scholarly journals Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie Maria Tanczer ◽  
Ronald J Deibert ◽  
Didier Bigo ◽  
M I Franklin ◽  
Lucas Melgaço ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Annual Convention ◽  
The Internet ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Roundtable Discussion ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
New Challenges

Abstract The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this time of digital dependence, the academy barely demonstrates an appetite to reflect upon the new challenges that digital technologies have brought to the scholarly profession. This forum's inspiration was a roundtable discussion at the 2017 International Studies Association Annual Convention, where many of the forum authors agreed on the need for critical debate about the effects of online surveillance and censorship techniques on scholarship. This forum contains five critiques regarding our digitized infrastructures, datafied institutions, mercenary corporations, exploitative academic platforms, and insecure online practices. Together, this unique collection of articles contributes to the research on academic freedom and helps to frame the analysis of the neoliberal higher education sector, the surveillance practices that students and staff encounter, and the growing necessity to improve our “digital hygiene.”

Digital Support for Adaptation of Foreign Trainers within the Framework of the Project «BUDDYSYSTEM»: Case of the Ural Federal University Named after First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
М. Каримов ◽  
M. Karimov ◽  
А. Рустамов ◽  
A. Rustamov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
It Support ◽  
Internet Support

The problem of adaptation of foreign students to the Russian educational environment is becoming increasingly important due to the increase in the number of foreign students in higher education institutions of Russia. The Internet support of the adaptation system on the basis of specially created for it support systems — “buddysystems” — begins particular importance in this process. The article describes the author’s system of work with newly arriving students, undergraduates, graduate students for their comprehensive adaptation at the Ural Federal University named after the fi rst President of Russia B. N.Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. One of the key elements is the using of digital technologies for successful communication with foreign students. Analysis of the project “BUDDYSYSTEMURFU” shows its multiplicativity and the possibility of implementation in the universities of the country.

scholarly journals Academic Freedom: A Realistic Appraisal

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
Marketization Of Higher Education ◽  
Realistic Appraisal

Problems concerning academic freedom exist almost everywhere—created by changing academic realities, political pressures, growing commercialization and marketization of higher education, or legal pressures. The purpose of this article is to argue that academic freedom needs to be carefully defined so that it can be defended in the global climate of complexity. A new, and probably more delimited, understanding of academic freedom is needed in the age of the Internet and the global knowledge economy.

scholarly journals Two sides of the same coin? Internationalisation and employability - students’ perceptions of employability and career outcomes from International Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Beate Mueller ◽  
Julie Robert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Culture Study ◽  
Professional Liability ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Professional Degrees ◽  
Two Sides

The Australian higher education sector has promoted internationalisation opportunities for students, including through international studies (IS) courses that entail language and culture study and international exchange. Educators promote internationalisation for many reasons, including enhanced employability, and international studies degrees are increasingly offered in combination with professional courses. Students, however, do not necessarily share in the belief that international opportunities and language study will increase their employability. A thematic analysis of statements (n=223) supplied on student applications to withdraw from combined international studies courses in favour of single professional degrees, reveals that students fail to see employability benefits and may even perceive their international studies course as a professional liability. Understanding these beliefs can allow educators to more effectively promote the value of not only international studies degrees, but also language and culture study and exchange opportunities, and to counter some of the myths that prevent students from undertaking international opportunities.

Academic freedom in primary and secondary school teaching

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-138
Author(s):  
Bruce Maxwell ◽  
David I. Waddington ◽  
Kevin McDonough
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

Why do society and the courts so readily recognize university and college teachers’ academic freedom but just as readily deny primary and secondary school teachers the same right? To investigate this question, this article considers teachers’ work in light of the standard justifications for granting academic freedom in higher education: that academic freedom is essential to promoting the capacity for critical reflection and the reliable transfer of disciplinary knowledge. Considering that society calls on teachers to play a key role in advancing both of these educational and social goods, the article argues that granting academic freedom in higher education, while denying it for primary and secondary teachers, appears to be a double standard. The claims to academic freedom typically reserved for university professors, we show, also apply to the work of primary and secondary teachers. There are significant differences between teaching in the higher education sector as opposed to the compulsory education sector. School teachers work with a conscripted clientele of minors and are therefore rightly subject to more stringent norms of public accountability. These differences notwithstanding, the concept of academic freedom, the article concludes, is a potentially powerful source of leverage for addressing concerns about the erosion of teachers’ professional autonomy and for increased teacher involvement in the elaboration and management of the regulatory frameworks that govern their work.

