#THE LAST BASTION SERIES 2018 DRIVERS#

Our thesis is that innovating in universities is not a lack of creativity or great ideas, or even a lack of will. We anticipate opportunities for universities to reimagine and adopt their roles in changing environments and to make challenging, developing and disruptive contributions to the online world and to offer advantage, benefit and foresight to their students and staff. We explore ways in which learning with and from the future can be encouraged.

#THE LAST BASTION SERIES 2018 DRIVERS#

We explore the wicked problem of defence and stasis in the university sector despite the huge drivers for change. Juxtaposed on the changes in the UK and European political and educational ecologies, is the turbulence of the morphing of Open and Distance Learning into the much higher profile Online and Digital Education, and its place and contribution to achieving preferred and viable futures in the world. We include more formal research-based and “grey” literature around transformation in education – at a watershed moment of challenge, change and turmoil – for the UK Higher Education sector and its relationship with Europe. We offer a review of recent research and opinions.

Distance and e-Learning Policy and Development – The Role of e-Learning and Distance Education in the Modernisation Process of Economies, Societies and Education Systemsīy Professor Gilly Salmon, Australia, Academic Director OES (UK), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and Dr Tya Asgari, University of Liverpool, UK

The last bastion series 2018