What if We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia?

A silly question? Maybe. But the analogy, made by a speaker at the Educause conference here today, reflects a recurring theme at this year’s event: Do our university bureaucracies still make sense in the era of networks?

In a session called "The University as an Agile Organization," David J. Staley laid out the findings of a focus group he conducted asking educators what a college would look like if it ran like Wikipedia.

By Marc Parry

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