EduTECH Sydney starts this morning. I am on 2:20pm tomorrow in the Higher Ed Leaders Congress. So today I can just attend as a delegate. Here is my best of:
BREAKOUT SESSIONS - SEMINARS
11:20 How Digital Transformation is enabling higher education institutions to put resources back in the classrooms
Nadia Hossain,
Business Development Manager, Laserfiche International Limited, Hong Kong |
As
education funding decreases, concerns over the effect of the cuts grow,
student numbers increase and resources become scarcer, universities are
having to find new and more innovative ways to stay competitive. Find
out how education institutions around the world are adapting their
processes and infrastructures by using Digital Transformation and
content service solutions to be more cost effective and put resources
back where they are needed.
13:10 Lunch
- Learn how to engage students through gamification and increase average grade by 7%
- Discover how to get students to enjoy the experience of learning and decrease failure rates through mobile first technology
- Learn how to identify at risk students early and engage them in active learning
- Overview of global trends in higher education commercial models in profit/not-for-profit institutions
- Challenge existing financial sustainability paradigms in higher education
- Outline of current working commercial models and provision of live examples
15:50 Afternoon tea
- Focus on developing children's strengths instead of fixing their deficiencies
- Teaching children to identify and solve problems worth-solving and create value for others through product-oriented learning
- Make education personalisable for children, not personalized for them
- Examine an education system that embraces timely change and timeless constraints, centralisation and decentralisation, teaching less and learning more
- Understand the key success factors of Singapore’s education system
- Learn the eye-opening difference between acing an examination vs appreciation of subject
18:00 Networking drinks
