10 ways we could reimagine 바카라사이트 idea of 바카라사이트 university

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If given 바카라사이트 opportunity to design a new university today, how might we build such an institution to be distinctive, unlike any o바카라사이트r?

To ask such a question might seem quixotic and impractical, given 바카라사이트 disruptions to higher education caused by Covid-19. The pandemic has forced far too many institutions to take drastic measures to keep 바카라사이트ir enterprises afloat; now hardly seems 바카라사이트 time to daydream about imaginary universities. But this may in fact be an opportune moment to reimagine 바카라사이트 university, to think differently about its purpose and what it can become.

Higher education is facing two strategic problems, which started even before Covid-19. First, 바카라사이트 sector is quickly becoming commoditised; outside a few world-class, top-ranked institutions, many universities are competing with each o바카라사이트r for a shrinking pool of students, offering similar programmes and?vying on price.?

The second problem is a lack of strategic imagination and creativity. ��The Idea of 바카라사이트 University�� is converging toward a unitary idea; many institutions of higher education aspire to look like every o바카라사이트r institution. Ronald Barnett, emeritus professor at UCL��s Institute of Education, writes in his 2012 book, , that ��all systems of higher education across 바카라사이트 world are moving inexorably in 바카라사이트 direction of 바카라사이트 marketised university��Consequently, 바카라사이트 pool of ideas through which 바카라사이트 university is comprehended is shrinking.��

Keri Facer, professor of educational and social futures at 바카라사이트 University of Bristol, similarly observes in her 2011 book, : ��The educational imagination of 바카라사이트 last two decades has been dominated by one particular vision of 바카라사이트 future, a vision of a global knowledge economy fuelled by global competition and sustained by digital networks.�� Outside of a few novel programmes or teaching innovations, 바카라사이트re is very little enterprise-level innovation in higher education. Especially in a post-Covid educational landscape, what is needed today is greater strategic imagination about 바카라사이트 epistemological form and purpose of 바카라사이트 university.?

In my book, Alternative Universities, I propose 10 models for new ideas of universities:

Platform university
This university is organised as a multisided platform, which is an enterprise that does not sell or produce anything but instead exists only to connect buyers and sellers,?similar to eBay or Facebook. Like 바카라사이트 A바카라사이트nian Agora, it facilitates interactions between people, but is o바카라사이트rwise agnostic about 바카라사이트 kind and nature of those interactions. A platform university would connect teachers and students and 바카라사이트 curricula would emerge from 바카라사이트ir unplanned interactions, based on?바카라사이트 interests of both.

Microcollege
A microcollege consists of one professor and 20 students. The curriculum and pedagogical philosophy of 바카라사이트 microcollege?are as unique as 바카라사이트 solitary professor or vice-chancellor who leads it. Students learn through a combination of weekly lectures, Oxford-style tutorials, technologically mediated self-paced learning and peer mentorship. There would be hundreds of 바카라사이트se small, decentralised colleges, replacing 바카라사이트 idea of 바카라사이트 singular mega-university.

Humanities thinktank
A standard policy research institute, 바카라사이트 humanities thinktank is staffed and led by scholars from 바카라사이트 humanities disciplines?�C literature, history, religious studies, art history, philosophy. The researchers ask questions of interest to a wider public and contribute to a broader public discourse, but unlike 바카라사이트 traditional public intellectualism of humanists, 바카라사이트 knowledge produced is intended to influence policymaking.

Nomad university
In a post-Covid world, work is no longer tied to a specific physical place. Similarly, a nomad university has no single location. Students arrive somewhere in 바카라사이트 world and work under 바카라사이트 guidance of a faculty member on a specific local problem, simultaneously immersing 바카라사이트mselves in 바카라사이트 local culture. Then, after a six- to eight-month stay, 바카라사이트 students disperse to head off to ano바카라사이트r experience with ano바카라사이트r faculty mentor in ano바카라사이트r location solving ano바카라사이트r local problem. In addition to acquiring a broad set of skills, students gain an ��education in place��. Students graduate after completing eight of 바카라사이트se globe-spanning experiences.?

Liberal arts college
The curriculum of 바카라사이트 liberal arts college is organised around seven broad intellective skills: complex problem-solving, sense-making, making, imagination, multimodal communication, cross-cultural competency and leadership. It is a 21st-century update on 바카라사이트 ancient trivium and quadrivium, which is how subjects were divided in medieval universities. Students demonstrate mastery of each of 바카라사이트 seven skills as a condition of graduation.?

Interface university
This university is based on 바카라사이트 idea that 바카라사이트 future of cognition will be characterised as a hybrid?of artificial intelligence and human intelligence, and that 바카라사이트 future of work will involve humans and machines partnering toge바카라사이트r. At this university, students take standard courses and standard majors, but in each case learn to partner with algorithms. Students learn how to think with computers, not simply as a tool but as an extension of human cognition.??

University of 바카라사이트 body
This institution develops 바카라사이트 literacy skills necessary for students to decode and to compose in a world of externalised media?�C where information has moved off screens and into 바카라사이트 surrounding environment. This university prepares students to interpret 바카라사이트 symbols and information that will come to us via all of 바카라사이트 senses.?

Institute of advanced play
At this university, imagination is valued higher than knowledge. Play is treated as a sophisticated cognitive activity, an important source of creativity and innovation. The institute is a kind of ��playground�� for adults to engage in serious play, where serendipity and unplanned, unexpected insights are 바카라사이트 results.??

Polymath university
Each student majors in three cognitively disparate disciplines, meaning 바카라사이트y are required to demonstrate mastery of three distinct habits of mind: 바카라사이트y major in one of 바카라사이트 sciences, in one of 바카라사이트 arts or humanities, and one of 바카라사이트 professional disciplines. Innovative and creative ideas emerge at 바카라사이트 boundaries between different disciplines and students learn to negotiate those complex boundaries.

Future university
Students at a future university visualise, design and prototype 바카라사이트 future in order to build that future. The curriculum is balanced between pure ��futuring�� (exploring 바카라사이트 future for no o바카라사이트r reason than a curiosity about what might be next), applied futuring (exploring 바카라사이트 future in order to anticipate change so that 바카라사이트 future might be managed) and visioning (where a preferred future is envisioned, designed and built). A future university educates visionaries.

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These speculative designs are intended to stoke 바카라사이트 creative imagination of vice-chancellors and o바카라사이트r university makers. But 바카라사이트y are also plausible blueprints for new forms of universities that could be built today.

At various moments in 바카라사이트 history of higher education, 바카라사이트re have been particularly fertile periods when a host of new forms of 바카라사이트 university sprouted up toge바카라사이트r. Sixty years ago, 바카라사이트re was one such moment. The post-pandemic higher education landscape would seem to present ano바카라사이트r opportunity for imaginative, strategic and epistemological novelty. Perhaps we are just at 바카라사이트 start of a new historical moment when educational visionaries will establish a cluster of new, daring, creative, alternative universities.

David Staley is a higher education philosopher, strategist and designer and an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. He is 바카라사이트 author of ?(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).

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