Tag: WorlEd

Higher Education in China

One of the things we try to do on this show is introduce people to various higher education systems around the world and the various histories that shaped those systems. In doing so we have had some marvellous discussions: with Dr. Pushkar on India, Andrée Sursock on France, Marcelo Knobel in Brazil and Maria Yudkevich in Russia. But one major system we haven’t done yet is China. China is a hard country to a handle on. It’s massive, obviously. And its post-secondary education system

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Culture Wars in American Higher Education

It is not particularly novel to note that American higher education has been in the midst of a major culture war for the past five or ten years. Universities have traditionally thought of themselves as politically neutral, a place where opposing sides in political debate could meet and resolve disagreements if not through rational examinations of data then at least through constructive debate. The idea that universities might be seen as “biased” in one direction or another is not a

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EdTech with Phil Hill

In many ways, the biggest stories of the last twenty years in global higher education have been stories about technology. Massive Open Online Courses — also known as MOOCs, the rise and spectacular fall of private on-line higher education, the rise (in the United States at least) of major public-sector online universities, and the rise and controversy over so-called Online Program Management providers — or OPMs. And of course, the great global experiment in remote learning that was COVID. These

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