Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday Nov. 8, 14h-16h Place: *room D.3.17* - this will be the "usual room from now on ------------------------------ I*nterversity: a concept for a self-organizing, distributed university* Mixel Kiemen <[email protected]> (ECCO) *Abstract:* Universities are historically seen as places of universal knowledge. Because of information overload and the acceleration of innovation, the concept of universal knowledge is becoming an illusion. Even the largest universities today only have some of knowledge. The Interversity proposes a conceptual change. It draws the attention to "what is between us" (from the Latin "inter", like in Internet, interact, interdependent, etc.). Universities today are built on three pillars: education, research and public service. To achieve an Interversity, the pillars need to be addressed in a complex adaptive manner. I suggest two such approaches: 1) the open Interversity is about making academic education and research massive; 2) the integrated Interversity is about developing radical innovations. Massively Online Open Courses (MOOCs) show how current academic education, which is only attainable for a happy few, can become part of Life-Long Learning, accessible for everyone, everywhere, at every moment. MOOCs exemplify the first pillar of the Interversity. For the other pillars, I consider experiments that demonstrate knowledge creation and micro-spin-offs. The required Project-Oriented (PO) education creates a high demand for tutoring. In a second experiment, the ability to scale PO education is demonstrated, suggesting a PO-MOOC pilot. The open Interversity is about self-organization and coordination. The integrated Interversity works through guided self-organization and control. It requires an Enterprise Architecture (EA) that can artificially ensure the phase transition required for radical innovation. While innovation only happens through organizations, radical innovation only happens in ecosystems. Consequently, the integrated Interversity uses the EA to create a pipeline for spinning off ecosystems. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *Nov. 15* Viktoras Veitas (GBI) *ChallProp: an agent-based modelling framework for simulating the Global Brain* *Nov. 22* Jon Echanove (ECCO) *Inclusiveness and Exposure: the experience of becoming global and the impact on organizations* *Nov. 29* Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Technical University of Vienna) *Global Consciousness – the global brain in the perspective of a global sustainable information society* *Dec. 6 * Lotte van Lith *Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration* *Dec. 13 * Atanu Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology) *? (the principle of least action as foundation for the theory of self-organization) ?* See also the ECCO/GBI calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers<http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
