Post ideas to shape your dream university… by New World University

By changing professors' role

2015-01-05 14:40:10 UTC

Open source education

2015-01-05 14:40:10 UTC

economic model to shared risk. Free education with return on investment. Open source education. Today it is the bank that play this role. Incubators in university is a healthy competition

Diploma vs skills

2015-01-05 14:40:10 UTC

Do not make believe the students that a diploma will be the end of their apprenticeship. Imagine that their greatest satisfaction will be in what they will achieve on the basis of knowledge gained

classroom vs real life

2015-01-05 14:40:10 UTC

The classroom is not the best place to learn. There are places that develop perception, expression, reasoning. Learn how to manage on the deck of a boat, learn cinema as an intern as Luc Besson in Hollywood.

By de-constructing the traditional classrooms

ArtMassonneau — 2015-01-05 14:40:10 UTC

Kids and students are bored of beeing sat in front of a teacher during hours. Let's create classrooms which are not only learning rooms anymore, but doing and speaking rooms! Why couldn't we inspire ourselves from the "Barcamps" movement: no slides, no speakers: all participants do bring something to the event, and share knowledge & experience

By showing the direct impact of what we learn

ArtMassonneau — 2015-01-05 14:40:10 UTC

I've gone through many "Business Cases" throughout my higher education years. Few of them got me really involved: those for which we knew we would have a potential real impact on a company, brand, association, non-profit organisation, etc. Students are entrepreneur/worker/doers to be: why aren't they more involved in their future life? "Junior Entreprise" French system can be great, but this it not enough. Some "classrooms" should be directly installed inside the companies.

By bringing "real people" to school

ArtMassonneau — 2015-01-05 14:40:10 UTC

Why should school be such a dogmatic place? "Teaching" is one of the jobs in which you have the most people marrying each other. It is great to prevent kids and students from being disenchanting by the "outside world". But it would be "healthier" to have a glimpse of what's happening out of school, by bringing entrepreneurs, artists, workers... inside the school, as soon as possible.

Create learning events

2015-01-06 15:34:23 UTC

Forums, Start-up Week-Ends & other events have proven their ability to focus students' attention and learning. They are focused, intensive & mirror the professional life. Could be good to introduce some more in traditional curricula.

Choosing professors

2015-01-21 12:09:31 UTC

Could we imagine choose our professors ? It would be a plus if, for a same course, we could choose our professor. We could base our choice on evaluations available on an open platform.

Most successful professors would be rewarded and would be receiving incentives to teach more, to more students.