Slides from opening keynote by Dr. Linda Baer - As the Future Catches You

1. As the Future
Catches You
Dr. Linda Baer

2. We are educating for careers that have
not been created, using technology not
yet invented to solve problems that
haven’t been discovered.
“Shift Happens” UTube

3. We have a symbiotic relationship with our
community… and our community takes our story
to the world.
University of Tasmania

4. Ever wanted to run away and join the circus
(with your parents’ permission)

5. Ordinary Kids Doing Extraordinary Things
The Flying Fruit Fly Circus School is a year 3-10
state government school working in a symbolic
relationship with the Flying Fruit Fly Circus
located in Albury Wodonga on the New South
Wales-Victorian border . The circus was
established in 1979 and the school became its
educational arm in 1987.

6. Mapping Australian Higher Education
• Rapid growth over past 40 years
– 1970s 3%, 2011 25%; 2025 40%
– 336,000 international students
• Increase degree attainment
• Knowledge economy make higher education vital to Australia’s prosperity
• Student survey data – AUSSE/NSSE
– Satisfaction with teaching
– Less student engagement
• Teaching and research balance
• Demand-driven funding and skill shortages
• Universities enjoy high levels of public confidence – 80% in 2010
Mapping Australian Higher Education, Andrew Norton, January 2012

7. "Higher Education at the Crossroads”
Emerging Policy Issues
• Possible move from the "one size fits all" model for funding and offerings
– greater degree of specialization
– differential HECs/HELP loans between institutions
– greater fee "flexibility"
– "teaching only" institutions
• Research funding models, esp. research collaboration with industry
• Relative roles of the Commonwealth and states-- more state funding
• Need to improve linkages with predicted needs of industry
• Employers indicated persistent difficulties in finding appropriate staff
• Degree of cross-over between higher education and VET - currently quite small
Higher Education in Australia: Structure, Policy & Debate, Jim Breen, Monash University December 2002
Mapping Australian Higher Education, Andrew Norton, January 2012

8. Deakin University wins the 2011 National Health Fusion Team Challenge
An team of Deakin students have won the National Health Fusion Team Challenge, a national extracurricular competition between mixed
Interprofessional teams of health students nearing the end of their studies.
Deakin University medical researchers find potential new treatment for bipolar depression
Deakin University medical researchers have found that an antioxidant, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), is an effective treatment for bipolar depression.
World leaders to debate multiculturalism, citizenship and identity at social inclusion forum
Deakin University, under the auspices of the UN Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC), will bring the UN Forum on Social Inclusion to Australia for the first
time on 7 October at Melbourne Town Hall.
US, Aussie and Chinese experts gather for first time to debate rise of China
Deakin University's experts on China and Asia, and for the first time other leading experts from China and the US will aim to create a global and
regional buzz around China's rising role in the region at the 2011 Fulbright Symposium.
Re-inventing the wheel
Carbon Revolution (CFusion), a Victorian company that, in partnership with Deakin University, produced the world's first one piece carbon fibre wheel,
has been showcased at a Clean Technology Showcase in Canberra, an event launched by the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard and Innovation Minister
Senator Kim Carr.
Deakin Professor works with UN to put culture on the global economic agenda
Deakin Professor part of forum seeking input on the development of an index to measure the impact cultural diversity has on a country's economy and
human development.

9. University of Singapore Reform
• Established an International Academic Advisory Panel, which
aimed to help the government in establishing a world-class
higher education system (Ministry of Education [MOE],
Singapore 2001).
• Established its third university, the Singapore Management University
(SMU), in August 2000. This privately-owned institution was formed in
collaboration with the Wharton School of Business at the University of
Pennsylvania, which thus implies a more diversified governance and
funding mechanism adopted by the government.
• Universities link up their missions with their internal structures regarding
talent management, organizational processes and resource allocation

