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Jared Pearlman is Chief Strategy Officer of VitalSource a global digital content provider for higher education. He and they are very focussed on the challenges students face and the need to find affordable student experiences and business models for providers in partnership with technology companies that make these experiences sustainable. Hear a great summary of the global strategic issues with equitable edtech enabled access to learning dissected in partnership with Dr Christine Levinson of HEDx sponsor and partner Construct Education from the OES group.
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Sabih Bin Wasi is the Founder & CEO of Stellic. He brings his lived experience as a recent graduate in design thinking and AI at Carnegie Mellon University to his design of student systems that imnprove student engagement and experience. He does so through STellic named after one of his professor's as an integrated EdTech platform that brings together academic planning, advising, scheduling, and data analytics. The platform was designed to empower students and improve theirexperience when navigating their journey towards graduation. Some investors are quoted as saying "There’s no way these kids can work out the complexity of HE”. Josh Nester of SEEK Investment has another view he shares on this episode.
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A final episode from the Future Solutions conference has Kelly Mathews of UQ join me to reflect on the panel she led of data from 8000+ Australian HE students surveyed by the AI in HE project about AI use. And it has two of its DVCA sponsors in Kylie Readman of UTS and Liz Johnson of Deakin, joined by George Williams of WSU, Linda Brown of Torrens and Katie Ford of Microsoft as the sector considers how it will respond to the challenges and opportunities of AI. An overwhelming call to partner with students, the tech company eco-system and each other. Are we brave enough to get out of our lane?
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Recent and future hosts of HEDx Conferences are Professors Kris Ryan DVC A of UQ and Jessica Vanderlelie DVC A of La Trobe. A fireside chat with them had them comment on the impact on equity of AI strategies. These are explored by a panel at Future Solutions led by Shamit Saggar of ACSES joined by colleague Ian Li and equity experts in Kylie Austin of EPHEA, Paul Harpur of UQ and Lyndin Francis of Vygo. As Jessica says "equity isn't just a priority, its the foundation of a future ready university" meaning the implications of AI advances are critical.
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Professors Jessica Vanderlelie, Allie Clemens and Rorden Wilkinson as DVCAs of La Trobe, Monash and Macquarie join the podcast to reflect on the impact of AI on the future of education. As a panel at the Microsoft HE Summit they share with Katie Ford and I a response to a provocation by George Siemens of what an AI-first university means. Changes to teaching and assessment mean the days of being a content business is over. They point to leadership, vision, culture and commitment to implementation are key to using AI to respond to current system challenges as the way forward for universities.
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This episode showcases innovation from beyond public universities into the tertiary system including in innovative partnerships involving employers, global universities and private providers. It also demonstrates how partnerships with network, employer and tech companies can allow tertiary providers to thrive. Christy Collis is joined by Kerri-Lee Krause, Sam Jacob, Scott Luckett and Bijo Kunnumpurath in a panel for diversity and Guy Littlefair leads Alex Elibank-Murray, May Lim, Tash Stoeckel and Tim Burt in a panel on partnerships in two further excerpts from the recent HEDx conference at UQ.
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Debbie Terry of The University of Queensland joins fellow VCs John Dewar, Helen Bartlett, Simon Biggs and Chris Moran. They respond to a provocation by Ann Kirschner of City University of New York of the need to innovate to regain social licence and serve student needs. In welcomes and an opening panel at the recent HEDx conference, these 6 public university leaders outline the need to and the form of innovation that can respond to the challenges facing the sector at a time of unprecedented challenge that creates great opportunity. They join Kelly Mathews of UQ and I in a scene setter to the recent HEDx conference at UQ.
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Marc Washbourne has been founder and CEO of ReadyTech for 25 years. His personal agility has seen him grow a leading tech company of 600+ staff and named 2024 EY Technology Entrepreneur of the Year. He leads into the IT skills and edtech sectors through board roles with HEDx partners the Future Skills Organisation and Year13. As a user of AI, employer of graduates, and developer of lifelong learners, Marc has a keen eye for what is needed in tertiary education and its relationship with skills, employers and future learners. His keyword is agility and he offers an agile view of where AI is taking learning to complement those from leaders, edtech providers and students. We need continuous 360 views of the changes AI is bringing to skills and learning to remain relevant.
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Scott Jones leads Navitas as Group CEO after more than 20 years working for this private provider in partnerships with public universities. The growth in student numbers for a future workforce, that achieves social inclusion among equity groups, needs responses beyond endless growth of public universities with comprehensive discipline offerings and research. This time of opportunity for small specialist providers, teaching only institutions and new investment in public/private partnerships, is vital if an affordable model of growth is to be achieved. Scott joins Christy Collis President-elect of HERDSA and I for a conversation about sector diversity.
