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HEDx

HEDx is focussed on the changing landscape of higher education. The podcast investigates global innovations, opinions, strategies and experiences across the sector. Episodes have a range of guests in academic and other leaders as the sector moves through unprecedented times.

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EP. 75 What are the lessons from DORA for university...

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2023/06/21

Ginny Barbour as VIce-Chair of the Declaration On Research Assessment has led global efforts to find new ways to assess research quality. The aim has been to moderate commercially motivated efforts of commercial publishers to exploit science and publishing for their own commercial purposes. She shares her insights into the limitations of journal impact factors for diverse disciplines and how the university rankings are equally inappropriate in assessing diverse missions of universities in their

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00:59:19

EP. 74 Leading the global charge towards...

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2023/06/07

Michael Fung as Director of the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico, is the architect of the Skills Future lifelong learning strategy in Singapore. He shares thoughts on the global move towards lifelong learning and a competency based approach to the future of higher education and its relevance to the Australian Universities Accord. He shares lessons that are vital for us to hear in shaping the future of our HE system through once in a generation change.

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00:42:25

EP. 73 How do you plan for what a university will...

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2023/05/31

Professor Vivek Goel as President of Waterloo University in Canada is leading an exercise to generate a vision for what Waterloo will look like at 100. This 35 year future planning horizon is unheralded in global universities and generates a unique perspective on risk, culture, vision, mission and change. He outlines the opportunities this creates for differentiation and cultural change and the impacts this has on Waterloo and its partners and staff engaging with broader system-level change to

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01:24:17

EP. 72 The emerging population crisis and its impact...

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2023/05/24

Data Scientist Stephen Shaw founded birthgap.org following his work surfacing the growing global gaps in birth rates from that required to sustain populations. He has found that all countries will see a dramatic fall in future populations due to births falling below a replacement rate of 2.1. He joins the HEDx podcast along with Professor Selena Bartlett, Professor of Neuroscience at QUT, to discuss how this phenomena impacts the future of universities and how it creates a structural shift from

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00:47:06

EP. 71 What does a university in Singapore that opts...

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2023/05/17

Professor KC Chua is President of Singapore Institute of Technology where he leads a differentiated institution of applied learning. In a system with two top 50 comprehensive research universities SIT pursues a different mission focused on skills, jobs and the needs of business and industry. And no one cares about its place in rankings. Does Australia need more places like SIT?

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00:49:46

EP. 70 How is technology changing global higher...

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2023/05/10

This episode has a report from the recent ASU+GSV summit where global innovators explored the brave new world of higher Ed technology. Hear from Michael Moe of GSV, Paul LeBlanc of SNHU, Ethan Mollick of U Penn and Laura Ipsen of Ellucian about how universities, tech companies and investors are collaborating to disrupt the future of higher Ed. And learn how you can get involved

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00:44:20

EP. 69 What will a New Educational Institution look...

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2023/04/26

Professor Sanjay Sarma reflects on his experience as Vice President of Online Learning at MIT with empathy for students developed in his own time as an IIT student in India. He describes the background to and ideas in a landmark MIT white paper for a new kind of college where professors spend 80% of their time on teaching. What is it, what problem does it seek to solve, and where is this idea heading?

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01:07:07

EP. 68 What if putting students at the centre is the...

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2023/03/29

Scott Pulsipher President of the world’s largest fully online university in Western Governors University (WGU) shares the story of a unique purpose and business model. He outlines a relentless focus on outcomes for students as the big idea that emerged from WGU governors asking what if questions when it was formed. These questions were about the purpose, goal and design of education programs and its pathways to opportunity to serve societal and economic need.

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00:32:31

EP. 67 Pursuing high impact learning innovation in a...

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2023/03/14

Professor Caron Beaton-Wells the Dean (internal) at Melbourne Business School joins the HEDx podcast to share lessons of how one of our most prestigious institutions is pursuing innovation in the higher education market.Outlining the use of technology, partnerships and new business models, the episode illustrates how even our most established and reputed institutions can also pursue radical change and innovation in taking a legacy higher education brand into the new world of lifelong learning.

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00:51:29

EP. 66 Bringing bold big ideas into the University...

