1. Professor Gilly Salmon Pro- Vice Chancellor
Magical Learning:
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2. "Witchcraft to the
ignorant, … simple
science to the
learned”
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"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", in Profiles of the
Future (1962) & Profiles of the Futures (1952) Arthur C. Clarke
www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/08/10-stories-where-technology-is-
indistinguishable-from-magic/
“Any sufficiently
advanced technology
is indistinguishable
from magic”.

3. Magical Learning:
the Science of Alchemy
• Alchemy covers 4
millennia, 3
continents and
many philosophical
traditions
• Western Alchemy
was very much
about technology
(metallurgy)- and
transformation
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4. Magical Learning
1. How can we imagine the future for international
education before we lead towards it?
2. How can we achieve our preferred and viable
futures for our work with Study Group?
3. What might those futures
‘look like’?
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5. How can we imagine the
future for international
education before we
create it?
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6. Introducing Education 1.0 to 3.0
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7. The complex system : 8 components of Higher Education
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8. The complex system :
8 components of Education
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Gutenberg printing press invented
around 1440

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Insight

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Insight

13. Insight
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Foresight

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Foresight

16. Horizon reports
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17. The Past:
Hindsight
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18. The
Present:
Insight
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Futures
Foresight

20. How can we achieve
our preferred and
viable futures?
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21. Robotics R
US
Big Data
Cube
Faint
Signals
Array
Orbital
Elevator
plc
Wear:Ware
Inc
Virtuality
& Co
Legacy
Cloisters
Continuity
Lawns
Uni Import
& Expert
Quay
Outreach
Sea
We Shall
Not Be
Moved
Wing
Digital
Nomads
Futures
Fisheries
What
About Us
City
Global
Linker
Horizon
scanner
Trade
routes
New
knowledge
channels
Here be
Dragons
Here be
treasures
untold
Unknown
Depths
Mountains of
opportunity
Pioneer
pathways
New
Territories
Slopes
Learning
delivery
vehicles
Greener
Grass
Summit
Partnership
Cascades
Innovators’
Crossing

22. new
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new
present
present
Well-established
preferred pedagogies
&
University owned &
invested technologies
Responses to
challenges &
opportunities
Future: potential
technologies for
emergent learning
& learners
Established
approaches &
programs
embracing new
technological
opportunities for
learning
Strategic frameworkCapability & Capacity Building Innovation, research and prototyping
Missions
Markets
Contexts
Technology
& Pedagogy
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23. Quadrant 1 : adaptive futures
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24. Imaging the Realm of
Learning Innovation

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Does it Work?
Carpe Diem learning design
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&
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Lifestyle &
Convenience

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Mobile Learners – Future Students

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Multiple learning locations- multiple devices

29. Quadrant 2 : incremental
futures
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30. Imaging the Realm of
Learning Innovation

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Harnessing Learning Innovation
Tools & Resources

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There’s an app for every discipline
www.apple.com/uk/education/ipad/

33. Quadrant 3 : ‘translated’
futures
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34. Imaging the Realm of
Learning Innovation

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Harnessing Mobile Learning
Authenticity

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Virtual Reality and 360’ Video

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/chijs/24967114271/
Google Street View in VR

39. Quadrant 4 : discovered
futures
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40. Imaging the Realm of
Learning Innovation

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Robots of the human kind

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The Future for Wearables
‘Smart’ responsive fabrics
Fabrics that monitor
vitals signs – an array of
sensors

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http://www.everydayinbox.com/blog/2015/01/23/smart-socks-the-future-of-fitness/#prettyPhoto

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The DHL parcel service subsidiary of
Deutsche Post AG tested a
"microdrones md4-1000" for
delivery of medicine. Image CC BY-SA 3.0

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46. Robotics R
US
Big Data
Cube
Faint
Signals
Array
Orbital
Elevator
plc
Wear:Ware
Inc.
Virtuality
& Co
Legacy
Cloisters
Continuity
Lawns
Uni Import
& Expert
Quay
Outreach
Sea
We Shall
Not Be
Moved
Wing
Digital
Nomads
Futures
Fisheries
What
About Us
City
Global
Linker
Horizon
scanner
Trade
routes
New
knowledge
channels
Here be
Dragons
Here be
treasures
untold
Unknown
Depths
Mountains of
opportunity
Pioneer
pathways
New
Territories
Slopes
Learning
delivery
vehicles
Greener
Grass
Summit
Partnership
Cascades
Innovators’
Crossing

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Carpe
Diem
Learning
design
studio
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UWA’s Futures
Observatory

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1. How can we imagine the future for international
education before we lead towards it?
2. How can we achieve our preferred and viable
futures for our work with Study Group?
3. What might those futures
‘look like’?
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50. “Never doubt the power of a small group of
people to change the world. Nothing else
ever has”.
Margaret Mead
Thanks for listening
“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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www.gillysalmon.com/learningfutures
www.gillysalmon.com/carpe-diem

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52. www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2014/Salmon.pdf - journal article on the 4
quadrants framework (open source)
About the University of Western Australia – the approach to ‘Pursue Impossible”
http://www.pursueimpossible.uwa.edu.au/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfv_cC243vQ
“Those who pursue what may at first seem impossible are the ones who keep the
world turning.”
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies is a book written by Jim
Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
The first edition of the book was published on October 26, 1994 by HarperBusiness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_to_Last:_Successful_Habits_of_Visionary_Compani
es. Key point is that your vision needs to be clear and steadfast but your operating
models MUST ADAPT to sustain.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail,, is the
most well-known work of the Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma. And is a key text on
‘disruption’ by technologies. More recent books have explored the issues including in
the Education context. (However very Harvard and US based).
http://www.ottoscharmer.com/publications/executive-summaries -
Theory U – leading from the emerging future.
http://innovationyou.com/ lots of inspiration from Jeff DeGraff,
University of Michigan.
https://timklapdor.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/innovation-and-the-novelty-factory -
keep us focused on real innovation
http://hackeducation.com/2015/02/19/the-history-of-the-future-of-education/ Great
pictures and a reminder that prediction is political
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/glimpse-future-oscars-innovation-
higher-education/ Get on the bridge with flipping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5802FBaMSI John Kotter on creating a sense of
urgency
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdlmoLAbbiQ – drones
http://www.thenanoage.com/virtual-reality.htm -
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_bodekaer_this_virtual_lab_will_revolutionize_scie
nce_class virtual reality
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-higher-education-edition/
A bridge to start crossing
http://www.wareable.com/oculus-rift/how-oculus-rift-works
What courses for the future?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-are-the-10-biggest-global-
challenges/
http://www.cheatsheet.com/personal-finance/10-high-paying-jobs-of-the-
future.html/?a=viewall
Thanks to Rod Angood of Vision Directing for the
landscape illustrations
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