Higher education institutions, policymakers come together to discuss equal education access
Editor's note: We'll be updating this story daily throughout the summit.
This year's ASU+GSV Summit, held in San Diego this week, is exploring the theme “Brave New World: Imagining a new era in which all people have equal access to the future.”
The education-technology conference drew more than 7,100 in-person attendees and an additional 10,000 watching the panels live streamed. About 350 higher education institutions are represented, including 22 speakers and 12 deans from Arizona State University.
Here are some panel highlights:
Tuesday, April 18
Accelerating Equity in Higher Education on Youtube
Earlier this year, Arizona State University partnered with YouTube and Crash Course to offer college credit for courses that are on the Study Hall YouTube channel, as a way to make college more accessible and lower in cost.
In a Tuesday morning session at the ASU+GSV Summit, ASU President Michael Crow moderated a panel discussion on what this inclusive, scalable platform means for the future of higher education.
Crow: “There are technologies that have come along that have enabled us to reach almost everyone all the time with ubiquitous information. There is huge resistance to the notion of a highly egalitarian, highly democratic, highly autodidactic empowerment through new kinds of learner systems.”
Katie Kurtz, managing director and global head of learning at YouTube: “We realized that just increasing access and affordability do not ensure student success. We learned that inspiration and motivation have to be pieces of the puzzle. Also learning is better when done with a community, and that’s where Crash Course comes into play.
“Because of all this intrinsic motivation, there tends to be a notion among those in formal education that supplemental education is important, but it’s supplemental to the core. What if, for the learner, supplemental learning is the core?”
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