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How to kill the university | thesephist.com
We built such a beautiful place here, and then we let opportunism and remote learning and the damn labs dissipate it all. What shall it profit a university, if it shall enroll five hundred thousand, and lose its own soul?
Vernor Vinge • Rainbows End
The university is a public space as well as an ivory tower, and it can become a more organic part of the shared imagination of the place where it is based. I’ve long been convinced of the potential for more ‘challenge-based’ universities, which organise more of their output around unanswered questions rather than just bodies of knowledge, and which
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Like mass media and mass commerce, the average university is on the brink of collapse. Its structure is a rotting legacy of the Industrial Age. For years, anybody who wanted to learn on their own lacked the means to do so. Now, anybody with an internet connection has access to information. Harvard and Stanford will be okay, but dark days are ahead ... See more
David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?
The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
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