4th World Chinese Economic Forum Melb Anthony Wong Nov 2012
1. Education Partnerships
and the Digital Economy –
New Opportunities in the
New Economy
Anthony Wong
Chief Executive
AGW CONSULTING
Advisory & Legal
Past President Australian Computer Society
& South-East Asia Regional Computer
Confederation (SEARCC)
2. Topics
1. Update on the latest online revolution
hitting the news in Education
2. How the Digital Economy will transform
the Education landscape
The opportunities
And challenges
1. Education partnerships in light of the
White paper – “Australia in the Asian
Century”
3. An Introduction
An education beneficiary of the Australian/Malaysian partnership
Led the development and transformation of Thomson (now
Thomson Reuters) in the Asia Pacific to embrace the Digital
Revolution
As CIO of the Australian Tourist Commission during the Sydney
2000 Olympics led the development of online information on
Australian Tourism
As an advocate for the Digital Economy, hosted at the last
Australian federal election a debate on the implementation of fast
Internet Broadband to connect the continent of Australia
An adviser on the Australian ICT Industry Innovation Council on
the ICT Industry, ICT skills and workforce planning
Invited to be on the International advisory panel on the
professionalisation of ICT workers in Malaysia
4. The Online Revolution
Devices of unprecedented power are helping us transform
and innovate in the way we work, live and play
Literally creating a level playing field and ‘shrinking our
globe”
Shaping future economics including education
Big game changer in education since the invention of the
printing press
As we stand at the precipice of an education revolution,
Centuries-Old Business Model is being challenged
Generating a great deal of excitement and fear in education
institutions
Using technology to deliver education is not new
However, with the rapid deployment of fast speed internet
and advances in media – the TIME HAS ARRIVED
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5. Udacity
For-profit startup
Launched in January
2012, offering more
than 14 courses on
computer-science
related topics
Spun out by
Stanford scholars
after online
artificial-intelligence
course in October
2011— with 160,000
enrolments from 190
countries —23,000
students completed
the course
6. Coursera
•Venture-capital-funded
entity, launched in April
2012
•Include more than 33
universities including
University of Melbourne,
Queensland, Princeton
and Stanford
•More than 198 courses are
listed on topics including
poetry, world history,
statistics, logic,
mathematical biostatistics
7. edX Not-for-profit
enterprise launched
by Harvard and MIT
in May 2012
Now include
University of
California, Berkeley
and University of
Texas System
First offerings,
"Circuits and
Electronics”attracted
155,000 enrolments,
with 7000 completion
Courses include
chemistry, computer,
electronics, health
and artificial
intelligence
8. Comparison of Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOC) Source Time, 29/10/2012
MOOC UDACITY COURSERA EDX
TYPE OF VENTURE For-profit For-profit Not For-profit
LAUNCHED Jan 2012 April 2012 May 2012
School Ties An island unto itself, 33 colleges so far, MIT and Harvard have
the site was co- including Princeton, been joined by the
founded by a former Stanford, Penn, Duke, University of Texas
Stanford professor Ohio State and and the University of
University of Virginia California, Berkeley
NUMBER OF 14 198 7
COURSES
CURRENTLY
OFFERED
COURSES INCLUDE Introduction to Fundamentals of Introduction to
Statistics, Software Electrical Engineering, Computer Science,
Debugging, Applied Introduction to Guitar, Circuits and
Cryptography Greek and Roman Electronics, Artificial
Mythology Intelligence
NUMBER OF 400,000 1.4 million 350,000
STUDENTS
9. Open Universities Australia
Established in 1993
as Open Learning
Australia
OUA is open to
anyone, anywhere
National leader in
online higher
education
7 Shareholders:
including Monash,
Swinburne, Curtin
11. Recent Australian MOOCs
University of Melbourne recently joined Coursera
UWA signs on to MOOC revolution: Source The
Australian 10 Oct 2012
University of Tasmania will launch its MOOC to attract
more students from around the state and world: Source
The Examiner 25 Oct 2012
DEAKIN University to launch MOOC and may bring in
an international partner: Source The Australian 07 Nov 2012
12. The Transformation in Education
“Consider Stanford’s experience: …160,000 students
in 190 countries enrolled in an Artificial
Intelligence course …. An additional 200
registered for the course on campus, but a few
weeks into the semester, attendance at Stanford
dwindled to about 30...the scale of the course, and
how it spawned its own culture, including a
facebook group, online discussions and an army of
volunteer translators who made it available in 44
languages.”
