Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education

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David J. Staley (Associate Professor of History, Adjunct Associate Professor of Design, The Ohio State University)

Alternative Universities

Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education

David J. Staley (Associate Professor of History, Adjunct Associate Professor of Design, The Ohio State University)

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Johns Hopkins University Press
15 March 2019

Higher & further education, tertiary education

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 experience universities enact. In this exercise in speculative design, Staley proposes ten models of innovation in higher education that expand our ideas of the structure and scope of the university, suggesting possibilities for what its future might look like.

What if the university were designed around a curriculum of seven broad cognitive skills or as a series of global gap year experiences? What if, as a condition of matriculation, students had to major in three disparate subjects? What if the university placed the pursuit of play well above the acquisition and production of knowledge? By asking bold ""What if?"" questions, Staley assumes that the university is always in a state of becoming and that there is not one ""idea of the university"" to which all institutions must aspire.

This book specifically addresses those engaged in university strategy—university presidents, faculty, policy experts, legislators, foundations, and entrepreneurs—those involved in what Simon Marginson calls ""university making."" Pairing a critique tempered to our current moment with an explanation of how change and disruption might contribute to a new ""golden age"" for higher education, Alternative Universities is an audacious and essential read.

By: David J. Staley (Associate Professor of History Adjunct Associate Professor of Design The Ohio State University)
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781421427416
ISBN 10: 1421427419
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 March 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.