Meaningful Teaching and Training – Higher Education of the Future
Marko Grdošić Current issues I never really enjoyed studying. The social aspect of it was great, but there were very few courses that I found interesting and meaningful. Sometimes I…
Why Was the Most Valuable Experience at My University NOT Part of My Degree?
Benjamin Conard My college experience was critical in the development of me as an entrepreneur. But why was none of this value measured and recognized in my degree? College…
Curiosity-Driven Education or How to Prepare Students for the Digital Future
Manuel Dolderer The rise of technology in the work environment In 2011 Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, wrote an…
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Universities Transforming Teaching and Learning to Cope with a Radically Changing Skill Demand
Dirk Van Damme For many decades, universities have been educating students for a rather stable professional environment. The skills needed by professions such as medical doctors, lawyers, psychologists, or…
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The New Learning
Hans Wissema Born in Prussia around 1794, our present learning system has all the elements of the Industrial Revolution: specialisation, standardisation, synchronisation, concentration, maximisation and centralisation. Schools and universities…
Change-Makers in the Making
Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius With the Humboldtian ideal of higher education to some extent lost in marketisation, demands for instant application and a fetish for audits, it is questionable whether higher education…
Change is Inevitable – It’s Time to Disrupt the Higher Education System
Fiona Godsman ...I believe that the university sector will experience major, and long overdue, disruption. Despite the major disruption that other sectors have experienced in recent years, the education…
Is This the End of Universities as We Know Them?
Paul Hannon It is evident that across the globe, higher education institutions are under pressure from many directions – the economy and lack of government funding, growth in demand, growth…