Preparing for the jobs of the future Professor Jane den Hollander AO Vice-Chancellor Deakin University Australia Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B

It’s not only about ensuring our students get that important first job It’s not only about ensuring our students get that important first job ... employability is about the capacity to have successive jobs … to build and sustain a career over a lifetime

Industrial Revolution 1.0 Industrial Revolution 2.0 Printing revolution Industrial Revolution 1.0 Industrial Revolution 2.0 Industrial Revolution 3.0 Industrial Revolution 4.0 Taking the world from hand power and home production to machine made and factory built Innovations in transport with new labour forces and production techniques Invention of the printing press led to an unprecedented expansion of literacy Electronics and IT automate production and revolutionise communication Combining the physical, digital and the biological worlds 1440 Gutenberg’s printing press 1876 telephone 1888 electric motor 1977 Apple 2 1903 aeroplane 1943 1st computer 1991 WWW 1993 email 1998 Google 2014-2017 driverless car IBM Watson 3D printing nanosurgery wearables VR robotics electric car Big Data Cognitive computing renewable energy Blockchain 1769 steam engine 1879 lightbulb 2004 Face Book 2005 YouTube 2007 iPhone 2010 iPad

Smart machines can learn better than us, remember more than us, and can analyse more quickly than us

We’re seeing a global shift towards a knowledge economy

Success in the machine age will depend on humans and machines working together … the skills with the longest shelf life are the uniquely human skills

Our digitally leveraged world will require the critical thinking skills, digital numeracy, conceptualisation … that comes from a solid grounding in STEM

MOOCs continue to be a game changer

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