Alternative Universities, 9781421427416
Hardcover
Pairing a critique tempered to our current moment with an explanation of how change and disruption might contribute to a new “golden agefor higher education, Alternative Universities is an audacious and essential read.

Alternative Universities

Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education

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  • Hardcover

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    14 March 2019

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Summary

Imagining the universities of the future.

How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today—MOOCs especially—focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate instead, he says, on the kind of transformational experi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781421427416
ISBN-10:1421427419
Author:David J. Staley
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:Johns Hopkins University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:14 March 2019
Weight:431g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm x 25mm
About The Author

David J. Staley

David J. Staley is an associate professor of history and design at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Brain, Mind and Internet: A Deep History and Future and History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future.

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