[LINK] COVID-19 a White Swan Event for Universities, Webinar, 8am Wednesday

[Tom Worthington]

I will be speaking on "Higher education after COVID-19: Not business as 
usual" next week as part of the Microlearning Series curated by Manisha 
Khetarpal at Maskwacis Cultural College in Canada. This is the sixth and 
last weekly sessions. Free, register now. 
https://forms.gle/QKjRboTbaXoSMZt27

Higher education after COVID-19: Not business as usual
by Tom Worthington, Computer Consultant & Honorary Lecturer ANU
For the Microlearning Series, Maskwacis Cultural College, Canada
4pm Tuesday MDT (North America), 8am Wednesday 2 September AEST (Canberra)

In August 2008 I told my computer science students at the Australian 
National University that this was my last lecture. Not just the last for 
the semester, but the last I was ever intending to give. Through a 
sequence of coincidences I then spent five years teaching online and 
another seven learning how to integrate a classroom back into my teaching.

After a year teaching in mixed mode in a new purpose built teaching 
building, COVID-19 forced me back to online only teaching. The question 
then is what I will do, when the COVID-19 pandemic is over and classroom 
teaching is again possible. The future I see for higher education is 
Online Plus: there will still be campuses and classrooms, but with the 
core of the curriculum online, with students out learning while working 
in the real world.

COVID-19 was a *White Swan Event* for Australian universities: something 
they were warned about, knew was coming, were told how to prepare for 
and yet failed to act. Can existing universities make the changes they 
know are now needed, or will new forms of higher education replace them?

Questions for participants:

1. How can we replicate water cooler conversations for students and 
academics online?

2. We have the technology and pedagogy to to teach online but 
universities find a business model to make it work, or do we need new 
teaching institutions?


More at: 
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2020/08/higher-education-after-covid-19-webinar.html



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