- March 9, 2024
- Accountability, Education, Ethics, Higher Education, HigherEd Assessment, HigherEd Management
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 […]
University change is inevitable. Progress and innovation is a choice
- February 2, 2024
- Education, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Innovation, Lifelong Learning, Philosophy, University
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 […]
Educación afectiva: alas para el viaje del futuro
- January 14, 2024
- Aprendizaje Cultural, Educación, Education, Ensayo, Ética, Filosofía de la Educación, Futuro, Lifelong Learning, Política educativa, Psicología
En cualquier examen del futuro, deberíamos preguntarnos antes que nada, no tanto hacia dónde va la educación, sino más bien hacia dónde debería ir. En el fondo debemos pensar en forma dialéctica entre el ser y el deber ser. Veamos a vuelo de pájaro dónde estamos y hacia dónde podríamos ir. Muy a pesar de […]
Distance Higher Education and Academic Socialization
- September 10, 2023
- Distance Education, Education, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Online Ed, Open Learning
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 […]
And the plow passed
- July 31, 2023
- AI, Education, Emotional Intelligence, Future, Graduation, Higher Education, Pandemics, Student
A message to the students of the Class of 2023, wherever they are, the Class of the Pandemic (2019-2023). At the beginning of the sowing, we prepared the land, the seeds, and the plow. This sowing was expected to remain the same as the previous ones. This cohort of students reaching the end of their […]
Humanism and Educational Technology Must Coexist
- June 24, 2023
- AI, EdTech, Education, Educational Theory, Humanism, Learning, Liberal Arts, Philosophy, science, Technology
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 […]
The Academic and Administrative Ethnocentrism of the Contemporary University
- April 12, 2023
- Education, Ethics, Faculty, Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Staff, Student, University Culture
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 […]
Learning To Live Together
- March 22, 2023
- Cultural Learning, Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theory, Learning, Psychology, Teaching
Nothing is more important in the early stages of a child of any cultural and social condition than being prepared for cooperative behavior and social learning. We need more education of the heart if we are keen to learn to live together. The future of humanity depends more on education for the heart than on […]
Utopian and Strategic Planning for Development and Change
- February 9, 2023
- Business, Development, Economics, Education, Essay, Philosophy, Planning, Social Philosophy, Sociology
The purely expansionist ‘realistic’ strategic planning model typifies today’s society and causes an anti-climax in planning, turning it into a simple matter of forecasting, systematic organization, and the subordination of desirable human goals to foreseeable economic development. Does strategic planning make all the right moves? The concept of development has been used in economics, […]
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, […]