SXSW EDU 2024
Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World
Description:
For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to failing students professionally, this system has exacerbated social injustice and socioeconomic stratification across the globe. In this talk, I will argue that the only way to create a financially and morally sustainable higher education system is by embracing digital technologies—the same technologies that we have seen create abundance in access to resources in industry after industry.
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Takeaways
- Our current system "scarcity-based" of higher education is financially and morally unsustainable.
- These problems are systemic, which means we can't solve them from within the existing system. We need a new system based on abundance.
- Higher education can embrace this change IF we stop protecting our educational model and instead embrace our core educational mission.
Speakers
- Michael Smith, J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Information Technology and Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University
Organizer
Michael Smith, J. Erik Jonsson Professor Of Information Technology And Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University
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