Resources
For those who’d like to investigate the dialogue in advance, we’ve gathered this initial collection of resources which represent a variety of opinions, perspectives, and concerns. Please assume that they represent the views of their authors, and not of the conference team or the administration of the University of Windsor! Contact us at tlconf@uwindsor.ca if you have a resource you’d like to see added.
Blogs and Online Panels
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). (2012). The university commons: A dialogue on the future of university education in Canada. Retrieved from http://www.aucc.ca/future-avenir/about-this-blog/
Anyangwe, E. (2012, August). The university of 2020: Predicting the future of higher education. Guardian.co.uk (chat panel transcript). Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/aug/24/higher-education-in-2020
Eve, M. (2013). Open access and the humanities: Reimagining our future. Higher Education Network. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/mar/25/open-access-humanities-future
Lorimer, L. (2013, January). Imagining the universities of the future. The World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils’ Blog. Retrieved from http://forumblog.org/2013/01/imagining-the-universities-of-the-future/
Watters, A. (2013). Hacking at education: TED, technology, entrepreneurship, uncollege, and the hole in the wall. Hack Education. Retrieved from http://hackeducation.com/2013/03/03/hacking-your-education-stephens-hole-in-the-wall-mitra/
Websites
Boud, D. (2010). Assessment 2020: Seven propositions for assessment reform in higher education. Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. Retrieved from http://www.olt.gov.au/resource-student-assessment-learning-and-after-courses-uts-2010
Educause. (2013). Educause library: Future of higher education. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/library/future-higher-education#tabs
Conway, M. (no date). University futures. Retrieved from http://universityfutures.net/
Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (2012). Research. Retrieved from http://www.heqco.ca/EN-CA/RESEARCH/Pages/Home.aspx
University Alliance. (2012). University-vision: Starting a conversation about the future of our universities. Retrieved from http://universityvision.org.uk/
Videos
Kohler, D. (2012). What we’re learning from online education. TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html
Coleman, L. (2009). Liz Coleman’s call to reinvent liberal arts education. TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/liz_coleman_s_call_to_reinvent_liberal_arts_education.html
Cpnway, M. (2013). University futures: exploring the future of higher education and universities. Retrieved from http://universityvision.org.uk/2012/11/14/animationlaunch/
Ericsson. (2012). The future of learning: Networked society. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quYDkuD4dMU&feature=youtu.be
Johnson, S. (2010). Where good ideas come from. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU (Note: This is a summary animation based on Johnson’s 2010 book, Where good ideas come from: The natural history of innovation)
Lima, M. (2012).The power of networks. RSA Animate. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmGrNdJ5Gw
Robinson,K. (2006). How schools kill creativity. TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Robinson, K. (2010). Changing education paradigms. RSA Animate. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U&feature=player_embedded
University Alliance (2012). Launch of our scenarios animation: University vision: What is your vision for universities. Retrieved from http://universityvision.org.uk/2012/11/14/animationlaunch/
Research Reports and Journal Articles
Anderson, J., Boyles, J., & Rainie, L. (2012). The future of higher education. Pew Internet and American Life Project. Retrieved from http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Higher-Education/Overview.aspx
Awbrey, S., & Scott D.K. (1994). Knowledge into wisdom: Unveiling inherent values and beliefs to construct a wise university. To Improve the Academy. Oklahoma: New Forums Press. Retrieved from http://www.umass.edu/pastchancellors/scott/papers/knowWisdom.html
Awbrey, S., & Scott, D.K. Creating integrative universities for the twenty-first century. Retrieved from http://www.umass.edu/pastchancellors/scott/papers/creatingU.html
Grist, M. (2012). Future universities: Towards a genuinely sustainable system. The Pearson Think Tank. Retrieved from http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2012/future-universities-paper-by-demos-supported-by-the-pearsoncpl-2/
Siemens, G. & Matheos, K. (2010) Systemic changes in higher education. In Education, 16(1). Retrieved from http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Higher-Education/Overview.aspx
Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Cummins, M., Estrada, V., Freeman, A. & Ludgate, H. (2013). NMC horizon report: 2013 higher education seres. Austin (TX): The New Media Consortium. Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2013.pdf
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
