Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Globalization And Reform In Higher Education

https://books.google.com/books?id=u_ZDBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=major+trends+impacting+faculty+roles+and+rewards:+an+international+perspective&source=bl&ots=UqLD3F1ZB6&sig=48xBKIojaacNv_iV6cM3frNYCCA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis9uDFoI_PAhVEaz4KHbz2BBoQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=major%20trends%20impacting%20faculty%20roles%20and%20rewards%3A%20an%20international%20perspective&f=false

differentiated by discipline, institutional mission, organizaional structures and national systems
The USA values general education during the undergraduate expereince, France is more oriented toward specialized training; and Germany stresses the science
Marginson  uses the term "enterprise university: to symbolize an emergent institutional type in Australia..have both academic and economic dimensions. Their fundamental mission is to "advance the prestige and competitiveness of the university as an end in itself".. they are characterized by strong executive control, the corporate character of their missions and governing bodies, diminished authority of traditional academic governance strugglers and running of research as a system of measured performance

The universities must adopt an approach that places emphasizes on teams, networks, connectivity  and other characteristics that are counter to the current dominant culture, which emphasizes individual personal autonomy and discipline based research

Internet as a transformative learning technology. New literacy goes beyond text and image and is characterized by information navigation, discovery-based learning, judgement, discernment and synthesis. Brown believes that learning occurs from leraning whith and from each other. The internet becomes "a learning medium where understandings are socially constructred and shared.


challeged academics to decide what content to invlude, how to organize it and for what purposes. Moreover, technology alone has introduced new learning modalities atht challenge our assumpotions about how students learn.

Moore believes that in the emerging learning environments individuals must do more than merely understand a certain knowledge domain,  they must deleop advande conceptural abiliteies, complex problem-solving skills and high degree of creativity. Many other share her view and call for academics in the disiplines to place greater emphasis on these learning outcomes.

in the USA, a movement to improve teaching.. to shift one's thinking from how faculty member teach to  how students learn: to create learning environments focused directly on the activiites that enhance student learning, we must restructure the role of faculty to mazimize essential faculty-student interaction, integrate new techolonogies fully into the students learning process, and hearnce learning thoug  their peer interaction

will need to learn more about how teaching and learning occurs



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