A Lego University – is this another brick in the wall?

“Last month, the Danish toy company Lego took its educational profile to a new level by announcing tentative plans to build a Lego University in its corporate home town of Billund, Denmark. The university (to be built out of regular bricks) would offer degrees and house research on topics such as ‘systematic creativity’ and ‘optimal learning environments’, as part of a community development plan to turn Billund into a ‘capital of children’ …” (more)

[Linda Nordling, Guardian, 2 February]

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