10. Singapore Initiatives
• Promoting transnational higher education in the joint-degree
program arranged between the local universities and their overseas
partners.
• Policy to support transnational higher education, the Singapore
government also offers a comprehensive package of financial-aid to
international students through several public channels
• Recent immigration policies that aim to attract talented and skilled
individuals to live and work in Singapore, in addition, have also
facilitated the development of its transnational education industry.
The Quest for Regional Hub of Education: Searching for New Governance and Regulatory Regimes in
Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia by Ka Ho Mok 2009

11. University of Tasmania

12. University of Tasmania
• What is the Tasmanian Moment?
• UTAS makes far-reaching educational, cultural and economic
contributions to Tasmania and the world. While maintaining a
strong and distinctive Tasmanian identity, programs and research
are international in scope, vision and standards. The UTAS family
includes around 50,000 graduates who are now scattered across
the globe.
• UTAS is connected and contemporary, creating life-changing, life-
shaping experiences that provide the foundation on which to build
careers and lives for our students.

13. United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010 http://bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm

14. Four Challenges for the Next Decade
Completion challenge Capacity challenge
• Organizational capacity
 Knowledge & skills gap
• Talent and skills
 Low completion rates • Collaboration
 Performance breakthroughs • Culture
Funding challenge Innovation challenge
 State budget cuts
 “Islands of innovation”
 College debt
 Traditional models
 New business models for
sustainability
 Immunity to change
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15. COMPLETION CHALLENGE

16. Knowledge & Skill Gap
• Community college students are in trouble
• Need better alignment to support college readiness
• About 65% of all community college students
nationwide need some form of remedial education
• Less than one quarter of the students go on to earn
any degree or certificate in eight years
• Need to provide ways for adults in the workforce to
return to college -- 22% attended college but didn’t
complete

17. Completion Rates Remain Roughly Consistent
Graduation rates at 150% of time
70
2-yr colleges 4-yr colleges
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Cohort year
Source: New York Times; NCES
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18. Completion Challenge
Source: Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics. OECD, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Note: Low income 18
defined as 185% of poverty line, consistent with K-12 free and reduced lunch threshold

19. The Great Paradox
Need for Breakthroughs in Performance
Rising Deeper
expectations Higher More
learning
enrollments completions
outcomes
Constrained Limited seat
Declining
resources Budget cuts family
capacity
ability to
pay
Source: 2011 Community Colleges and the Economy, AACC/Campus Computing Project, April 2011;
Community College Student Survey, Pearson Foundation/Harris Interactive, Field dates:
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20. FINANCIAL CHALLENGE

21. Costs Increases
Source: New York Times; NCES
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22. College Debt
The total U.S. student loan debt is now up to
$870 billion, which is more than the national
auto loan debt or credit cards debt, according to
an article from the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York. Americans owe $693 billion in credit card
debt and $730 billion in auto loans

23. NEED FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
MODELS
• Metrics for the 21st Century
• Productivity
• Access, affordability and quality
• For-profits models for affordability

24. CAPACITY CHALLENGES

25. Organizational Capacity
• Leadership for a New Age
• Teaching, Learning and Student Success
• Teams, Collaboratives and Crossing Boundaries
• Professional Development
• Sustainability
• Culture – Persistent Restlessness for
Improvement

26. INNOVATION CHALLENGES

27. Our duty is to wholly reinvent ourselves. We are
American’s future---
intellectually, socially, culturally.”
Gordon Gee, President of Ohio State University

28. Innovation Challenge
• Lack business models that bring solutions to scale
• Resistance to change
• Slow, decentralized decision cycles
• Entrenched interests
• Suspicion of for-profit players
• Accreditation systems

29. Scaling Innovation
2007 Education market
Number of Actual companies
companies Projected distribution
160
140
120 Only 2 of 67 orgs funded
100 by US Department of
80 Education innovation
60
grants scaled/are still
operational
40
20
0 1 5 20 100 400
Revenue
US$ Millions
Source: McKinsey Analysis of EMR 2007 K-12 report and Berkerey Noyes 2007 investment analysis (unpublished))

