Pressures on higher education

smarter learningProfessor 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

• Students and academics

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 frontierswww.acer.edu.au/smarterlearning

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

Engaged learning experience

Assessing learning outcomes

Boosting capacity and data

Building assessment capacityFor 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

Developing assessment materialsDeveloping 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

Providing standardised testsSelection 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

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

Next moves

Implementing SESME

Deploying the Global Graduate Passport®

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