OEB: Shaping the future of learning Berlin, 30 November to 2 December 2016

1. Professor Gilly Salmon Pro- Vice Chancellor
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Education 3.0 –
Catch a strand from the future!

2. If all you remember is this…
• Disrupt yourself first
• Create the future through actions
• Vision before strategy
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3. Questions for you
1. How can we imagine ‘strands’
of the future for education?
2. How can we understand the
future as a complex, adaptive
system?
3. How can we truly make a
difference and shape the
future to our preferred and
viable futures ?
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4. Introducing
Education
1.0 to 3.0
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5. The complex system :
8 components of Education
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6. The Past:
Hindsight
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7. The
Present:
Insight
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Futures
Foresight

9. The complex system : 8 components of Higher Education
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18. The complex system : 8 components of Higher Education
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19. Questions for you
1. How can we imagine ‘strands’
of the future for education?
2. How can we understand the
future as a complex, adaptive
system?
3. How can we truly make a
difference and shape the
future to our preferred and
viable futures ?
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20. If all you remember is this…
• Disrupt yourself first
• Create the future through actions
• Vision before strategy
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21. “Never doubt the power of a small group of
people to change the world. Nothing else
ever has”.
Margaret Mead
Thanks for stranding
the future!
“Every society honours its live conformists and its dead
troublemakers.“
Mignon McLaughlin
No budgets or humans were harmed in the making of this presentation
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:
“If you don’t like change,
you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
Eric Shinsek
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References For more see www.gillysalmon.com/learningfutures
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23. www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2014/Salmon.pdf - journal article on the 4
quadrants framework (open source)
About the University of Western Australia – the approach to ‘Pursue Impossible”
http://www.pursueimpossible.uwa.edu.au/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfv_cC243vQ
“Those who pursue what may at first seem impossible are the ones who keep the
world turning.”
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies is a book written by Jim
Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
The first edition of the book was published on October 26, 1994 by HarperBusiness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_to_Last:_Successful_Habits_of_Visionary_Compani
es. Key point is that your vision needs to be clear and steadfast but your operating
models MUST ADAPT to sustain.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail,, is the
most well-known work of the Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma. And is a key text on
‘disruption’ by technologies. More recent books have explored the issues including in
the Education context. (However very Harvard and US based).
http://www.ottoscharmer.com/publications/executive-summaries -
Theory U – leading from the emerging future.
http://innovationyou.com/ lots of inspiration from Jeff DeGraff,
University of Michigan.
https://timklapdor.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/innovation-and-the-novelty-factory -
keep us focused on real innovation
http://hackeducation.com/2015/02/19/the-history-of-the-future-of-education/ Great
pictures and a reminder that prediction is political
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/glimpse-future-oscars-innovation-
higher-education/ Get on the bridge with flipping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5802FBaMSI John Kotter on creating a sense of
urgency
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdlmoLAbbiQ – drones
http://www.thenanoage.com/virtual-reality.htm -
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_bodekaer_this_virtual_lab_will_revolutionize_scie
nce_class virtual reality
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2016-higher-education-edition/
A bridge to start crossing
http://www.wareable.com/oculus-rift/how-oculus-rift-works
What courses for the future?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/what-are-the-10-biggest-global-
challenges/
http://www.cheatsheet.com/personal-finance/10-high-paying-jobs-of-the-
future.html/?a=viewall
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Resources For more see www.gillysalmon.com/learningfutures