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Page 1: Online Providers and Ranking Parameters - uoc.edu · Online Providers and Ranking Parameters Sarah Guri ‐ Rosenblit 1. st. International Seminar on Higher Education and E‐Learning.

Online Providers and Ranking Parameters

Sarah Guri‐Rosenblit

1st International Seminar onHigher Education and E‐Learning

Barcelona, 22 September, 2011

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International Ranking Tables:Underlying Premises

• International orientation

• Common features in diversified higher 

education systems

• Important consumer information

• Various parameters/indicators 

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International Orientation

• Moving from a national system to an 

international network

• Emergence of “world class universities”

• Urge to become a touchstone for 

international clienteles

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Common Features in Diversified Higher Education Systems

• Defining common indicators in a variety of ranking tables

• Most diversified higher education systems (34 types in the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classification) 

• Emergence of new‐type institutions(including online/e‐learning providers)

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Important Consumer information

• Growing demand for accountability

• Impact on policy makers in public money 

distribution

• Multiple relevant parameters for 

heterogeneous student clienteles

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Various parameters/indicators 

• Research (90% ‐ Shanghai Jiao Tong;100% Iberamericano ‐ Pan‐Hispanic) 

• Learning inputs‐ staff

• Learning inputs ‐ resources

• Learning inputs ‐ students

• Learning outputs

• ….

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Ranking Tables (over  )

• Shanghai Jiao Tong Research universities world ranking

• THES world university rankings

• Excelencia

• Asiaweek – Asia’s best universities

• US News and World Report

• …… 

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Shanghai Jiao Tong Research Universities World Ranking

• 20% ‐ Citation in leading journals

• 20% ‐ Articles in Science and Nature

• 20% ‐ # of Thomson/ISI HiCi researchers

• 30% ‐Winners of Noble prize/ Fields medals in math

• 10% ‐ Dividing the total by the # of staff

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Thomson/ISI HiCi Researchers (2009)

• 3,614 ‐ US• 224 ‐ Germany• 221 ‐ Japan• 162 ‐ Canada• 138 ‐ France• 101 ‐ Australia• 94 ‐ Switzerland‐‐‐‐‐‐Stanford ‐ 132

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THES world university rankings

• 40% ‐ International opinion survey of academics

• 10% ‐ Survey of global employers

• 5% ‐ Proportion of international students

• 5% ‐ Proportion of international staff

• 20% ‐ Student‐staff ratio

• 20% ‐ Research citation performance

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Implications for online institutions

• Part of mainstream tables?

• Separate tables?

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Online/ E‐learning institutions ‐ ???

• Full fledged online universities/institutions

• Distance teaching universities

• Online programs of consortia

• Online programs of campus‐based universities

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Relevant Parameters/Indicators

• Reputation (national, international)

• Excelling fields of teaching

• Employability (work/business markets)

• Research productivity

• Faculty profile ( national, international)

• Students’ profile

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Relevant Parameters/Indicators

• Innovative cluster 

• Scope of programs (comprehensive to niche areas)

• Undergraduate/graduate provision

• Participation in international networks/ programs/collaborative ventures

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