NY Times (March 5, 2012)
13. The Revolution in Education
“I normally teach 400 students,” Coursera co-
founder Andrew Ng told the New York Times’ in
May.
Ng recently taught a class online that had 100,000
students. To reach that number of students, says
Ng, "I would have had to teach my normal
Stanford class for 250 years."
NY Times (15 May, 2012)
14. Opportunities and Challenges
How will Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) affect traditional
degrees?
Is it a Game changer? Leading to the demise of campus-based education
institutions?
Can it replace the long lasting ties and networks we create learning and
growing with fellow students on campus?
Will it cause the end of traditional higher education institution’s
monopoly on academic credit?
Is this the Beginning of the End for education institutions? Akin to
online advertising for newspapers and TV or online shopping for brick-
and-mortar shops?
How would online course offerings be financed? -how long can $0 price
tag continue?
Will it replace costly higher education in the future?
Will it change how we teach?
15. Opportunities …
History will see massive open online courses (MOOC) as a disruptive
technology for education institutions
However, it will make massive learning resources available to the
world
Lesser known education institutions, may complement their course
offerings from top prestigious education institutions
New strategies and models are required to compete in the increasingly
competitive international arena
Will boost online collaboration between students of all ages and
backgrounds, as well as between researchers, businesses and
community groups
Scale and Teaching sizes - ability to connect with tens of thousands of
students all at once instead of just a few hundred per semester, across
geographic boundaries
Learning is flexible - anytime and anywhere
16. Challenges …
Education institutions will need to rethink value proposition to
students, cost of education, and what price the market will bear
It is learning time - how it will transform education and how to
develop online content and learning - rethinking teaching and
classrooms
Teachers have to use their creative skills to design and structure
effective and innovative MOOCs
Concern about student supervision with the size of online enrolments
and the lecturer/ student relationships
Current completion rates are low
Recognition of online certificates, credits and cross-credits
Protection of intellectual property including Copyright for online
offerings
Plagiarism, fake student avatar and identity sharing
17. fostering of a more aware workforce on Asia,
deepening links between Australia and Asia
18. Australian National Objectives -School
10. All schools will engage with at least one school
in Asia to support the teaching of a priority Asian
language, including through increased use of the
National Broadband Network
11. All students will have access to at least one
priority Asian language; these will be Chinese
(Mandarin), Hindi, Indonesian and Japanese
Source: Australia in the Asian Century White Paper
Oct 2012
19. Australian National Objective 12 -
Universities
White paper advocates that EVERY
Australian university should:
(i) have a presence in Asia, and
(ii) establish an exchange program
with transferable credits with at least
one major Asian university
Source: Australia in the Asian Century White Paper
Oct 2012
20. Why Education partnerships made good sense
In 2011, Australia had 550,000 international student
enrolments (77 per cent from Asian region)
China, India and South Korea top three source nations
Education Australia’s fourth-largest export (AEI 2011;
DFAT 2012; Austrade 2011) - $15 billion contribution
Being far away from the rest of the world, NBN
provides digital bridges to Asia and the rest of the
world
English can be taught to Asia from the best schools based in
Australia
Australians can learn Asian languages from the best language
schools in Asia without leaving home
21. Why Education partnerships made good sense
Partnerships with Asian universities
made good sense with:
More cuts in government funding
Rapid transformative change with Digital
Economy
Increasing competition
Servicing rising Asian economies and
the growing middle-class
Notes de l'éditeur
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