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Youth Futures: Leapfrogging from Century 18 to Century 21

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11/5/2007

Slides from Saturday’s Global Youth Policy Seminar presentation by Arthur Harkins and myself follow:


Leapfrog Ecuador!

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11/3/2007

I’m back from a week in Ecuador, where I participated in a conference hosted in the Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO), and delivered two invited lectures. At FLACSO, I discussed the co-seminar conducted by myself and Dr. Arthur Harkins at the University of Minnesota, in cooperation with FLACSO-México (lead by Dr. Cristóbal Cobo). [...]


Taking the co-seminar model to Quito

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10/25/2007

On Saturday, I’m off to Quito, Ecuador, the home of Guayasamin! I will present at the FLACSO 50th Anniversary Congress and at the Universidad San Francisco. The University of Minnesota-FLACSO Mexico co-seminar I taught with Arthur Harkins and Cristobal Cobo will be the primary focus of my talks. Since I will travel without my laptop [...]


Planet 2.0 meets the USA

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10/4/2007

This has been a quiet blogging week due to FLACSO México‘s visit to the University of Minnesota. The visit has been very busy, and highly productive. This morning, Education Futures contributor Dr. Cristóbal Cobo (read his blog) presented his ideas at a University of Minnesota’s Institute for New Media Studies and Digital Technology Center research [...]


Games in the Classroom (part three)

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7/30/2007

Twenty years ago, playing games over a distance might have meant that you played turn-taking games like chess over email, and you were cutting edge. I remember people playing chess through snail mail! You would make your move and wait for a reply. What is happening now is taking place in real-time in virtual environments [...]


Photos from the JTET conference

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6/2/2007

Here are three photos from the JTET conference in Debrecen, Hungary: Artists performed as part of one paper presentation. Our presentation on sustainable innovation. A monkey sat quietly in the corner during our workshop session…


Designing education for sustainable innovation

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5/31/2007

Presented at the JTET conference this morning: Arthur M. Harkins, Ph.D. (USA) John Moravec, Ph.D. (USA) University of Minnesota Abstract This presentation is concerned with complex subjects, but presents them in ways that audiences can understand and professionally contemplate. The core concept of the paper is “sustainable innovation,” which presumes the necessity for continuous innovation [...]


The Leapfrog Principle (in Chinese)

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4/12/2007

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Final defense on April 6

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3/28/2007

And, yes, it will be in 3-D!


The role of academic professionals in the university of the future

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3/17/2005

John Moravec and Ai Takeuchi’s presentation “The role of academic professionals in the university of the future: a comparative pilot study” prepared for the 49th annual Comparative and International Education Society meeting at Stanford University is available for download here. Handouts, containing key survey findings and scenarios for the futures of higher education in the [...]


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University-Industry Collaboration (Part 2)

Yesterday, I talked about all the good things that are said to be brought by university-industry collaboration. There is, however, other side of this seemingly almighty strategy. Well, “other side” might be a bit too exaggerating. But there are some things we have to keep in our mind when we discuss university-industry collaboration. What I [...]


A New Paradigm of Knowledge Production

My doctoral dissertation, A New Paradigm of Knowledge Production in Minnesota Higher Education: A Delphi Study, is available for purchase online or for online preview: Click here to preview the first chapter Or, purchase a PDF download or hardcover copy of this document online at the Education Futures store SPECIAL: Download now and save! For [...]


The university of the future and the future of universities

Article Link: The university of the future and the future of universities Rick Reis at Stanford’s Center for Teaching and Learning, posted excerpts from Sir John Daniel’s keynote address at the Improving University Learning and Teaching 25th International Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. Sir Daniel previously served as Vice-Chancellor at Open University. Though the text is [...]


Inaugural post

The purpose of this project is to provide resources for educational professionals to help better plan for the future of education –and, to keep me productive as I begin to piece together my doctoral dissertation. Drop me a comment or email at if you have any suggestions! John Moravec


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