MOOC-SAL: 1.6. Quiz Module 1

According to lectures in this module, which of the following aspects are NOT considered a factor that could influence the academic structure of a public university?

• Profit and loss statement

• Historical and cultural context

• Vision and goals

• Workplace and location

It can be said that one of the challenges of universities regarding the digitalization of society is to go beyond developing standardized curricula for basic courses by customizing MOOC curricula to stay relevant with the current technological evolutions. Is this true or false?

• True

• False

Recent international structural reforms indicate that the board and the Rector are gaining extra powers in running their universities, this process can be called the professionalization of management. Which of the following statements best describes this process?

• Sharing knowledge about how to manage a University

• Cooperating between academic and administrative managers

• Shifting power from the academic field to the managerial field

• Making networks and alliances with excellent partners

Which of the following actions suits the "Where are we" question?

• Why do we exist? What do we want to achieve in the long run? What core values do we base our actions in fulfilling our mission?

• Preparing goal cards to determine objectives, goals, strategies, and performance indicators

• Examining past achievements, comparing them with the goals of the previous strategic plan, gathering internal and external stakeholder opinions and evaluating sectoral trends related to higher education.

• Selecting distinct and powerful choices or directions that can differentiate it from its past and from the rest of the universities in fulfilling its mission considering its vision

• Identifying the costs of implementing the strategies, as well as the financial resources to cover those costs

Which of the following actions suits the "Where do we want to go" question?

• Why do we exist? What do we want to achieve in the long run? What core values do we base our actions in fulfilling our mission?

• Preparing goal cards to determine objectives, goals, strategies, and performance indicators

• Examining past achievements, comparing them with the goals of the previous strategic plan, gathering internal and external stakeholder opinions and evaluating sectoral trends related to higher education.

• Selecting distinct and powerful choices or directions that can differentiate it from its past and from the rest of the universities in fulfilling its mission considering its vision

• Identifying the costs of implementing the strategies, as well as the financial resources to cover those costs

Which of the following actions suits the "How do we go there" question?

• Why do we exist? What do we want to achieve in the long run? What core values do we base our actions in fulfilling our mission?

• Preparing goal cards to determine objectives, goals, strategies, and performance indicators

• Examining past achievements, comparing them with the goals of the previous strategic plan, gathering internal and external stakeholder opinions and evaluating sectoral trends related to higher education.

• Selecting distinct and powerful choices or directions that can differentiate it from its past and from the rest of the universities in fulfilling its mission considering its vision

• Identifying the costs of implementing the strategies, as well as the financial resources to cover those costs

Which of the following actions suits the "What do we want to achieve, when" question?

• Why do we exist? What do we want to achieve in the long run? What core values do we base our actions in fulfilling our mission?

• Preparing goal cards to determine objectives, goals, strategies, and performance indicators

• Examining past achievements, comparing them with the goals of the previous strategic plan, gathering internal and external stakeholder opinions and evaluating sectoral trends related to higher education.

• Selecting distinct and powerful choices or directions that can differentiate it from its past and from the rest of the universities in fulfilling its mission considering its vision

• Identifying the costs of implementing the strategies, as well as the financial resources to cover those costs

Which of the following actions suits the "How much money do we need" question?

• Why do we exist? What do we want to achieve in the long run? What core values do we base our actions in fulfilling our mission?

• Preparing goal cards to determine objectives, goals, strategies, and performance indicators

• Examining past achievements, comparing them with the goals of the previous strategic plan, gathering internal and external stakeholder opinions and evaluating sectoral trends related to higher education.

• Selecting distinct and powerful choices or directions that can differentiate it from its past and from the rest of the universities in fulfilling its mission considering its vision

• Identifying the costs of implementing the strategies, as well as the financial resources to cover those costs

The national legislation for Higher Education (HE) introduced in 2007 by the Portuguese government had a significant effect on the governance and autonomy of Portuguese universities because:

• The new law offered the possibility to the HEIs to adapt, voluntarily, the new legal status of a public foundation under a private law regime.

• The new national legislation empowered institutional governance with more involvement of society in the supervision of university performance, mainly at the management level.

• The law led to a new leadership approach which unified and centralized decision-making processes for a better strategic planning process that was more able to respond to social needs.

• All of the above

A very important part of the administrative reform of Chinese universities is what the “governance paradigm shift” involves:

• Changing the focus of management mode from a governance system based on university level to a governance system based on faculty level.

• That administration should ensure the freedom of academic, and academic staff are mainly concentrated at faculty.

• That the main purpose is to separate the academic power from the administrative power.

• All the above.