ALT-C09 Keynote 2: Martin Bean - Vice-Chancellor Designate of the Open University

• The changing nature of HE - Globalisation, Massification, privatisation
• Our collective challenge - UK and US are overshadowed by China and India; need to educate citizens for new types of work (equipping students with the rght set of skills); STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is a key for a competitive workforce; sustainability; transforming info into meaningful knowledge.
• Analogy of school being like a trip on an aeroplane - putting all your faith in one person to take you on a journey where you have to turn all your electronic devices off.
• Understanding what students want - their values, wants, needs, dislikes; putting the learner at the centre of HE.
• Why is technology relevant? Expanding reach to high quality education to all; nurturing communities - in/formally. enabling relevant, personal and engaging learning; giving educators more insight and more time
  
• Opps for technology - agile, efficient and connected learning systems
• making change possible - 3 key considerations: people, process, technology
• www.open.ac.uk/sociallearn