Books, Reports, Videos, Podcasts and Articles
Below is a list of resources used by discussion groups during the planning of Think Big.
Books
- You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a Liberal Arts Education
George Anders, author and journalist - Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Joseph E. Aoun, Northeastern University - The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT and Andrew McAfee, MIT - Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Richard A. DeMillo, Georgia Institute of Technology - The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World
Scot Hartley, venture capitalist - Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm
Christian Madsbjerg, founder, ReD Associates - What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith, business leadership educator, coach, author - The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters (Oxford, 2013)
Ginsberg, Benjamin - Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education (MIT Press, 2017)
Busch, Lawrence - The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom - Coats Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The 4th Revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality
Luciano Floridi - Platform Revolution
Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Choudary - Waltzing with Bears
Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister - Clear Thinking, A Practical Introduction
Hy Ruchlis with Sandra Oddo - 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - Einstein's Boss: 10 rules for leading genius
R. Hromas and C. Hromas - Whistling Vivaldi
Steel Claude - Femme in Public
Alok Vaid Menon - The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Sonja Lyubomirsky - The Tyranny of Metrics
Jerry Z. Muller
Reports
- Dancing with Robots, Human Skills for Computerized Work
Frank Levy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Richard Murnane, Harvard University - Deliberate Innovation, Lifetime Education
Georgia Institute of Technology - Ensuring Quality and Taking High-Impact Practices to Scale
George D. Kuh and Ken O'Donnell, Association of American Colleges and Universities - High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access To Them and Why They Matter
George D. Kuh, Association of American Colleges and Universities - Trends for Higher Education–Implications of the External Environment
Society for College and University Planning - Predicts 2019: Higher Education — Digital Transformation in Progress
Gartner
Videos
- The most important thing you can do about climate change: talk about It
- Where good ideas come from
- Design at the intersection of technology and biology
- Machine intelligence makes human morals more important
- Business of Culture
- Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk
- Danger of a Single Story
Podcasts
- a16z
- FutureU
- Future of Life
- The Future According to Now
- Hidden Brain/The Edge Effect
- Higher Ed Podcast, presented by KUT 90.5 Austin's NPR Station
- Innovation Hub, presented by WGBH & PRI
- Partially Examined Mind Episode 183: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education
- Social-Emotional Learning May Be a Limited Solution for Reforming School Discipline
Articles
- "The Death of an Adjunct: Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass," The Atlantic, April 2019
- “Design Thinking for Higher Education,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter, 2018
- “MIT Forum Examines Future Workers, Shared Prosperity,” Medium, Nov. 2018
- “Using AI for Social Good,” Google
- “Emerging Opportunities and Risks Associated with Biological Engineering,” University of Cambridge, March, 2018
- "On the Best Use of Science to Safeguard Humanity,” Quanta, Dec. 2018
- "On Liberal Education", Jacob Klein
- "The Geography of Brain Drain in America," CityLab, May 2019
- "The Outlook is Dim for Americans Without College Degrees," The Economist, Jan. 2019
- "This Will Be The Biggest Disruption In Higher Education," Forbes, April 2019
- "Does Higher Education Still Prepare People for Jobs?," Harvard Business Review, Jan. 2019