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Michael Smith visits Google to discuss his book \u201cThe Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World.\u201d

For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to failing students professionally, this system has exacerbated social injustice and socioeconomic stratification across the globe. In \u201cThe Abundant University\u201d, Smith argues that the only way to create a financially and morally sustainable higher education system is by embracing digital technologies for enrolling, instructing, and credentialing students\u2014the same technologies that we have seen create abundance in access to resources in industry after industry.

\u201cThe Abundant University\u201d explains how we got our current system, why it\u2019s such an expensive, inefficient mess, and how a system based on exclusivity cannot foster inclusivity. Smith challenges the resistance to digital technologies that we have already seen among numerous institutions, citing the examples of faculty resistance toward digital learning platforms. While acknowledging the understandable self-preservation instinct of our current system of residential education, Smith makes a case for how technology can form greater educational opportunities and create changes that will benefit students, employers, and society as a whole.

Visit http://youtube.com/TalksAtGoogle/ to watch the video.
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