Infrastructure
Creating new infrastructures for learning and promoting the new learning paradigm.
New demands for higher education are being generated by new government priorities, social changes and by the expansion of and proliferation in the range of knowledge and competences which each individual is expected to come to possess throughout their lifespan.
Developments in the understanding of the learning process, the conditions needed for successful learning, and advances in technologies of learning are creating the potential for new kinds of learning, transcending traditional constraints of age, time and place.
The creation of a new environment for learning depends on the management of complex and difficult changes in institutional cultures, in securing and training of personnel, in funding regimes, and in the intelligent application of communications technologies for educational purposes.
In creating an infrastructure which removes barriers to the universalising of learning beyond schooling and throughout the human life-cycle, ACU National is considering what kind of infrastructure is needed and the specific changes needed to bring it about.
This is requiring consideration of the transformation of the learning culture at ACU National, the introduction of a new learning paradigm, the facilitation of learning in different places according to the needs of the learner, the effective integration of activities inside and outside the university, and the move towards multi-mode delivery and distance learning.
