Presentación McLuhan Galaxy Conference 2011. Hugo Pardo Kuklinski, Cristóbal Cobo y Carlos Scolari

Death of the university ?

Knowledge Production/Distribution in the Disintermediation Era.

Hugo Pardo Kuklinski / UVIC Cristóbal Cobo / OII Carlos Scolari / UPF

Main Concepts

1 Disintermediation / cyberintermediation: a basic concept for understanding the contemporary transformation of Higher Education systems.

2 The university lost its ‘monopoly’ over the production and distribution of knowledge.

The rol of the Knowledge Broker.

3 New mechanisms of knowledge generation. e-science, online education, distributed R&D, open innovation, peer-based production, encyclopaedias.

4 New models of circulating and distributing knowledge. Digital print on demand, e-journals, open repositories, Creative Commons.

Closed/closed system (closed generation of knowledge + closed distribution and access) is changing to closed/open.

OCW / iTunesU / DOAJ / Research Gate

A more radical stage: an open/open system.

P2P University / Khan Academy / Wikipedia / SciVee / Living Labs / BarCamps /

The future / Right now

The social value of educational hubs to create and maintain social relationships. Civic centers for community involvement.

The death of the university ?

A network of platforms and new institutions are operating educational field. A New Generation was born under the disintermediation.

Why the disinterme-diation process ?

Hybrid system. New teaching/learning processes. Traditional institutions do not occupy a monopolistic position anymore.

How is the system mutating ?

Micro/macro combinations where institutions apply new logics that include new agents, actions and transactions.

Between traditional /new intermediaries ?

Thanks, McLuhan Galaxy Barcelona 2011

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