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EDITORIAL OVERVIEW – ISSUE 18
Find out what’s included in the third 2018 edition of your Reimagine Education Newsletter: a focus on fostering graduate employability, with contributions from three Reimaginers whose work is successfully doing so. The 2018 competition opens on Monday – for more details, read on!
Sally Parrott of RMIT University, Australia – winner of 2017’s Nurturing Employability Award – explains how her institution is preparing graduates for employment in the global age.
USING DATA TO INFORM THE PROVISION OF A BESPOKE EMPLOYABILITY SERVICE
Newcastle University’s Naomi Oosman-Watts is using the wealth of data at her department’s disposal to personalise career advice for her university’s students. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF THE FUTURE: REIMAGINING HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE NEW WORLD
Hamoon Ekhtiari, CEO and founder of ‘debt-free, degree-free, lecture-free, AI-powered sandbox’ Audacious Futures has accused our education system of being ‘rooted in an industrial paradigm’. He outlines his attempt to change that, here.
REIMAGINE EDUCATION AWARDS 2018: JOIN THE JUDGES
Are you an educational expert? Passionate about identifying, acknowledging, and rewarding innovation in your space? Want to meet those behind the work that’s transforming education for learners worldwide? Then apply to join our judging panel – our call for judges is open until May 31st!
SPEAK AT THE 2018 REIMAGINE EDUCATION CONFERENCE
If you’re an expert in your field, keen to contribute to urgently-needed debate about the future of education, then we want to hear from you! Our 2018 Call for Speakers has opened, and we’re accepting applications from educators worldwide! This year, we’re offering especial preference to those that can offer case studies of successful pedagogical innovation – demonstration above speculation, efficacy before prophecy.
Particularly desirable are case studies pertaining to successful implementation of:
- Artificial intelligence
- Virtual reality/augmented reality
- Learning analytics
- New forms of learning assessment (e.g. adaptive comparative judgement)
- Curricular redesign
- Approaches at the intersection of neuroscience and pedagogy
- Adaptive learning
- Hybrid learning approaches
If you would like to convene a panel, please contact [email protected] with your proposal. You can apply to speak at http://bit.ly/Reimagine18Speakers.
REIMAGINE EDUCATION 2017: MEET THE WINNERS
This year’s Reimagine Education Awards are about to open, with applicants making themselves eligible for one of higher education’s most prestigious pedagogical prizes and $50,000 in funding. Find out more about last year’s successful submissions here.