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A Way Forward for the University in a Digital Age
The document discusses the challenges facing American higher education, including rising costs, diversity issues, and the need to adapt to digital transformations. It highlights key trends such as globalization, massification, and marketization, and argues that universities must change their operational models to remain relevant in the digital age. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of embracing varied learning styles and fostering holistic student development through collaboration and innovative educational practices.
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- 1. FORWARD A way for theUniversity in a Digital Age @paulgordonbrown
- 2. What’s going onin American Higher Education ?
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- 5. PUBLIC GOOD PRIVATE GOOD A struggle between viewingHigher Education as a… OR
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- 8. 1. Globalization 2. Massification 3.Marketization
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- 10. Expansion of BranchCampuses https://globalhighered.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/visualizing-the-globalization-of-higher-education-and-research/
- 11. 1. Globalization 2. Massification 3.Marketization
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- 14. ~5% ~10%! ! ~20%! ! ! ! ! ~25%! ! ! ! ! ! ! College Enrollment Growth Ratesin China 1995 2000 2005 2010
- 15. 1. Globalization 2. Massification 3.Marketization
- 16. Higher Education seenas a Commodity to be traded across borders
- 17. General Agreement on Tradein Services
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- 52. Universities must change theway they operate to survive and remain relevant.
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- 55. web 2.0 represent a REVOLUTION (atipping point for radical organizational change) social media &
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- 57. Universities are inherently MODERNIST institutions and areill-equipped to respond to this revolution.
- 58. Universities must changethe way they operate to survive and remain relevant. Social media and Web 2.0 technologies have pushed us to a tipping point for massive organizational change. Universities are ill-equipped and at an organizational disadvantage to respond to this change. 1 2 THEREFORE
- 59. In explaining this I’dlike to use 3metaphors have for what universities lost
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- 62. books used to betied up in Knowledge
- 63. and the universitywas the sole provider and keeper of this knowledge
- 64. Going digital changed this. ! TheWeb changed this.
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- 66. Yahoo, faced with thepossibility that they could organize things with no physical constraints, added the shelf back. - Clay Shirky
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- 68. We no longerneed a curator. We can search for anything and everything.
- 69. The university lost controlof The Shelf Being the exclusive source for knowledge
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- 72. Previously, the university couldcontrol communication through the limited means available. It was a funnel...
- 73. it could control itsmessage.
- 74. In the digitalage! this control is no longer possible.
- 75. Communication methods are ubiquitous and ever-present. Socialmedia has exploded.!
- 76. SIGNAL to NOISE Thereis a higher
- 77. The university lost controlof The Bulletin Board The ability to communicate to a captive audience
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- 80. With the blackboard... Thelearning is up here!
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- 82. Structures divide the studentand the teacher
- 83. Social media breaks downthese barriers
- 84. Diverse learners and! diverse learning styles arewelcome...! and celebrated
- 85. learning becomes a co-constructedexperience.
- 86. The university lost controlof The Blackboard The ability to rely on old methods of instruction and ignore multiple learning styles.
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- 88. So what isthe way forward! for the university?
- 89. technology may bepart of the solution,! but not the whole of the solution…
- 92. what can bereplicated easily…! and what cannot…
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- 101. GROWTH personal and cognitive Aseamless blend of
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- 103. faculty and studentaffairs collaborations requiring
- 104. Dr. Marcia Baxter-Magolda guidedinternships...! immersive study abroad experiences...! living learning communities...! service learning...! co-constructed creating learning partnerships
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