1. Preparing for the jobs of the future
Professor Jane den Hollander AO
Vice-Chancellor
Deakin University
Australia
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2. 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

3. 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
1998
Google
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

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

5. We’re seeing a global shift towards a knowledge economy

6. 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

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

8. MOOCs continue to be a game changer

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Students have become customers who bring their own digital world expectations to university
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10. Deakin Scout
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IBM Watson

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