Higher Education on the Brink: Digitise or Disappear

Higher Education on the Brink: Digitise or Disappear

Professor Jeremy B WilliamsDirector, Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise

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“The Age of Entitlement is over”.

Joe HockeyFederal Treasurer

Learners are disengaged

Sleeping in ClassLevel: Beginner

Jody Steel

Source: http://fyspringfield.tumblr.com/post/40611085814/can-we-just-take-a-moment-to-appreciate-the-issues

March 2012

MOOCs … coming to a university near you

Disruptive Innovation

Could universities go

the same way as newspapers?

Creator of learning resources

Example Pinterest board

Example Scoop.it topic

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule.

Then adds value to that molecule

Robert Scoble

Onefully digitised

Curriculum

Oneset of

Learning

Outcomes

MultiplePedagogies

Student

Choice… lifestyle;

learning style

F2Fon

campus

F2Fwebinar

Onlineasynchronous

delivery

Intensivedelivery

blogs

wikis

StreamedAudio

DiscussionForum

StreamedVideo

Imagine if attending a class in person on campus occurred because a student wanted to rather than because they had to …

Instead of attending lectures delivered by lecturers in lecture theatres …

… how would it be if students went to problem solving workshops, facilitated by academics?

participatory

flexible

authentic

Multi-modal in format: catering to different learning styles and different life styles

Learner centric: student as consumer and producer of knowledge

Assessment of learning grounded in reality: outcome driven learning; learning that lasts beyond the test

SUMMARY:THE NEW LEARNING

MODEL

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Thank you for not sleeping