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Digitization and Disintermediation in German Higher Education
Published on Jun 23, 20141804 Views
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Digitization and Disintermediation in German Higher Education00:00
1. Overview: Digitization and Higher Education00:58
Premise: Higher Education is a labor-intensive, scarce and hence costly resource01:25
Life-long learning: Continuing and adult education is needed across age cohorts03:54
Disintermediation04:31
Modern career trajectories require continued, individualized learning05:52
New competition in the global educational landscape forces public institutions to develop a clear profile06:25
2. Scenarios: HEI challenges in Germany07:10
The adoption of MOOC07:12
Strategic investments in digital infrastructure is difficult in German HEI due to overwhelmingly short-term, project based funding sources11:25
Innovation is now pushing into universities from the outside in12:37
3. The case of Leuphana Digital School13:23
Leuphana University’s study model emphasizes acquiring competencies and autonomous learning through interactive formats related to practice.13:26
Leuphana University has long-term experience in implementing innovative and interdisciplinary teaching formats together with competent external partners.13:43
Since 2012, Leuphana Digital School bundles all online teaching and learning activities of the university as an interdisciplinary entity across all departments.13:58
Online offerings of Leuphana Digital School are advised by the Centre for Digital Cultures and supported by start-up funding of the EU Innovation Incubator project.14:41
The platform provider for Leuphana Digital School, Candena, is a start-up created by a Leuphana PhD student, closely aligned to teaching philosophy.15:34
Mentored Open Online Courses attempt to combine best practices into a sustainable model of online academic education (“weak connectivist approach”).16:13
Leuphana’s MOOCs aim to fuse social media trends and academic teaching standards for a high-quality digital experience and a truly transnational audience.18:12
MOOC Pilot: “ThinkThank – Ideal City of the 21st Century”19:38
Blended Learning Pilot: Freshmen Orientation Week 2013 “Future. City. Life.”22:48
Continuing Education M(O)OC: Magenta MOOC with Deutsche Telekom24:39
Cooperation with Staedel Museum, Frankfurt: MOOC „The School of Perception“26:18
Exemplary project: Individual Studies as an online bachelor‘s degree: „Global Liberal Studies“26:19
Partner and supporter network26:20
4. Summary & hypotheses26:21
hypotheses26:23