Jason Tabarias of Mandala Partners shares details of a new report discussing what modern students expect from technology in their learning experience. Today's learners want technology that supports personalisation by allowing them to augment and self-pace their learning and engagement. ...
More »HEDx Podcast: Lifelong learning needs of innovative employers and workforces – Episode 84
Caitlin Gleeson, Global Leadership Development Lead at Canva joins Dr Nora Koslowski of MBS as co-host to discuss the changes in lifelong learning for leaders and graduates entering innovative workplaces like Canva. Koslowski and Gleeson discuss how vertical capabilities can augment ...
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 »What if there were no university rankings? Opinion
In 2012 at a San Francisco meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, a group of editors and publishers signed a declaration to change the way Journal Impact Factors were being used to inappropriately depict the comparative quality of ...
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 »Have we had enough big ideas and where did they come from?- opinion
The Australian Universities Accord consultation process called for big ideas into its submissions. It invited diverse thinking from within the sector in Australia and globally. It also invited radical thinking and ideas from other sectors. The volume and diversity of ...
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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