Thinking About the Best Futures For--- A Keynote Speech by David G. Brown, Wake Forest University October 16, 2000
Dec 14, 2015
Thinking About the Best Futures For---
A Keynote Speech by
David G. Brown, Wake Forest University
October 16, 2000
Impressive!
Focus Upon STUDENTS
75%+ Completion
Very Few Places in the Country are your equal!
Thought Starters from BrownTechnology is…
• Reviving COMMUNITY
• Altering STUDENT EXPECTATIONS
• Providing NEW OPTIONS for Faculty
• Enabling NEW CURRICULA
• Transforming COLLEGES
What’s Special aboutBerkeley College
•Why do students come to Berkeley?•Why do faculty stay at Berkeley?•Why do you continue to work at Berkeley?•What is “the Berkeley Difference”?
WRITE IT DOWN!
Ways of Thinking AboutPresidential Campaigns and DebatesA First Year Seminar IntroducingStudents to the Liberal Arts
15 FreshmenMeet twice per weekAll with open laptops
Lotus ScreenCam
Movie
Computers Enhance My Teaching and/or Learning Via--
PresentationsBetter--20%More Opportunities toPractice & Analyze--35%
More Access to SourceMaterials via Internet--43%
More Communication with Faculty Colleagues, Classmates,and Between Faculty and Students--87%
Computers allow people----
• to belong to more communities• to be more actively engaged in each
community• with more people• over more miles• for more months and years• TO BE MORE COLLABORATIVE
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Technology is reviving & redefining Community.
•Who is a neighbor? A potential client? A reference? A colleague? A teacher?
•How can I help build a community of trust & interaction that is closely associated with Berkeley College?
Technology is alteringstudent expectations
•Immediacy•Always in Touch•Interactivity•Open Information•Shared Authority and Second Opinions•Multi-Tasking & Channel Changing•Trial and Error (Nintendo)
Technology is providing New Options to Faculty and Staff
•Continuous Interaction•Collaboration•Teaming•Learning Teams•Guiding, not Telling•Student Management & Monitoring•Partners from Real World•Second Opinions. Open Information
Technology is enabling New Curricula
• The 80-20 Rule
• Customized Textbooks & Manuals
• Learning Cohorts & Communities
• The Math Emporium Model
• The Visual Professions
• Information Fluency
• Willingness & Capacity for Renewal
Technology is transformingthe college
• Databases Center on Student (My.Yahoo)
• Entrepreneurship Thrives (fleet of foot)
• Confederations and Mergers Emerge
• Interinstitutional Trading Expands
• Brokers Multiply
• Bricks & Mortar Stay
What should Berkeley do about it?
What should YOU do about it?
Act Now
-Build Identity and Loyalty
-Build “Communities of Learners” & Link All Programs to Participation in and Access to Those Communities
-Expand and Enrich Co-Curricular Programs (e.g. placement services & alumni-mail-forwarding)
-Choose & Nurture A Few Areas For Worldwide Prominence
-Maintain Aura of Impartiality & Rationality
-Rejoice in the Flexibility & Survivability of Colleges
Act Now
-Affirm as a Community that All Teaching May Proceed on the Assumption That All Students Have Internet Access
-Assure Robust Communication Networks
-Aim for 95% of Faculty Use of CEL by Voluntary Means
-Adopt & Support a “Preferred” Laptop, CMS, & Software
-Budget for Electronic Databases
-Avoid “dumbing down” teaching and administrative systems
Act Now (Your Turn)What’s Next?
--What’s Special about Berkeley? What do you do better than almost anyone else? Where is your comparative advantage? What did you write earlier?
--In this new and emerging world of fuller communication & revival of community, how can Berkeley deploy these new tools in order to extend its comparative advantage (gardening metaphor)?
--What’s your next step toward your objective?
Berkeley College’s Future Rests With Recognizing that Technology is…
• Reviving COMMUNITY• Altering STUDENT EXPECTATIONS• Providing NEW OPTIONS for Faculty• Enabling NEW CURRICULA• Transforming COLLEGES
The Good Newsfor Higher Education
•Colleges and Universities adapt!•67/74 oldest institutions are universities!•Adapting is our business! Adapt we will!
The Good Newsfor Berkeley College
• Responsive to Rapid Change• Reflective of Student Needs & Desires• Accountable to High Completion Rates• Partner Friendly• Diverse Confederation
David G. BrownWake Forest University
Winston-Salem, N.C. 27109336-758-4878
email: [email protected]//:www.wfu.edu/~brown
fax: 336-758-4875
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