The Global Malaysian University 2020: A Retrospective

The Global Malaysian

University 2020: A Retrospective Professor Jeremy B Williams

Griffith University

Teaching and Learning in a Digital Era: The Challenge Ahead

An Innovative Research Universities forum hosted by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

7 November 2013

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Today’s date …

7 November 2020

The Global Malaysian University has just been ranked among the top 5% in the world

Back in 2013 …

Disruptive Innovation

Learners are disengaged

Engaging 21st century learners requires a new participatory pedagogy

Virtual life is real life

“The world of MOOCs is creating a competition that will force every professor to improve his or her pedagogy or face an online competitor … When outstanding becomes so easily available, average is over.”

Thomas L. Friedman

Growth in global higher ed international enrolments will decline from 5-6% to 1.4% annually in 2020 as demand in the developed world slows and supply in emerging economies increases

Improved domestic provision of higher education, increased intraregional student mobility, and the overall growth of TNE will meet the growing demand for higher education in 2020

The overall slowdown makes the case for more strategic TNE plans that could eventually redefine traditional notions of ‘internationalisation’

“Even if fewer students actually travel to traditional destinations, that does not necessarily mean a less internationalised landscape overall. TNE options, including online, are international.”

− Dr William Lawton, Director, OBHE

In 2014 …

Mainstream the

Instead of attending lectures delivered by lecturers in lecture theatres …

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

In the knowledge economy, content is not king. Rapid technological change requires

future-proof learning ...

… learning that lasts.

In the higher education context:

• A form of blended learning in which students access content online (e.g. short videos, podcasts and readings), and interact with peers and faculty in asynchronous discussion activities

• This frees up time previously allocated to lectures for more

learner-centric, interactive, problem-solving sessions

Onefully digitised

Curriculum

Oneset of

Learning

Outcomes

MultiplePedagogies

Student

Choice… lifestyle;

learning style

F2Fon

campus

F2Fwebinar

Online

asynchronous

delivery

Intensive

delivery

blogs

wikis

Streamed

Audio

Discussion

Forum

Streamed

Video

What if attending class on campus became the

learning experience?

By 2015 …

Up-skilling for the new learning model requires new work

practices

Librarian

BlendedLearningAdvisor

CurriculumConsultant

Research Assistant

Junior Faculty Adjunct

FacultyJunior Faculty

EducationalDesigner

Senior Faculty

influx of international faculty

During 2016 …

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

In 2017 …

GMU becomes carbon neutral

rethinking of learning spaces

In 2018 …

influx of international students

By 2019 …

"Life is an open book exam."

Learners need to be convinced of the authenticity of the task if they are to fully engage

Professor Alan Blinder

Princeton University

Authentic assessment … the bridge between theory and practice

Technology … creating authentic

learning environments

Evidence for

prospective

employers

• Learning for a

GMU student is creation, not consumption

• Knowledge is not something a learner absorbs …

… but something a learner creates

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