Centered on the Student or the Faculty?
- November 9, 2021
- Education, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, HigherEd Theory & Praxis, University Policy
The backdrop to many university crises has been precisely these dichotomies: the crisis of the relationship between the individual who teaches and the individual who learns, between the member of the ‘academic ethos’ and the member of the ‘social ethos’ and also between the individual who teaches and the one who administers. The academic ethos […]
Learning for Today and Beyond Tomorrow
- September 18, 2021
- Digital Education, EdTech, Educational Philosophy, Essay, Innovation, Learning, Lifelong Learning, Social Philosophy, Technology
We are at the very early stage of a major learning revolution and we are responsible for giving future generations a much better world of what we have today. It would be wrong to suggest that no progress has been made over the last twenty-five years in improving and extending school education throughout the world. […]