Via @paulboutroux ENCUENTRO EDUTOPÍA
Esta tarde Jordi Adell
Lo que los MOOCs deberían aprender de la Comédie Française… y de Isasa Weis
Los MOOCs no, ¡internet!: Universidad en la red
Anuncio de debate: “This house believes that Academic Education will never meet the skills needs of the IT Profession” Oxford Union Style Debate | Events | Learning and Development Specialist Group | Specialist Groups | Member Groups | Membership | BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT
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‘Universities are failing to educate graduates with the skills we need’ - this is the oft heard complaint by employers of IT graduates. Does the problem start in school with the dire state of ICT teaching and assessment at GCSE and A Level? Should academia be trying to produce graduates with only ‘employable skills’ that have a shelf life of at best a couple of years? Are employers really expecting universities to produce a mature, rounded professional with 20 years experience straight out of university? Is it reasonable to expect Academia to bridge the skills gap when employers are not prepared to provide a robust career path for IT professionals?
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ademia and the IT Profession seem to be out of alignment in a way that other more mature professional career paths are not. Medicine, law, accountancy and the teaching profession provide a clear path from university to the highest levels of those careers - not so in IT. The IT Profession’s skills framework (SFIA) is only a decade old, and IT is neither a regulated or statutory profession - perhaps employers ask and expect too much of Academia, when the IT Profession is still in its infancy.
The dress code for this event is Business formal.
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La negrita es mía. No creo que las IT estén más desalineadas que la medicina o los abogados, al menos aquí.
The number of international university rankings continues to grow, transforming a crowded and increasingly controversial field with new methodologies and new uses for rankings and the data compiled to produce them.
The report concludes that rankings are a permanent fixture of the higher-education landscape, but emphasizes that “many issues relevant to academic quality cannot be measured quantitatively at all.”
Vía @slashdot, ‘Building a Better Tech School’ Cornell NYC Tech, Planned for Roosevelt Island, Starts Up in Chelsea - NYTimes.com