scholarly journals New Challenges in the United States

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert O'Neil
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
American Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Professors ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Private Colleges And Universities

Academic freedom in American higher education evolves in curious and often unpredictable ways. For those who teach at public or state-supported institutions, the courts play a major role in defining the scope of such freedom. For faculty at independent or private colleges and universities, whose policies are seldom subject to court review, standards are provided by organizations such as the American Association of University Professors. Some faculties at institutions of both types may also be protected by collective bargaining agreements. After a decade or so with relatively few critical tests of the rights and liberties of US scholars, the past year or two has brought academic freedom to the fore in dramatic fashion. Three current tests merit special attention: the cases of John Yoo, William Robinson, and Ward Churchill.

The higher education and the sphere of labor in digital economy: a new mechanism of interaction

2021 ◽  
pp. 202-207
Author(s):  
Svetlana Enikeeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
University Development ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
Mechanism Of Interaction ◽  
New Challenges

The article addresses a new mechanism of interaction of Russia’s higher education and the sphere of labor. New challenges facing modern higher education are predetermined by digital transformation in the sectors of the economy and changes in the structure of the labor market resulted from the development of digital technologies. The author shows how the application of modern digital technologies affects the transition to a new digital format of training, radically changing the paradigm of university development, scientific and educational activities, and also organizing the work to attract and retain young talents. Finally, the author provides valuable conclusions concerning specific development of digital educational environment in the sphere of higher education.

scholarly journals INVOLVEMENT OF FOREIGN STUDENTS IN LATVIAN UNIVERSITIES: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Jeļena Lonska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
State Economy ◽  
Future Activity ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Moment

At the moment, the Latvian higher education sector experiences the period of “crisis”, therefore it is necessary to find new challenges. Higher education institutions sense the influence of state fiscal policy, i.e. reduction of financing, those meanings when near years is to legislate for studious students decrease. For future activity there is pegging of pay students from others states. In Latvian higher education sector and for state economy in total this gives constitutive acquisition increase of students, science and innovation, as well as foreign states financial resources in state economy.

The higher education and the sphere of labor in digital economy: a new mechanism of interaction

2021 ◽  
pp. 202-217
Author(s):  
Svetlana Enikeeva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
University Development ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
Mechanism Of Interaction ◽  
New Challenges

The article addresses a new mechanism of interaction of Russia’s higher education and the sphere of labor. New challenges facing modern higher education are predetermined by digital transformation in the sectors of the economy and changes in the structure of the labor market resulted from the development of digital technologies. The author shows how the application of modern digital technologies affects the transition to a new digital format of training, radically changing the paradigm of university development, scientific and educational activities, and also organizing the work to attract and retain young talents. Finally, the author provides valuable conclusions concerning specific development of digital educational environment in the sphere of higher education.

Problems of Science and Its Effectiveness

2011 ◽  
pp. 151-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Varshavsky
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Management ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Academic Sector

The article considers current problems of Russia´s science. Special attention is paid to external factors that negatively influence its effectiveness including considerable lag in public management sector. The issues of opposing higher education sector to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) are also discussed. A number of indicators of the Russian science and its academic sector effectiveness are presented. The expediency of comparing scientific results with R&D expenditures is shown. The problems connected with using bibliometric methods are discussed. Special attention is paid to the necessity of preserving and further developing Russian science including RAS.

VECTORS OF HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR TRANSFORMATION IN CONDITIONS OF THE INFORMATION ECONOMY FORMATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4(12)) ◽  
pp. 44-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliia Valeriivna Tkalenko ◽  
◽  
Natalia Ivanivna Kholіavko ◽  
Kateryna Volodymyrivna Hnedina ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Information Economy
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