Sections

1. Higher education and development in fragile contexts

- Introduction: Stakeholder goals and strategy
- Research agendas and technological innovation
- An opportunity for development intervention
- Higher education access in fragile contexts

Section 1

The cultural space of the medieval Islamicate world

2. Shaping a higher education intervention

- Introduction: A mindset of design
- Designing learning for complex general skills
- Potentials of the blended learning mode
- Scoping and scaling the program parameters

Section 2

Multiple learning goals must be supported by scaffolding as well as the overall learning design at the levels of curriculum, available learning formats, and the (blended) mode of instruction.

3. Supporting individual learning outcomes

- Introduction: The role of technologies
- Defining multi-level learning goals
- Leveraging diversity and capturing practices
- Expected value and recruiting

Section 3

4. Cycling and re-cycling hypotheses

- Introduction: Administrating complexity
- Minimum viable pilot to validate assumptions
- Student marketing, recruiting and commitment
- Flexibility for continuous adjustment

Section 4

5. Balancing stakeholder relationships

- Introduction: Negotiating stakeholders agendas
- Outcome evaluation and incentive structures
- Admissions policy and graduation rates
- Agile management in peripheral positions

Section 5

6. Mapping learning paths

- Introduction: Course formats and assignments
- Learning mode and feedback channels
- Mentoring, tutoring and scaffolding
- First-hand learnings and impressions

Section 6

7. Translating and buffering workstreams

- Introduction: Digital didactics and media production
- Academic quality and sustainability
- Third space versus the chair principle

Section 7

8. Negotiating innovation and compliance

- Introduction: Governance for wicked problems
- Virtual faculty and material impact
- Core office and Advisory board
- Methods and mindset of agility