Professor
Maryanne Dever, ANU Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education & Digital), delivered the keynote at the opening of
EdTechPosium 2021 in Canberra this morning, with a gentle dig at the Australian Government: "
We
are not helped by the revolving door around the Minister for Education".
But the PVC started on the tech side about providing suitable leaning
management systems, then the need to help staff to use them effectively.
She moved the broader topics of offering international students to
option of studying online at first before comping to Australia to work
and study. As someone who has spent the last
ten years teaching online
and
three years as an international online student, much of what the DVC
envisaged has been my daily life for all that time. So I suggest aiming
for even more flexibility. Australian universities can offer all
students, not just international ones, the option of studying wherever
they happen to be for must of their study. In practice students will
still want to come to campus, and my rule of thumb is this will be about
20% of the time.
"Massive digital disruption of the pace and
scale we have seen was not on the agenda for our higher education
system. While Australian universities have managed with varying degrees
of success to deliver emergency online learning in the wake of COVID19,
most of us are still processing what the last 18 months mean for the
future of university learning and teaching. In this presentation I will
draw on my experience managing change across this period to explore some
of the opportunities offered by this new normal, reflect on the
comfortable assumptions that have been shattered, and question what it
might take if we are to emerge from this moment in better shape than we
went in."
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