31. TRENDS FOR THE FUTURE

32. Trends for the Future
1. New models of blended and online courses

33. Model challengers taking many forms

34. Trends for the Future
1. New models of blended and online courses
2. Do it yourself education

35. Do It Yourself University

36. Khan Academy
• Small bursts of knowledge
• Taking a mastery-based approach to learning
• Creating collaborative learning using focused coaching by the
teacher
• Dashboard that provides real-time data on student
performance to individual students as well as their
teachers, mentors or parents
• Adaptive exercise software platform
http://www.khanacademy.org/

37. 'Badges' Earned Online Pose Challenge to
Traditional College Diplomas
Photo illustration by Bob McGrath for The Chronicle

38. Massively Open Online Courses

39. Trends for the Future
1. New models of blended and online courses
2. Do it yourself education
3. Big data and analytics

40. ANALYTICS IS THE “UNIVERSAL
DECODER” FOR EDUCATIONAL REFORM

41. Big Data: The Next Frontier for
Innovation, Competition, and Productivity
• Unlock significant value by making data more
transparent and useable
• Transactional data more accurate and detailed
• Segmentation of customers to tailor products and
services
• Improves decision making
• Improves development of next generation products
and services
http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Technology_and_Innovation/Big_data_The_next_frontier_for_innovation

43. Amazon features
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44. D2L Analytics Solutions
Forecasting,
Risk Analytics Advanced
Data
Reporting Optimization Visualization
Analytics Analytics

45. Trends for the Future
1. New models of blended and online courses
2. Do it yourself education
3. Big data and analytics
4. E-textbooks

46. E-textbooks
http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/

47. Trends for the Future
1. New models of blended and online courses
2. Do it yourself education
3. Big data and analytics
4. E-textbooks
5. Technology on the horizon

48. Technology on the Horizon
One year or less…
• Mobile applications
• Tablet computing
Two to three years…
• Game-based learning
• Learning analytics
Four to five years…
• Gesture-based computing
• Internet of things
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2012.pdf

49. Guess what she wants for her birthday?

50. iPad Has Faster Adoption than DVD
• Excellent portability and
battery life
• A bigger canvas
• Ideate app
• Capturing ideas
• An awesome tool for
developing and
implementing ideas

51. Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad

52. Trends for the Future
1. New models of blended and online courses
2. Do it yourself education
3. Big data and analytics
4. E-textbooks
5. Technology on the horizon…

53. “By…establishing new criteria for success, we
are choosing not to participate in a race that
has already been lost.”
Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University

54. WHAT IF STEVE JOBS HAD BEEN AN
EDUCATOR?

55. Educational Positioning System

56. Educational Positioning System
• Map-in starting point and destination
• Routes to completion
• ROI – ROV
• Time to destination – progress
• Fuel for the journey
• Travel time to “norm” for the destination
• Highway for optimizing student success
Mike Mathews

57. Grade Level
Career Desire
Funding Options
ACT Score
MAP Results
Scroll FLEX-PC
Scroll FLEX-PC

58. LMS versus EPS: Comparison of Characteristics
LMS EPS
• Owned by institution • Owned by student
• Poor persistence of complete • Permanent data repository in
data cloud
• Robust enterprise application • Collection of portable apps
requires Big Iron servers allowing access to cloud data
• Data not transferred across • Data accessible across institutions
institutions
• Like a GPS, user is central to
• No user-centric operating experience
environment

59. Facilitating Navigation with the Proper
Tools
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60. “If educational completion is one of the most prized
and valuable destinies for every American
student, surely we need to innovate and market a
vision that leverages the technologies and analytical
tools that will completely eradicate the
educational risks of taking wrong-turns, running
out of academic gas, miscalculating the
distance, under estimating the costs, and the
inability to have a ‘norm’ to compare a personalized
educational journey against.”
Michael Mathews

61. The future is…..

62. Questions?
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63. Thank You!
Contact information: lindalbaer@yahoo.com