Open project

«University for Future»

Valery S. Efimov,

Center for Strategic Research and Development,

Siberian Federal University

foresight.sfu-kras.ru

October 15-17, 2015. Krasnoyarsk - Moscow

The 6th International Conference

Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers

" Rethinking Students: Ideas and New Research Approaches"

Center for Strategic Research and Development

(CSRD) foresight.sfu-kras.ru

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1. Practices of working with a future• technological and regional foresight• sociocultural foresight• business areas and industries foresight

2. Strategizing• development of strategies and programs• applied urban studies• organizational development

3. Organizational-activity engineering• expert sessions• project and strategic workshops• simulation and facilitation

Main projects1. Krasnoyarsk - 2030: new strategic vector

2. The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic Foresight - 2050

3. Proposals for the development strategy of Siberia

and Far East

4. Industrial policy for Siberia and Krasnoyarsk region

5. The modernization program of the Krasnoyarsk

region professional education

6. Krasnoyarsk Foresight: images of the future 2030

7. The future of higher education in Russia – 2030

8. Foresight of the Krasnoyarsk region education

system – 2030

9. The human capital of the Krasnoyarsk region – 2030

Project context: communicative revolutions

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The structure of intellectual activity

• Problem-search communication

• Structuring and accumulation of knowledge

• Production of knowledge

• Subject activity

1st communicative revolution – Appearance of writing, schemes, drawings,

2nd communicative revolution (1440-1810) – Invention and mass distribution of

book printing - new opportunities for knowledge storage and transmission

3rd communicative revolution (1980-2010) – Digital-communicative revolution -

transition to recording, storage and transmission of digital information (text, audio,

images, video)

Technology spreading 1990 2002 2010

The proportion of mobile

phone users

0,25% 19% 67%

The proportion of

Internet users

0,05% 11% 26,6%

New features of intellectual activity

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The organizational-activity

scheme (G.Schedrovitsky):

• Level of thinking

• Level of cogitative

communication

• Level of cogitative action

Basic intellectual functions:

• intellection,

• communication,

• cogitative action,

• reflexion,

• understanding

1. Increased access to knowledge – open digital libraries

2. Acceleration of knowledge flow – Internet use

3. New possibilities of online communication – Skype and etc.

4. Intelligence network communities – network communities of researchers and developers

5. Methodology of intellectual activity – from ontological models to organizational-activity

schemes and cognitive institutions

The speed of information

exchange

Time

Publication of article in the scientific

journal

6-24 months

Publication of article in the scientific

online edition

1-7 days

Organization of scientific seminar /

conference

1-8 months

Organisation of the webinar (Internet

communications)

1-5 days

Expert-analytical portal "Siberian frontier"The portal is conceived as

cognitive institution of a new

generation, which provides

organization of collective thinking

and action in the context of the

digital revolution, intelligent

systems globalization prospects

Goals• The formation of the expert community

(cognitive network) through the involvement

of experts in the discussion of socio-

economic, technological and cultural

development in the offline and online mode

• Providing user navigation in the space of

meanings, ideas, processes and trends,

design of their social and professional

position

• Promotion in public spaces of Russian

intellectual leadership groups, leading

scientific and educational organizations

http://sibfrontier.ru/

Open project "Universities for future"OPEN PROJECT –

the new format of research and

expert-analytical work

organization (virtual think tank)

Objectives of open project

• Formation of the community of

researchers, practitioners and

experts

• Accumulation of texts – most

substantial scientific papers

• Organization of discourse –

deployment of scientific and

expert discussions

• Problems and tasks mapping

as a tool for researches and

development coordination

Main sections of the project

Project concept Project team Project experts Project participants

Project events Expert discourse Map of problems and tasks Project results

Project library

Open project "Universities for future"

OPEN PROJECT –

the new format of research

and expert-analytical work

organization (virtual think tank)

Objectives of open project

• Formation of the community of

researchers, practitioners and

experts

• Accumulation of texts – most

substantial scientific papers

• Organization of discourse –

deployment of scientific and

expert discussions

• Problems and tasks mapping

as a tool for researches and

development coordination

Library typical and thematic categories

Conceptual texts Researches and

analytics

Expert texts Official documents

Global and

country trends

Cognitive

anthropology

Institutional

development

Humanitarian and

digital technologies

Institutional

development

Humanitarian and digital

technologies

New Human - Cognitive

AnthropologyGlobal and country

trends

Research and

development

Knowledge

broadcasting

Interaction with

society

Project concept-group

OBJECTIVES OF CONCEPT

GROUP :

• definition of project goals and

objectives

• publication of author materials

on the project site

• definition of the expert

discussions’ subject and

content

• participation in the expert

discourse about key issues of

the project

• participate in development of

problems and tasks map

Project experts

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPERTS:

• participate in defining project goals and

objectives;

• make proposals to problems and tasks

map;

• publish authoring materials on the project

site;

• express expert opinion about other project

participants materials;

• offer to concept-group other authors’

materials (available for free distribution) for

project library

• participate in expert discussions about

project key issues, also as a moderator

• receive weekly newsletter.

Expert discourse

Communication design:

• problematic of topic

• effect of presence

• “density" of the text

• virtual dialogue

• open entrance

Presentation of text :

• title (main idea)

• basic theses

• detailed text

Discussion “Mission of university: challenges of modernity”

• Jacques Le Goff - "Intellectuals in the Middle Ages“

• Ronald Barnett - "Understanding the University“

• Jose Ortega y Gasset - "The mission of the University“

• Alexander Auzan - "The mission of the University: economist opinion“

• Jaroslav Kuz'minov - "Higher School of Economics: mission and mechanisms for its implementation"

Expert discourse

Possible topics of discourse:• Mission of university: challenges of modernity

• University and the digital revolution

• Ethos of the university: Past, Present, Future

• University as a social institution. What activity

institutionalizes by university?

• University of the Future: a cognitive perspective

• New anthropological trends and University

• ???

Past

Future

Research and

development

Knowledge

broadcasting

Interaction with

society

Expert statement

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Administering communications

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Valery S. Efimov

Center for Strategic Research and Development,

Siberian Federal University

Contacts:

Website CSRD – foresight.sfu-kras.ru

Website "Siberian frontier" – sibfrontier.ru

Tel. +7(391)2912731