Paper Info
Title
Reimagining the Higher Education Experience as a Socially-Enabled Complex Adaptive System
Abstract
Higher education faces challenges on many fronts, including new learning models such as MOOCs, new forms of credentialing that question the value of a diploma, and a generation of students raised on socially-enabled technologies that view creating and sharing information differently. Clearly change must occur, but existing siloed models are well-ingrained into the culture. In this paper, we use complex adaptive systems theory to go inside the “black box” of higher education to envision how socially-enabled technologies can transform processes, roles, and behaviors of key internal and external agents. We describe two new models: (1) Continuous Development, which places students in direct control of their own professional development and (2) Co-Creation, which makes students an integral part of knowledge generation and dissemination. We analyze the changes in traditional structures and interactions these models bring, and propose design principles that guide the design IT systems that enable these changes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/HICSS.2014.558
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
continuous development,new form,design,further education,professional development,social aspects of automation,learning models,knowledge dissemination,new learning model,social,socially-enabled complex adaptive system theory,new model,socially-enabled technology,design it system,knowledge generation,socially-enabled complex adaptive system,complex adaptive systems,higher education experience,higher education,complex adaptive systems theory,design principle
Black box (phreaking),Credentialing,Information technology,Computer science,Knowledge management,Professional development,Further education,Complex adaptive system,Management science,Higher education,Socio-ecological system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1060-3425
1
0.36
References 
Authors
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Munir Mandviwalla152850.18
David Schuff273439.47