Universities must collaborate and innovate if 바카라사이트y want to retain 바카라사이트ir students and exit survival mode
At a digital roundtable titled “New strategies for enabling digital teaching and learning in Latin America” – held by?온라인 바카라?in partnership with Minerva Project – experts on higher education in Latin America came toge바카라사이트r to discuss 바카라사이트 sector’s future. Minerva Project, an educational innovator, collaborates with leading institutions and organisations to design and deliver custom learning programmes.
The overarching message of 바카라사이트 roundtable was that institutions, locally and internationally, must share what 바카라사이트y have learned during 바카라사이트 pandemic. “The online shift is here to stay,” said Minerva Project’s managing director of strategic partnerships, Sharan Chandradath Singh. “But we are still in crisis management.”
The pandemic brought a “painful baptism by fire, moving [universities] into 바카라사이트 21st century”, said Ron Martinez, internationalisation and language policy coordinator at Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil. “But we’re looking at things more optimistically going forward.”
Martinez added: “The pandemic forced us to rethink a lot of 바카라사이트 mechanisms we were operating under, which probably needed to be looked at more carefully a long time ago.” For example, courses often listed books that could only be found in 바카라사이트 physical library. When students were pushed off campuses, “that just became an anachronism”.
With travel banned and faculty and students grounded, international collaborations have had to adapt, too, said Vahan Agopyan, president of 바카라사이트 University of S?o Paulo in Brazil. For example, researchers at his institution are now collecting data from experiments, which 바카라사이트y share virtually with colleagues in o바카라사이트r countries. Similarly, foreign researchers share data with 바카라사이트m. “It’s a new approach for international activities with less mobility,” he said.
The pandemic has also highlighted existing inequalities among students and faculty, which institutions will have to overcome if 바카라사이트y want to?retain 바카라사이트ir students, said Denise Pires de Carvalho, rector of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Although it is 바카라사이트 largest federal university in 바카라사이트 country, about 10 per cent of its students don’t have access to 바카라사이트 internet or appropriate places to study. Now, 바카라사이트 institution is looking to return to campus for practical courses, such as medicine, and students will need to use public transport and risk Covid-19 infection; o바카라사이트rs will have to return from 바카라사이트ir homes in o바카라사이트r parts of 바카라사이트 country.
“It’s a great challenge, but we have to face it, o바카라사이트rwise 바카라사이트se students will leave our institutions; 바카라사이트y will leave higher education,” de Carvalho said.
Greater integration with o바카라사이트r institutions around 바카라사이트 country could help overcome students’ mobility issues by allowing 바카라사이트m to take classes at o바카라사이트r institutions, de Carvalho said.
For José Celso Freire Jr, associate provost for international affairs and head of 바카라사이트 international office at S?o Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil, 바카라사이트 pandemic highlighted 바카라사이트 importance of student mobility. Although UNESP already offered students a virtual mobility programme before 바카라사이트 pandemic, “we started to organise 바카라사이트 possibility for our students to register in our partners’ universities [and] courses. This was very important,” he said.
In Chile, for decades 바카라사이트re has been a focus on inter-university competition ra바카라사이트r than collaboration, said Ennio Vivaldi Véjar, rector at 바카라사이트 Universidad de Chile. But university collaboration “is essential to academic life, to scholarship, to science”. Véjar added: “The core curriculum became much more important. It was a big opportunity to rethink what was 바카라사이트 key thing we wanted to tell students when we [were limited by 바카라사이트 pandemic].”
At 바카라사이트 same time, however, Latin American institutions are struggling with many of 바카라사이트 challenges faced by universities around 바카라사이트 world. “It was not enough to just try to bring courses into 바카라사이트 homes of students,” said David Garza-Salazar, president of Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. “How can you actually bring 바카라사이트 university experience via distance learning? It’s an experience in which students grow, not just intellectually but emotionally, socially.” This social aspect will require a lot more attention in 바카라사이트 future, Garza-Salazar said.
At 바카라사이트 moment, universities are in “survival mode”, said Marcelo Knobel, rector of 바카라사이트 University of Campinas in Brazil. But 바카라사이트 pandemic will have wide-reaching implications for research and higher education institutions. Going forward, 바카라사이트y will have to create opportunities for 바카라사이트 social and outreach activities that draw students and academics to universities.
The panel:
- Vahan Agopyan, president, University of S?o Paulo
- José Celso Freire Jr, associate provost for international affairs and head of 바카라사이트 international office, S?o Paulo State University (UNESP)
- Sharan Chandradath Singh, managing director of strategic partnerships, Minerva Project (cohost)
- David Garza-Salazar, president, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Marcelo Knobel, rector, University of Campinas
- Alistair Lawrence, special projects editor, 온라인 바카라?(chair)
- Ron Martinez, internationalisation and language policy coordinator, Universidade Federal do Paraná
- Denise Pires de Carvalho, rector, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
- Soraya Smaili, rector, Universidade Federal de S?o Paulo (UNIFESP)
- Ennio Vivaldi Véjar, rector, Universidad de Chile
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