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2023/03/01

Professor Mary O'Kane in leading the University Accord invites HEDx to be a facilitator and provocateur of big ideas intothe biggest review of our higher education system for a generation. Immediately after the launch of the issues paper and an initial 6week consultation period at the UA conference, Mary joins the HEDx podcast to invite its members and audience to articulate bigideas from within our sector and others, from Australia and beyond. Coming two weeks before our major sector conference

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00:40:08

EP. 65 Education transforming lives, at scale

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2023/02/15

Paul LeBlanc, the President of Southern New Hampshire University in the US, joins the HEDx podcast for a second part of his interview. He talks about his radical model of scalablehigher education delivered by his staff who focus on the personal needs of their students. He draws from his recent book "Broken" to demonstrate the importance of his students and staff being seen and feeling they mattered.

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00:45:06

EP. 64 Celebrated author Paul Le Blanc of SNHU on...

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2023/01/31

Professor Paul Le Blanc is the President of Southern New Hampshire University and joins the HEDx podcast for the first episode of 2023. He outlines a philosophy that's driven his institution and is influencing the sectorto be truly distinctive by putting "Students First" which is the title of one of histwo acclaimed books.

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00:45:06

EP. 63 Answering the big questions about lifelong...

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2022/11/29

ProfessorAndrew Parfitt as Vice Chancellor of UTS shares his vision for the research and innovation ecosystem and the unanswered questions facing us all about lifelong learning as a Universities Accord and ARC Review process get underway.

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00:34:24

EP. 62 Education Futures: Delivering post-secondary...

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2022/11/15

Professor Nick Klomp VC of CQU and President of theRegional University Network tells the story of thedevelopment of the only dual-sector institutionin Queensland from a regional base in Rockhampton with a physical and virtualfootprint around Australia and beyond. He argues passionately for the importance of teaching students in the region to stay in the region and about the role of a university in regional communities.

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00:41:05

EP. 61 After 20 years of innovation in university...

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2022/11/01

Associate Professor Jack Wang of UQ was Australian University Teacher of the Year in 2020. He outlines 7 phases of teaching innovationin Australian universities that he believes have left us in "no mans land" as students decline to join staff in empty lecture theatres. He shares the lessons of being a student and teacher in those 20 years for those facing the hybrid learning future.

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00:39:00

EP. 60 Creating better career prospects for all...

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2022/10/18

Ian Dunn as Provost of Coventry University shares the secrets of success of the UK's top younger university for graduate career prospects. He outlines how a UK university has gained a global reputation for innovation and creativity with a focus on student inclusion and success. He describes how it was achieved through innovative and strategic use of EdTech and a clear strategy to ensure students succeed and educators are free to experiment.

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00:39:19

EP. 59 The future in the post COVID era

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2022/10/04

Duncan Maskell VC of Melbourne University shares his passionfor the public good purpose of our universities and his thanks for the commitment of his staff to keeping the university going as he enters the fifth year of his tenure at Parkville. He outlines how the university is reconsidering what shape and size it wants to be in the future rather than passivelyresponding to market demands. And outlines how the nature of future education will be explored in an agile way across disciplines by staff he

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00:38:51

EP. 58 How do we support all students to gain access...

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2022/09/21

University of Surrey, UK Vice Chancellor and President Max Lu shares his experiences of putting in place a transitionary 3-year strategy to traverse the combination of Brexit and pandemic recovery to address the student experience, increase research impact and build an operational platform for future growth, together with launching a focussed philanthropic campaign to raise funds to support equitable student access. Some parallels with his prior experience as Provost and DVC R at University of

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00:45:01

EP. 57 Do public service leadership principles work...

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2022/09/07

Professor Renee Leon reflects on her first year as Vice Chancellor at Charles Sturt University by contrasting leadership practices and culture between universities and the public service. She reflects on how what she has learnt from the publicservice can be applied to improve cultureand leadership in universities and how she has brought this to bear on the turnaround of her university and its new strategy.

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00:43:07

EP. 56 Entrepreneurial university leadership is...

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2022/08/24

Australian Entrepreneur of the Year for 2022 Linda Brown as CEO of Torrens University Australia johnsthe HEDx podcast. She shares her thoughtson the opportunities for private universities in Australia and globally to utiliseEdTech and partner with connected employers. She advocates Torren'ssuccess in plugging the gap of industry relevanthigher education for global customers, at scale. The episode highlights her experience of having established Torrens as the first new greenfield university in

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