- Monday, 18 September 2017
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm - CB11.04.400
The increasingly competitive, fluid and challenging work environments of the future require graduates who are prepared to work with knowledge that doesn’t yet exist, using practices that don’t yet exist, for use in jobs that don’t yet exist. In this seminar, Dr Carey will provide an overview of a new Canadian project aiming to address some of this need by developing “capability to engage effectively with innovation in the workplace” as a Graduate Capability.
Innovation Capability as a graduate attribute aims has the potential to scale up our existing programs to develop social innovation leaders and business entrepreneurs. Dr Carey’s working definition of innovation is the social process of creating enduring value by successful mobilisation of new ideas. His emerging plan for developing this graduate capability centres on the development of a Teaching & Learning Environment that fosters innovation capability in the workplace via:
- experiential learning activities to engage students with innovation in our own teaching and learning workplace;
- interdisciplinary curriculum for ‘big picture’ knowledge about which skills apply “when, where and why”; and
- immersion in powerful workplace innovation cultures (on and off campus).
Dr. Thomas Carey is currently a Research Professor in the Centre for Research in Mathematics and Science Education at San Diego State University. Tom’s other recent roles include Senior Partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Visiting Senior Scholar at the California State University Office of the Chancellor and Chief Learning Officer for the MERLOT OER Network.
Dr. Carey is also currently Executive-in-Residence for Teaching and learning Innovation for the British Columbia Association of Institutes and Universities (Victoria BC). He previously served in Canada as Associate Vice President for Learning Resources and Innovation at the University of Waterloo, Senior Research Director at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, and co-leader of the Workplace Learning research theme in the national Tele-Learning Network of Centres of Excellence.
This seminar will be on Monday 18th September, 1 – 3pm in CB11.04.400.
Lunch provided if you RSVP to Anna.Neo@uts.edu.au or call x1465.
Background reading
Preparing Graduates for Future Knowledge Practices
Four ways PSE can treat the classroom as an innovative workplace