CONTRIBUTIONS BY TOPIC
University-based Innovation and Social Equity “Putting the moccasins back on the feet of our youth”
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Tim Killeen 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the last 800 years in Cambridge, new...
Universities as Curators of Knowledge
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Lino Guzzella and Gerd Folkers, ETH Zurich 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the...
The Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative as a Test bench of the Future of Universities
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning, Uncategorized
Yves Flückiger and Pablo Achard 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of...
The Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative as a Test bench of the Future of Universities
2018
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning
Yves Flückiger and Pablo Achard 2018 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the last 800...
Impact of technology on learning and scholarship
2016
Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Arnoud de Meyer, Singapore Management University 2016 Recently I took on the challenge of teaching a course to Undergraduatestudents at Singapore Management University. It had been more than20 years since I had taught any Undergraduates, having spent most of my career...
From moocs to moors – a movement towards humboldt 2-0
2016
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Yves Flückiger, University of Geneva 2016 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have attracted a lot of attention in the academic world in general and presidents’ officesmore particularly. But some worry that this model of teaching is a step back to a vertical and...
Learning to think critically
2016
Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
Lino Guzzella, ETHZ 2016 Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. (Confucian Analects, Wei zheng [Ho Peng Yoke, 2012]) Confucius explains to his students and scholars his ideas about how togain knowledge. In doing so, he...
Universities. Serving as, and Educating Global Citizens
2012
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
Heather Munroe-Blum, McGill University 2012 Four years ago, in Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million citizens turned their lights off for one hour to take a stand against climate change. Last March, only four years later, 5,251 cities in 135 countries responded to the same...
Research Universities and Sustainable Development with special Reference to India and IIT Madras
2012
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
M.S. Ananth, IIT Madras 2012 Rapid advances in technology have had dramatic consequences. The environment that moulded life on earth over many millennia is being altered and even replaced dynamically, endangering the very life whose quality science and technology seek...
International STEM Education for Global Sustainability
2012
Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Teaching & Learning
Roberta Johnson Killeen, National Earth Science Teachers Association 2012 On a daily basis, people around the world face challenges that result from us all, together on our small planet, approaching the carrying capacity of our environment. The sustainability of...
Responsibility of Business Schools to train Leaders
2012
Chapters and other contributions, Human Resources, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
Pascal Morand, ESCP Paris 2012 Business Schools have been seriously challenged in recent years and have sometimes accused of contributing directly to the financial and economic crisis that has deeply shaken the world and has not been yet overcome. Different types of...
Preparing the University and its Graduates for the Unpredictable and Unknowable
2012
Chapters and other contributions, Human Resources, Missions & Responsibilities, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Alain Beretz, University of Strasbourg 2012 Universities are a key player in the “knowledge society”. But this increased influx of knowledge and the exponential rate of technical progress also generate anxiety and fear that could undermine the fundamental role of...
KAUST: An International, Independent, Graduate Research University
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Research & Innovation, Teaching & Learning
Fawwaz T. Ulaby, KAUST 2010 Education, research and economic development are among the highest priorities established by King Abdullah for Saudi Arabia. An equally important overriding priority for him is the development of women for greater participation in the...
Learning in/for a World of Constant Flux: Homo Sapiens, Homo Faber & Homo Ludens revisited
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
John S. Brown, University of Southern California 2010 The educational needs of the 21st century pose a number of serious problems for current educational practices. First and foremost, we see the 21st century as a time that is characterized by constant change...
Team Players to Shape our Future: Do our Students Learn the Right Skills?
2010
Chapters and other contributions, Human Resources, Teaching & Learning
Ralph Eichler, ETHZ 2010 Education is the key for success and welfare of a country. Figure 1 shows the correlation between the wealth intensity and the number of citations in scientific journals. Switzerland is among the top nations. It has a special, so-called dual...
the Glion Colloquium
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