Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education
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Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education Mari Sundli Tveit, RectorNorwegian University of Life Sciences
EUA Annual Conference April 3-4 2014, Brussels
Norwegian University of Life SciencesNavigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education
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From passive to active change management
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We aim to achieve excellence in higher education today - in a sector undergoing fundamental change
We will need purpose, strong leaders, a GPS system, and fellow hikers…
To survive, we may also have to deal with a «nine-headed troll» on the way
The Higher Education Trolls
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What is our educational vision?
Norwegian University of Life SciencesNavigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education
A backward looking, predetermined, narrow and boring wandering in a depleted landscape?
What is our educational vision?
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Through a varied landscape of lifelong work and learning
As agents of change for a better and more sustainable future?
A case - our university
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Steps to be more proactive, to re-think, to survive and thrive as a highly relevant and high quality HE institution into the 21st century
• NMBU Learning Philosophy• Student-centered learning
outcomes approach• Signature teaching
Path forward for the institutional level
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• Develop a more proactive change management
• Improve NMBUs capacity as a learning organization
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