This report (56 page PDF) on future forms of higher education is worth reading but still strikes me as a plan for building a bridge half way across the river. It begins by identifying four 'pain points' in the German system: insufficient access and integration of underrepresented student groups; lack of dynamism in adapting teaching and learning content to new skills requirements; lack of innovation in the design of learning experiences; and insufficient structural and institutional agility (readers will be forgiven for thinking that predetermined solutions are built into these definitions). It them maps these against seven case studies including Arizona State University (ASU), Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), and Heilbronn, which produces a set of 'innovations' like multiple professorships, agile competence frameworks, microcredentials, and the like - all essentially trappings of the existing system, with no way to actually get to the other side of the river. Via Gilly Salmon.
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