"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake"
(Rabindranath Tagore wrote this about a hundred years ago; the words sound truer than ever today).
With a decentralised autonomous university (DAU)
- Freeing up knowledge
- The world not being broken into fragments by narrow domestic walls
- Words coming out from the depth of truth
- Clarity of reason and critical thinking
- Ever expanding thoughts and actions
Ideas:
John Domingue's lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPefcmWFWyM
Ray Schroeder's report in "Inside Higher Education"
Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Third, Allan and Domingue, John (2019). Decentralising online education using blockchain technology. In: The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference: Blended and online education within European university networks, 16-18 Oct 2019, UNED, Madrid, full length of the PDF paper here: https://oro.open.ac.uk/68377/1/OOFHEC2019-paper.pdf
Examples:
Bittopia.org , a very preliminary example of what is possible in the space of education
In this series of posts, I am going to expand on this theme further