The Research University in the New Millennium | SXSWedu

For the last two hundred years, research universities have been engines driving human progress and have paved a pathway of opportunity for individual students, citizens, nations and humanity as a whole. Advances in the learning sciences, digital technologies and global collaboration provide an unprecedented and historic opportunity to re-envision the research university in the new millennium. This session will focus on key trends impacting the research university, examples of alternative prototype curricular models and a new design intended to advance intellectual and creative freedom and to accelerate learning, discovery, creation and invention well beyond existing frontiers.

[ChristianeReilly]

I particularly liked the combination of a competence-based education model along with the creative exploration of a subject matter in a trans-disciplinary approach. The curriculum for this type education is as creative for the instructors (curriculum designers) as it is for the learners who explore it. It is designing for outcomes (deliverables) and creative exploration simultaneously.

[ericd.mabuto]

interesting we need such ideas in Africa