Episode description
About Warren Kennard
Warren Kennard is a globally connected higher education professional and reformer with extensive leadership experience across EdTech, strategy, marketing, business development and partnerships, principally in last-mile learning institutions positioned to scale. He is currently Principal Consultant of Digital at Melbourne Business School.
Key takeaways:
- We are undergoing a rapid pace of change in society that demands certain skills. Transformation needs to happen within Higher Education to ensure that there isn’t a broadening gap with market requirements. Higher Education needs to also review its own business models to keep up with the pace.
- The ‘disruptors’ of the traditional education model, such as tech boot camps, are offering training that is more practical and project-based. Consider ways to work together with these boot camps that provide such technical skills.
- Organisations and universities can leverage the future skills in workplaces by working together. Even though they operate very differently, hence the rise of third-parties like boot camps, it’s important to be patient, clear on each other’s expectations and establish a partnership of learning.
Segmented time stamps:
- (01:56) Why Higher Education is rethinking the way its working with industries
- (04:30) Working with the ‘disruptors’ of Higher Education
- (07:27) Bootcamps versus university short courses
- (15:00) Advice for organisations who are considering working with universities
- (17:54) Innovation labs at universities
- (20:15) Exploring the different learning styles across programs
- (23:01) How would Warren like to see the development of future skills in workplaces
Links from the podcast
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