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Ulrik Juul Chistensen is the Danish founder of the Area 9 group of learning technology companies working in partnership with VitalSource. In this episode he outlines theories of achieving mastery through adaptive learning techniques supported by technology. He sees the number one challenge for global higher education providers to be working out how to prepare students to ask the right intelligent questions not only provide knowledge to intelligent students to have all the right answers.
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George WIlliams AO is the new VC of Western Sydney University. He argues that we show our values by what we do and who we fight for. He sees that as the way to recover lost social licence for universities that more than half the population do not think positively of. The starting point in response is to recognise we have a problem. While we think we are valuable, the public do not. There is a compelling need to change, to focus on students, to embrace community, and to partner and use technology to meet students where they are, not where we want them to be.
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David Stofenmacher is the purpose-driven founder and CEO of Mexican private university UTEL and established a global education company Scala partnering with multiple Latin American universities to teach 120,000 students. He joins Josh Nester MD of Seek Investments and Martin to describe his mission to provide a ROI within 2 years for all learners. He illustrates how a HigherEd entrepreneur needs patience and be prepared to learn and change every day. He illustrates the importance of staying true to mission, being single-minded about his why, and focus on opportunities not constraints.
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Sam Jacob CEO of Collarts epitomises diversity in tertiary education, after a varied public and private university experience. They make a case for a teacher-centric tertiary education system to achieve student-centric experiences and that multiple provider models in the ecosystem is the best way to achieve this. In an interview with Professor Christy Collis, President-Elect of HERDSA and Martin Betts, they show few people in public universities have much understanding of the private and VET sector and how it works. This is a chance to find out.
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Professor Kerry London, DVC Research at Torrens University Australia, leads a debate of global sector leaders on the state of higher education and its ability to innovate to face challenges and remain relevant to stakeholders. She is joined by Torrens colleagues in VC Professor Alwyn Louw, Associate Professor Clare Littleton, Dr Claire Davidson, and Professor Matthew Mundy. And by Dr Samantha Ratnam, Parliamentary Leader, Victorian Greens, Medy Hassan OAM from industry, Professor Stuart Green, University of Reading UK, and Victoria Saint, WHO Consultant and Bielefeld University. They debate the fundamentals of current HE relevance all put into context by a DVCR.
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Tim Renick has led outstanding student success at Georgia State University for 25 yers. He has achieved improvments in student completions and outcomes, notably across equity groups, that stand apart from achievemens of all other institutions. It is based on a culture based on stepping in to support students, with people and 8 years of use of AI, that responds to sector leading predictive analytics from data. In this episode with Keith Hawkes of Ellucian and I, he outlines how that works, why it is needed, and how GSU now helps many other univerities around the world fulfill an obligation to level the playing field.
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The Human Systems group of Paul LeBlanc, George Siemens and Tanya Gambey are exploring the concept of an AI-first university. At a recent event at UTS organised by AWS they were joined by leaders from La Trobe, UNSW, Macquarie and others to explore the concept in an Australian context. Listen to an update on this conversation from the global leaders of this idea and of a range of reactions from those following similar paths or doubting it will make any difference. A chance to satisfy you own curiosity in reflecting on the conversation.
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Professor Kerri-Lee Krause was the most recent person to start a new university in Australia. She has now been appointed to chair the panel to advise the minister and regulator on standards in the sector. This follows a career leading learning and education and academic work at Griffith, Victoria, La Trobe and Melbourne universities before establishing Avondale in its university status after having been a graduate many years before. She quotes TS Elliott as not ceasing from exploration and returning to where she started to know the place for the first time.
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Chris Hill as APAC CEO reflects on his experience of pioneering new models of private investment and online education globally in roles at Laureate and now Cintana. He describes the background to a new partnership with Ramsay Healthcare and Health Careers International. It outlines how a local provider can work in partnership in allowing the world class experience and expertise of ASU to be brought to bear on the sector ecology of Australian higher education for the benefit of domestic and international student nurses. Sector diversification and new provider models in action.
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Professor Rowena Harper, DVC Education of Edith Cowan University is a leading innovator and pioneer in new models of education fit for the emerging technologies and student expectations. She shares ECU experiences in innovation with Jason Lodge of The University of Queensland and I in this episode. She reflects on the current challenges of safeguarding academic integrity in an AI era and how these are systemic issues with the model the sector has developed that require a fundmanetal rethink more than a tweaking of regulations and assessment practices.
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Michael Horn was co-founder of the Clayton Christenson Institute and co-authored The Disruptive Class with Clay. In this episode he outlines the difference between sustaining and disruptive innovation and revisits the predictions Clay and he made at the time they were due to come to pass. While a pandemic and accelerated emergence of AI might have tweaked the pace and direction, he sees the closure of 1 college a week in the US and looming financial upheaval in the UK, Australia and elsewhere support his observations of the disruptors he sees around the HE world.
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