Creating the Future: Developing Education

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Creating the Future Developing Education

• Malcolm H. Field and Ian H. Frank

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Challenge

• List three reasons why would anyone in your
  organization, department, faculty or university
  wants to be led by you?

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Japans HE

• U21 from Australia (Willimas, R. et al, 2012)
  listing Japans HE as 20th
• the 2011/12 QS World Survey for Asian
  universities has Japans flagship Tokyo
  University, 8th
• PISA2009 reveals the use of ICT in Japanese
  schools as one of the lowest in OECD

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Hakodate Future University
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Results

• budget of around ?5,000,000
• employs a permanent part-time secretary, and four
  academic staff attached full time
• improving transfer
• acquired official administrative status
• If the Web 2.0 formula, personalizing and
  enabling the human element

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Lessons

• context is and always will remain, paramount
• Leaders need to recognize that futures are not
  paved in one paradigm or discipline
• institutional structures are changing from a
  vertical structure to a horizontal
• critical to allow bottom-up ideas
• challenge conservative models
• What futures do you envision and how does your
  leadership create those futures into existence?

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References

• Field, M.H. (2012). Japans Higher Education
  Long-Ending or New Beginnings?, In R.V. Nata
  (Ed). Progress in Education, Vol. 27, Nova
  Science Pubishers New York
• Glaser, E. Cultural Divergence or Convergence
  What is Better for the Individual, the Group, and
  the Organisation? Available at http//www.lang.uni
  -linz.ac.at/Glaser/research/Cultural_divergence.ht
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• QS Asian University Rankings (2012). Available at
  http//www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings
  /asian-university-rankings/2012
• http//mysciencelessons.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/b
  looms-taxonomy-verb-wheel/ and http//techoverview
  .wikis.msad52.org/Digital-Taxonomy
• Williams, R., de Rassenfosse, G., Jensen, P.
  Marginson, S. (2012). U21 Ranking of National
  Higher Education Systems. A project sponsored by
  Universitas 21. University of Melbourne.
  www.universitas21.com/RelatedFile/Download/279,
  Accessed June 5, 2012

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Contact

• Ian H Frank ianf_at_fun.ac.jp
• Malcolm H Field marukomu_at_fun.ac.jp