Why Canada needs five new digital learning universities

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why Canada needs five new digital learning universities
Tony Bates, Online learning and distance education resources, 2018/11/15
The main reason, writes Tony Bates, is that "no higher education system, including Canada’s, is moving fast enough to cope adequately with the challenges of a digital society. Universities and colleges in Canada are changing, but not fast enough." So we should "establish five new regional universities-colleges that are designed from scratch as possible prototypes for the higher education institution of the future, but also designed to maximise the impact they have on existing institutions." But he intends them to be blended institutions with physical campuses; for example, Ontario's would be in Waterloo and Toronto. More...