Future-Ready Curriculum Transformation: From Disruption to Innovation

1. 21st Century Curriculum Project Q3 UPDATE 2018

2. 21C: Disruption to Transformation

3. 21C: Disruption to Transformation

4. 21C: Disruption to Transformation

5. 21C: Disruption to Transformation

6. Update on ProgressWhat’s completed?What’s happening now?What’s happening next?Progress Indicators: Engagement & Impact

8. Strategy1: Analysis and Planning January 2017 – June 2017 • Build senior leadership understanding of project rationale • Establish an agreed scope, strategy & resourcing for 21C project • Establish governance & recruit staff • Recruit Innovators as Co-leads • Output: Agreed Approach • FoW requires hybrid capabilities • Partnership pedagogy to deliver relevance • Agile curriculum - Un-bundle & re-bundle • Accessible Curriculum - Life-long learning

9. Strategy 2 & 3: School and University Pilots & FoW Fora June 2017 –November 2018 • Develop distributed 21C leadership & expertise (Future of Work Forums) • Target strategic priority courses • Empower Schools to develop more agile curriculum structures • Identify discipline based partnership pedagogy resources & strategies • Mobilise the Early Adopters • Output: Proposals for simplified 21C priority courses • Redesigned Courses via School and Senate (July – Nov 2018) • School input to new architecture, policy, approvals • Staff capacity for FoW curriculum design

10. Strategy 4: Flagship Curriculum Projects Feb 2018 – Dec 2018 • Develop new curriculum elements (Curiosity pods, Accelerator units, Advantage Specialisations) as catalysts • Provide at-scale support for rapid curriculum builds & new professional development • Drive organisational systems transformation • Develop Students as Partners to accelerate • Mobilise the Early Majority • Output: 50 x new 21C curriculum elements • 21C elements available to build new degree bundles (2019) • 21C elements available as alternative credentials (2019) • Platform and capabilities for next cycle of curriculum development

11. Curriculum buildsCuriosity PodsAccelerator unitsAdvantage Sub majorsNew DegreesAlternative Credentials

12. Flagship Curriculum Projects A Day in the Life of a Trade Data Visualisation Stand Up Stand Out What & How of Making an Awesome Presentation Innovation Ecosystems 21C Advantage Specialisations 21C Curiosity Pods Big Idea Social Enterprise Global Sustainability Social Technologies Innovation Ecosystems Big Data Coded Design Communication in Complex Encounters Community as Catalyst Career Accelerator 21C Accelerator Units Community Wellbeing Curiosity Driven Research Pods (x6) We Are The University 45+ new curriculum builds underway 5+ Advantage Specialisations in design phase Launching from September 2018 Design your Life #LegalTech (x3) Fire Protection CPD Pathway Engineering WIL Intensive Units (x6) Communication for Sustainability Ignite: Arrive & Thrive Medico-legal Ethics Strategic Personal Branding Modularisation of Architecture Studios Pitch: Podcast Fundamentals Project Management Pods for the Future of Work Youth Justice in Practice Upskilled Thinking for a Supercharged Future Work Ready Plus (Place & Culture) How to Avoid Career Catastrophes Undergraduate Research Internships Global Citizenship & Engagement Common Cores for the Future of Work - Science

13. 2019CuriosityPod: Global Leadership - Common Purpose 55+Universities 1,182 Partner organisations 70,000 Alumni 116 Countries 95% of students felt better able to lead inclusively, thrive in complexity and drive innovation LOCAL CITIES GLOBAL CHALLENGE ADVANCING WESTERN SYDNEY LEADERSHIP NETWORK • Leadership capabilities to work across cultures • Making cities work better (Smart and Inclusive Cities) • Western Sydney engagement • Cross-sector partnerships; public, private and not-for-profit (Partnership Pedagogy) • Project based, scalable, (Phase1 – Greater Sydney Commission) Leadership for social Impact Education Health Group mentoring Agribusiness Employment networks Transport Manufacturing Anchor institution CURRICULUM DESIGN INITIATION: 27th September 2018 LAUNCH PILOT: 100 students Autumn 2018

14. Advantage Submajor • Hybrid 21C skills Social Technologies Alternative Credentials • Partnership Pedagogy • Shared Architecture

15. Co-created with industry partners Graduates future career ready Flexibility to choose Learning Pods New degrees: Master of Marketing DIGITAL EVOLUTION WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT? • Technology evolution has radically changed the practice of marketing • Digital marketing embedded throughout the degree • Embedded industry certifications (AMA, Adobe, Google analytics Tableau) • WS Digital Marketing Hub • Flexible entry pathways #MarketingMe Pod portfolio Alternative Credentials 20 – 30 pods Co-created with industry DEGREE LAUNCH: January 2019

16. Next: Converting Curriculum Touchpoints (Pilots + flagship) SCHOOL DASHBOARD (% STUDENTS)

17. Strategy 5. Integrate and Optimise (Course Profile Management) Feb 2018 – Jun 2019 • New Course Design policy & revised Annual Course Reviews of all programs • Implement Course Sustainability Indicators to manage active course portfolio • Leverage SMS transition to clean-up course portfolio • Alternative Credentialing • Marketing • Engage Late Majority • Output: • Smaller, coherent, sustainable profile of courses • Policy & governance platform • Alternative credentials and pathways

18. www.westernsydney.edu.au/21cThank you!