El futuro de la enseñanza de ingeniería (y de más cosas)

Un resumen muy, muy interesante de Aldert Kamp sobre las conversaciones que tuvieron lugar hace unos días en Lehigh acerca de cómo mejorar la enseñanza de la ingeniería en las universidades, para tratar de adaptarse mejor a lo que el mercado está demandando. Tristemente, las universidades europeas no parecen ser las más dinámicas...

In a general sense, my observation is that (with a sample of nine universities the evidence is anecdotal indeed) the Asian universities are rapidly breaking with the traditional lecturing formats. They transform their teaching to more active teaching formats in small groups that have been developed in the past decades mainly in the US and Europe, such as project education, project-based learning, video tutorials, video instruction followed by project-based learning, flipped classrooms, e-learning modules for mathematics. The Australian and European universities anticipate to change but seem risk averse, doubt about change in direction with great caution and therefore evolve slowly. All three North-American universities are entrepreneurial, take risks, do continuous discovery and experiment with new teaching and assessment methods and new curricular structures all the time.

Cortesía de Ana, aquí va otra reflexión similar, esta vez desde la perspectiva del Derecho.