TEDxRyersonU - Dr. Alan Shepard - Think Different: Why Universities Need to Change January 10, 2012

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The university as an institution has existed for 1,000 years but contemporary pressures are demanding that they change. Dr. Alan Shepard will give examples of how universities ought to transform and touch upon ways Ryerson University, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is thinking different.

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