Future of Work Forum 2 Resources

Professional Learning in Changing Contexts

Forum 2 was held on Friday, 1 December 2017 at Parramatta (South) Campus in the Janice Reid Pavilion. This forum explored the futures of disciplines and professions in a digitally disrupted world of work and society. It examined the future drivers of curricula designed to enable students to thrive in this environment.

“There is no doubt that professional work is being fundamentally transformed in many sectors; professional education that doesn’t transform itself in tandem risks producing a lot of unemployed or very frustrated practitioners. As we think about the future of professional education, we perhaps need to begin by considering more rigorously this question: what capabilities will be needed most – amidst the mix of digital and physical objects, languages, settings and codes – that human professionals of the future can bring?  (…) A crucial dynamic is responsibility – critical wise judgement, drawing upon capacities that are uniquely human such as empathy, intuition and caring.” (Fenwick).

Keynotes and Addresses

Digital Futures of Professional Work
Professor Tara Fenwick and Professor Richard Edwards

View the video below to see Professor Tara Fenwick and Professor Richard Edwards present and discuss three questions in relation to the FOW and professional learning in changing contexts: How are big data, software code & machine learning transforming professional practices? What are the key issues of these transformations for higher education? What are the implications for professional education?

Round table Discussion: The Future Disciplines and Professions


Roundtable Discussion Video

In this round table discussion panelists consider how organisations are addressing FOW changes for disciplines and professions across science, communications, and education. Facilitated by Professor Tara Fenwick and Professor Richard Edwards, view the Roundtable Discussion Video (opens in a new window)

Participants

  • Dr Scott Martin – CSIRO Group Leader Applied Physics and Manufacturing Flagship Officer-in-Charge, Lindfield
  • Dr Ann Reich – Professional and Workplace Learning Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
  • Professor Ned Rossiter - Professor of Communication, Institute for Culture and Society / School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
  • Lucy Mercer-Mapstone - PhD candidate and Students as Partners Project Advisor, University of Queensland

Forum Image Gallery

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What capabilities will be needed most

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