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Richard K. Miller, Ph.D. First President and Professor
Needham, Massachusetts
Opening Keynote
General Education and Assessment:
Foundations for Democracy
Association of American Colleges & Universities
Philadelphia, PA
February 15, 2018
Reimagining General Education Design Thinking and Intrinsic Motivation Perspectives
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Outline
1. Context: What Is Olin College?
2. Lessons Learned
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Outline
1. Context: What Is Olin College?
2. Lessons Learned
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F.W. Olin Foundation Timeline
• 1997 – Charter
• 1999 – First employee
• 2000 – Founding Faculty, begin
campus construction
• 2001 – Olin Partner Year
• 2002 – first courses taught
• 2006 – first commencement
Franklin W. Olin
Joseph Bordogna
NSF
Engineering Education
Coalitions Program
“There is a lot of unhappiness about the
way engineering is taught today…” Lawrence W. Milas, President, F.W. Olin Foundation,
Founding Chairman, Olin College Board of Trustees
John Prados
ABET
Criteria 2000
L.W. Milas
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“Olin College is intended to be different,
not for the mere sake of being different, but
in order to become an important and constant
contributor to the advancement of engineering
education in America and throughout the world,…” Founding Precepts, Olin College
Olin College is intended to become an
education laboratory.
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The Role of Olin College
Olin College
Higher Education
No Tenure, No Academic Departments, $100k Merit
Scholarships, Everything has an Expiration Date
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Since 2010, visited by more than 2,000 visitors from
800 universities and 55 countries
in past 7 years
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Features of the Olin Model Today
• 50% women
• Candidates Weekends
• 25-35 Design-Build Projects + Start/Run Business
• SCOPE – 2 semester Corporate Capstone ($55k/team)
• EXPO – stand and deliver every semester
• Passionate Pursuits
• Design Thinking + Intrinsic Motivation
• Integrated Learning in Context
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Outline
1. Context: What Is Olin College?
2. Lessons Learned
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The Future of Higher Education
KNOWLEDGE
ECONOMY
MAKER
ECONOMY
INNOVATION
ECONOMY
content ideas
imitate
perfect
What you Know What you can Do What you Conceive
Sage on Stage Guide on Side Peers and Mentors?
Rows of seats
with Blackboard
Small groups
with Maker Projects
Intrinsic motivation,
Design Thinking?
TIME Yeats: Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire!
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Why education must change
An existential
threat!
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Why education must change
• Global, Complex, Multidisciplinary Challenges • Security, Sustainability, Health, Enhancing Life
• Unintended Consequences, systems thinking
• Coupled Scientific-Social-Economic-Political-Religious
• Need New Kind of Education for Innovators
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Our traditional approach to
higher education may be
actually preventing us from
producing innovators!
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Feasibility Viability
Desirability
INNOVATION
Engineering
and Science
Business and
Economics
Psychology, Arts, Humanities, etc.
Broader View of Innovation
No amount of emphasis on narrow specialized courses
will produce the innovators we need!
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Lessons Learned
To produce innovators,
we must change:
• Who we teach
• What we teach
• How we teach
Learning to Improvise!
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A New Culture of Learning
Traditional New
Knowledge Transfer Construct Knowledge
“Can’t Do” “Can Do”
Follow Orders Follow Your Passions
Learn in Class Learn 24 x 7
Learn Alone Learn in Teams
Problem-based Design-based
Pedagogy like Graduate School
“For most of the twentieth century our educational system has been built on the assumption that teaching is necessary for learning to occur.”
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21st century Innovators require more
than specialized knowledge!
Attitude:
More often than not,
your attitude determines
your altitude in life
*
*not your aptitude
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Attitudes, Behaviors, and Motivations:
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Ethical Behavior
• Teamwork, Leadership
• Global perspective
• Interdisciplinary thinking
• Creativity and design
• Empathy, social responsibility
• Employability skills
Educate to Innovate
Capacity, Capability,
Competitiveness
Employability Skills
Innovation Excellence
Importance of Mindset!
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Attitudes, Behaviors, and Motivations:
• Collaborative Mindset
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Interdisciplinary Mindset
• Global Mindset
• Ethical Mindset
Educate to Innovate
Capacity, Capability,
Competitiveness
Employability Skills
Innovation Excellence
Importance of Mindset!
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It’s NOT just about
content knowledge anymore!
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Mindset – can be defined, measured, and taught!
Angela Duckworth, U. Penn
2013 MacArthur Prize
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Mindset: Impact in Adults
James Heckman
U Chicago
(Ctr for Economics
of Human Dev)
Nobel Prize in Economics
(with Daniel McFadden)
2000
Grit is often better
predictor of success than
knowledge or intelligence
Mel Ramey – UC Davis
“Hopeful faculty members spread hope among
their students, while cynical faculty members
spread cynicism”
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GALLUP PURDUE INDEX (2014)
• Largest alumni survey in history
• Behavioral Economics
• Long-term outcomes
• Well being: purpose, social,
financial, community, physical
KEY FINDINGS
• Emotional support
(mentorship) + deep
experiential learning
(projects, etc.) DOUBLES
success in life
• But only 3% of alumni get
this
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October 11, 2017
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October 22, 2017
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January 23, 2018
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Unintended consequences
of social media and gaming.
Can we afford to ignore these
challenges and remain focused
on disciplinary content?
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The Narrowing of Education:
How We Got Here
It’s mostly about content now—and STEM content matters most!
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MAJORITY OF REPUBLICANS SAY COLLEGES
ARE BAD FOR AMERICA (YES, REALLY)
BY CHRIS RIOTTA ON 7/10/17 AT 1:42 PM
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“Higher Education costs
too much, and delivers
too little. It must be
replaced.”
We are not known for our
commitment to student wellbeing.
The public is losing confidence in
us!
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How Education Must Change
In the 21st Century
21st Century: Education = Knowledge + Skills
+ Mindset
21st Century: Education = Job Preparation.
We must set the bar higher—not lower—and aim to prepare
students for life—AND their first job!
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What Knowledge and Skills?
Finding Things Out
Academic Disciplines
Finding Things Out +
Making Sense of the World +
Envisioning What Has Never Been
and Doing Whatever It Takes to
Make It Happen(!)
Learning Things That Matter +
Learning in Context +
Learning in Teams +
Making Things That Change Lives
= Learning How to Learn
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What Mindset?
• Collaborative Mindset
• Interdisciplinary Mindset
• Ethical and Empathetic Mindset
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Global Mindset
• Growth Mindset (Dweck, Stanford)
• Grit (Duckworth, U Penn)
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How Is Mindset Shaped?
• Identity
- who do you believe you are?
• Agency
- what are you confident you
can actually do?
• Sense of Purpose
- how will your life make a
positive difference?
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Coalition for Life-Transforming Education
It’s not just about content knowledge anymore!
Someone here cares about me, and I’m applying what I learned
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“Making universities and
engineering schools exciting,
creative, adventurous, rigorous,
demanding, and empowering
milieus is more important than
specifying curricular details,”
Dr. Charles Vest, former President of MIT and
of the US National Academy of Engineering.
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