TY - GEN
T1 - GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY BASED CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR RESTRUCTURING THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION SYSTEM
AU - Dissanayake, C. Kalpani
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Management, 2021
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - With the sudden changes brought about with the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily the new legitimacy of online education, the traditional college and university boards are all actively discussing how the institutions can reform themselves in a strategic sense. This article presents a conceptual framework for viewing education institutions as an open system using the General Systems Theory (GST) and discusses how it could help improve the higher education system. The author concludes that the education institutions must carefully select the institution's components; should carefully and strategically manage the internal and external stakeholder network including all communications and informed decisions; accept that change of student perceptions is a norm and promote agility in the system operations, and also highlights that it is natural for systems to have specialized, outperforming departments/sections. The concepts discussed here could be further researched and would hopefully be of use for policy makers and administrators of higher education systems, while the author also wishes to spark a conversation amongst the citizens.
AB - With the sudden changes brought about with the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily the new legitimacy of online education, the traditional college and university boards are all actively discussing how the institutions can reform themselves in a strategic sense. This article presents a conceptual framework for viewing education institutions as an open system using the General Systems Theory (GST) and discusses how it could help improve the higher education system. The author concludes that the education institutions must carefully select the institution's components; should carefully and strategically manage the internal and external stakeholder network including all communications and informed decisions; accept that change of student perceptions is a norm and promote agility in the system operations, and also highlights that it is natural for systems to have specialized, outperforming departments/sections. The concepts discussed here could be further researched and would hopefully be of use for policy makers and administrators of higher education systems, while the author also wishes to spark a conversation amongst the citizens.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85124376717
T3 - 2021 ASEM Virtual International Annual Conference "Engineering Management and The New Normal"
SP - 221
EP - 229
BT - 2021 ASEM Virtual International Annual Conference "Engineering Management and The New Normal"
PB - American Society for Engineering Management
T2 - 42nd International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management: Engineering Management and The New Normal
Y2 - 27 October 2021 through 30 October 2021
ER -