The abundant university : remaking higher education for a digital world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Michael D., 1968- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : scaling the ivory tower
  • The unjust university : why it's hard to foster inclusivity in a system based on exclusivity
  • The education factory : how we got our current system, and why it's such an expensive, inefficient mess
  • Seating arrangements : why limited classroom space leads rich parents to bribe their kids into college
  • Masters of none : why we standardize our teaching even though we know our students are unique
  • The noisy classroom : what college diplomas signal
  • and the resulting distortions
  • Open enrollment : why
  • at last
  • we can do things differently
  • The digitally powered ivory tower : how digitization is creating abundance in access and instruction
  • Getting down to business : why abundance in access and instruction hasn't changed higher education
  • Structural disruption : why big changes are at last on the horizon for higher education
  • Hello, Google state : the new world of credentialing and skills-based hiring
  • Objections, objections : understanding, and getting past, our resistance to change
  • The educator's dilemma : a summation
  • and a question
  • for educators.