My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?!
It's a "network university," which is our fancy term for a new type of social institution: one that transforms an existing network into a social… Show more
My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?! It's a "network university," which is our fancy term for a new type of social institution: one that transforms an existing network into a social… Show more
The ease of setting up technology and technological platforms is a major component of why so much basic research is moving out of academia. Practically anyone with a garage these days can do profound studies, relative to just 15 to 20 years ago.
Jonathan Shaw • Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine
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
Half-baked theory: In the future there will be 100 companies, 10,000 countries, and 10,000,000 co-ops.
Yancey Strickler • The Ownership Crisis
Life is short. Do whatever you can’t stop thinking about. Documenting your findings in public (regardless of outcomes!) is a worthy contribution to society, full stop. If you’re doing something new, and you care about understanding the problem, people will pay attention. What’s more, they’ll take your ideas and make them better than you’d ever imag
... See morenadia.xyz • The Independent Researcher
The challenges facing University Inc may ultimately usher in a new era of education. One where the role that elite universities have historically played as gatekeepers on knowledge, prestige and access begins to fall away and the very best education becomes available to any-and-all (with or without a fee). The world may ultimately end up having few... See more
Mikal Khoso • Trajectory #17: The End of University Inc
I’m a firm believer in the importance of making education, job training, and opportunities accessible to all. Yet I don't think we can rely on governments and institutions to provide them. Can you imagine having the best teachers in the world create compelling online courses that are free and accessible for all? They could do that with a business m... See more