The plenary session on Thursday morning looked at the future of higher education. The presenters pulled together several scary headlines about how higher education is failing and needs to do things differently. They also posed some good questions about how we should think about the disruption - should we push back or should we do things differently?
They did not attempt to present any answers. Rather, they encouraged participants to discuss at their tables and write down their thoughts in an action research exercise. They will use the information to inform a follow up session that they will do on Friday morning. They also asked participants to consider the plenary themes as they moved through the other conference sessions.
It was interesting talking to people about this after we left the session. I made a presentation on disruptive innovation in higher education at the Tegrity conference a couple of weeks ago. I've been reading articles about this topic for at least the last 18 months or longer. But to many people, this was the first time that they had heard many of these ideas and it left some of them shaken.
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