Online Providers and Ranking Parameters Sarah Guri‐Rosenblit 1 st International Seminar on Higher Education and E‐Learning Barcelona, 22 September, 2011
Online Providers and Ranking Parameters
Sarah Guri‐Rosenblit
1st International Seminar onHigher Education and E‐Learning
Barcelona, 22 September, 2011
International Ranking Tables:Underlying Premises
• International orientation
• Common features in diversified higher
education systems
• Important consumer information
• Various parameters/indicators
International Orientation
• Moving from a national system to an
international network
• Emergence of “world class universities”
• Urge to become a touchstone for
international clienteles
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)
Important Consumer information
• Growing demand for accountability
• Impact on policy makers in public money
distribution
• Multiple relevant parameters for
heterogeneous student clienteles
Various parameters/indicators
• Research (90% ‐ Shanghai Jiao Tong;100% Iberamericano ‐ Pan‐Hispanic)
• Learning inputs‐ staff
• Learning inputs ‐ resources
• Learning inputs ‐ students
• Learning outputs
• ….
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
• ……
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
Thomson/ISI HiCi Researchers (2009)
• 3,614 ‐ US• 224 ‐ Germany• 221 ‐ Japan• 162 ‐ Canada• 138 ‐ France• 101 ‐ Australia• 94 ‐ Switzerland‐‐‐‐‐‐Stanford ‐ 132
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
Online/ E‐learning institutions ‐ ???
• Full fledged online universities/institutions
• Distance teaching universities
• Online programs of consortia
• Online programs of campus‐based universities
Relevant Parameters/Indicators
• Reputation (national, international)
• Excelling fields of teaching
• Employability (work/business markets)
• Research productivity
• Faculty profile ( national, international)
• Students’ profile
Relevant Parameters/Indicators
• Innovative cluster
• Scope of programs (comprehensive to niche areas)
• Undergraduate/graduate provision
• Participation in international networks/ programs/collaborative ventures