This article discusses the fine line higher education institutions walk between stability and innovation. This is where experimentation comes in, writes Dinant Roode. And in higher education, we see experimentation in four key areas: by students, when they sign up for an educational programme; by educators, when they select a pedagogy; by evaluators, when they measure different dimensions of learning; and by the institutions as a whole, as a series of large-scale experiments. The article really feels like the author ran out of steam at the end. There are some good idea, just left hanging (even his list of four items ended at three; I had to infer a fourth item from the context). Anyhow, to me, this makes it look like everything in higher education is an experiment. This might explain why it's so difficult to standardize and to scale.
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