2. How can we
imagine the
future for
international
education
before we
create it?
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4. 1. moving images completely replaced text for learning?
2. mobile technology enables us to wear our university on our
wrists?
3. Governments insisted that we prepare all students for multiple,
uncertain careers, (many not yet known)?
4. traditional roles for teachers were suddenly ‘banned’ – what are
the new roles in the future?
5. all ‘knowledge’ was available in an open and free way for
reinvention and application by everyone?
6. Science discovered that the very best spot around to learn and
teach is outside in the fresh air?
7.What if everyone in the world HAD to attend university for one
year?
8. What if all classrooms were turned into holographic studios?
9. What is the internet crashed tomorrow?
10. What if all tests and exams were suddenly discovered to be
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10 mins
To note – you are not discussing whether
or not it will happen,
assume it will, and consider the
implications for your practice(s).
Leave a note or image to summarise your
discussion
Move round
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Discuss together the question for your table
10 mins
To note – you are not discussing whether
or not it will happen,
assume it will, and consider the
implications for your practice(s).
Leave a note or image to summarise your
discussion
Move round
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Discuss together the question for your table
10 mins
To note – you are not discussing whether
or not it will happen,
assume it will, and consider the
implications for your practice(s).
Leave a note or image to summarise your
discussion
stay here
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Brainstorm question
“ What can we change in 2017 that will lead
us towards better futures for students’
learning”
2. Prioritise ideas by voting
3. Prepare to offer a 30 second presentation
to the whole group of your top innovation.
9. “Never doubt the power of a small group of
people to change the world. Nothing else
ever has”.
Margaret Mead
Thanks for taking part
“Every society honours its live conformists and its
dead troublemakers.“
Mignon McLaughlin
No budgets or humans were harmed in the making of this presentation
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:
“If you don’t like change,
you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
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quadrants framework (open source)
About the University of Western Australia – the approach to ‘Pursue Impossible”
http://www.pursueimpossible.uwa.edu.au/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfv_cC243vQ
“Those who pursue what may at first seem impossible are the ones who keep the
world turning.”
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies is a book written by Jim
Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
The first edition of the book was published on October 26, 1994 by HarperBusiness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_to_Last:_Successful_Habits_of_Visionary_Compani
es. Key point is that your vision needs to be clear and steadfast but your operating
models MUST ADAPT to sustain.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail,, is the
most well-known work of the Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma. And is a key text on
‘disruption’ by technologies. More recent books have explored the issues including in
the Education context. (However very Harvard and US based).
http://www.ottoscharmer.com/publications/executive-summaries -
Theory U – leading from the emerging future.
http://innovationyou.com/ lots of inspiration from Jeff DeGraff,
University of Michigan.
https://timklapdor.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/innovation-and-the-novelty-factory -
keep us focused on real innovation
http://hackeducation.com/2015/02/19/the-history-of-the-future-of-education/ Great
pictures and a reminder that prediction is political
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/glimpse-future-oscars-innovation-
higher-education/ Get on the bridge with flipping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5802FBaMSI John Kotter on creating a sense of
urgency
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdlmoLAbbiQ – drones
http://www.thenanoage.com/virtual-reality.htm -
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_bodekaer_this_virtual_lab_will_revolutionize_scie
nce_class virtual reality
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-higher-education-edition/
A bridge to start crossing
http://www.wareable.com/oculus-rift/how-oculus-rift-works
What courses for the future?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-are-the-10-biggest-global-
challenges/
http://www.cheatsheet.com/personal-finance/10-high-paying-jobs-of-the-
future.html/?a=viewall
Thanks to Rod Angood of Vision Directing for the
landscape illustrations
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