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This chapter unpacks the benefits that can be expected from applying the Self-organizing University including the way better learning and teaching can get to scale in a university, Benefits include higher quality curriculum, sophisticated analytics data, more equitable performance management, and improved student outcomes. The chapter focuses on distinctiveness and the way the Self-organizing University model can provide a university with a distinctive empirically supported approach to learning and teaching.
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Bain, A., Zundans-Fraser, L. (2016). Impacts and Benefits. In: Rising to the Challenge of Transforming Higher Education. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0261-8_10
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