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Systemic transformation is needed and is to some extent underway to orient formal education to the challenges posed by an environment characterised by innovation and risk, by the increasing impact of knowledge and creativity on the economy, and of globalisation and new technologies across all areas of work and experience. These challenges require a broad program of research in both formal education (e.g. curriculum and pedagogy reform to enhance the attractiveness of innovation and entrepreneurship for talented students in all disciplines and age-ranges) and in informal learning services (e.g. workplace and professional learning and workforce regeneration, including an aging teacher profession). Divergent needs and initiatives need also to be better interrelated with each other. How a specific innovation creative commons approaches to IP can be enmeshed into an array of disciplinary curricula and practice constitutes an exemplary case study in the program.
Projects
Modelling Educational Innovation
The New Learning Lab:
This will bring together new developments in learning theory with cutting edge theory about social futures into a conceptual architecture focused on learning for creativity and innovation. It will utilise this conceptual architecture to anticipate the learning and identity needs of creative workers in digitally mediated over the horizon workplaces, and to address social and education barriers to learning for creativity and innovation. The conceptual architecture will be transdisciplinary in nature, bringing together neuroscientific, cognitive and socio-cultural theories of learning to forge a creative alliance of artistic and organisational and pedagogical knowledge. It will blur binary distinctions like formal or informal learning, scientific or non-scientific approaches to learning, work or play, on-the-job or off-the job training. It will underpin applied research focused on building and evaluating prototypes, tools and packages for use in formal programs of schooling and in professional development contexts. It will cater for the needs and abilities of learners across the lifespan, inviting partner schools and organisations to engage in the on-site process, or in trialling prototypes and products in their home context.
The Creative Commons Clinic:
This will provide a facility for students from a number of disciplines to prototype creative commons approaches to policy and legal issues, provide a base for outreach programs and a research test bed. While clinics are a feature of law courses, the cross-disciplinary nature of this clinic makes it highly innovative.
Indigenous Leadership:
This project takes an existing QUT relationship with Cherbourg State School (featured twice on ABC-TV Australian Story over the past year) to explore how to combine community leadership, the useful development of Aboriginal and Islander talent, and Indigenous enterprise, to model opportunities to develop the Indigenous creative workforce.
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