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The Existential Crisis of Universities

Graham Brown-Martin
Graham Brown-Martin

The innovation immune system of universities prevents essential change to respond to the challenges presented by new alternatives that potential students now have. Talk given at the Future Campus conference hosted by HEDQF at Central St Martins, London on July 12th 2016

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T H E E X I S T E N T I A L C RI S I S O F U N I VE R S I T I E S G R A H A M B R OW N - M AR T I N , C ATA LY S T @GrahamBM
my learning journey
Innovating since 1979 http://www.grahambrownmartin.com/bio/
http://bit.ly/HE-denied
Free Lunch for Children China RDFZ Xishan School China Jordan Education Initiative Jordan Eastwood College Lebanon XSEED India National Institute of Education Singapore BBC Media Action India Essa Academy United Kingdom Raspberry Pi United Kingdom Worldreader Ghana Mobile Web Ghana Ghana GEMS Education United Arab Emirates AWSAJ Academy Qatar The programmes featured in this book NAVE School Brazil Porvir Brazil High Tech High United States of America Quest to Learn United States of America 120,000 miles, 36 cities, 18 countries, 6 continents, 18 months
NOAM CHOMSKY - MITCH RESNICK - JOHN MAEDA - SANDY SPEICHER - JOHANNES HEINLEIN - LOGAN SMALLEY - SIR KEN ROBINSON - DENG FEI - SUNEET SINGH TULI - PASI SAHLBERG - JULIA GILLARD - SUGATA MITRA - ANDREAS SCHLEICHER -SETH GODIN - KERI FACER - ALICE TAYLOR - CLIVE BEALE - ALAN ODONOHUE -JAKE DAVIS - NOAM CHOMSKY - MITCH RESNICK - JOHN MAEDA - SANDY SPEICHER - JOHANNES HEINLEIN - LOGAN SMALLEY - SIR KEN ROBINSON - DENG FEI - SUNEET SINGH TULI - PASI SAHLBERG - JULIA GILLARD - SUGATA MITRA - ANDREAS SCHLEICHER -SETH GODIN - KERI FACER - ALICE TAYLOR - CLIVE BEALE - ALAN ODONOHUE - JAKE DAVIS - NOAM CHOMSKY - MITCH RESNICK - JOHN MAEDA - SANDY SPEICHER - JOHANNES HEINLEIN - LOGAN SMALLEY - SIR KEN ROBINSON - DENG FEI - SUNEET SINGH TULI - PASI SAHLBERG - JULIA GILLARD - SUGATA MITRA - ANDREAS SCHLEICHER -SETH GODIN - KERI FACER - ALICE TAYLOR - CLIVE BEALE - ALAN ODONOHUE -JAKE DAVIS - NOAM CHOMSKY - MITCH RESNICK - JOHN MAEDA - SANDY SPEICHER - JOHANNES HEINLEIN - LOGAN SMALLEY - SIR KEN ROBINSON - DENG FEI - SUNEET SINGH TULI - PASI SAHLBERG - JULIA GILLARD - SUGATA MITRA - ANDREAS SCHLEICHER
The Existential Crisis of Universities
The Existential Crisis of Universities
National Union of Teachers A tour de force of the world of education is presented in this comprehensive and powerful exploration of pedagogy and philosophy, combined with politics and case 鍖udies. Out鍖anding. http://www.grahambrownmartin.com/learning-reimagined/
The Existential Crisis of Universities
The Existential Crisis of Universities
The Existential Crisis of Universities
The Existential Crisis of Universities
Blended learning is really about combining the best of a traditional in-classroom or a physical coming together and the technology to support learning outcomes. Johannes Heinlein VP, Strategic Partnerships, edX
what are universities for?
Seth Godin Author, entrepreneur & marketeer https://vimeo.com/104191070
passport to a career?
Keri Facer University of Bristol https://vimeo.com/104557347
Sadly, universities are no longer places where self-realisation and introspective exploration are encouraged, but merely industrialised establishments of pro鍖t and production. Terry Eagleton
The Existential Crisis of Universities
The Existential Crisis of Universities
The Existential Crisis of Universities
Who is university for?
the future
The Existential Crisis of Universities
things we do know about the future: population climate change antibiotic resistance ideology inequality ageing diversity
Universities have many different possible futures. One is the possibility of a complete breakdown of the university purpose&values, which is the technologically driven trajectory towards university educationsimply as training that gets you a quali鍖cation and a bit of paper at the end of it.
What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future. Terry Eagleton
obstacles to innovation
The innovation immune system https://medium.com/innovation-culture/i-am-a-virus-4cca32b05c42
The innovation immune system is how an organisation deals with new ideas and can include strategies that kill innovation.
HR practices designed to hire for consistency offer no hope of doing something new. To ensure conformity HR can be about 鍖nding people that are like existing employeessame school, same degrees, same industry, same background Diversity
GroupThink At the heart of groupthink is the desire for harmony and conformity.
illusions of invulnerability* *Irving Janis, Psychologist http://communicationtheory.org/groupthink/
Nokia, Swissair, Kodak, 掘稼姻看稼
How would I design a university? Tokyo 1997
Design is what links creativity & innovation.
It shapes ideas to become practical & attractive propositions for users & customers.
Design may be described as creativity deployed to a speci鍖c end.
Universities are spaces for societies to think about, to debateand to understand their possible futures.
Universities are spaces for societies to think about, to debateand to understand their possible futures. That means we need to protect them in some form that creates space for civil society dialogue.
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The Existential Crisis of Universities

