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Ten Challenges and Emerging Future Trends in Higher Education

The first part of this article involves our view of the ten significant quality challenges affecting universities and colleges presently. The second part is an essential list (English-Spanish) of trends and predictive lines in higher education for 2026 and beyond, …

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

Generative AI will be one of the most significant technological developments for bringing education to a lifelong learning process. But humans with the hands and minds in artificial intelligence will have a major and transcendent task to accomplish, which is …

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Can We Achieve Human Development Without Ethical Ends?

Beyond Left and Right: “To base the political division of the world’s future on ideological standpoints of left or right is senseless.” The basis of human progress is not in return to the past, nor is it in the present; …

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Pandemics, Leadership, and Social Ethics

This Viewpoint argues that the absence of worldwide social ethics is at the root of our present social, political, and economic crises. More to the point, the current COVID- 19 pandemic was, in part, a consequence of insufficient scientific research, …

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Educación afectiva: alas para el viaje del futuro

En cualquier examen del futuro, deberíamos preguntarnos antes que nada, no tanto hacia dónde va la educación, sino más bien hacia dónde debería ir. En el fondo debemos pensar en forma dialéctica entre el ser y el deber ser. Veamos …

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A Need to Educate for Uncertainty

Miguel A. Escotet: «Today there is a need to educate for uncertainty» An Interview with Gena Borrajo, Eduga Journal, Spain. Presently, he is the president of Afundación and IESIDE in Spain. Also, he is an emeritus professor and former Dean of the …

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Robert Arnove: How Great Teachers Make Top Students

The book Talent Abounds: Profiles of Master Teachers and Peak Performers, from Paradigm Publishers written by Robert Arnove, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and a leading scholar of comparative and international education, suggests that great teachers who turn out …

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Scholarly Book on Research in Science and Technology

The book is the result of an extensive research project directed by Dr. Escotet and focuses on the exploratory analysis of the system of science and technology in Latin America.

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Interview with Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom

“We can’t just sit around waiting for the global solution,” alerts Dr. Elinor Ostrom regarding climate change.

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