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 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...
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...
It’s been called “the challenge-driven university” – a new model of higher education that emphasises a different approach to student learning. Traditional methods such as lectures and exams are spurned in favour of team work focused on practical problems, with businesses often sponsoring projects and...
In a celebrated TED talk (which is now nudging north towards 38 million views) Sir Ken Robinson persuasively argued that schools were killing creativity. Sir Ken never saw teachers as the problem, but rather the system in which they worked which, because of a combination of...