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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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00:46:47

EP 135. How are universities failing students?

HEDx ·

2024/09/10

Tim Renick has led outstanding student success at Georgia State University for 25 yers. He has achieved improvments in student completions and outcomes, notably across equity groups, that stand apart from achievemens of all other institutions. It is based on a culture based on stepping in to support students, with people and 8 years of use of AI, that responds to sector leading predictive analytics from data. In this episode with Keith Hawkes of Ellucian and I, he outlines how that works, why it is

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01:13:36

EP 134. What would an AI-first university be like in...

HEDx ·

2024/09/05

The Human Systems group of Paul LeBlanc, George Siemens and Tanya Gambey are exploring the concept of an AI-first university. At a recent event at UTS organised by AWS they were joined by leaders from La Trobe, UNSW, Macquarie and others to explore the concept in an Australian context. Listen to an update on this conversation from the global leaders of this idea and of a range of reactions from those following similar paths or doubting it will make any difference. A chance to satisfy you own

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00:52:42

EP 133. How do you start a new university?

HEDx ·

2024/09/03

Professor Kerri-Lee Krause was the most recent person to start a new university in Australia. She has now been appointed to chair the panel to advise the minister and regulator on standards in the sector. This follows a career leading learning and education and academic work at Griffith, Victoria, La Trobe and Melbourne universities before establishing Avondale in its university status after having been a graduate many years before. She quotes TS Elliott as not ceasing from exploration and returning

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00:58:30

EP 132. Nursing education in Australia powered by ASU

HEDx ·

2024/08/27

Chris Hill as APAC CEO reflects on his experience of pioneering new models of private investment and online education globally in roles at Laureate and now Cintana. He describes the background to a new partnership with Ramsay Healthcare and Health Careers International. It outlines how a local provider can work in partnership in allowing the world class experience and expertise of ASU to be brought to bear on the sector ecology of Australian higher education for the benefit of domestic and

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00:52:11

EP 131. Systemic issues with the HE model in an AI world

HEDx ·

2024/08/20

Professor Rowena Harper, DVC Education of Edith Cowan University is a leading innovator and pioneer in new models of education fit for the emerging technologies and student expectations. She shares ECU experiences in innovation with Jason Lodge of The University of Queensland and I in this episode. She reflects on the current challenges of safeguarding academic integrity in an AI era and how these are systemic issues with the model the sector has developed that require a fundmanetal rethink more

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01:16:09

EP 130. Is disruptive innovation now underway?

HEDx ·

2024/08/13

Michael Horn was co-founder of the Clayton Christenson Institute and co-authored The Disruptive Class with Clay. In this episode he outlines the difference between sustaining and disruptive innovation and revisits the predictions Clay and he made at the time they were due to come to pass. While a pandemic and accelerated emergence of AI might have tweaked the pace and direction, he sees the closure of 1 college a week in the US and looming financial upheaval in the UK, Australia and elsewhere

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00:59:14

Ep129. Global experiences in place-based innovation

HEDx ·

2024/08/06

Professor Ken Sloan is Vice Chancellor of Harper Adams University in the UK. He joins the podcast in the first of a series of episodes delivered in a partnership between HEDx and the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils. The series will explore global universities pursuing diverse examples of place-based innovation following earlier episodes with Aleks Subic, Deborah L. Wince-Smith, and Joan Gabel. Ken has honed the Harper Adams approach to rural place-based innovation in the specialist,

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00:47:58

EP 128. A journalists take on current HE issues

HEDx ·

2024/07/30

Erin Morley is Education Editor of Campus Review and writes for a higher education staff audience about change and where it is heading. After a year in the role, and as HEDx approaches 4 years of continuous sharing including on the Campus Review platform, Erin and Martin reflect on media and content providers perspective of the stories that currently matter. As HEDx and Campus review increasingly turn to global leaders' ideas, they reflect together on a need for new ideas and less parochial

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00:52:23

EP 127. Four futures for higher education

HEDx ·

2024/07/25

Sir Chris Husbands is former Vice Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University and the first Chair of the UK Teaching Excellence Framework. He recently published reports into future implications of generative AI and four scenarios for the future of higher education in England. He sees an acute need for leaders to listen to the dispossessed who miss out on higher education. He argues that complacency and arrogance leaves us at risk of not rethinking a university model in acute need of change to embrace

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01:00:23

EP 126. The Inertia of Excellence

HEDx ·

2024/07/14

Noah Pickus of Duke University and Bryan Penprase of Soka University share insights from their recent book The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century. It describes 8 global case studies of new universities in North America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Each have redefined the inherited ritual of what universities do. The book and episode provide lessons for leaders to challenge the conventional university model paradigm using intellectual courage, entrepreneurial

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00:55:03

EP 125. A flywheel for IT skills for 2 million...

