EP 191. Shaping the future of tertiary education data
Ian Oppermann is Chair of Data Standards for the Commonwealth and Industry Professor at UTS. From a lifetime in AI and driving technology to serve the needs of consumers and their data rights, he is partnering with Charlsey Pearce of the Mortar CAP data standard. They led a sector workshop at AWS in Sydney recently of sector representatives jointly crafting a white paper to guide improved data stanrads to serve the needs of lifelong learners in a harmonised tertiary education system. They reflect on the workshop and the issues it addressed before bringing its progress to a workshop at the HEDx event on November 5.
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EP 190. Australian Student Voices
This episode gives voice to 34 students from 8 different HEDx member universities and partners in UQ, Adelaide, Swinburne, OES, OUA, Torrens, UniSC, and Canberra. We asked each 9 questions about what they thought of higher education, what they would change, and how they felt about AI and the future of work. Their answers might surprise you. Professors Suzanne Le Mire and Kelly Matthews of UQ helped me design them and make sense of their answers. Ignore these messages at your peril. My great thanks to Suzanne and Kelly and the colleagues at the 8 places and all of their wonderful students. We hear you and see you.
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EP 189. Staff and students as partners on a two-lane AI strategy
Danny Liu and Adam Bridgeman at the University of Sydney have pioneered the development of AI and a two-lane strategy for its use and assessment. In this episode they convene a diverse panel of their staff and student colleagues to discuss how the strategy works and can be implemented. As an exemplar of staff and students working as partners it illustrates an excellent approach to working through how to use the technology while assuring learning. The episode is set in the context of global best practice in students as partners shared by Professor Kelly Matthews of UQ after her keynote at the UA conference on the student voice and governance.
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EP 188. The Queensland Commitment student panel
Professor Suzanne Le Mire as PVC of Education and the Student Experience at The University of Queensland brings a student panel to the podcast. The panel is from the recent summit of The Queensland Commitment at UQ and saw 4 diverse UQ students comment on what they loved about their experience, what they thought could be better, and what they would do if they were Vice-Chancellor for a day. A great opportunity to give student's a voice about what is important to them ahead of a series of student focussed episodes to come and the HEDx conference on our commitments to students in the age of AI.
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EP 187. Playing in the partnership sandpit to find new value.
Professor Amanda Broderick is Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of East London. UEL in 2018 was heavily in debt and rated the UK university most likely to fail. After 7 years of adverse policy settings it has the UK's fastest and most diversified income growth, no debt and is implementing a 300m pound investment programme. It has doubled in size by focusing on a mantra of creating new value in partnership with business and industry and innovating, in the most competitive university city in the world. In an episode co-hosted with Kevin Bell of AWS, Amanda outlines how partnerships must involve all having skin in the game, be led from the top, and have a shared exchange of complementary skills of real business value. A great global example of thriving under adverse market and policy conditions and intense competition by being different.
HEDx is focussed on the changing landscape of higher education. The podcast investigates global higher education innovations, opinions, strategies and experiences across the sector. Episodes have a range of guests in academic and other leaders as the sector moves through unprecedented times.
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