Nathan Smith | Senior Instructor, Immersive Learning, Aviation Rescue Fire Fighters (ARFFS)

Nathan Menzies | Training Officer, Aviation Rescue Fire Fighters (ARFFS)

In this video, 360ed.tv chats with Nathan Smith and Nathan Menzies from Aviation Rescue Fire Fighting Service (ARFFS), in Melbourne, Australia about immersive learning development and simulation-based technology to deliver training to firefighters.

They discuss the immersive learning strategy of the training academy and how VR is being used to introduce environmental hazards and risks, leveraging theoretical knowledge from trainees and giving them the chance to apply it practically and safely. 

With firefighters facing new challenges owing to emerging technologies including solar panels, electric vehicles and hydrogen, they explain how VR headsets provide an immersive, more effective and safer method of exposure and training for these hazards and walk us through specific use cases by ARFFS. 

How is the ARFFS creating realistic and impactful simulations that replicate the challenges and scenarios faced by aviation firefighters? Watch the video to learn more.

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Gerry Marcus | Learning & Development Consultant

In this video, 360ed.tv chats with Gerry Marcus, an L&D consultant with experience in the direct training of operational and leadership teams across large organisations, specialising in projects concerning the future of organisations and the learning that supports it.

Gerry explores how formal education is becoming more relevant and better equipped to meet the needs of enterprises and their employees, and that by embracing continuous learning to help tackle the problems they face, organisations can strengthen their value proposition and improve outcomes for their people.

Considering how to transition a workforce from where it is now to a future that incorporates generative AI, Gerry looks at ways to take employees along that journey and why creating inclusive opportunities for AI innovation will engage those with a desire to learn and solve organisational issues.

How can enterprise education support an innovative, future-focused workforce? Watch the video to learn more.

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Katrina Macdermid | Co-Founder & Director, Humanising IT

In this video, 360ed.tv chats with Katrina Macdermid about Humanising IT™, which integrates principles of human-centred design into IT service management to yield user-centric services. An entrepreneur, award-winning author and leader in IT, Katrina’s book ‘Humanizing IT, Human Centered Design for IT Service Management’ is a game changer.

Katrina explains why traditional IT service management is no longer fit for purpose, viewing ‘the user’ as singular and undifferentiated, which undermines success. With no framework that guides IT professionals on how to achieve human-centred practice, she advocates for a recalibration that prioritises end-users’ needs, capabilities and behaviours.

What steps can leaders take to create a more human-centred approach to IT service management that maintains good governance while bridging the communication gaps with the stakeholders they serve? Watch the video to learn more.

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Dr Paige Williams | Author, Researcher & PhD in Organisational Behaviour

In this video, 360ed.tv chats with Dr Paige Williams, author, researcher and PhD in organisational behaviour, about heart-led leadership in navigating disruption and nurturing learning, drawing from her book, ‘Becoming Antifragile’. 

Paige explains why a humanised, heart-led approach is critical in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, and confronts the common tension between commercial requirements and people’s needs within an organisation, with her philosophy of "the truth we need to hear with the love we need to heed it”.

Contemplating how we can create safety so that people feel able to expand into the learning opportunity ahead of them, Paige shares her approach to fostering a culture of continuous learning. 

How can you demonstrate heart-led leadership that is strategic to the organisation as a whole whilst ensuring people are empowered for change? Watch the video to learn more.

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Dr Rick Ede shares his insights and lessons learned having been at the helm of Unitec, New Zealand’s largest vocational and applied training provider, for almost a decade. He speaks about Unitec’s approach to remain competitive, leveraging technology for pedagogical and product renewal, embedding flexible and blended learning within the curriculum, and Unitec’s Living Job Initiative.

Rick reflects on his leadership in the New Zealand education sector and government policy and divulges what has surprised him the most in his career.

Watch it here: https://www.360ed.tv/show/unitec-institute-of-technology/

Dr David Parsons speaks about The Mind Lab and its focus on building digital literacy and critical knowledge creation skills, and the realisation that teachers need more progressive scaffolds to evolve to more contemporary teaching practice.

He also talks about how Unitec is leveraging cultural diversity in their digital learning experience, being a change agent for teachers to undertake postgrad study in digital and collaborative learning, and shaping mobile learning policy nationally and internationally.

Watch it here: https://www.360ed.tv/show/evolving-teaching-and-learning-in-technology-rich-environments/

Wes Sonnenreich and Suzy Watson share why they invest their most precious resource – time – into a supportive relationship with EduGrowth and its startups and what they’ve learned from the Class of 2017, and in their own origin story.

They discuss their work around supporting the complexity of experiential lifelong learning and employability in the age of machine learning and the gig economy, and the expectations of today’s students.

Maria Spies – Digital Learning Futures, Navitas Ventures and GM, Navitas Learning & Teaching Services

Maria Spies shares her insights on how EdTechs are reimagining education, current innovations and trends, Australia’s VET sector today, and disruptive companies offering short, intensive skills-based programs that are tied explicitly to workplace readiness.

Watch it here: https://www.360ed.tv/show/whats-going-on-in-australian-edtech-startups/

Lucy Schulz talks about the initiatives and uniqueness of the Cloud Campus, using Future Learn as the MOOC platform, the challenges of online education, digital credentialing and their newly launched ‘Masters in Professional Practice’.

We ask about their specific focuses for their online cohorts, how they simplify the complexities behind the user and customer experience (UX and CX) to provide a student-centric experience, and what their aspirations are globally.

Watch Here: https://www.360ed.tv/show/delivering-flexible-education-through-a-global-online-platform/

Siva Navaratnam talks about his approach to creating engagement and interest in a dry topic like risk management, the use of gamification, ANZ Bank’s digital strategy and engaging with disruptive players like partnering with Apple on Apple Pay, embracing agile and design thinking, and communicating the benefits internally to get the right outcomes.

We also discuss the importance of managing change effectively within the organisation and how leadership needs to be progressive and creative.

Watch it here: https://www.360ed.tv/show/improving-engagement-with-dry-topics/