Courting the Future Student: Adjusting to Disruptive Innovation in the Higher Education SectorProfessor Jeremy B WilliamsGriffith Business School

@jeremybwilliams

Meeting of ACA Steering Committee Gold Coast, Australia

28 March 2014

#ACAGU14

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Learners are disengaged

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?

Librarian

BlendedLearningAdvisor

CurriculumConsultant

Research Assistant

Junior Faculty Adjunct

FacultyJunior Faculty

EducationalDesigner

Senior Faculty

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

To successfully court the future student requires a

learning model that is:

authenticlearning.wordpress.com

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