By DAVID MYTON Increasing demands from employers for digitally literate graduates are substantially driving changes in edutech and the way highered education is being delivered, according to a new report. Emerging new fields such as robotics, autonomous transportation, biotechnology, and genomics call for graduate skill-sets centred on...
By DAVID MYTON Much of the higher education discourse today is centred on the need for students to study “practical” subjects ranging from STEM to those such as accounting, commerce and business-related topics that segue into the needs and demands of employers. And why wouldn’t it be...
By David Myton Some months ago Thomson Reuters announced we are now living in the most innovative age in human history. Analysing global intellectual property data and tracking global scientific literature publications, TR found that overall levels of innovation had sped on at record pace, with global...
By DAVID MYTON And now for something completely different - a blog about Tweets and Twitter. Over the past 28 days I have published 114 Tweets on @HE_CG. My aim is to reflect the variety of thought, opinion and research relevant to anyone interested in education,...
By DAVID MYTON A fascinating article this week by Edith Cowan University fashion historian Lydia Edwards on the accuracy or otherwise of costumes in television and film period dramas got me thinking: the movie-television industry is hugely reliant on the work of traditional historians and those...
In my previous post I waxed on the importance - and effectiveness - of good storytelling in higher education. Letting your community and stakeholders know what you are doing and why in creative and compelling ways provides great benefits for universities: not just in the...
Not so long ago I cited the wisdom of writing guru Robert McKee who said that storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world. Well, one university in particular has been letting the world know about its work in a big way...
The poet T S Eliot once observed that when it comes to studying and analysing Shakespeare all we can hope for is to be wrong about him in a new way (Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, p2). But perhaps not, because recently we...
The light bulb is commonly used as an illustration to accompany articles about innovation and science (see above). It is a universally recognised symbol of discovery – the a-ah! moment when the researcher/inventor finally finds the big breakthrough or cracks a hitherto unsolvable problem. A light...
Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel is proving to be one of the country’s most stimulating thinkers. This entrepreneur, engineer, neuroscientist and educator has a way with words that enables him to talk about complex issues in an engaging manner. He makes the problems and...