Wayne Mackintosh
Founding Director of the OER Foundation. We're open sourcing education.
Accessible | Flexible | Future-Focused
Beyond sufficiency:
Knowledge, skills and experience in Curriculum Design, Online and Hybrid Pedagogy, Assessment and New Technologies in today's Higher Education learning environment
Wayne Mackintosh
Building capacity for success
(He/him/his)
Prelude
You have my résumé
Ako Anamata | Future Learning and Development
Empowering our learning communities through future-focused educational opportunities and innovative learning design, in partnership with academic staff.
University of Canterbury (n.d. Online)
Start your engines by Mark Walker published under CC-BY-SA 2.0 Generic
Focus on unique expertise and tacit knowledge to build competitive edge for Ako Anamata
Origin story
Transformed a career decision into a lifelong passion for education
First in family graduate
Acknowledge my privilege of an international career in technology-enhanced education
Fall in love with the problem - not the solution
Life's lesson:
Innovation & new technology
Ice harvesting
1800s USA's 2nd largest export
1850 - invention of "artificial" ice makers
In the age of GenAI ...
will hybrid and online learning become higher education's equivalent of 'ice harvesting' or can it be a catalyst for new sustainable innovation?
Ice waiting by Nedra published under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 Generic
A global educational challenge
Move beyond the hype
Evidence based strategies
Bold co-creation - AI for public good
Massive binary by miuenski published under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 Generic
On the question of disruption in HE ...
"In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them"
~ Sebastien Thrun
David Kernohan, DS106 "Day of the MOOC" poster
New York Times declared 2012 as the year of the MOOC
Focused and forward looking
Fully online degree enrollment to exceed fully in person study for the first time
83% of US online programmes cost the same or more than campus delivery
Source: HolonIQ Forecast 2022 - 2030, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
The uncertainty of tomorrow's HE learning context
Futures thinking and scenario planning
Yellow ballon by harxtec dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0
The futures triangle
Grounded in the past we need to project possible, probable and desirable futures
The tipping point of change: From old ways to new ways of doing
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What is the weight of the past?
What is the push of the present?
What is the pull of the future?
Scenario planning matrix
Inside HE today
Gears by Pexels dedicated to the Public Domain under Creative Commons CC0
Challenges in a GenAI age
Curriculum design tensions
Enable students to create and contribute knowledge for a better society
Equipping students for jobs that don't exist yet
— and others at risk from GenAI
Pedagogical opportunities & challenges
Enabling pedagogies previously not possible
Boosting productivity in first-draft development of interactive materials through prompt engineering
Enabling pedagogies previously not possible
Rethinking assessment strategies: integrating GenAI is some tasks while safeguarding high-stakes assessment (e.g. authentic observable tasks, oral vivas).
Ethical GenAI integration (e.g. University of Cape Town decision to discontinue AI detection tools).
An operational approach for
Graduation by paseidon dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0
Design, development & delivery of
Hybrid / Online learning
Building online product one step at a time
Opportunities
Rapidly expand undergraduate online programmes
Consider open registration model
Spreadsheet: Summary of course types
Currently: 43 offerings
Barrier
Inconsistent time & pace constraints
Recommendations
Paradise found by Stitch published under CC-BY- license CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0
Shift from mass-standardisation to mass-customisation
Enable open registration options where possible
Leverage modular design to build stackable micro-credentials
Develop an online 'Bachelor of General Studies'
Launch the 'Tuihono Knowledge Commons' for open-access independent self-study plus a range of fee-for-service offerings
Curate and manage a portfolio of niche open-source solutions
Mass-standardisation
Mass-customisation
Car factory production line by Marek Slusarczyk published under CC-BY license
Traditional university package
Disaggregated service provision model
Tēnā koutou
I am motivated by opportunities that are innovative, intellectually engaging, and above all, meaningful. I am deeply committed to advancing accessible, flexible, and future-focused education, and I would be honoured to contribute my expertise and experience to the Ako Anamata team in realising this bold vision.
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