Professor Jeremy B. Williams discusses the impact of MOOCs on traditional pedagogy, highlighting the need for professors to improve teaching methods due to increased competition. The document covers various innovative educational strategies including blended learning, curriculum adaptations, and emphasis on 21st-century skills. It also mentions the restructuring of Griffith University's workload formula and administrative systems to better support these educational advancements.

1. Professor Jeremy B Williams
The Asia Pacific Management Centre
Griffith University
Griffith International Summit
Sanctuary Cove
16 July 2013

2. @jeremybwilliams
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4. A RETROSPECTIVE
:

13. “The world of MOOCs is creating a
competition that will force every
professor to improve his or her
pedagogy or face an online
competitor … When outstanding
becomes so easily
available, average is over.”
Thomas L. Friedman

19. Alan Tudge, Federal Member for Aston and Chairman of the
Coalition‟s Online Higher Education Working Group

21. ✔
✔

22. “Things take
longer to happen
than you think
they will, and
then they
happen faster
than you think
they could”
Lawrence Summers

30. participatory
flexible
authentic
Multi-modal in format: catering to different learning
styles and different life styles
Learner centric: student as consumer and
producer of knowledge
Assessment of learning grounded in reality: outcome
driven learning; learning that lasts beyond the test

37.  Blended delivery offshore/ onshore  reducing cost for
prospective students
 Innovative collaborations with overseas institutions; e.g. Pakistan
 The One Curriculum-Multiple Pedagogies model avoided
problems with ESOS regulations because an international student
does not enrol in „distance and/or online learning‟ mode

39. Mainstream
the

40.  Under pressure from the NTEU because of potential job losses,
Griffith University management agreed to a new work load formula
 F2F on campus class time was reduced to 12 hours per semester
in all courses where curriculum was digitised and a „flipped
classroom‟ was implemented
 Admin systems were streamlined
 „Teaching preparation‟ was redefined to include „content curation‟
 Academics time freed up for research and publication

43. Librarian
Blended
Learning
Advisor
Curriculum
Consultant
Research
Assistant
Junior
Faculty Adjunct
Faculty
Junior
Faculty
Educational
Designer
Senior
Faculty

47. Instrinsic
motivation
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/dajbelshaw/telic-the-essential-elements-of-digital-literacies

48. Griffith MBA App
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“Griffith MBA”
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49. 21st century literacies …
 Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology
 Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with
others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen
independent thought
 Design and share information for global communities to meet a
variety of purposes
 Manage, analyse, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous
information
 Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts
 Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex
environments.
http://edudemic.com/2013/04/important-21st-century-skills/

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