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Pressures on higher education

smarter learning Professor Hamish Coates hamish.coates@acer.edu.au www.acer.edu.au/highereducation www.acer.edu.au/smarterlearning. Pressures on higher education. Cost and pricing Transparency and privatisation Diversification and stratification Curriculum and provision

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Pressures on higher education

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  1. smarter learningProfessor Hamish Coateshamish.coates@acer.edu.auwww.acer.edu.au/highereducationwww.acer.edu.au/smarterlearning

  2. Pressures on higher education • Cost and pricing • Transparency and privatisation • Diversification and stratification • Curriculum and provision • Students and academics

  3. The smarter learning imperative • Higher education strategic landscape is changing, radically • Emerging hybrid business models that reconfigure core business: “New HE” • New institutional ecosystems are emerging—many in this time zone • As getting-in gets easier, getting-out gets harder • Engineering an engaged experience and assessing learning outcomes are final frontiers www.acer.edu.au/smarterlearning

  4. For instance… • Shrink wrapped tasks • Collaborative item libraries • Stand-alone tests • Training academics • Task review/benchmarking • Process/data moderation • For instance… • Student surveys • Focus groups • Activity data • Retention • Stakeholder surveys

  5. Engaged learning experience

  6. Assessing learning outcomes

  7. Boosting capacity and data

  8. Building assessment capacity For leaders • Auditing assessment strategies and resources • Determining assessment priorities and needs • Defining academic standards and performance indicators For educators • Learning how to write better assessment materials • Interpreting assessment data to improve teaching • Helping teachers shape feedback to students • Certifying assessment capability For administrators • Planning assessment cycles • Improving delivery mechanisms • Optimising resources for assessment

  9. Developing assessment materials Developing materials • Drafting and refining content frameworks with experts • Producing high quality assessment materials and marking guides • Validating materials with experts, stakeholders and students Preparing systems • Readying computer or paper delivery systems • Setting up marking and verification systems • Designing reports and feedback procedures Deploying, marking and reporting • Supporting deployment to students • Psychometric analysis of assessment data • Detailed reporting to students, teaching staff and institutions

  10. Providing standardised tests Selection and admissions • Generic skills aptitude tests • Discipline-specific aptitude tests • Assessment of cognitive readiness for tertiary study Diagnosis • Measure cognitive skills of enrolling students • Determine learning needs • Establish English language proficiency Outcomes assessment • General professional skills + discipline skills + context • Reports to students and institutions and/or systems

  11. Global Graduate Passport® General professional skills + discipline skills + context Culturally and linguistically adapted to system contexts Secure online delivery to your students Detailed reports to students and institutions

  12. Next moves Implementing SESME Deploying the Global Graduate Passport® To keep in contact: www.acer.edu.au/smarterlearning

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