Shaking the Brick and Mortar: Moving Higher Education Online

Introduction by Annika Zorn

Why to talk about online?Role of Higher Education?

Auckland Declaration on the Purpose of the University in the 21st Century

•Public Good: Higher Education for all•Social Responsibility: Improving Welfare – having an impact

Why to talk about online?Role of Higher Education?

+ Public Discourse: Quality, Inform and Disrupt

In a nutshell:

Creation and Sharing of (high-quality) Knowledge

The two poles of knowledge creation and sharing

Dissemination

Deep learning: Make people think and act differently

MOOCS

Communicating Research:Communicating Research:with students, with students,

with experts,with experts,

with academics,with academics, with wider societywith wider society

How do we get knowledge across to think and act differently?We and the others!

Moving Higher Education online

Rethink: Teaching, Research, Publishing

Teaching: quality and usefulness of lectures for learningResearch: connecting the most-advanced thinking (how do we collaborate)Publishing: what do we value as publications

Why this event?Some years since:

•2007:

•2012: The New York Times

•2012: European Commission

What we will look at today:Kaleidoscope of different

experiences – on online academy

• Session 1: Use of Twitter for academics• Session 2: Online learning and knowledge loops• Session 3: Experiences, top-down or bottom-up?

What would you like to gain from today's workshop?

https://answergarden.ch/396726

Don’t want to say it out loud?

That is, here, behind closed doors? Tweet it!

#HEonline