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2013 Australian Universities Heads of Campus Forum Conference

ACU Brisbane campus Towards the Learning Society.

Professor Jim Nyland Associate Vice Chancellor ACU (Brisbane campus)

ACU Brisbane campus

The Impact of exponential growth of learners in the post Bradley era

Seeks to answer the ‘providential’ part of the learning society equation...and move university campus’ such as ACU Brisbane on from their imperative to engage with society to a less certain path leading to what Giddens has called ‘modernity.’

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The impact of the vocationalisation of learning on traditional campus settings

The expansion of professional and vocational education on campus and within a wide variety of workplaces is changing the practice

• f the traditional university campus as well as

the behaviour of learners through what Teare has termed the ‘dynamic curriculum.’

ACU Health Clinic Brisbane

The Impact of Work and Society on Educational Innovation

The start of this century has seen an explosion

• f innovative learning and teaching systems

that have placed the creation of knowledge between University and learner in an ever more open paradigm as opposed to assimilation via existing subjects, modes of delivery and conventional campus settings.

ACU Mater Clinical School

Towards the learning society

The university campus can no longer be the epicentre of learning it once was and as we enter a new post Bradley era we can begin to see the outlines of a learning society emerging.

Beyond the borders of the ACU Brisbane Campus Master plan

Building on ACU Brisbane’s value proposition

• Dynamic academic intent
• Engagement
• Catholicity
• Work related programs
• Innovation
• Opportunity
• Indigenous

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