Innovating the 21st-century university
In the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review, Anthony D. Williams and I have a 6,000-word essay discussing the urgent issues facing universities, that left unresolved, would see intuitions of higher learning going into a death spiral akin to what we see happening to encyclopedias, newspapers, and music record labels.
For fifteen years, we’ve been arguing that [...]
My top ten themes from 2010 Davos, part 2
The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I posted themes 1 – 5 yesterday. Here are themes 6 – 10.
6. The world needs better governments.
Some governments in Central America and Africa are just [...]
My top ten themes from Davos, part 1
The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I’ll post five today and five tomorrow.
1. The state of the world is not good.
The theme of Davos was Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild, which may sound a [...]
Global problem solving? Stephen Harper defends the status quo
Although Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech on Thursday in Davos was received well, many of the delegates that I spoke with told me they thought Harper’s vision was too blinkered.
With the conspicuous exception of global warming, Harper acknowledged that many challenges face the world, but told delegates that the two most appropriate arenas for discussion [...]
