Comments on: Ranking Universities on Web Visibility http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/06/10/ranking-universities-on-web-visibility/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Significant Web Presence through Open Access | Urban Planning Blog http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/06/10/ranking-universities-on-web-visibility/comment-page-1/#comment-125200 Significant Web Presence through Open Access | Urban Planning Blog Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:00:54 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/06/10/ranking-universities-on-web-visibility/#comment-125200 [...] Webometrics analyzes about 15,000 universities around the world and ranks 5,000 on their ‘web performance’ based on the institutions’ proclivity for a significant web presence. The criteria was determined by a weighted combination of visibility (external inlinks), size (web pages), rich files, and Google Scholar availability [via]. [...] [...] Webometrics analyzes about 15,000 universities around the world and ranks 5,000 on their ‘web performance’ based on the institutions’ proclivity for a significant web presence. The criteria was determined by a weighted combination of visibility (external inlinks), size (web pages), rich files, and Google Scholar availability [via]. [...]

]]> By: Amit http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/06/10/ranking-universities-on-web-visibility/comment-page-1/#comment-125185 Amit Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:53:04 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/06/10/ranking-universities-on-web-visibility/#comment-125185 From “Rating Colleges” Good education…may be inversely proportional to many of the qualities now used to rank educational institutions. Most ranking systems face backwards, using measure that no longer describe present realities or the role of the institution in relation to those realities. I propose…five criteria: - How much the institution consumes or discards per student… - Management policies for materials, waste, recycling, purchasing, landscaping, energy use, and building… - Does the curriculum provide the essential tools for ecological literacy? What percentage of its graduates know the rudiments of ecology?… - Does the institution use its buying power to help build sustainable regional economies. What percentage of its food purchases come from nearby farmers? …To what extent are their funds invested in enterprises that move the world toward sustainability? - Institutions should be ranked on the basis of what their graduates do in the world. On average what price will future generations pay for the manner in which…they live. …Most colleges make serious efforts to discover who among their alumni have attained wealth. I know of no college that has surveyed its graduates to determine their cumulative environmental impacts. -David W. Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect (1994) From “Rating Colleges”

Good education…may be inversely proportional to many of the qualities now used to rank educational institutions.

Most ranking systems face backwards, using measure that no longer describe present realities or the role of the institution in relation to those realities.

I propose…five criteria:

- How much the institution consumes or discards per student…

- Management policies for materials, waste, recycling, purchasing, landscaping, energy use, and building…

- Does the curriculum provide the essential tools for ecological literacy? What percentage of its graduates know the rudiments of ecology?…

- Does the institution use its buying power to help build sustainable regional economies. What percentage of its food purchases come from nearby farmers? …To what extent are their funds invested in enterprises that move the world toward sustainability?

- Institutions should be ranked on the basis of what their graduates do in the world. On average what price will future generations pay for the manner in which…they live.

…Most colleges make serious efforts to discover who among their alumni have attained wealth. I know of no college that has surveyed its graduates to determine their cumulative environmental impacts.

-David W. Orr, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect (1994)

]]> By: lurker http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/06/10/ranking-universities-on-web-visibility/comment-page-1/#comment-125176 lurker Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:57:36 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/06/10/ranking-universities-on-web-visibility/#comment-125176 I feel sorry IIT Roorkee doesnt even make it to this list, and understandably so. Try www.iitr.ernet.in and go make some coffee while it loads iota of information. I feel sorry IIT Roorkee doesnt even make it to this list, and understandably so. Try http://www.iitr.ernet.in and go make some coffee while it loads iota of information.

]]> By: lurker http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/06/10/ranking-universities-on-web-visibility/comment-page-1/#comment-125131 lurker Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:32:13 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/06/10/ranking-universities-on-web-visibility/#comment-125131 Didn't know you were from IITK. I am a student here at IITK. Anyway, I hardly think that increasing their web presence is hardly the highest of the administration's concerns seeing as they are more busy on issues like internet bans and the like. Vikram Singh Didn’t know you were from IITK. I am a student here at IITK. Anyway, I hardly think that increasing their web presence is hardly the highest of the administration’s concerns seeing as they are more busy on issues like internet bans and the like.

Vikram Singh

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