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It's time to design the next iteration of higher education. There
is no question that higher education faces significant challenges.
Most of today's universities aren't prepared to tackle issues like
demographic change, the continued defunding of public education,
cost pressures, and the opportunities and challenges of educational
technologies. Then, of course, there is the shock of the COVID-19
pandemic, which will reverberate for years and may very well usher
higher education into an era of significant structural change. Some
critics argue that a premium should be placed on change
functions-that is to say, on creativity, innovation, organizational
learning, and change management. Yet few institutions of higher
education have functions focused on thoughtful, iterative
problem-solving and opportunity identification. The authors of
Design for Change in Higher Education argue that we must imagine
and actively make our way to new institutional forms. They assert
that design-a practical art that is conceptually rich and visible
in its concreteness-must become a core internal competency of the
university. They propose one grounded in the practical experiences
of a specific educational design organization: Michigan State
University's Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, which
all three authors have helped to run. The Hub was created to
address issues of participation, impact, and scale in moving
learning innovations from the individual to the collective and from
the classroom to the institution. Framing each chapter around a
case study of design practice in higher education, the book uses
that case study as the foundation on which to build design theory
for higher education. It is complemented by an online playbook
featuring tactics that can be used and adapted by others interested
in facilitating their own design work. Touching on learning
experience design (LXD) as an increasingly critical practice, the
authors also develop a constructivist view of designing
conversations. A playbook that grounds theory in practice, Design
for Change in Higher Education is aimed at faculty, staff, and
students engaged in the important work of imagining new forms of
education.
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