Cadwalladr, C. (2012, November). Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university? The Observer. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/11/online-free-learning-end-of-university
Carey, K. (2009). What colleges should learn from newspapers' decline. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i30/30a02101.htm
Carey, K. (2012). The siege of academe. Washington Montly, September/October 2012. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2012/features/_its_three_oclock_in039373.php?page=7#
Daniel, J., Kanwar, A., & Uvalic-Trumbic, S. (2009). Breaking higher education's iron triangle: Access, cost, and quality. Retrieved from http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/March-April%202009/full-iron-triangle.html
Davidson, P. (2012). University is still the surest path to prosperity. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/university-is-still-the-surest-path-to-prosperity/article4513305/
Millar, E. (October 22, 2012). Classroom of 2020: The future is very different than you think. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/canadian-university-report/classroom-of-2020-the-future-is-very-different-than-you-think/article4620458/?page=all
Usher, A. (2009). Back to the future: Imagining the future of Canadian post-secondary education. University Affairs. Retrieved from http://www.universityaffairs.ca/back-to-the-future.aspx
Position Papers and Communiqués
Bokor, J. (for Ernst and Young). (2012). University of the future: A thousand year old industry on the cusp of profound change. Ernst and Young. Australian Policy Online. Retrieved from http://apo.org.au/research/university-future-thousand-year-old-industry-cusp-profound-change
Colleges Ontario (2012). Empowering Ontario: Transforming higher education in the 21st century. Retrieved from http://www.collegesontario.org/policy-positions/position-papers/Empowering%20Ontario%20%282%29.pdf
Duderstadt, J. (2008). Engineering for a changing world: A roadmap to the future of engineering practice, research and education. The Millennium Project, University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://milproj.ummu.umich.edu/publications/engflex%20report/download/engflex%20report.pdf
Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. (2012). The productivity of the Ontario postsecondary system preliminary report. Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Retrieved from http://www.heqco.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/HEQCO%20Productivity%20Report.pdf
Hudak, T. (2013) Paths to prosperity: Higher learning for better jobs. On Ontario PC Caucus White Paper. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.
National Academic of Engineering. (2004). The engineer of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century. The National Academies Press. Retrieved from http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10999
UNESCO (1996). Learning: The Treasure Within. Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-First Century. Retrieved from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001095/109590eo.pdf
UNESCO (2009). World conference on higher education: The new dynamics of higher education and research for societal change and development. Retrieved from http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/ED/pdf/WCHE_2009/FINAL%20COMMUNIQUE%20WCHE%202009.pdf
Weingarten, H., & Deller, F. (2010). The benefits of greater differentiation of Ontario’s university sector. Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Retrieved from http://www.heqco.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/DifferentiationENG.pdf
Books (links are to ordering pages with summaries)
Archibald, R. & Feldman, D. (2010). Why does college cost so much? Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Policy/?view=usa&ci=9780199744503#Description
Arum, R. (2011). Academically adrift: Limited learning on college campuses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Brint, S. (Ed.) (2002). The future of the city of the intellect: The changing American university. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
Christensen, C., & Eyring, J. (2011). The innovative university: Changing the DNA of higher education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/Innovative-University-Changing-Education-Jossey-Bass/dp/1118063481
Clark,I., Moran, G., Skolnik, M., & Trick, D. (2009). Academic transformation: The forces reshaping higher education in Ontario. Kingston (ON): McGill-Queen’s University Press. Retrieved from http://www.academictransformation.ca/
Darden, M. (Ed.). (2009). Beyond 2020: Envisioning the future of universities in America. Lanham (MD): Rowman and Littlefield in partnership with the American Council on Education.
Fullen, M., & Scott, G. (2009). Turnaround leadership for higher education. San Francisco: Jossey Bass
Retrieved from http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470472049,descCd-tableOfContents.html
Wildavsky, B. (2010). The great brain race: How global universities are reshaping the world. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9113.html#TOC
