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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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