University and Cyberspace: Reshaping Knowledge Institutions for the Networked Age

"We are not learners, we are not pupils, we are not disciples, but we are students"
"The professor is not a teacher. He is not someone who is trying to teach something, but he's someone who is exposing his thinking. The professor makes public his thinking. His attitude is experimental."


Marco Santambrogio, University of Parma, Italy
Colin Maclay, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Maarten Simons, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jan Masschelein, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Session leader: Juan Carlos De Martin

"Education is not a production process. Research is not a production process. [...] The point of university is precisely to take things out of their usual contexts. To take persons, students, learners and academics out of their usual business and to make them into public figures. That is, in a certain way, to bring them into a space-time which is a space-time where the regular, common, use of words or of things is suspended. It's a kind of place of suspension."
Jan Masschelein