Dr. Gavin Moodie - Universities, Disruptive Technologies, and Continuity in Higher Education: The Impact of Information Revolutions
We are excited to have Dr. Gavin Moodie speak on the effects of the current information revolution on universities by examining the effects of two previous information revolutions: Gutenberg’s invention and proof of printing in 1450 and the Scientific Revolution from the mid-fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Dr. Moodie will discuss significant changes since the early modern period in universities’ students, libraries, curriculum, pedagogy, lectures, assessment, research, and the dissemination of these changes across the globe. He will address significant changes in the transmission and dissemination of disciplinary knowledge are shaped by the interaction of three factors: financial, technological, and physical resources; the nature, structure and level of knowledge; and the methods available for managing knowledge.
About the speaker
Dr. Gavin Moodie
Gavin Moodie is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Adjunct Professor in Education at RMIT University, Australia. He has published over fifty journal articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries on higher education policy. He is interested in higher education policy in wealthy English speaking countries, particularly in relations between college, vocational or further education and university or higher education.