Professor Sherman Young DVC at RMIT joins pedagogical evangelist Manuela Francheschini from Adobe to discuss digital adeptness and fluency. As technology moves so fast, the big questions appear to be posed by students and staff becoming unsure of what the ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Partnering with tech companies to deliver lifelong learning – Episode 76
Tiffany Wright as Director of Education for Microsoft ANZ outlines how tech companies offer opportunities for partnership in the global mission to make education available to all. The future of work is being increasingly influenced by and disrupted by technology and ...
More »HEDx Podcast: What are the lessons from DORA for university rankings? – Episode 75
Vice-Chair of the Declaration On Research Assessment Ginny Barbour has led global efforts to find new ways to assess research quality. Her aim has been to moderate commercially motivated efforts of commercial publishers to exploit science and publishing for their own commercial purposes. ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Leading the global charge towards competency-based lifelong learning – Episode 74
Michael Fung as Director of the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico, is the architect of the Skills Future lifelong learning strategy in Singapore. He shares thoughts on the global move towards lifelong learning and a competency based approach ...
More »HEDx Podcast: How do you plan for what a university will look like in 35 years time? Episode 73
Professor Vivek Goel as President of Waterloo University in Canada is leading an exercise to generate a vision for what Waterloo will look like at 100. This 35 year future planning horizon is unheralded in global universities and generates a unique perspective on risk, ...
More »HEDx Podcast: The emerging population crisis and its impact on global universities – Episode 72
Data Scientist Stephen Shaw founded birthgap.org following his work surfacing the growing global gaps in birth rates from that required to sustain populations. He has found that all countries will see a dramatic fall in future populations due to births falling below a replacement rate of 2.1. ...
More »HEDx Podcast – What does a university in Singapore that opts out of rankings look like? Episode 71
Professor KC Chua is President of Singapore Institute of Technology where he leads a differentiated institution of applied learning. In a system with two top 50 comprehensive research universities SIT pursues a different mission focused on skills, jobs and the ...
More »HEDxPodcast: How is technology changing global higher education? Episode 70
This episode has a report from the recent ASU+GSV summit where global innovators explored the brave new world of higher Ed technology. Hear from Michael Moe of GSV, Paul LeBlanc of SNHU, Ethan Mollick of U Penn and Laura Ipsen ...
More »HEDxPodcast: What will a new educational institution look like? – Episode 69
Professor Sanjay Sarma reflects on his experience as Vice President of Online Learning at MIT with empathy for students developed in his own time as an IIT student in India. He describes the background to and ideas in a landmark MIT white paper for ...
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Better partnerships between universities and schools will be needed to strengthen Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and ensure future teachers stay on the job long-term. According to Australian Catholic University's Dean of Education Professor Mary Ryan, one of the major issues ...
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