HEDx Education 246 épisodes USA 2026-10-23 5 extractions
HEDx is focussed on the changing landscape of higher education. The podcast investigates global innovations, opinions, strategies and experiences across the sector. Episodes have a range of guests in academic and other leaders as the sector moves through unprecedented times. A regular series within HEDx is about the student experience.
EP228. Built on strengths: why doing what you do best is your greatest advantage
As AI reshapes how students learn, get assessed, and enter the workforce, one question is becoming more urgent: do students actually know what makes them uniquely human? In this episode, Annabel is jo...
EP227. How universities are actually implementing AI
Most universities have AI ambition. Far fewer have figured out how to turn that into something students actually feel. In this episode, Annabel is joined by Kate Shum, Product General Manager at Techn...
EP226. From Curriculum to Career: Are Students Ready for AI?
Valerie Singer leads the Global Education Team at Amazon Web Services, working with universities across more than 200 countries. In this episode, she and Martin talk about the gap between what employe...
EP225. From disruption to construction: what comes next
Two days of conversations about AI, disruption, and the future of higher education. This is where it ends — and where the real question begins. Did we just talk, or did something actually change? Mart...
EP224. The student perspective: heard but not always listened to
Episode 9 of The AI Inflection Point — the last conversation on the student experience.
Most universities will tell you they listen to their students. But listening and actually responding are two ve...
Could undergraduate research help strengthen Australia’s innovation pipeline?
In this Student Experience episode, Dr Sharon Saunders and Ben Roden-Cohen are joined by ACUR leaders Dr Lilia Mantai and...
Episode 8 of The AI Inflection Point - the second of two conversations on the student experience.
Brandman University went from 65% to 90% graduation rates in five years. Not by adding more services....
EP222. The tertiary system: what it looks like when it works
Episode 7 of The AI Inflection Point — the first of two conversations on connecting the dots between VET and higher education.
David Turvey, Executive Director of the Australian Tertiary Education Co...
At the HEDx Conference at UTS, Ben Roden-Cohen and Madison Piper talk with Pascale Quester, Rachel Wilson, Rachel Fitzgerald, Danny Liu, Tim Fawns and Katie Ford to ask what the future of higher educa...
Episode 6 of The AI Inflection Point — and the last of four conversations on coalitions.
The previous three episodes asked why collaborate, whether partnerships can be transformational, and whether s...
EP220. Collaborative scale: the case for working together
Episode 5 of The AI Inflection Point — the third of four conversations on coalitions.
Dan Greenstein has 35 years of data from the UK and the US. His conclusion is direct: scale is the primary hedge ...
Nothing about us, without us: Beyond the student panel.
At this year’s HEDx Conference at UTS, students weren’t just attendees- they were embedded across the program, contributing to the hosting, and...
EP219. Global partnerships: transactional or transformational?
Episode 4 of The AI Inflection Point — and the second of four conversations on coalitions.
Australian universities have been building global partnerships for decades. But have those partnerships actu...
Episode 3 of The AI Inflection Point — and the first of four conversations on coalitions.
Can universities lead the AI transformation that higher education needs — alone? The answer is no. But what "...
Episode 2 of The AI Inflection Point — six conversations recorded at the HEDx 2026 conference in Sydney. The diagnosis is set. Now: what does it actually take to respond?
Lucy Marshall from the Unive...
EP216. The model is broken, and AI makes it urgent
Episode 1 of The AI Inflection Point — our six-part series recorded at the HEDx 2026 conference in Sydney. This first episode sets the diagnosis: universities were designed for a student who no longer...
In this episode for Student Experience, UQ students Madison Piper and Ben Roden-Cohen sit down with Professor Kris Ryan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), for a conversation about uncertainty, AI, co...
EP215. Change has already happened. Your structures just don't know it yet
Scott Pulsipher, President of Western Governors University, and Sasha Thackaberry-Voinovich, President of New State University, opened HEDx at UTS with an uncomfortable truth: institutions that waited...
EP214. Universities as builders. Not the disrupted
HEDx's largest and most ambitious event opened at University of Technology Sydney, welcoming more than 600 leaders, students and partners to two days built around one question: are we actually goi...
Aaron Driver and Neil Durant of the University of New England argue that universities should not wait to be disrupted by AI - they should lead the disruption themselves. In this episode, we explore UN...
