1. ERES Education Seminar
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

2. 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

3. 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!

4. 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).

5. Introduction What has happened?:
Changes on learning process. From the book to twiter
Internationalisation in the education process…. Cultural differences?
Huge amount of information available. 2 coin’s faces
Face 1: transparency and the capacity to know ‘the true’
Face 2: disentangle information and data
== Need to have (personal) skills to deal with information (big data and methods)
Information has still a big value … not easy to find the good one.

6. 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!

7. 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?

8. 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…

9. Plan for the next 13n years

10. Proposal: 2 challenges Education orientations:
1) Learn to learn… update backgrounds
2) Take decissions…
Information: data management!
Ethics vs plagiarism
New subjects or practical activities?
Both

11. Proposal: 2 challenges Learn to learn… 2) Take decissions…
Requires that part of the contents should be developed by the students by their own
- Training subject?, Faculty has to train as well
2) Take decissions…
Information: data management!
Strong subject: data management and basic statistics
Big data should be one subject in any speciality
Ethics vs plagiarism
Very important…. Updated philosofical principles?
Adapting to the ethics needed nowdays.

12. Ideas?

13. References
World Economic Forum (2014), ‘Education and Skills 2.0: New Targets and Innovative Approaches’, Geneva, available at (accesed 01/12/2014)
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council (2012), ‘Education 2.0? Designing the web for teaching and learning’, available at (accesed on 1/12/2014)
Moravec, J, in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, available at:
Dent, R. Karahan, F., Pugsley, B & Sahin, A.(2016) The role of start-upos in Structural transformation, FRBNY Staff Reports num 762, available at (accessed 08/11/2016)
Brannon, Joyce. “Plagiarism.” PowerPoint Presentation. University of West Alabama, Livingston, AL (1/30/06)
Valenza, Joyce. “What is Plagiarism?” Springfield Township High School. Springfield, IL (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
Webs (solo algunas) :

14. Thanks for your attention