
Higher Education's Road to Relevance: Navigating Complexity
Navigating Complexity
Jossey-Bass (Publisher)
Published on 25. December 2019
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-119-56838-4 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the current context, role, and challenges of post-secondary education and presents options for promising pathways forward.
The post-secondary educational system has undergone dramatic changes and experienced immense stress in the past two decades. Once regarded as the logical next step toward career opportunities and financial security, higher education is a subject of growing uncertainty for millions of people across the United States. It is more common than ever to question the return on investment, skyrocketing cost, and student debt burden of going to college. Prospective students, and many employers, increasingly view attending institutions of higher learning as inadequate preparation for entering the 21st century workforce. High-profile scandals--financial impropriety, sexual abuse, restrictions of free speech, among others--have further eroded public trust. In response to these and other challenges, leading voices are demanding strengthened accountability and measurable change.
Higher Education's Road to Relevance illustrates why change is needed in post-secondary education and offers practical solutions to pressing concerns. The authors, internationally recognized experts in college-level teaching and learning innovation, draw heavily from contemporary research to provide an integrative approach for post-secondary faculty, staff, and administrators of all levels. This timely book helps readers identify the need for leadership in developing new networks and ecosystems of learning and workforce development. This valuable book will help readers:
Understand the forces driving change in higher education
Develop multiple pathways to create and credential self-directed learners
Promote access to flexible, cost-effective, and relevant learning
Adapt structures and pedagogies to address issues and overcome challenges
Use an inclusive approach that extends to employers, K-12 educators, post-secondary educators, and policy-makers, among others
Higher Education's Road to Relevance is a much-needed resource for college and university administrators, academic researchers, instructors and other faculty, and staff who support and interact with students.
The post-secondary educational system has undergone dramatic changes and experienced immense stress in the past two decades. Once regarded as the logical next step toward career opportunities and financial security, higher education is a subject of growing uncertainty for millions of people across the United States. It is more common than ever to question the return on investment, skyrocketing cost, and student debt burden of going to college. Prospective students, and many employers, increasingly view attending institutions of higher learning as inadequate preparation for entering the 21st century workforce. High-profile scandals--financial impropriety, sexual abuse, restrictions of free speech, among others--have further eroded public trust. In response to these and other challenges, leading voices are demanding strengthened accountability and measurable change.
Higher Education's Road to Relevance illustrates why change is needed in post-secondary education and offers practical solutions to pressing concerns. The authors, internationally recognized experts in college-level teaching and learning innovation, draw heavily from contemporary research to provide an integrative approach for post-secondary faculty, staff, and administrators of all levels. This timely book helps readers identify the need for leadership in developing new networks and ecosystems of learning and workforce development. This valuable book will help readers:
Understand the forces driving change in higher education
Develop multiple pathways to create and credential self-directed learners
Promote access to flexible, cost-effective, and relevant learning
Adapt structures and pedagogies to address issues and overcome challenges
Use an inclusive approach that extends to employers, K-12 educators, post-secondary educators, and policy-makers, among others
Higher Education's Road to Relevance is a much-needed resource for college and university administrators, academic researchers, instructors and other faculty, and staff who support and interact with students.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-56838-4 (9781119568384)
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Content
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities: Setting the Context for Change
Growing Public Concern
Radically Changing Employment Landscape
Expanding Learner Base and Changing Learner Needs
Chapter 2: Leveraging Complexity: Illuminating Compelling Outcomes
Address the world's political, economic and social challenges
Reflect the human experience and imagine the future
Respond to volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity (VUCA)
Engage a multigenerational and multicultural workforce
Continue to learn in a workplace environment
Take control of their own career development
Learn to work in human-robot partnerships
Navigate access to expanding information
Become responsible citizens of their country and the world
Design lives that achieve balance, fulfillment, and well-being
Chapter 3: Discovering Possibilities: Designing for the Future
Broaden Perspective
Leverage What We Know about How People Learn
Change Strategies and Seize Opportunities
Align and Support People, Processes, Structures and Technology
Chapter 4: Charting a Path Forward: Getting Us from Here to There
Embrace Disruption with an Innovative Mindset
Employ Systems Thinking
Engage Design Thinking
Create Skunk Works: An Organizational Approach to Innovation
Break the Cycle that Perpetuates Socio-Economic Gaps of Access and Success
Reduce Administrative Redundancies
Lessen Noise to Enhance Mobility across Institutions
Nurture Transformational Leadership
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities: Setting the Context for Change
Growing Public Concern
Radically Changing Employment Landscape
Expanding Learner Base and Changing Learner Needs
Chapter 2: Leveraging Complexity: Illuminating Compelling Outcomes
Address the world's political, economic and social challenges
Reflect the human experience and imagine the future
Respond to volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity (VUCA)
Engage a multigenerational and multicultural workforce
Continue to learn in a workplace environment
Take control of their own career development
Learn to work in human-robot partnerships
Navigate access to expanding information
Become responsible citizens of their country and the world
Design lives that achieve balance, fulfillment, and well-being
Chapter 3: Discovering Possibilities: Designing for the Future
Broaden Perspective
Leverage What We Know about How People Learn
Change Strategies and Seize Opportunities
Align and Support People, Processes, Structures and Technology
Chapter 4: Charting a Path Forward: Getting Us from Here to There
Embrace Disruption with an Innovative Mindset
Employ Systems Thinking
Engage Design Thinking
Create Skunk Works: An Organizational Approach to Innovation
Break the Cycle that Perpetuates Socio-Economic Gaps of Access and Success
Reduce Administrative Redundancies
Lessen Noise to Enhance Mobility across Institutions
Nurture Transformational Leadership