Monday, August 21, 2017

Peace Through Superior Education: Notes

Notes for the seminar "Peace Through Superior Education", 2pm, 22 August, ANU. All welcome, free but please book.

About the Peace Through Superior Education proposal: 


'Many of the world’s most intractable problems occur on Australia's doorstep: where the trade-routes of the world's emerging economies meet. The Australian National University (ANU) was created by the Australian Parliament to meet these challenges in this region. The ANU does this by bringing together the best and brightest young people of the region to learn and to cooperate. Can this can be extended through the use of digital networks, particularly mobile devices, with an order of magnitude increase in the number of students? Can we use digital networks to engage, educate and influence the behaviors of the indo- pacific publics? How can we best do that? To answer these questions a longitudinal exploration into the transformative learning will be conducted. In this way can we can address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): "... end poverty ... protect the planet ... ensure prosperity for all ... foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies ... based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity ...".'




Peace Through Superior Education

M-learning for the indo-pacific to address radicalization, climate change, food and energy security.

 Chris Barrie
Adam Broinowski
Catherine Settle
Tom Worthington

A Grand Challenges Proposal

 


 

   ANU Grand Challenges Scheme

"... identify a problem or challenge that research can address. What's unique about the program is the way it seeks to bring people together from all across the University to bring new perspectives to a major challenge confronting society."


   Scheme Stages

  1. Call for Ideas: 3 minute videos (ended 24 July)
  2. Assembly of Teams: two-page proposal by 28 August
  3. Selection of Finalists: by 8 September
  4. Selection of the 2018 ANU Grand Challenge: TBA
  5. Full Business Case: TBA
Process is similar to the Innovation ACT completion.


First stage: three minute videos

Some of the entries:
  1. Peace Through Superior Education 
  2. Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific
  3. Grand Challenge of Negative Emissions
More detailed proposal due 28 August.

Others entries and details at the ANU Grand Challenges Portal (ANU access only).
 

Top 20 Words in the Entries

health, science, change, social, policy, law, sustainability, knowledge, climate, energy, food, environmental, education, economics, politics, sciences, computer, Futures, complex, public


 

The Indo-Pacific

Many of the world’s most intractable problems occur on Australia's doorstep: where the trade-routes of the world's emerging economies meet.  
Map by Eric Gaba (Sting) CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

 


South China Sea

By Todd Frantom [Public domain],
via Wikimedia Commons
"A U.S. guided-missile destroyer came within 12 nautical miles of the contested Chinese installation built on an artificial island off the coast of the Philippines on Thursday ..." Sam LaGrone,US Naval Institute

"... U.S. guided-missile destroyer collided with a chemical tanker in the South China Sea ..." Sam LaGrone, US Naval Institute  

Australian_National_University Arms
The Australian National University (ANU) was created by the Australian Parliament to meet the challenges in this region. 
 

John Dedman
"... the Government had decided to proceed with the establishment of an Australian National University ... Both in Australia and in the world at large, innumerable problems await solution if the future is to be made safe and the people placed in a position to enjoy the fruits of the developments in science and in human relationships which have taken place ... We have also greatly increased responsibility to shoulder in relation to other people, particularly to those with whom we are associated as a' Pacific power. ..."
From ANU Bill Second Reading Speech, Mr. John Dedman, Minister for Post-war Reconstruction, Australian Parliament, 19 June 1946


The Colombo Plan

  • Cooperative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific
  • Educational and scientific aid from Western countries
  • Multilateral 1950s cold war soft diplomacy
  • Included Australian government scholarships to study in Australia
  • Mostly on-campus face-to-face classes and research, at existing universities
  • Six “cinema vans” for Indonesian vocational training (early mobile educational multimedia).
See: D. Oakman, "Facing Asia: a history of the Colombo Plan", ANU E Press, 2010.


ANU Education



ANU Student Ambassadors

The ANU brings together the best and brightest young people of the region to learn and to cooperate. 


ANU Education in the Region

Apia Harbor Sunset,
Worthington, 2005


Pictograph of an e-book by Carlos Sarmento from the Noun Project (CC BY 3.0 US)
Can this can be extended through the use of digital networks, particularly mobile devices, with an order of magnitude increase in the number of students? 
Pictographs by Carlos Sarmento from the Noun Project (CC BY 3.0 US). 


Responsive Web Design

Green course home page in landscape mode on a mobile device
Desktop Computer
Green course home page in landscape mode on a mobile device
Smart Phone
No attendance is required. All materials and assessment are on-line.

Same e-learning content for desktops and low bandwidth smart phones.
Example from "ICT Sustainability" COMP7310, ANU.




Pictograph of issues by Carlos Sarmento from the Noun Project (CC BY 3.0 US)
To answer these questions a longitudinal exploration into the transformative learning will be conducted. 
Pictographs by Carlos Sarmento from the Noun Project (CC BY 3.0 US). 

UN Sustainable Development Goals

"... end poverty ... protect the planet ... ensure prosperity for all ... foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies ... based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity ..."
UN General Assembly resolution 70/17, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A /RES/70/1 (21 October 2015).

Field/s of research


Pedagogy, digital networking, climate change adaption, ethnopolitics, energy efficiency

Interested parties

Adam BroinowskiChris Barrie

Tom WorthingtonCatherine Settle

References

  • UN General Assembly resolution 70/17, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A /RES/70/1 (21 October 2015).
  • Worthington, T. (2014, August 23). Chinese and Australian Students Learning to Work Together Online: Proposal to Expand the New Colombo Plan to the Online Environment. Paper to be presented at the 9th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE). Vancouver, Canada. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCSE.2014.6926448
  • Worthington, T. (2017). Digital teaching in higher education : designing e-learning for international students of technology, innovation and the environment. Belconnen, A.C.T. TomW Communications Pty Ltd. http://www.tomw.net.au/digital_teaching/ 

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