Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra where Dr. Marie-José Montpetit from MIT Media Lab is speaking on "Innovation in the Age of Connectivity". Ironically, we were having problems getting the video projector to work and so Dr. Montpetit quipped someone should tell CBC Radio that she can give a presentation without using slides.
Dr. Montpetit pointed out that many AI and Internet of Things (IoT) applications depend on telecommunications to function, as do VR applications. She pointed out that Canada, like Australia has population centers on the coasts with good connectivity and then a parley populated interior with limited Internet access. This is a topic I investigated for my education studies in Canada and how it limited e-learning.
As Dr. Montpetit points out all the protocol issues with the Internet have not been solved. Many forget, I suggest that "internet" (small"i") means a "network of networks". The Internet (capital "i") is a global network of networks. There is therefore scope to have specialized networks as part of the public Internet for specific purposes. As an example railways use specialized digital telecommunications networks for signaling and safety. These networks are expensive to build and maintain, but the Internet is not secure and reliable enough to use. However, the railways could use a network compatible with the Internet and interconnected with it (in a controlled way).
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."
"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,August 10, 2017, US Naval Institute
"... U.S. guided-missile destroyer collided with a chemical tanker in the
South China Sea ..."Sam LaGrone, August 20, 2017, US Naval Institute
The Australian National University (ANU) was created by the Australian Parliament to meet the challenges in this region.
"... 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
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
Desktop Computer
Smart Phone
No attendance is required. All materials and assessment are on-line.
Same e-learning content for desktops and low bandwidth smart phones.
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).
"... 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
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/
Peace Through Superior Education is an entry in the Australian National University's ANU Grand Challenges Scheme. This entry proposes to test the use of mobile learning to connect people across our region to
address radicalization, climate change, food and energy security.
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
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.
The Australian National University (ANU) was created by the Australian Parliament to meet the challenges in this region.
The ANU brings 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?
Pictographs 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).
"... 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
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/
