Betty Vandenbosch, chief content officer at Coursera, joins the HEDx podcast to outline her vision of how the landscape of global higher education will have changed by 2030, and what Coursera and global universities can best do to prepare for ...
More »Online innovation and partnerships as core university enterprise – opinion
The phenomenal growth and success story of Arizona State University, as a journey from a teachers’ college to a world-class major research university to a global online innovator, has been bolstered by bold, determined, long-term, strategic ventures undertaken through partnerships. ...
More »What are the opportunities and threats to universities from EdTech investments? – opinion
The division of labour within workforces and the specialisation in products and services in supply chains have created highly advanced specialisms within complex teams and differentiation between competitors in markets other than higher education. The journey of going from good ...
More »HEDx podcast – An EdTech slaying the dragons of cheating in universities, episode 51
Cadmus CEO Herk Kailis joins the podcast to outline how EdTech companies have emerged to provide support services to help individual universities focus on what they want to be great at. He describes the importance and scope for technology innovation ...
More »A post-binary approach to equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education: opinion
The last two weeks in Australia has seen outcomes from an election which some might argue has shifted the leadership landscape and heightened expectations. For those defeated in the election, there have been reappraisals of the way forward and post-mortems underway ...
More »Democratising higher education for the benefit of society: opinion
The worldwide expansion of demand for higher education during the past half century has fostered systemic national reform efforts to expand access to greater proportions of respective populations. Educational technologies have exponentially accelerated these efforts and changed their means of ...
More »HEDx episode 50 – Michael Crow of ASU: a leader daring to be different
President Michael Crow is approaching 20 years as President of Arizona State University which has been ranked as the most innovative US university for seven years running. He joined the HEDx podcast to share a clear message of the need ...
More »How has the higher education sector’s strategic thinking changed in two years? Opinion
The HEDx podcast turns 50 with its next episode. In doing so it will feature Michael Crow of Arizona State University as a global leader in higher education innovation and leadership, outlining a bold and differentiated global strategy. The last ...
More »Engaging staff and students through trusted reputations – opinion
Many global universities have long held positions as being institutions with a reputation. When surveys are made of which professions we trust and believe in, scientists and professors usually feature toward the top of any lists, and politicians, as an example, ...
More »HEDx podcast – TEDI-London: taking the blinkers off global engineering education, episode 48
Professor Judy Raper, CEO of TEDI-London, joins the podcast to describe how an alliance of research powerhouses Arizona State University, UNSW and Kings College are reconceiving design and engineering education in a start-up in London. A staff cohort with no ...
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