I have attended the MRC Innovation Day conference on the 25th November 2016. On the second day I had to make a presentation under the theme on "Capacity-Building for Innovation" and my presentation was on the different initiatives that are ongoing at the University of Mauritius with respect to capacity-building.
I then focused on how the Centre for Innovative & Lifelong Learning was playing a key role in terms of innovating the education system of the University to address 21st Century Education Challenges and needs.
The presentation has been uploaded on Slideshare and embedded in this blog post. The key message is that traditional universities can no longer conduct business as usual if they want to survive in the 21st Century, especially where funding from Government is becoming more and more limited. We find that we spend much of our time and effort in public institutions to consolidate the existing traditional and rather outdated education model.
In this context the Living Lab for Innovative Pedagogies and Teacher Training is conducting a series of project, activities and initiatives to address to some extent the problem by trying to use anticipatory methods and futures thinking.
