Presentación McLuhan Galaxy Conference 2011. Hugo Pardo Kuklinski, Cristóbal Cobo y Carlos Scolari. Death of the university ? Knowledge Production/Distribution in the Disintermediation Era. Barcelona, junio 2011 http://www.mcluhangalaxy.net/

1. Death of the university ?
Knowledge Production/Distribution
in the Disintermediation Era.
Hugo Pardo Kuklinski / UVIC
Cristóbal Cobo / OII
Carlos Scolari / UPF

2. Main Concepts

3. 1
Disintermediation / cyberintermediation:
a basic concept for understanding
the contemporary transformation
of Higher Education systems.

4. 2
The university lost its ‘monopoly’
over the production and distribution
of knowledge.
The rol of the Knowledge Broker.

5. 3
New mechanisms of knowledge
generation. e-science, online education,
distributed R&D, open innovation, peer-
based production, encyclopaedias.

6. 4
New models of circulating
and distributing knowledge.
Digital print on demand, e-journals,
open repositories, Creative Commons.

7. 5
Closed/closed system (closed generation
of knowledge + closed distribution and
access) is changing to closed/open.
OCW / iTunesU / DOAJ / Research Gate

8. A more radical stage:
an open/open system.
P2P University / Khan Academy /
Wikipedia / SciVee / Living Labs /
BarCamps /

9. The future / Right now

10. The death
of the university ?
The social value of educational
hubs to create and maintain social
relationships. Civic centers
for community involvement.

11. Why the disinterme-
diation process ?
A network of platforms and new
institutions are operating educational
field. A New Generation was born
under the disintermediation.

12. How is the system
mutating ?
Hybrid system. New teaching/learning
processes. Traditional institutions
do not occupy a monopolistic
position anymore.

13. Between traditional /
new intermediaries ?
Micro/macro combinations
where institutions apply
new logics that include new agents,
actions and transactions.

14. Thanks, McLuhan Galaxy
Barcelona 2011
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