some questions about discipline
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The kingdom of fools??
the deciple wants to stay in the kingdom of phone because the food was cheap and he grree like a street side bull.
Question 1: What is the big problem or question that this new academic discipline that you keep talking about would address?
Answer: We want to study how colleges and universities are using the advancement of student learning as a strategy to build long-term institutional resilience, relevance, and impact. We are interested in what the changes in how schools approach learning mean to the larger postsecondary sector, and to the people and communities served by our institutions. We want this scholarship to be useful to those who are working in higher education to improve learning, increase access, and lower costs.
Question 2: Why do you want to study this?
Answer: A few of us at different institutions have been living through a series of big changes in recent years. These changes are all about how learning is changing on campus - and they touch on everything from the alignment of teaching practices to research on learning, to the growth of blended, low-residency, online, and open learning. We have observed the linkages between changes in how students learn, and how schools develop their priorities and structures and cultures. We want to understand why learning is changing in higher education.
Question 3: What is your unit of analysis?
Answer: The unit of analysis is the organization, be it individual colleges and universities, or divisions / schools within institutions. We want to understand how changes at individual schools will change the structure of the larger postsecondary industry. The concern is largely around organizational and system-wide change. The goal is to understand why and how change happens when it comes to learning in higher education, how to best manage and lead change, and what the future of learning in higher education may look like.
Question 4: Why do you think that studying in how learning is changing in higher education needs a new discipline?
Answer: First, we think that answering the questions that we want to answer will require that we bring a number of different disciplinary traditions together. So maybe this should be thought of as an interdisciplinary effort. From what we know (and we could be wrong), it seems as if other scholars have looked at learning and higher education change from a different starting place than we are proposing. We need to bring in learning science, but we are not proposing to add to the scholarship of effective pedagogical methods. We want to investigate organizational change within higher education, but to do so through the lens of learning. We are interested in what motivates postsecondary organizations to change what they are doing around student learning, but we don’t believe that existing theoretical frameworks on the causes and consequence of innovation apply very well to the reality of our colleges and universities. The goal is not to exclude any scholars of higher education and learning, but to bring them together to make sense of how and why things have changed, and what the future of college and universities may look like.
Question 5: Why do you think that “innovation” should be in the name of the discipline?
Answer: Truthfully, we don’t know what to call this discipline that we think that we want to grow. We are still struggling with if we are really asking a different set of questions than scholars have been conducting research on for many years. We use “innovation” to signal what we see as non-incremental and non-continuous (read big) changes in how learning is occurring across the higher education sector. If anyone has a better name for this academic discipline - even if you think it is a terrible idea to create a new academic discipline around these questions - we would love to hear your suggestions.