MLW:Scenario Building in Higher Education

Scenario Building in Higher Education was a workshop organized in Bucharest between October 30th, 2009 and November 1st, 2009. The coordinator was Prof. Dragos Aligica.

DAY 1 (Friday, October 30th)
Initial meeting and Reception

DAY 2 (Saturday, October 31st)

 * Welcome speech and update of the project Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education by Prof. Adrian Curaj and Radu Gheorghiu
 * Keynote talk 1: Scenario Methods for Higher Education by Prof. George M Cairns, Deputy Head, School of Management RMIT University Melbourne


 * Keynote talk 2: The Delphi Method and Scenarios Building by Prof. Murray Turoff, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, New Jersey Institute of Technology, co-author of The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications (1975).


 * Keynote talk 3: Scenarios for Higher Education by Prof. Gil Ringland, author of the bestsellers "Scenario Planning: Managing for the Future" and "Scenarios in Public Policy"


 * Keynote talk 4: Scenarios, Foresight and Higher Education. European Union perspectives by Dr. Elie Faroult, Foresight Unit, EU Commission, Brussels


 * Keynote talk 5: "University Futures": Scenarios Building for Higher Education Systems. Learning from the OECD experience by Dr. Kiira Karkkainen, The "University Futures" OECD project

DAY 3 (Sunday, November 1st)

 * Keynote talk 6: Online Learning and the Future of Higher Education. Thinking the inevitable scenario of the decline of the traditional university and the rise of online universities by Prof. Starr Roxanne Hiltz Distinguished Professor, Emerita, Department of Information Systems, New Jersey Institute of Technology
 * Keynote talk 7: Foresight and Scenarios for Higher Education in a globalized world and a knowledge economy: Comments and Interpretations. by Prof. Ziauddin Sardar, City University London, Editor of the forecasting and planning journal, Futures.