Spotlight on technology at tertiary innovations summit
Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce today announced that he will host the Innovations in
Tertiary Education Delivery Summit 2014 (ITES2014) in Auckland on 5 and 6 June.
The Summit will bring together 200-250 tertiary education sector key decision makers and influencers to discuss the
challenges and opportunities of rapid technological development and global innovations in further and higher education
delivery. Attendees will include representatives from the leadership and governance of tertiary education institutions,
business, student leaders, senior academics and government agencies.
“The key role for the Summit is to generate New Zealand stakeholder views on international changes in tertiary
education, to make sure our system continues to deliver skills and qualifications that meet industry needs, strengthens
our international linkages, and strengthens our tertiary institutions,” Mr Joyce says.
The Summit features a high calibre line-up of international speakers, including Salman Khan of the Khan Academy in the
USA, Christian Long of collaborative design agency Be Playful in the USA, and Jim Barber independent consultant and
former Vice-Chancellor from New South Wales, Australia.
"These speakers all have unique and current experience in new innovations like MOOCS, and they will be invaluable in
provoking discussion on the impacts of technology on the future shape of tertiary education."
The recently released Tertiary Education Strategy 2014-2019 (TES) that
highlights the need for the tertiary sector, along with government and business, to look to the future at the way
tertiary education is offered and being accessed, and the contribution of further and higher education to the New
Zealand economy.
“The Tertiary Education Strategy has a five year window, and it notes that rapidly changing technology will have an
impact over that period. But some of the shifts we are observing have broad-ranging implications, so now is the right
time to have a national conversation about the next 20 years of education delivery,” Mr Joyce says.
Event partners are Technology Partner REANNZ, and Tertiary Sector partners Massey University, The University Of
Auckland, New Zealand Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics, Wellington Institute of Technology, and Eastern
Institute of Technology.
Further information on the Summit is available at: http://www.minedu.govt.nz/ITEDSummit2014
A discussion document, Technological Developments and Tertiary Education Delivery Models: The arrival of MOOCs Massive
Open Online Courses is available at: http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/tertiary_education/146849
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