WEBVTT 00:00:00.275 --> 00:00:02.745 (Moderator) We have with us someone who has been involved 00:00:02.745 --> 00:00:05.741 in digital learning innovation for more than 20 years 00:00:05.741 --> 00:00:09.471 Please welcome the University of Western Australia Pro Vice-Chancellor 00:00:09.471 --> 00:00:12.123 of Education Innovation, Gilly Salmon. 00:00:12.123 --> 00:00:17.388 (Applause) 00:00:17.388 --> 00:00:20.905 (Gilly Salmon) So I'm going to talk to you about the impossible. 00:00:21.283 --> 00:00:24.882 So if you're easily scared, you can leave now or at any time, 00:00:24.882 --> 00:00:26.864 that's OK with me. 00:00:27.273 --> 00:00:30.866 So I come from the very young country of Australia. 00:00:31.277 --> 00:00:35.364 Most of you know I'm not Australian, but I've been living there nearly 5 years now. 00:00:35.805 --> 00:00:38.503 Probably another 20 .... except me (check) 00:00:41.131 --> 00:00:46.851 But in the young country of Australia, a university that's 100-years old 00:00:46.851 --> 00:00:48.944 is very, very, very old. 00:00:48.944 --> 00:00:53.041 So, and now, the University of Western Australia is very, very old. 00:00:53.570 --> 00:00:58.752 It's a research-intensive, one with the most schools and campuses in the world, 00:00:59.249 --> 00:01:02.407 on the mouth of the Swan River, in Western Australia, 00:01:02.817 --> 00:01:09.118 and I'm going to show you a 1-minute movie to get a glimpse of our environment 00:01:09.434 --> 00:01:12.006 and also our dreams. 00:01:12.301 --> 00:01:16.383 So, you need to watch very carefully, because I'm going to talk about 00:01:16.383 --> 00:01:21.906 the brief glimpse you get of the buildings because that's where my center is, 00:01:21.906 --> 00:01:24.674 the Centre for Education Future. 00:01:24.674 --> 00:01:32.034 So, we will move to the movie, please. 00:01:37.914 --> 00:01:48.993 (strong rhythmic music) 00:01:48.993 --> 00:02:12.252 (sirens, shouts) 00:02:16.373 --> 00:02:24.395 (panting) 00:02:26.472 --> 00:02:30.360 (narrator) When we start moving forward, the world starts with us. 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:36.283 (strong wind in branches - panting) 00:02:36.283 --> 00:02:41.560 (narrator) So chase your dream. It's only impossible until it's done. 00:02:43.473 --> 00:02:45.364 [Pursue impossible] 00:02:45.364 --> 00:02:47.924 [The University of Western Australia] 00:02:48.583 --> 00:02:52.753 (Applause) (Salmon) Thank you. (Applause) 00:02:52.753 --> 00:02:56.631 We made that movie to try and inspire our students 00:02:57.211 --> 00:03:00.548 but we actually found it inspires us even more. 00:03:01.113 --> 00:03:06.491 So, right at the beginning you saw some work for 00:03:06.747 --> 00:03:11.083 University of Western Australia are true heritage buildings. 00:03:11.458 --> 00:03:16.243 And I -- in there, we've put a future's observatory 00:03:16.882 --> 00:03:22.136 and a learning design studio, to try and inspire the impossible 00:03:22.500 --> 00:03:27.711 in both our faculty members and ultimately our students, through new design. 00:03:29.383 --> 00:03:31.978 So, I've got this weird job title, 00:03:31.978 --> 00:03:34.741 Pro Vice-Chancellor Education Innovation. 00:03:34.741 --> 00:03:37.601 I'm sure when I was appointed, just over 12 months ago, 00:03:37.601 --> 00:03:39.397 nobody knew what that meant. 00:03:39.663 --> 00:03:43.287 Fortunately, they did allow me to invent it. 00:03:44.229 --> 00:03:46.642 While you're listening to me, just to say there's going to be 00:03:46.642 --> 00:03:49.172 a bit of a poll at the end. 00:03:50.203 --> 00:03:54.268 If you got the My OEB app, you can look it up, 00:03:54.788 --> 00:03:58.276 if not, there is a website, there is a link there up, 00:03:58.276 --> 00:04:01.870 so that you can take part in the poll in a bit. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now, I actually think an incredible number of words have been written 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 about innovation, especially in the scope of educational innovation 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and disruptive technology. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I did a bit of a survey. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 i wasn't as knowledgeable as some of those people 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that you've just heard speaking, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but it was rather odd that probably one of the very top things 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that you can see, was how to promote innovation 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in the changing modes of teaching, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which I think is probably one of our biggest challenges of all. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And actually, creating an evidence base for that, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because you all know, in universities, that's the way it goes: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 If you haven't got evidence for it, it doesn't exist. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And so, we did a bit of a survey; there were the top universities, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we did some visits as well, in the US as well as other parts in the world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And everyone, just everyone has still really not got into 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 achieving true innovation. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And so for me, that's still a bit of a mystery, and I think 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it's really rather extraordinary that everyone in education, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 all of you, at every level, is trying to do this 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and yet most organizations, most institutions 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 are still striving to reorientate themselves to an innovation culture. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What will distinguish them, what will differentiate them? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What they offer their students and stakeholders. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, we could very very easily blame it 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 on the level of dogmatic approaches and resistance. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And yet, by their nature, don't you think that most staff working in education 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 are often the most open to change and development, would you agree? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I found it really quite a conundrum to tackle this. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, maybe, you heard the first keynote this morning, David Price. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Maybe we're in denial that we even need to change, possibly: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that's one answer. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So some of my answers: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I know the university sector best, so I'll talk about that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But I do actually think that this may apply 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to many of the other sectors represented in this room. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The higher education sector, across the world, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is very compressed but also highly competitive now, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but also marginally differentiated. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's mainly differentiated by .......... (check) research profile, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 research orientation,......... reputation. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And also, everyone is upright 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in an increasingly less and less and less regulated world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Those of you standing, there's a few white pods, you can sit on them 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in the front here...... 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 if you're not too frightened. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now, governments around the world are pressing for larger proportions 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of their populations to attend university. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Most of them, not here in Germany, I understand, but most of us 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 have made paying for the experience a lifelong one. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 For most students, and even that has done little 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to dampen the enthusiasm for higher education, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's more people going to university than really ever has in our lifetime. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Our children and our grandchildren are going to go 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 forward and forward and forward. