Universitas versus University Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT progective / WFSF Seoul 25 October 2007
rationale Innovation in Higher Education: Future University and New HR Discipline why are we all here to discuss this topic? what is the Big Picture hidden behind? how can University face this transformation? GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 2
contents the Big Picture Glocal Universitas: the Future of University? GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 3
1. Tracking the Big Picture GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 4
crisis employability trained for industrial- but not for post-industrial economy fails to train for global competition continuous imbalance between personal development and professional formatting mass education inadequate resources lack of good teachers low quality of learning democratization levelling down social conformity (everybody the same) country's prestige (diplomas given rather than earned) GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 5
the "alien" generation GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 6
the "alien" generation different broken intergenerational chain loss of classic culture youth's own world early autonomy / authority hedonism work is not life immediacy existential malaise boredom new skills spontaneous ICT mastering techno-calculation, techno-writing AV rather than reading videogames culture: observation, strategy... zapping culture life expectancy's impacts extension of youth span late maturity/adulthood GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 7
transition GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 8
transition conscription a place to learn to live together a way to tame inner violence acceptance of hierarchical authority overcome one's limits global middle class decreasing social barriers decreasing gender barriers essential to economic take-off complexity & innovation accelerating convergence under-organisation of the society to face globalisation speed of evolution accelerated by technology imperative innovation GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 9
challenges ahead GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 10
challenges ahead how to gain advantage from the skills nurtured by the web culture, an informal education? how to educate persons that will live in the globalisation 3.0? how to struggle against the hyperpresent-oriented mindsets? GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 11
web culture technical skills: ability to surf and data mine intellectual skills: critical mind social skills: networking, chance encounters behavioural skills: groupware, collaborative work, Netiquette GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 12
globalisation 3.0 from We to Me to I self-entrepreneurship increasing competitiveness innovation / know how communication / make something known long life learning GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 13
hyper present no interest for effort ambition; science, R&D; progress hedonism no fight (competition, homeland, family) wanted: wealth, social recognition, peace and love life meaning over activity spirituality science: macro-history, anthropology GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 14
hedonism and globalisation GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 15
2. Universitas v. University GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 16
inadequacy of University inadequacy GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 17
market-oriented development GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 18
challenges ahead GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 19
some historical milestones XVIII century: Academies XIX century : Universities XX century : Research Institutes XXI century :?? glocal Universitas? GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 20
universitas magistorum et scholarium community of teachers and learners GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 21
a model design for colleges and post-graduates centers universitas civilizational goal progress, comprehensive responsibility, values, humanism understanding of the world student-centred cognitive process: learn to learn no need to store obsolete information, only the main patterns, structural knowledge, making sense info glocal: transformation-oriented local physical communities linked to global entities with high mobility and transforming approaches (foresight, integrative studies, metadisciplines like macrohistory, etc.) GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 22
Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want. intelligence vision humanism policy design reality principle implementation GHR Forum - Seoul - Oct07 Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT president@wfsf.org 23