“Las brechas del conocimiento”

los esfuerzos realizados en el campo de las ciencias sociales, al tender a concentrarse demasiado en los países industrializados de cultura anglosajona, no dan todos los resultados que cabría esperar. De esta manera, se está desperdiciando la oportunidad de explorar perspectivas y paradigmas arraigados en otras culturas y lenguas”

El Informe destaca que las ciencias sociales son más necesarias que nunca para tratar con eficacia los problemas más graves con que tropieza la humanidad

Uno de los temas que ocupa más espacio en la agenda universitaria en la actualidad es el de la movilidad y la internacionalización de la educación superior, en particular la universitaria

encuentro de rectores

necesidad de intensificar las relaciones entre las universidades de la región, de manera de compartir experiencias comunes y aprovechar sinergias que resulten mutuamente beneficiosas para todas las instituciones y consolidar, en un plazo de 10 años, un espacio iberoamericano del conocimiento.

Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away to you for free.

my professors of Twitter

Many of them don’t even know it and that’s the beauty. There is no course outline, no costly tuition (yet anyway), no declared major, and you can take as many electives as you want.

There are lots of ways that search will need to evolve in order to easily meet user needs.

how search might change over the next 10 years.

In the next 10 years, we will see radical advances in modes of search: mobile devices offering us easier search, Internet capabilities deployed in more devices, and different ways of entering and expressing your queries by voice, natural language, picture, or song, just to name a few. It’s clear that while keyword-based searching is incredibly powerful, it’s also incredibly limiting. These new modes will be one of the most sweeping changes in search.

Si las universidades no podemos o no sabemos reenfocar nuestra manera de pensar y de actuar y redefinir nuestro papel en la sociedad, habremos fallado. En cambio, si nos atrevemos a trabajar a largo plazo, a fortalecer lo mejor de nuestro pasado y de nuestra tradición pero al mismo tiempo repensar y reforzar nuestras instituciones para el futuro de forma innovadora y colaborativa, daremos señales a la sociedad de que sabemos cómo afrontar nuestros retos, y los suyos.

Nine approaches to creative problem solving: Rethink! Look at problems in many different ways. Visualize! Utilize diagrams and imagery to analyze your dilemma. Produce! Genius is productive. Combine! Make novel combinations... Form! Form relationships. Opposite! Think in opposites. Metaphor/simile! Think metaphorically. Failure! Learning from your mistakes is one example of using failure. Patience! Don't confuse inspiration with ideas.

The authors take the position that persuasion is a science, not art, hence with the right approach anybody can become the master in the skill of persuasion

a more humanistic approach to Internet technology.

Lanier rails against web 2.0, which he calls at the start of the book "a torrent of petty designs" and "freedom [...] more for machines than people."

He writes that web 2.0 presents the current generation of kids with a "reduced expectation of what a person can be."

good critical thinking skills are essential for cutting through the noise on the Web and getting to resources that are actually trustworthy and accurate

So here are ten resources I found valuable as I searched the Web for tools to help with sharpening my critical thinking skills

An interesting, 26-question online quiz

Phil Bennett ofrece su retrato de la crisis

Villacañas

de la noche a la mañana, Villacañas se enriqueció de manera asombrosa. La gente se compró pisos en Madrid, casas en la playa, y construyó nuevas viviendas sobre las cuevas de sus antepasados

the future of the LMS

Undoubtedly instructional design is crucial if the mindset is learning events

then ID takes on a whole new dimension.

The vast majority of structured learning is content-rich and interaction-poor.

In the 21st century, working environments are evolving into collaborative places where knowledge is disseminated by autonomous individuals organized into more lateral and less hierarchical structures

"These technologies form rich socio-technical networks that have come to constitute life in this digital age, and participation in these networks is becoming commonplace. They exist in various stages, forms, and venues"

Recent years have yielded research into the importance of community and online teaching in online courses