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So there does appear to be, using the entrepreneurs' word, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 reliable growth in the market place. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So therefore, we need to innovate. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We need to find ways of reaching that growth. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Second. Of course we know -- it has just been mentioned in the session just now -- 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that the number of university campuses would have to increase 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at an incredible alarming rate. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've heard something like 1 per month for the next 10 years 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in order to meet the requirements of teaching in traditional ways. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Clearly, that's not going to happen, it's also not practical to extend 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the existing campuses that we have with physical capacity and real estate. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So therefore, innovation, again, is needed. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Third. We know much of the way that we are teaching in Universities 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 at the moment, will not provide the citizens of the future 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with the right skills, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 nor will they graduate with the ability to undertake multiple careers 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 during their life times. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We've also heard most babies being born today will live to over 100. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I mean, we really need to be educating those people, don't we? Not ourselves. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So in short, the nature of work is changing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So whatever our educational purposes, the need for change is striking. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And everyone of us has a shared responsibility, as educators, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to innovate to meet these and many other challenges that we face. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, why would we turn to technology to assist us in this conundrum 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is one of my questions. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But one of the things I've done, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 since I've been at the University of Western Australia, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and as I mentioned, we put a physical space. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's kind of a cross between a space for the community to gather, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a bit of a makers' space too; 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 somewhere a bit different, a bit different from the traditional areas 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and it's actually for staff, not for students. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Most universities in the world are changing their libraries 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and many of their traditional buildings into informal spaces for students, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so we thought we might do that for staff too. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we called it The Future's Observatory. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So why put some technology in it? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Well, many forces, of course, in our society, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 can bring about large scale changes in economics and societies, but 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 since the Industrial Revolution, say, the late 18th, early 19th centuries, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 technology has had this unique role, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 empowering growth and transforming economic value. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It has to be technology. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Technology represents in itself new ways of doing things 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and once mastered, creates lasting change 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which, applied to universities and schools, and training of all kind, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 we won't immediately unlearn, you know: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 our teachers, ways of teaching, our campuses, physical and virtual, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 finally, through technologies, the ideas become implanted as innovations 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and our world starts to move faster. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We can make it faster. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, the most interesting part of this, for me, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is that some technologies have the potential 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to disrupt the status quo in education, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 -- and we've just been talking about some of them -- 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and lead finally to true innovation in the service of learning 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and alter the way we imagine our teaching, teach our students, choose a curriculum, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 assess their ability, instill new coaches in them, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so they live and work differently in the future: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in practice, create entirely new products and services. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And others simply do not. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And for me, things like lecture capture simply does not, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because it reproduces the ways we've undertaken learning for centuries. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I think we need to be very careful in what technologies we choose 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to disrupt and drive our innovations. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Otherwise, we simply embed the old better than we did before. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And the other thing to say is that education leaders cannot wait 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 until the meager, meager evolution that I've seen in my 20 years in this field 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 catch up, somehow, and we're not going to do it with Learning Management Systems 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we'll really not, you know, they're simply not moving. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've just chosen a new Learning Management System 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 for the University of Western Australia. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I got the best I could, but the original values 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 of the way people teach and learn are still in there, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we need to change that, we need to move forward on that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we also cannot be held back by other industries on which we depend. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You know, so the patch defense, going on, for example, with publishers. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We cannot let that happen, we do need to change this. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So it's time -- referring back to this morning -- 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to stop being 12 white men sitting around the table, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to stop rearranging the furniture and actually move on with the world. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And if we don't do it, no one else is going to. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's those of you who are here with me today 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that's actually going to do that run that you saw my students do earlier. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So at the moment, the link definitely between height and potential 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 is very unclear. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And of course, there are still surprises to come. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The future is like that, the future is like that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Nobody can be certain. