Sep 10, 2008

e-teachers

The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain, has released the "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities", to promote the diffusion of learning in the cyberspace. The first place went for MIT, which keep available all the course material, including videos!!, for any user, not just their students!.

Unitedstatians universities lead the first positions, with the Cambridge as the first European, in position 26th, the Zurich based ETH in 32th and honourable mention to Universite de Geneve in 83th and Universidad de Chile in 214th. I tried to look for our Graduate Institute but could not find it... maybe they got confused by the new name and forgot to include it in the leading positions... anyone can find it? There are 4000 universities!

1 comment:

T-Viddy said...

Hej, I have seen many a ranking but our institute was almost never included anywhere.....
I think this is a pitty because if you go by citations and publications per capita in international economics, I am certain that we would be ranked much higher....
I suppose that we are included in the ranking of the university of Geneva..... Is this right.....?

My own opinion on the topic of ranking institutions is that what matters is the outcome.... I.E. HEI has probably one of the most outstanding records of placing people in international organizations......

Many other universities, even cambridge/LSE/Harvard/Yale, probably dont have the kind of placement record into the UN or other international policy organizations that we do......

The other thing is that as with most things in life, your own success will always depend only on you, you and no one else. Look at Jim O'Neil.. .He is the Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs and he got a PhD from a very small unknown university in England....