By DAVID MYTON New educational technologies are creating mounting pressures on university educators according to the recent NMC Horizon Report: 2018 Higher Education Edition. The report – developed with input from 71 experts from around the world – identifies six trends, six challenges, and six developments that may...
Education New Zealand in conjunction with the Higher Education Consulting Group (HECG) will run a series of digital technology and social media workshops in September in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Workshop 1: Students’ view from their window travelling along the digital freeway Technology is changing the way...
By DAVID MYTON Many recent university graduates lack the “soft skills” they need to perform at a high level in business and industry, according to a recent study. The Bloomberg Next-Workday report – Building Tomorrow’s Talent: Collaboration Can Close Emerging Skills Gap – found that new recruits in the...
By DAVID MYTON Digital technologies are ubiquitous in today’s higher education landscape. They have changed, and continue to change, the ways in which students study and learn, and how academics teach and research. New ways of accessing higher education have emerged through MOOCs and other online courses....
By DAVID MYTON The 2018 Global Innovation Index report is now in circulation and once again the annual update reveals a not-too-bad-but-not-spectacular performance by Australia. This year Australia ranks at No 20 in the world, up from 23 last year, with Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, UK, Singapore, US, Finland,...
By DAVID MYTON Universities will need to broaden their scope and purpose to meet the needs “of the future world of work” according to the Bank of England’s Chief Economist, Andy Haldane. This could include changing their traditional model of delivering education to mostly young people, to one...
By DAVID MYTON Universities will need to embark on a range of “demand-driven” reforms to adapt to the needs of the emerging global economy, says a recent report. And as new technologies continue to disrupt the workplace, institutions must ensure their offerings align “more closely to the...
By David Myton Upon a time Lelia Green worked as a bus conductor on the No19, a red double-decker that trundled back and forth through the streets of an English town. With a ticket machine strapped across her front, she would usher the passengers on board, then...
By DAVID MYTON It’s 1982. You decide to go to see that new film that’s causing such a buzz – a sci-fi thing called Blade Runner. You take in its dystopic bleakness, its bioengineered synthetic humans, the flying cars, scary interrogations, the malignant corporate powers. You go...
By DAVID MYTON Intrinsic to much academic research is a spirit of discovery, adventure, and hope. Yes, it can be demanding hard work, but that’s ameliorated by all the thrilling boundary-pushing possibilities that lie just around the knowledge corner. Leah Bromfield’s research isn’t quite like that. To...