If universities of the future are to survive, he argues, they will have to capture their students’ imaginations. ‘The part [of edupunk] that resonates most with me is that learning has to start with the learner’s desire to learn, and until that’s awakened, you’re putting people on a conveyor belt,’ he says.

‘If that spirit is missing from the university, then the university has to find a way to recapture that spirit and to be a platform for it.’

Radical alternative education a la Gardner Campbell, director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning at Baylor University in Waco, Texas (via utnereader)

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