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We need now to understand how we can experiment, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 how we can take risks, how we can ............. (check) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 how we can prototype. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In practice, to learn from the future as it emerges; be ready to respond. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In short, create much more radical innovation 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and stop taking baby steps: it's time to shift. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is the Future's Observatory. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Objectives we saw are in this rather nice buildings 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that look a little bit like Stanford at the beginning, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but flow by the river. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And we are reaching out to the impossible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So I'm trying all sorts of different ways to try and reach out, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 to achieve the impossible. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're looking to partner with those who say Yes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 rather than shake their heads in sorrow. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're seeing the Observatory for staff 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 as a location used for observing terrestrial and celestial events. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Historically, of course, observatories were as simple as containing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 an astronomical sextant for measuring the distance between stars 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or perhaps something like Stonehenge, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which has some alignments on the astronomical phenomenon. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now, the way we're seeing this, is we're trying to observe the future. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And I guess, some of the celestial events will be some of the digital life 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and educational purposes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, it's a metaphor, OK, but we're trying to push people to understand 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 how a technology might help you to imagine an action, a future. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So this is what we're doing in here, and we've got some technologies in there, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I mean, this -- you can see the cruiser table that you can stand around, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 so it's focusing very much on collaboration, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which a lot of our students tell us they actually want. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And of course, we're trying virtual reality: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 everyone is in there playing around. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yes, try some ramification (check), bring it into the classroom, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 see how it works. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 None of this is costing us this much: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it's all consumer technology that we can readily buy. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Obviously, we're trying out the robotic stuff too, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we've had quite a lot of fun with that, actually. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think someone mentioned earlier how much fun that is working with students 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and helping them to understand a bit about coding. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we've learned quite a lot ourselves. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 .............. that sort of thing (check) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we're actually bringing it to the staff to enable them to play, and to hope 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they can imagine the pedagogical purposes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And this is one of the key differences between consumer technology 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and stuff that's been produced for learning purposes. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You invent the pedagogy, you identify the learning challenge 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then work out how the technology can support it, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 not the other way round. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, did you get the idea? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You got a bit of the how, of what these technologies might actually 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 help you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Does anyone want to go back to the URL at the beginning, there? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You should be able to find it on your My OEB. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've given you 10 -- are we going back? .. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I've given you 10: robotics, 3D printing, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 internet of things where both virtual reality, space exploration 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 predictive and cognitive analytics (check list on big player) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Now, opportunity with this particular software to add your own three. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 You'll have to pick three, one vote each for those. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Just to remind you, these are some of the things 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that you might like to look at. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We're looking for fast development. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We want something that if we found a pedagogical purpose for it, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it would be easy to embed it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We want very wide and broad potential 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and we definitely want to disrupt age-old educational models. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So if you can't choose, use those three. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we'll give you a bit of time to vote 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then we'll be able to get it up on the screen, yes? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, all vote now. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 OK - can you see it? Quite small. can you see, at the back? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 No? OK, so the top one we're getting is virtual reality, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 almost everyone voting for that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think there's one -- no votes for wearables, I'm surprised about that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Keep going, it'll keep coming. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ......... (check) augmented reality analytics. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 OK, I'll just leave you a few moments. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Has everyone finished voting? Anyone still voting? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Still shifting. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think this will stay on the app, so you can have a look later if you want. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So it looks to -- oh no, we're still moving, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Somebody else has just got in. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So it looks to me like internet of things, virtual reality 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and predictive and cognitive analytics 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 are ..... (check) with augmented reality, 3D printing coming soon after. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 My challenge to you is to take some of the wackier ones, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 like the space exploration and the mobile scanning and ultrasounds 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and see how they may affect your teaching, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because within the riskier ones is the greatest potential. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So thank you very much for taking part. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Have we any time for questions? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Yes, sure, OK. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, questions and challenges...