The following table was not created according to the university where I studied. In fact I was always very happy because the Department of Informatic Engineering of the University of Coimbra, is close to a Learning Organization in some of the points bellow.

Learning Organizations	Universities
Systems Thinking	Mechanical Thinking
Shared Vision	Individual Conceptualization
Shared Decision and Collaborative Creation	Communicated Decisions (from top to bottom)
Opinions can come from anyone	Only some are listened
No defined boarders between learning and teaching	Clear division of who learns and who teaches
Practical Learning	Theoretical Learning (by books)
People learn what they think is best to achieve the organization's mission	Students learn what they are told
Meetings in round tables (all together)	Teacher and students meet in private rooms and desks are rigidly disposed in classrooms
Collaboration	Competition
Empowerment	"Enchildment"
Trust	Lack of trust (students <-> teachers)
Pluridisciplinary teams	Students or teachers and not students and teachers
Information sharing	Information hiding

As soon as possible everyone of this points will be developed into a short descriptive paragraph.
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