14. Documents:
“Alive” or “Dead”?
• Yesterday: Document is “Dead”, i.e.
when completed and published it
stays that way until a new edition is
issued
• Today: Document is “Alive” it is on
the web, and it is constantly being
updated. The version I consulted
yesterday is not the same as the one I
consult today
66. Convergence and Transformative
Research
• Bio / Info / Nano Technology
• Transformative research (capable of
changing the paradigm in some
fields and domains) e.g. Synthetic
biology.
69. Three major approaches to
pluri-disciplinarity
• At present there are three major
ways of organizing joint work
between the disciplines:
• Inter-disciplinary,
• Multi-disciplinary; and
• Trans-disciplinary.
73. The cultural mission of the pursuit
of knowledge will continue, and it
will require that we rethink the
institutions that serve that mission
74. The Institutions of Knowledge
• Education (from K to post docs)
• Research (universities, public and
private labs)
• Supporting institutions (libraries,
archives', museums)
78. Quantity:
Added-variable Plots of Growth and Education
2
SGP
CYP
MAR ZAF
USA
1
TUN TWN BRA
Conditional growth
HKG
IDN
PRT THA
KOR NOR
IRL PER
CHE DNK
ITA CHL
ISL CAN●
0
MEX AUS GRC
ESP ISR
EGY SWE
TUR ●●●● NLD GBR
BEL AUT
JPN
ROM
CHN PHL
NZL
IRN IND
URYGHA
COL
-1
ZWE
JOR
Conditional years of education
-2
-4 -2 0 2 4
Coef=0.264058, se=.7839797, t=.34 ● Other countries
Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4122, February 2007. “The Role of Education Quality in Economic
Growth”.
79. Quality:
Added-variable Plots of Growth and Education
4
SGP
TWN
2
HKG KOR
Conditional growth
●
●
CYP CHN
TUN ● MYS
USA ●● FIN
IDN ● ●
●● ●● ●● FRA
● ● ● ● IND
MAR NOR IRN
0
BRA ●●●●
● ●
●
CHN
ARG ●
●
ZAF ROM JOR
ZWE
GHA
-2
PER PHL
Conditional test score
-4
-1.5 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 1
Coef=1.9804387, se=.21707105, t=9.12 ● Other countries
Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4122, February 2007. “The Role of Education Quality in Economic
Growth”.
85. October 2010:
First Bookless Library
• Engineering School, University of Texas, San Antonio, has 425,000 books on
line and 18,000 electronic Journals.
• Source: Publié le 7 Octobre 2010 sur :http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/10/07/from-e-books-to-no-
books/?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4cc203f7a4b576bc%2C0
101. Participants in education process
• Parents
• Teachers
• Students
• Peer groups (Real & Virtual)
• Community (Real & Virtual)
• Media, especially the Internet
102. Flipped
Instruction
Teaching will be seen
on video on student
own time and face
time will be used for
joint problem solving
and mentoring
105. Universities Manage
Five Key Transitions
• Continuing Study
• Healthy Lifestyle Choices
• Forming Households
• Becoming Active Citizens
• Entering The Labor Force
110. Sebastian
Thrun and
UDACITY
Salman Khan
of the Khan Academy
Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng of Stanford
founders of Coursera-
(Source: NYT 12 July 2012)
114. A community of scholars … but linked to the community…
A lifelong presence in our lives
115. Obligations of Universities, as Social
Institutions, :
• To promote through teaching and
research the principles of freedom
and justice, of human dignity and
solidarity
-- IAU
## 115
122. Linear Model of Education at Tertiary
level obsolete
• 12 years School
• 4 years university
• Degree / certification
• 40 years of practice
• Retirement
## 122
127. Assisting
Industry…
By Scientific Excellence
## 127
128. Providing
continuing
education
Forming
new Research
students
## 128
129. The University of the Future
• Fundamental foundation for new
students
• Much more self learning and guided
learning
• Modular teaching for life long
education
• Many more offerings
## 129
131. The curriculum for tomorrow
• Foundation – broad, values &liberal
arts + scientific literacy and problem
solving
• Specialization fields – but + learning
pluridisciplinarity
• Lots & lots of electives and ..
• Continuing lifelong education with
myriad modular offerings in everything
from hobbies to marketable skills
133. University Governance
• The juridical status of the university
• The clarity of its mission
• Its relationship with other social actors
• The (business) model it employs
• The decision making structure of the
university
• Transparency, responsibility and
accountability
## 133
138. Copying the manufacturing Business
Model:
• Future employers as customers
• Student skills as products
• Teachers as workers
• Administration as managers
Wrong Model!
Dangerous! Do Not Use!
## 138
139. Copying the manufacturing Business
Model:
• Future employers as customers
• Student skills as products
• Teachers as workers
• Administration as managers
Wrong Model!
Dangerous! Do Not Use!
## 139
140. Copying the manufacturing Business
Model:
• Future employers as customers
• Student skills as products
• Teachers as workers
• Administration as managers
Wrong Model!
Dangerous! Do Not Use!
## 140
141. Fundamental principles for which the
University must stand
• The right to pursue knowledge for its
own sake
• To follow wherever the search for truth
may lead
• Tolerance of divergent opinions
• Freedom from political interference
-- IAU
## 141
148. Values of science
• Truth
• Honor
• Creativity and imagination
• Constructive
subversiveness
## 148
149. Values of science
• Truth
• Honor
• Creativity and imagination
• Constructive
subversiveness
• Tolerance of engagement
## 149
150. Values of science
• Truth
• Honor
• Creativity and imagination
• Constructive
subversiveness
• Tolerance of engagement
• Arbitration of disputes
## 150
151. Values of science
• Truth
• Honor
• Creativity and imagination
• Constructive
subversiveness
• Tolerance of engagement
• Arbitration of disputes
## 151
168. The images used in this
presentation are strictly for the
educational purpose of this
lecture. Any use by anyone for
any other purpose should be after
consulting the copyright owners
of these pictures
