On 7/4/21 5:55 pm, Stephen Loosley wrote:
... Chris Ducket (ZDNet) frequently quotes ... John Dewar ...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-la-trobe-is-changing-with-large-lecture-halls-consigned-to-the-past/
"Those very large lecture theatres ... going to stand empty now ...
We will still have a few very large lecture theaters at universities,
but they will be multipurpose.
In 2015, I attended computer education conferences in Hong Kong and
Cambridge. Both venues were sports halls, which at the press of a button
converted to lecture theaters. So I suggested ANU get some.
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2016/07/anu-new-residential-halls.html
ANU demolished its Manning Clark lecture theater complex and replaced it
with a building having two of these multipurpose rooms in 2019. At the
same time ANU build a teaching building full of flat floor classrooms.
As the furniture is on wheels, they can be reconfigured quickly for
different teaching styles. It turns out this also enables them to be
easily reconfigured for social distancing.
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2019/03/how-to-blend-and-flip-course-for.html
... government that is ideologically hostile to
publicly funding the institutions ...
From the foundation of Australia's first university, academics have
been expected to provide tangible outcomes in return for funding, with
economic development from research, and graduates for the workforce.
Just publishing research papers doesn't produce economic outcomes and
old fashioned degrees are not the best way to get a job, so universities
will have to do things differently. Universities can train researchers
to get their discoveries to market quicker and provide qualifications in
smaller packets.
The result has been universities turning to industry to pick up the
shortfall. ...
The first time I visited Cambridge (UK), I was stuck by how everyone,
from the VC down, was on the hustle to get industry funding.
http://tomw.net.au/nt/uk.html#CAMBRIDGE
I suggested Canberra adopt that approach. http://tomw.net.au/nt/arcadia.html
Some of this is reflected in the creation of the Canberra Innovation
Network, next to ANU.
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2015/04/designing-innovation-course-part-3.html#cbb
ps: These are my own views, not necessarily those of the ANU.
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