Lueny Morell
BBC News – What is the EU and how does it work?
Ready to Flip: Three Ways to Hold Students Accountable for Pre-Class Work
From Faculty Focus comes this short article on how to make students accountable and do the work prior to coming to the active learning class meeting. Nice.
A Peak into the Future
Global and US S&E Indicators 2016
The US National Science Board’s comprehensive biennial report puts the worldwide total at $1.671 trillion in 2013. Ten years earlier, in 2003, it was $836 billion. By these figures, the annual increase in total global R&D . . . averaged 7.2 percent over the decade, doubling in size. But the US did not follow this trend in the same period.
“Inflation-adjusted growth in total U.S. R&D averaged only 0.8 percent annually over the 2008–13 period, behind the 1.2 percent annual average for U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). Even so, the single-year metrics for 2010–11 and 2012–13 were markedly more favorable than this 5-year average: 2.7 percent in real growth for total R&D in 2010–11 versus 1.6 percent for GDP; 3.2 percent for R&D in 2012–13 versus 2.2 percent for GDP.
“By comparison, the growth of U.S. R&D averaged 3.9 percent annually in 2003–08, ahead of GDP at 2.2 percent, and over 1993–2003, U.S. R&D growth averaged 3.9 percent compared with GDP at 3.4 percent. On this basis, the R&D growth figures in 2010–11 and 2012–13 were more like those before 2008, but the longstanding U.S. trend of substantial real growth annually in R&D, well ahead of the pace of GDP, still has not returned.”
“S&E degrees, important for an innovative knowledge economy, have become relatively more prevalent in some Asian countries than in the United States: in China, nearly half of all first university degrees (49%) awarded in 2012 were in S&E, compared with 33% in the United States. Globally, the number of first university degrees in S&E reached about 6.4 million, according to the most recent estimates. Almost half of these degrees were conferred in China (23%) and India (23%); another 21% were conferred in the European Union (EU; see “Glossary” for member countries) (12%) and in the United States (9%).”
How to Cook Up a Vibrant Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
3 Reasons Brain Science is Terrific & Terrifying
From WEF – for those of you interested in these kinds of topics (related to machine learning, too!).
Women in Silicon Valley
Stanford University survey results on women in Silicon Valley. Worth reviewing… http://elephantinthevalley.com/
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Are Cities the New Countries? (BBC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-35305586
In a report on global trends shaping education, the OECD says cities could learn from each other’s experiences, in a way that would be impossible at the level of national politics. In education, comparisons between cities are particularly relevant.
Tagged: BBC, cities, countries
The Faulty Foundations of American Higher Education
This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education is worth reading, especially for those of you who like to learn about forecasts of the future of higher education. Download article here:The Faulty Foundation of American Colleges – CHE
A Lecture from the Lectured
The Promise & Challenges of Learning Analytics
The field of learning analytics is growing as fast as the availability of on-line courses. This article by the CHE discusses a case study of how learning analytics can help enhance student learning and its limitations.
Tagged: Higher Education
Eight Essentials of Innovation
From – McKinsey Institute.
Download report – The eight essentials of innovation
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Measuring Inventiveness by Country
Innovation is no longer a rich-country prerogative. The annual Global Innovation Index and a related report, published by Cornell University, INSEAD (a business school) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation, rank 140 countries and economies using 79 indicators.
From the Economist Expresso (an app on my cell phone).
Creativity, Innovation and Change
I just enrolled in this Coursera course offered by Penn State University (one of the Learning Factory original partners). Let’s see what I can learn about the topic. Let me know if you enroll to share our learning experience.
WEEF & GEDC 2016, Seoul
The History of Disruption in the Recording Industry in One Chart
Are We Obsessed with University Rankings?
“It would be naive to assume that rankings will lose their importance in the future. However, while recognizing that they are here to stay, we must be aware of their many limitations, their intended and unintended biases, and their convenience-based usage by institutions and even national governments.”
http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/are-we-obsessed-university-rankings
Tagged: Higher Education