#173 – Future Tech and Trends
This week in the What Matters in Edtech Series, we are looking at future tech and trends in teaching and learning.
This week in the What Matters in Edtech Series, we are looking at future tech and trends in teaching and learning.
This week we are looking at investment in lifelong learning and workforce development, chatting to Marissa Lowman of Village Capital and Owen Henkel at Pearson Ventures.
This week, we look at Equity, Equality & Diversity in Higher Ed Leadership in the second episode of our “The Edge” series, supported by Salesforce.Org. We delve into inclusive models of leadership, the role of digital in supporting or aggravating existing inequities in leadership, and what current leaders think will change the dial-in diversity in Higher Education at the top, to the benefit of the sector.
In the first episode, we are looking at Inclusion and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). We look at those working across teaching, learning and research supporting those with special educational needs and disabilities.
In this week’s episode, we talk to Beam’s CEO, Alex Stephany, about crowdfunding for social good, and the importance of grit, alongside training, education and support networks. Beam is the world’s first crowdfunding platform that helps people from disadvantaged backgrounds train up and get into rewarding work.
In this week’s BONUS episode we throw back to Ian Hurd recording at the graduation of the first cohort of teachers to complete a nationally recognised qualification from the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE).
Henrietta Palmer, the Learning Solutions Manager at TUI is our guest on this weeks VocTech episode. We talk Artificial Intelligence and corporate learning and development. Enjoy!
We talk about trust in a mistrustful time. Plus, How can new and old(er) Universities leapfrog legacy issues? Why is digital marketing and admissions not always about volume but about curating the right cohort of future leaders? How can the cultures of academia and new agile methodologies be reconciled? All this and more in this week’s episode! Plus, some practical suggestions from our guests that you can implement today.
In this weeks VocTech Series episode, on collaborative drug discovery through VR and AR, we speak to Becky Sage, CEO at Interactive Scientific. We chat about the long-haul marathon race of being an entrepreneur, the role of upbringing in work ethics, and different ways of developing scientific understanding.
This week’s episode is all about town and gown. How can town and gown work together to reinforce our social fabric? We speak to one of the UK’s oldest gown makers, plus a new organisation supporting parents to drive new ideas within our Universities. Finally, a bit on hyper-localisation of skills.