University College London's Professor Rose Luckin joins L.E.K. Consulting's Dr Ant Bagshaw as co-host in this episode of the HEDx podcast. Professor Luckin and Dr Bagshaw dissect responses to the recent breakthroughs in AI technologies, discussing global best practices, vulnerability ...
More »HEDx Podcast: How will AI and technology change what universities need to do? Episode 82
Dr Nora Koslowski, chief learning innovation officer at Melbourne Business School (MBS), joins the HEDx podcast to share her insights. She discusses how emerging AI technologies, coupled with the changing world of work and future skills-needs of employers, are providing ...
More »HEDx Podcast: How will technology impact the vision in the Universities Accord? – Episode 81
Manuela Franceschini of Adobe joins a discussion involving Theo Farrell of University of Wollongong, Tiffany Wright and Rachel Bondi of Microsoft, Matt Kuperholz of Deakin and Sherman Young of RMIT about the missing focus on technology and generative AI in ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Building a globally intentional university – Episode 80
Teri Cannon as Founding President of Minerva University reflects on the journey to build a different type of university that is intentionally global. After 10 years of helping students from 130 countries learn in a rotation through 7 global locations ...
More »Accord targets equal access, calls to make unis ‘better employers’
Australia’s university sector lacks the institutional resilience to “prepare our nation for the future” and needs to enrol more people from lower socioeconomic and rural backgrounds to secure the future labour force, according to a landmark report. The Australian Universities ...
More »HEDx Podcast: What will be in the Universities Accord interim report? – Episode 78
Professor Mary O'Kane Chair of the Accord Review Panel joins the HEDx podcast for a second time through an interview with research partner HERDSA at a keynote plenary panel session at their annual conference in Brisbane last week. In an interview by ...
More »Survey reports low student satisfaction at sandstone universities
Three Australian universities ranking in the top 20 academic institutions globally fell flat in a recent student satisfaction survey. The QS World University rankings released in June feature 1,500 institutions across 104 locations. The University of Melbourne ranked 14th place ...
More »Universities told to overhaul teaching degrees
Universities will have until 2025 to roll out major changes in their teaching degrees as part of a major shake-up of teacher education in Australia. Last week, education ministers signed off “in principle” on 14 recommendations from experts tasked to ...
More »Unis at war over plan to tax $10bn worth of foreign student fees
A tax on nearly $10bn a year of foreign student fees is being actively considered by experts drawing up Labor’s once-in-a-generation overhaul of the nation’s universities, sparking a war between the vice-chancellors who gain and lose from the plan. The ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Active, authentic and applied learning: what does plagiarism mean anymore?
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 ...
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