Sharing Nicely

Andreas Meiszner gave an interesting presentation at the 4th International Conference on Higher Education, where he highlighted the power of open source processes for education, and how that could pose a threat to the way universities are organising teaching and learning today. He ended with a great quote:

“In the future, universities will no be competing with other universities only, but they will compete with the Web. And you can’t compete with the Web.”

I spoke just after Andreas and it was great to use his very practical examples to support my broader theoretical argument that looking at the universities’ position towards governance of knowledge — open or closed — is a good starting point to redefine the social role of the institution.

Both papers will be available from the GUNI website shortly.