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International Bac chooses Epals

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International Baccalaureate has selected ePals, Inc., to implement and manage a customized hosted learning community for it’s students, teachers and other community members including administration and alumni. The International Baccalaureate is a nonprofit educational foundation with programs for students aged 3 to 19 that can be found in 2,704 schools in 138 countries. Programs aim to

help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world.

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Muslim Students at a Baptist College

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I have a Google alert set up to bring me news with the keywords “Islam, education and technology.” It has, occasionally, brought me some interesting articles on the use of technology to teach American students about Islam and the Islamic world. Today the automatically generated message brought me a piece from Christianity Today: A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction bearing the title “Where Jerusalem and Mecca Meet.”
It is an article about Muslim students at Houston Baptist University, so Jerusalem in the title represents Christianity and Mecca, Islam. Never mind that Jerusalem is a deeply sacred city in the eyes of Muslims as well, not to mention Jews, or that Jerusalem has a Muslim population. In this kind of periodical, the titles are more often than not provided by editors, not the writers, so I won’t rush to blame the Gregg Chenoweth and Caleb Benoit.
It’s an odd article, though. And it is about an odd situation. But it makes an interesting read.

President Robert Sloan, the man whose ambitious plan to turn Baylor University into a premiere Christian research institution polarized the Waco campus in 2005, has brought a similar faith-and-learning vision to HBU—one that has room for Muslim students. “It keeps us from being too insular,” says Sloan, president since August 2006. “It also gives us an opportunity to learn how to witness right here, from experience.”
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Kahleh also runs an on-campus Alpha course, the popular co-curricular introduction to Christian basics. His last session featured three Muslims in a group of ten. Further, Cross hosts interfaith discussions with representatives from Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. While comparative religion studies are typical at evangelical schools, a multi-religious populace is not.

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State of American Higher Education in a Global Context

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I am reading a somewhat worrisome article in The Chronicle of Higher Education with the headline “U.S. Faculty Members Feel a Lack of Clout, International Survey Finds” (account required for access). It concerns a soon to be published study surveying faculty members in 20 different nations, as well as Hong Kong, that was conducted in 2007 and 2008. One of the study’s author’s from the Center for International Higher Education said

the study’s results…show that American faculty members remain relatively isolated from their peers elsewhere. In examining the latest data from the United States, he says, he was struck by “how behind the curve Americans are when it comes to their views of internationalization, their knowledge about what is going on academically around the rest of the world, their use of data from scholars from other countries.”

Anyone who knows me or my work is aware of my concern with the cultural isolationism of the United States and its consequences. The consequences are real and have real world implications, financial, political and social. But this article shows that there is far more to be concerned about. Good scholarship is built on that which comes before it, and without full awareness of it all, one ends up repeating that which has been done before, or simply missing out on helpful information that would advance ones own research.
The study also found that

the United States is seen as losing its advantage over many nations in terms of the perceived quality of its higher-education facilities, and that many faculty members in highly developed nations are less engaged in the affairs of their universities and see their institutions’ management as more heavy-handed than was the case in the early 1990s.

and that the number of publications refereed journals, appears to has declined slightly in the United States while rising quickly in countries like Brazil and some of the new “Asian tigers.” Moreover, American faculty are more likely to disproportionately likely to engage in research that is “socially oriented,” whereas in other places it is basic or applied research that is more common.
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Quite simply there is a growing gap between the number of degrees awarded in fields like engineering, computer science, physical science, math, etc., and the number of positions available in these fields.
So now the question is whether or not the current economic crisis will exacerbate the crisis. There are two ways in which it might do so, either by making higher education even less affordable as larger numbers become unemployed or see their savings and investments devoured, or because budget cuts caused by the massive hit the endowments of far too many colleges have sustained in recent months begin to hurt the quality of education.
Technology-assisted collaboration can offer higher education a way to achieve greater efficiency and do things in a more cost-effective manner without compromising standards of education. But it takes creative thinking, planning and a serious investment of time and energy. Certainly resources must be allotted, as well, but sometimes it takes only a reallocation of existing resources. This, however, is the subject of a longer entry, perhaps at some point to come.