重新创造、重新定位、重新构想开放大学的创新未来
[美/加] 唐·奥尔科特
（HJ联合事务所，卡拉卡尔 235200，罗马尼亚）
肖俊洪 译
【摘 要】高等教育的发展正处在一个十字路口。高等教育的未来充满活力，竞争激烈且高度数字化。因此，高等院校，包括开放大学正迎来一个关乎它们能否继续蓬勃发展且充满挑战的变革时代。虽然规模化、大众化和社会化这些独特创新对于开放大学而言仍然是必不可少且十分重要的，但是这些创新本身可能不足以让开放大学在新兴的高等教育生态体系中继续扮演重要的领导角色并能再次发挥这种角色的作用。开放大学的领导者将面临巨大的挑战，开放大学如何才能为自己重塑一个最令人兴奋的机构模式并创新性地满足当今新学习者的需求呢？重视或重新重视以下几个方面可能会对下一代开放大学的变革产生重大影响：①发挥领导力的作用；②继续发展巨型大学；③重新确定开放大学在主流高等教育生态体系中的地位；④发展新的轻便型模式的开放大学，即规模更小，学生更少，开展与自身相适应的研究并开设精准定位的学位、证书和微证书专业/课程；⑤聚焦本国需要，发展新的合作伙伴关系；⑥密切关注教育领域乃至社会各领域人工智能和数字技术的发展。如果重新致力培育一种具有创新性、能够快速反应和适应性强的文化，那么下一代开放大学便能够重新塑造并重新定位自己，赋能高等教育，让全球高等教育领域充满活力。
【关键词】开放大学；领导力；市场差异化；创新；数字技术
Open Universities: Reinventing, Repurposing, and Reimagining Innovative Futures
Don Olcott, Jr.
(HJ & Associates, Caracal 235200, Romania)
Abstract: Higher education is at a crossroads. Colleges and universities, including open universities, face a challenging period of change to thrive in a highly dynamic, competitive and digital higher education future. The unique innovations of scaling, massification and social access, whilst still essential and important for open universities, may not in themselves be sufficient to preserve and reposition open universities as major leaders in the emerging higher education ecosystem. Open university leaders will be confronted with immense challenges. How can open universities reinvent themselves as the most exciting organizational model to meet contemporary needs for new audiences in innovative ways? The game-changers for the next generation of open universities may be a renewed and/or new focus on ① leadership,② expanding mega-universities, ③repositioning open universities within the mainstream higher education ecosystem, ④ new streamlined versions of open universities smaller in size, fewer students, niche research, and a mix of niche-focused degrees, certificates and micro-credentials, ⑤ a focused national mission and renewed partnerships, and⑥monitoring A.I. and digital technology developments in the sector and across society. Open universities play a key role in preserving democratic ideals and social justice. With a renewed commitment to a culture of innovation, agility and adaptation, the next generation of open universities can reinvent and repurpose themselves to thrive and empower the global higher education community.
Keywords: open universities; leadership; market differentiation; innovation; digital technology
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