Mingzhi Education Forum #6 - The Logic of Contemporary Undergraduate Education: A Reflection
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Driven by the ambition to build first-class universities and academic disciplines in China’s universities, researchers have focused their attention on undergraduate education and made it a prominent field of study in higher education. However, there are far too many unscreened principles, unexamined ideas and untested methods, leaving blanks unfilled for higher education researchers but traps for university administrators.
Fortunately, many researchers have already done in-depth research and gathered good practices in undergraduate education in the past half century, which can be used as references for us to build first-class undergraduate education. More importantly, we need to examine current practices from the management point of view, further analyzing institutional arrangements of undergraduate education and its quality assurance mechanism in Chinese universities, in order to provide critical support to decision-makers in higher education institutions.
Dr. CHENG Xing, Chief Scientist at MYCOS, Visiting Professor of the Center for Higher Education Research at Southern University of Science and Technology, and Member of the Chinese Higher Education Association.
Prior to his current roles, Dr. CHENG was Associate Vice President of the City University of Hong Kong and Assistant Dean of Columbia College while teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. He had also served as Director of the Office of Institutional Research at the City University of New York and Associate Director of the Office of Planning and Institutional Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of six books on higher education research and management.
Mingzhi Education Forum
"Mingzhi Education Forum" is hosted by the Institute of Education Innovation and Practice, the Vice President of Teaching and Learning Office, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), VPTLO-IEIP, HKUST(GZ). It is an integral part of a series of teacher training activities. Based on the needs of HKUST (GZ) for educational innovation, we will invite scholars and practitioners in related fields to be guest speakers at this Forum to share thoughts, insights, challenges, problems, and discuss solutions together. Relevant fields include but are not limited to innovation in teaching and learning, higher education assessment and evaluation, learning science, curriculum and pedagogy, cognitive psychology, brain science, neuroscience, education big data, higher education internationalization, and higher education policy.
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