{"product_id":"alternative-universities-speculative-design-for-innovation-in-higher-education-paperback","title":"Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid J. Staley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eImagining the universities of the future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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 \u003ci\u003eAlternative Universities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eAlternative Universities\u003c\/i\u003e is an audacious and essential read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid J. Staley \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor of history and design at The Ohio State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBrain, Mind and Internet: A Deep History and Future and History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749370790176,"sku":"9781421449029","price":49.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bce68fbb52e02fffbf8b4c8f8026175b.webp?v=1779931256","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/alternative-universities-speculative-design-for-innovation-in-higher-education-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}