Peer production and collective intelligence as the basis for the public digital university* |
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| Authors: | Michael A Peters Petar Jandri? |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Education, Policy Cultural &2. Social Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealandmpeters@waikato.ac.nz;4. Department of Informatics and Computing, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia |
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| Abstract: | This paper reviews two main historical approaches to creativity: the Romanticist approach, based on the culture of the irrational, and the Enlightenment approach, based on the culture of the objective. It defends a paradigm of creativity as a sum of rich semiotic systems that form the basis of distributed knowledge and learning, reviews historical ideas of the university, and identifies two conflicting mainstream models in regards to understanding of the university as a public good: the ‘Public’ University circa 1960–1980, and the ‘post-historical’ university. Based on practical experiences, and on previous works by Peters and Jandri?, it develops the new model of ‘the creative university as digital public university’, and argues that it provides a useful philosophical goal for directing present and future practices of the contemporary university. |
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| Keywords: | Creativity public good public university digital university creative university higher education Bildung democracy peer production collective intelligence open science open economy cultural infrastructure homo economicus homo collaborans |
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