Alternative Universities - Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education Staley David J. Associate Professor of History Adjunct Associate Professor of Design The Ohio State UniversityPevn
How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today--MOOCs especially--focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative…
Specifikacia Alternative Universities - Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education Staley David J. Associate Professor of History Adjunct Associate Professor of Design The Ohio State UniversityPevn
How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today--MOOCs especially--focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate instead, he says, on the kind of transformational experience universities enact. In this exercise in speculative design, Staley proposes ten models of innovation in higher education that expand our ideas of the structure and scope of the university, suggesting possibilities for what its future might look like.What if the university were designed around a curriculum of seven broad cognitive skills or as a series of global gap year experiences? What if, as a condition of matriculation,