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Transforming Undergraduate Learning: President's Perspective

This article explores the president's perspective on transforming the undergraduate learning experience, focusing on specific and measurable solutions, real-time networked communication, and the principles of wikinomics.

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Transforming Undergraduate Learning: President's Perspective

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  1. RED BALLOONS AND OLD MOLES: TRANSFORMING THE UNDERGRADUATE LEARNING EXPERIENCE FROM THE PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE Howard Cohen Penson Associates July 29, 2011

  2. Red Balloon Solutions • Specific and measurable • Sense of urgency/incentive • Problem-solving activity must be distributive • Problem-solvers must have a real-time networked communication mechanism

  3. The principles of wikinomics* • Being Open • Providing access to information with few conditions • “Open source” • Peering • Collaboration based on merit and interest rather than organizational affiliation and hierarchy • Sharing • Making your resources (including some IP) available to others – even “competitors” • Acting Globally • Achieving scale without concern for geographic boundaries • Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics, Portfolio, 2006

  4. THE PRESIDENT’S CONCERNS

  5. Additional conditions in a university environment • Advance the university’s expression of its undergraduate educational mission and strategic position, • Meet the faculty test of quality, and • Demonstrate a sustainable financial model.

  6. PROVOST’S ROLE • Assure faculty engagement in change process, • Assure that governance processes are followed, • Advocate for academic quality, • Assure president that transformation is congruent with mission, strategy, quality and cost • Realign operations and resources to support change

  7. President/Provost Relationship

  8. Transformation Checklist

  9. Undergraduate Learning Experience • Breadth of knowledge • Intellectual skills • Writing, critical thinking, communicating, numeracy, etc. • Depth of knowledge in a specific field • Variety of learning contexts

  10. Learning Contexts • Individual tutorial • Computer-mediated learning • Seminar presentation and defense • Internship, practicum, clinical application of learning • Lecture • Group discussion • Guided laboratory projects • Research and writing • Group projects

  11. Checklist for: Low enrollment philosophy major

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