The 13 Oldest Universities In The World

 

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Lani Seelinger

Updated: 27 October 2017

Some of us try to hide our ages as we get older – not so with these universities, who display them proudly at every opportunity, and for good reason. Although the earliest universities didn’t exactly look like modern ones do — especially as they generally only accepted men — they were still the beginnings of a vital educational institution. Here is a list of the oldest continually operating universities in the world.

List of oldest universities in continuous operation

The historical Patision Street campus in a postcard of 1900

 

 

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This article contains a list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation in the world. Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the educational institute met the traditional definition of a university^{[Note 1]} although it may have existed as a different kind of institute before that time.^[1]

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If you haven’t heard, universities around the world are offering their courses online for free (or at least partially free). These courses are collectively called MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses.

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Η μεγάλη επανάσταση των Μoocs στην ανώτατη εκπαίδευση

 

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Della Bradshaw

Τα δωρεάν διαδικτυακά εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα κερδίζουν έδαφος. Ποια πανεπιστήμια πρωτοπορούν, ποια προγράμματα διδάσκονται και τι γίνεται με την πιστοποίησή τους. Πλήρης οδηγός.

Η Regina Herzlinger είναι σχεδόν superstar. Ήταν η πρώτη γυναίκα που έγινε καθηγήτρια του Harvard Business School και τώρα πρωτοπορεί στα Moocs (τα ανοιχτά διαδικτυακά εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα) που υπόσχονται επανάσταση στον χώρο της ανώτατης εκπαίδευσης.

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About halfway through his magisterial study “Higher Education in America,” Derek Bok, twice president of Harvard, identifies what he calls the “two different cultures” of educational reform. The first “is an evidence-based approach to education … rooted in the belief that one can best advance teaching and learning by measuring student progress and testing experimental efforts to increase it.” The second “rests on a conviction that effective teaching is an art which one can improve over time through personal experience and intuition without any need for data-driven reforms imposed from above.”

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