Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education

Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist. There are a number of ways institutions can be more open, including programs of ope...

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Autores principales:	David Wiley, John Hilton III
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2009
Materias:	open education online learning distance learning higher education Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5c37890d361f408f9911a544d68e398d2021-12-02T18:03:18ZOpenness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education10.19173/irrodl.v10i5.7681492-3831https://doaj.org/article/5c37890d361f408f9911a544d68e398d2009-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/768https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist. There are a number of ways institutions can be more open, including programs of open sharing of educational materials. Individual faculty can also choose to be more open without waiting for institutional programs. Increasing degrees of openness in society coupled with innovations in business strategy like dynamic specialization are enabling radical experiments in higher education and exerting increasing competitive pressure on conventional higher education institutions. No single response to the changes in the supersystem of higher education can successfully address every institution’s situation. However, every institution must begin addressing openness as a core organizational value if it desires to both remain relevant to its learners and to contribute to the positive advancement of the field of higher education.David WileyJohn Hilton IIIAthabasca University Pressarticleopen educationonline learningdistance learninghigher educationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 10, Iss 5 (2009)
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description	Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist. There are a number of ways institutions can be more open, including programs of open sharing of educational materials. Individual faculty can also choose to be more open without waiting for institutional programs. Increasing degrees of openness in society coupled with innovations in business strategy like dynamic specialization are enabling radical experiments in higher education and exerting increasing competitive pressure on conventional higher education institutions. No single response to the changes in the supersystem of higher education can successfully address every institution’s situation. However, every institution must begin addressing openness as a core organizational value if it desires to both remain relevant to its learners and to contribute to the positive advancement of the field of higher education.
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Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education

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