10-time author and designer with a focus on change in organizations and communities. HappinessChoice.com. Contact Jack at jack(at)happinesschoice(dot)com
A zen perspective on how we think about the future
At Quest University in BC Canada, David Helfand is “institutionalizing the revolution” in higher Ed.
Quest has no departments, no tenure and no classes larger than 20. It uses the block system, in which students take one course at a time for a month. Students get a grade, plus a faculty assessment of whether they are “contributing to, and benefiting from, the intellectual life of the classroom.” And students spend their last two years focused on a single question of their choosing.
Students concentrate on one 3.5 week class at a time, given them and faculty, called “tutors,” flexibility in scheduling learning travel experiences.
However other universities and colleges oppose or emulate this innovation, it effectively calls into questions anything about higher Ed that was relevant 100 plus years ago.
10-time author and designer with a focus on change in organizations and communities. HappinessChoice.com. Contact Jack at jack(at)happinesschoice(dot)com
10-time author and designer with a focus on change in organizations and communities. HappinessChoice.com. Contact Jack at jack(at)happinesschoice(dot)com
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