The article: Higher education must reinvent itself to meet the needs of the world today. Enter the distributed university. Published 25 February 2022. Author: Richard F. Heller – University of Newcastle.
The session today was quite lively, with most people contributing something. I was hoping that the others would provide an example of where CSU fitted in with it all, but it did not happen.
However, lots of different ideas came up and some people provided arguments against the ideas presented as some aspects were problematic, and I had considered those also. Ideas such as the problems of this outside Australia and the time and internet strength differences; the different value systems in countries outside the West and the notion of inculcating Western values; and one person was concerned about the demands on lecturers with the idea of voluntary work, together with the idea that universities need to be collaborative and not competitive. A person brought up the idea that collaboration was unnecessary as universities cannot adopt a single policy, because who would be supplying that policy? Many of the thoughts I had about the subject were brought up by various members of staff, and I and others agreed with those who brought up the different and conflicting ideas.
In all, quite a few of us thought that the ideas were quite idealistic but may not work in practice.