1. Spotlight
The future is only impossible until its achieved
Professor Gilly Salmon
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education Innovation)
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4. Achieving Change – who’s doing what ?
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16 ‘high ranking’ universities around the
world
1. Promoting and enabling constructive
change in modes of teaching
2. Promoting and developing widely the
scholarship and evidence base for
educational innovation
3. Enhancing their reputation for
learning innovation
4. Physical spaces on campus dedicated
to promoting education innovation

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6. Futures Observatory
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7. Futures Observatory
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12. Time to Vote
1. Robotics
2. 3d printing
3. Internet of things
4. Wearables
5. Virtual reality
6. Space exploration
7. Predictive and cognitive analytics
8. Mobile scanning and ultrasounds
9. Renewable Energy
10. Augmented reality
You have 3 ‘votes’.
Which of these emerging technologies is most like to
prove ‘constructively disruptive for education and help us
achieve the impossible?
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13. Time to Vote
1. Robotics
2. 3d printing
3. Internet of things
4. Wearables
5. Virtual reality
6. Space exploration
7. Predictive and cognitive analytics
8. Mobile scanning and ultrasounds
9. Renewable Energy
10. Augmented reality
Fast development
Wide and broad potential
Disrupt age-old educational ‘models’
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14. “Never doubt the power of a small group of
people to change the world. Nothing else
ever has”.
Margaret Mead
Thanks for taking part
“Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.“
Mignon McLaughlin
No budgets or humans were harmed in the making of this presentation
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“If you don’t like change,
you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
Eric Shinsek
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“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
Nelson Mandela
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