HEDx ·

2024/07/02

Paulo and Guilherme Silveira are two brothers who co-founded and lead Alura as an integrated set of companies delivering IT skills in Brazil. They do so with support from SEEK Investments whose MD Josh Nester joins me on this episode. Their business spans from state partnerships in K-12, through a university they bought and now operate, to skills provision for alumni lifelong learners, that grow into corporate education for new leaders of businesses. In total they serve more than 2 million learners

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01:12:40

EP 124. What is an AI-first university?

HEDx ·

2024/06/25

George Siemens of Southern New Hampshire University Human Systems and UniSA has pioneered technology advances in higher education and recent advances in AI. He is now developing for launch an AI-first university together with Paul LeBlanc the former SNHU President. He describes how it would be negligent for Vice Chancellor's and other leaders to ignore AI right now in their plans for the future. As all Australian universities approach the deadline for submitting plans for how they will respond

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00:50:58

EP 123. Is AI disrupting higher education?

HEDx ·

2024/06/18

Jason Lodge of the University of Queensland was a member of a roundtable led from ANU. It was commissioned by the Australian Universities Accord process to question whether the drivers of disruption for our sector made it imminent. Listen to Jason's views from his experience in the learning sciences of how AI and other drivers are changing higher education globally. In this episode we dissect how the Accord has been informed of imminent change and disruption. Has this been kicked down the road

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00:43:47

EP 122. How broken is higher education?

HEDx ·

2024/06/11

Joel di Trapani co-CEO of student support company Vygo co-hosts an episode going out on both HEDx and Vygo's Broken Education podcast platform. Reflecting on shared purpose-driven journeys into higher education roles, Joel and Martin question the challenges facing the sector globally and how technology may provide some solutions for a variety of university types. As the political and funding climate for universities globally reaches crisis point the question of how broken the model of higher

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00:58:00

EP 121. We are on the cusp of change

HEDx ·

2024/06/04

Ann Sherry AO, Chancellor of QUT and leading Australian business woman, outlines cultural challenges in universities compared to other sectors she has presided over. She sees the need for changed employment practices to align individual and organisational incentives if declining student demand and experiences and troubling financial circumstances are to be overcome. She sees the disruption happening in the sector needing a sharper set of conversations around what universities are, who they serve,

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01:02:41

EP 120. What is the University of the People

HEDx ·

2024/05/28

Shai Reshef is Founder and President of the University of the People. Founded on the belief that higher education is a basic human right, UoPeople is the first non-profit, tuition-free, American, accredited online university. Dedicated to opening access to higher education globally, UoPeople is designed to help learners overcome financial, geographic, political, and personal constraints keeping them from studies. UoPeople currently serves 137,000 students from over 200 countries. Over 16,500 of

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00:53:04

EP 119. For how long will we ask what to do with AI?

HEDx ·

2024/05/21

Professor Joan Gabel is the Chancellor of University of Pittsburgh. She joins the HEDx podcast to outline how a leading US research powerhouse from the rust belt is engaging with technology and industry partners to drive learning and innovation. Her university plays a lead role in the Global Forum of Competitiveness Councils. She argues that eventually we are not going to talk about what we will do with AI anymore. It will be as absurd as asking what we are going to do with the internet. Her view of

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00:54:10

EP 118. What are universities for and why are they...

HEDx ·

2024/05/14

Deputy Vice Chancellor Deborah Johnston MBE of London South Bank University and graduate of SOAS and Cambridge University asks these big questions with Paul Harpur OAM of UQ and I. She argues that universities with a mission for social mobility are better placed to serve our more inclusive skills-based agenda. But they need to have the courage to stand out from the crowd, be freed from excessive regulation, and be measured for what they are good for more than what they are good at.

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00:51:14

EP 117. Minerva Project: changing an outdated higher...

HEDx ·

2024/05/07

Minerva Founder Ben Nelson outlines the work that builds on the measurable outcomes of improved learning being achieved in Minerva University to change what he sees as an outdated higher education model. He argues that the current higher education approach has students cram, pass and forget the knowledge they have gained from what we all know to be failed educational processes and curricula. Minerva University seeks to teach diverse students to learn and Minerva Project seeks to scale that model in

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00:42:25

EP 116. HEDx and friends at ASU+GSV

HEDx ·

2024/04/29

This episode has a panel co-hosted with Joel Di Trapani co-CEO of VYGO. We had a chance in front of 10,000 delegates at the ASU+GSV summit in San Diego recently to lead a discussion on how technology generally and AI in particular is being used to support students in both Australia and the US. With global experts in Linda Brown, David Linke and Candace Sue on our panel we dissected the different approaches to innovation in the two contexts in a live broadcast from the world's leading gathering

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