Thanks for the post. I really enjoyed the focus on humans rather than in the technologies. As I mentioned in another post: Educators play an important role in the higher education systems, they are the ones who form professionals to go contribute to the world, but also they raise the new and future mass of professors. In other words, professors have an important role in how the world is shaped through the actions/contributors of those they have “educated”. However, in the current, and for multiple reasons, the relationship between higher education and the ideal role of professors is affecting the relationship between professor-student, which ultimately affects the citizens we sent to the world.
I am going to focus on the relationships with PhD students in the engineering fields of higher education. Nowadays, is it worth to ask the question why is the ratio of international vs National students increasing? Are PhD students the one with more opportunities in the market?

First, to put graduate students in context, PhD students are not regular students, they are professionals that have chosen to continue study for many more years in stead of being part of the work-force, probably in higher positions and good salaries. However, are they being treated this way? Studies show that PhD students suffer from this and this.

In that context, I believe schools need to do this, control for fairness, provide development resources, etc. But the most immediate and direct connection between students and the university is the perforadora and advisors. So I advocate for them Toni corporate in the recurrent teaching practices new views. For example, use empathy.

Thanks for your post. I see that many challenges that Higher Education may have to adapt to, but I was thinking about the humans themselves. Educators play an important role in the higher education systems, they are the ones who form professionals to go contribute to the world, but also they raise the new and future mass of professors. In other words, professors have an important role in how the world is shaped through the actions/contributors of those they have “educated”. How are the differences between undergraduate and graduate education? What should we need to consider in terms of these challenges for both?

Thanks for sharing this comment! IT reminded me of Nisbett’s book “The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why” (2003). Here, he discussed the core cognitive and cultural differences between the East and the West whose roots lie in ancient China and Greece and which have developed over time and continue to exist today. And I think this translates to education as well. Through various studies, Nisbett concludes that Easterners have a more holistic view of the world, one in which all aspects are interrelated and interdependent, emphasizing the importance of relationships, whereas Westerners take a more analytic approach to life and view the world via categorization and rules, emphasizing the importance of independence. His thesis is that the modern differences in cognition and intellect between the East and the West lie in the ecologies of ancient China and Greece, which “were drastically different—in ways that led to different economic, political, and social arrangements” Do you think this applies to other cultures? How about when the same course is taught to multiple cultures?