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