  • 1. T H E E X I S T E N T I A L C RI S I S O F U N I VE R S I T I E S G R A H A M B R OW N - M AR T I N , C ATA LY S T @GrahamBM
  • 3. Innovating since 1979 http://www.grahambrownmartin.com/bio/
  • 5. Free Lunch for Children China RDFZ Xishan School China Jordan Education Initiative Jordan Eastwood College Lebanon XSEED India National Institute of Education Singapore BBC Media Action India Essa Academy United Kingdom Raspberry Pi United Kingdom Worldreader Ghana Mobile Web Ghana Ghana GEMS Education United Arab Emirates AWSAJ Academy Qatar The programmes featured in this book NAVE School Brazil Porvir Brazil High Tech High United States of America Quest to Learn United States of America 120,000 miles, 36 cities, 18 countries, 6 continents, 18 months
  • 6. NOAM CHOMSKY - MITCH RESNICK - JOHN MAEDA - SANDY SPEICHER - JOHANNES HEINLEIN - LOGAN SMALLEY - SIR KEN ROBINSON - DENG FEI - SUNEET SINGH TULI - PASI SAHLBERG - JULIA GILLARD - SUGATA MITRA - ANDREAS SCHLEICHER -SETH GODIN - KERI FACER - ALICE TAYLOR - CLIVE BEALE - ALAN ODONOHUE -JAKE DAVIS - NOAM CHOMSKY - MITCH RESNICK - JOHN MAEDA - SANDY SPEICHER - JOHANNES HEINLEIN - LOGAN SMALLEY - SIR KEN ROBINSON - DENG FEI - SUNEET SINGH TULI - PASI SAHLBERG - JULIA GILLARD - SUGATA MITRA - ANDREAS SCHLEICHER -SETH GODIN - KERI FACER - ALICE TAYLOR - CLIVE BEALE - ALAN ODONOHUE - JAKE DAVIS - NOAM CHOMSKY - MITCH RESNICK - JOHN MAEDA - SANDY SPEICHER - JOHANNES HEINLEIN - LOGAN SMALLEY - SIR KEN ROBINSON - DENG FEI - SUNEET SINGH TULI - PASI SAHLBERG - JULIA GILLARD - SUGATA MITRA - ANDREAS SCHLEICHER -SETH GODIN - KERI FACER - ALICE TAYLOR - CLIVE BEALE - ALAN ODONOHUE -JAKE DAVIS - NOAM CHOMSKY - MITCH RESNICK - JOHN MAEDA - SANDY SPEICHER - JOHANNES HEINLEIN - LOGAN SMALLEY - SIR KEN ROBINSON - DENG FEI - SUNEET SINGH TULI - PASI SAHLBERG - JULIA GILLARD - SUGATA MITRA - ANDREAS SCHLEICHER
  • 9. National Union of Teachers A tour de force of the world of education is presented in this comprehensive and powerful exploration of pedagogy and philosophy, combined with politics and case 鍖udies. Out鍖anding. http://www.grahambrownmartin.com/learning-reimagined/
  • 14. Blended learning is really about combining the best of a traditional in-classroom or a physical coming together and the technology to support learning outcomes. Johannes Heinlein VP, Strategic Partnerships, edX
  • 16. Seth Godin Author, entrepreneur & marketeer https://vimeo.com/104191070
  • 17. passport to a career?
  • 18. Keri Facer University of Bristol https://vimeo.com/104557347
  • 19. Sadly, universities are no longer places where self-realisation and introspective exploration are encouraged, but merely industrialised establishments of pro鍖t and production. Terry Eagleton
  • 26. things we do know about the future: population climate change antibiotic resistance ideology inequality ageing diversity
  • 27. Universities have many different possible futures. One is the possibility of a complete breakdown of the university purpose&values, which is the technologically driven trajectory towards university educationsimply as training that gets you a quali鍖cation and a bit of paper at the end of it.
  • 28. What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future. Terry Eagleton
  • 30. The innovation immune system https://medium.com/innovation-culture/i-am-a-virus-4cca32b05c42
  • 31. The innovation immune system is how an organisation deals with new ideas and can include strategies that kill innovation.
  • 32. HR practices designed to hire for consistency offer no hope of doing something new. To ensure conformity HR can be about 鍖nding people that are like existing employeessame school, same degrees, same industry, same background Diversity
  • 33. GroupThink At the heart of groupthink is the desire for harmony and conformity.
  • 34. illusions of invulnerability* *Irving Janis, Psychologist http://communicationtheory.org/groupthink/
  • 35. Nokia, Swissair, Kodak, 掘稼姻看稼
  • 36. How would I design a university? Tokyo 1997
  • 37. Design is what links creativity & innovation.
  • 38. It shapes ideas to become practical & attractive propositions for users & customers.
  • 39. Design may be described as creativity deployed to a speci鍖c end.
  • 40. Universities are spaces for societies to think about, to debateand to understand their possible futures.
  • 41. Universities are spaces for societies to think about, to debateand to understand their possible futures. That means we need to protect them in some form that creates space for civil society dialogue.