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This seminar discusses the evolution of real estate education over the past 13 years, the impact of technological advancements, the need for data management, ethics in education, and future challenges. It also proposes two educational challenges for the next 13 years.
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Re-thinking 13 years of Real Estate Education: past lessons and future challenges Paloma Taltavull de La Paz University of Alicante, Spain ERES Education Seminar Alicante, December, 2017
Agenda • Introduction: • New ways through the RE Education • Basis of future education? • Information: data management! • Ethics vs plagiarism • Method to teach and learn • Main Task: Build the knowledge body in real estate
Introduction • 13 years discussing about education in Europe • Program covered: • The Market for Real Estate Graduates in Europe • The evolution of Real Estate Education in a Business School Environment • Real Estate Education in the context of Architecture, Town Planning, Construction and Engineering Education • Time of application of Bolognia process. • One of the question then was ‘UNIVERSITY REAL ESTATE EDUCATION: IRRELEVANT AND WORTHLESS IN EUROPE AND THE US? … Mike Anikeeff presentation. • Answer: NO!
Introduction • During the following 13 years, strong changes in the society and University have happened. • New tech for everything, very fast advance on technological devices • Social networks and Access to information • Increasing data availability • Students worry about precise more than about general knowledge … tech? • Market is global …. • Labor market is much more difficult, with new competences requirement • Salaries are lowering… but in some positions (few).
Introduction • What has happened?: • Changesonlearningprocess. Fromthebooktotwiter • Internationalisation in theeducationprocess…. Cultural differences? • Hugeamount of informationavailable. 2 coin’s faces • Face 1: transparency and thecapacitytoknow ‘the true’ • Face 2: disentangleinformation and data == Needtohave (personal) skillstodealwithinformation (big data and methods) • Information has still a bigvalue … noteasytofindthegoodone.
Introduction • What has happened? (2): • Changes in the world/markets.. • Real estate becomes global in just one decade! • Affecting not only to those professionals involved in global companies • New mechanisms?... perspectives • Neverending innovation capacity • Specially in financial markets • New ideas, new procedures, new goods… appear • Improve creativity is a key!
Introduction • What has happened? (3): • Fail on education system? ..PLAGIARISM!! • Increasing worldwide • General problem at the Universities and Colleges • Null the student’s innovative capacity! • Worst: it generalises as a way to act • Does the education system have any responsibility?
Introduction • The Academia responses among Europe: • Assymetric: • Reorganization (studies, contents?, methods?…) • Business school protagonism in the studies (RE is economics!) • Introducing new methodologies in the learning process? • Restructuring the University system? • Risk to diverge the education again! • What we should do?. Ideas…
Proposal: 2 challenges • Educationorientations: • 1) Learntolearn… updatebackgrounds • 2) Takedecissions… • Information: data management! • Ethics vs plagiarism • New subjectsorpracticalactivities? • Both
Proposal: 2 challenges • Learntolearn… • Requiresthatpart of thecontentsshould be developedbythestudentsbytheirown - Training subject?, Faculty has totrain as well • 2) Takedecissions… • Information: data management! • Strongsubject: data management and basicstatistics • Big data should be onesubject in anyspeciality • Ethics vs plagiarism • Veryimportant…. Updatedphilosoficalprinciples? • Adaptingtotheethicsneedednowdays.
References • WorldEconomicForum (2014), ‘Education and Skills 2.0: New Targets and InnovativeApproaches’, Geneva, available at http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GAC/2014/WEF_GAC_EducationSkills_TargetsInnovativeApproaches_book_2014.pdf (accesed 01/12/2014) • ESRC Economic and Social Research Council (2012), ‘Education 2.0? Designingthe web forteaching and learning’, available at www.tirp.org/pub/documents/TELcomm.pdf (accesedon 1/12/2014) • Moravec, J, in EducationalTechnology and Mobile Learning, available at: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/06/education-20-vs-education-30-awesome.html • Dent, R. Karahan, F., Pugsley, B & Sahin, A.(2016) The role of start-upos in Structuraltransformation, FRBNY Staff Reportsnum 762, available at https://www.newyourkfed.org (accessed 08/11/2016) • Brannon, Joyce. “Plagiarism.” PowerPoint Presentation. University of West Alabama, Livingston, AL. http://libraryuwa.edu/Help/Plagiarism.ppt (1/30/06) • Valenza, Joyce. “What is Plagiarism?” Springfield Township High School. Springfield, IL. http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/plagiarism.ppt (1/30/06). • Liles, Jeffrey A and Michael E. Rozalski (2004), “It’s a Matter of Style: A Style Manual Workshops for Preventing Plagiarism”, College and Undergraduate Libraries, 11(2), p. 91-101 Webs (solo algunas) : • http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism/ • http://www.brad-ac.uk/library/help/plagiarism/types-of-plagiarism