{"product_id":"alternative-universities-9781421427416","title":"Alternative Universities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImagining the universities of the future.   How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation todayMOOCs especiallyfocus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate instead, he says, on the kind of transformational experience universities enact. In this exercise in speculative design, Staley proposes ten models of innovation in higher education that expand our ideas of the structure and scope of the university, suggesting possibilities for what its future might look like. What if the university were designed around a curriculum of seven broad cognitive skills or as a series of global gap year experiences? What if, as a condition of matriculation, students had to major in three disparate subjects? What if the university plac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: On Innovation in Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Organization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Platform University\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Microcollege\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Humanities Think Tank\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterlude. The University of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Apprenticeship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Nomad University\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Liberal Arts College\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterlude. Superager University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Interface University\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The University of the Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterlude. Technology University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Attributes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Institute for Advanced Play\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Polymath University\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Future University\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Existential Crisis and Existential Possibilities\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408128155991,"sku":"9781421427416","price":27.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421427416.jpg?v=1730501688","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alternative-universities-9781421427416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}