Conference Highlights
Fresh takes on digital education and training
Effective Use of Digital Opportunities in Higher Education: It Begins and Ends with Teaching Professionals
Effective Use of Digital Opportunities in Higher Education: It Begins and Ends with Teaching Professionals
The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on higher education have shown us what we knew all along, but sometimes tend to forget: teaching professionals are the key to innovation in education. They deserve space, support, and opportunities for personal growth, especially when it comes to effective use of technology in their daily classroom practices. The question is: how can we make sure all our lecturers are well-equipped to use digital opportunities in their curricula in an effective manner?
Speakers
Iwan Wopereis
Assistant Professor, Open University of the Netherlands
Peter Dekker
Educational Consultant, Amsterdam University of Applied Science
Peter works as an educational consultant at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science. There he combines two functions. The first is at the HvA Academie, a corporate university within the larger University. Here he works as the innovation manager. The second is at the DLO-innovationpartners. These are a group of employees that form the project team to stimulate blended learning at the university.
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Wieteke Boulogne
Educationalist, SURF, Netherlands
Marlies Venhuizen-ter Beek
Researcher, UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
Kim Schildkamp
Professor, UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE, Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Kim Schildkamp is a full professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Her chair is called “Data-informed decision making for learning and development”. Kim is the past president of ICSEI (International Congress on School Effectiveness and Improvement). She is the Chair of the zone “Facilitating professional development and support for lecturers” of the Dutch National Acceleration Plan for Educational Innovation with ICT. She has received numerous of grants from e.g., NWO/NRO, the EU (Erasmus plus, Comenius), The Spencer Foundation, and The Ministry of Education. For more information see https://people.utwente.nl/k.schildkamp
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Identifying and Addressing the Barriers to Reducing the Cost of Higher Education
Identifying and Addressing the Barriers to Reducing the Cost of Higher Education
This panel session will start with descriptions of a number of current approaches to reducing the cost of higher education. Then, working with the audience, the main barriers to the replication of these approaches in other institutions will be identified. The session will finish with a discussion on possible strategies for overcoming these barriers.
Chairperson
Brian Mulligan
Head of Online Learning Innovation, Head of Online Learning Innovation, Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland
Brian qualified as an Engineer in 1978 and originally worked in mathematical modelling and simulation, and the application of IT in engineering. He is currently Head of Online Learning Innovation in the Centre for Online Learning at the Institute of Technology Sligo where he has worked as a lecturer and learning technology developer since 1984. He has been a leader in online distance learning in Ireland, initiating it in the country’s largest provider, IT Sligo, in 2002 and has contributed significantly to the growth of e-learning in Ireland since 1999 as a founding member of the Irish Learning Technology Association. His particular interests at the moment are in lean methods of content development, lowering the cost of higher education, work-based and project-based degrees.
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Ryan Craig
managing director, Achieve Partners, United States of America
Ryan Craig is the author of College Disrupted (2015) and A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College (2018). He is a Managing Director at Achieve Partners, which is reimagining the future of higher education and creating new pathways from education to employment.
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Gwendolyn Britton
Vice President, Product Strategy, Southern New Hampshire University, United States of America
Dr. Britton has 30+ years in both private industry and academia within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) space. She has worked in varying positions spanning a gamut of content areas including software engineering, systems administration, network administration, data analysis, database administration and design, web development engineering, cyber-defense, mathematics, and computer science. Her expertise is around strategy, leadership and Business/STEM education and administration.
In her current role, Dr. Britton is passionate about expanding and growing both credit bearing and non-credit learning opportunities and access for individuals who otherwise would not have an opportunity.
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Ulrike Wild
Programme Director Educational Innovation, Wageningen University&Research
At Wageningen University&Research Ulrike has lead several innovation programmes with a huge impact on the organization of education: Open&Online Education, Flexibilization and now Professional Education. She leads as well a National Programme for Flexibilization, which is part of the Dutch Acceleration Plan for Educational Innovation with ICT. Being an innovator in heart and mind, she follows Wayne Gretzky famous saying: 'skate where the puck is going, not where it's been'.
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Resilience Comes with Shaking Things up in Education
Resilience Comes with Shaking Things up in Education
While the pandemic sped up a pre-existing process towards educational innovation and digitalisation, EDUiLAB, the engine of educational innovation at the heart of Tilburg University, seized the momentum to initiate a movement that has transformed the practices, attitude and vision of what used to be a rather traditional university.
This presentation reflects on how we, together with other players within the university, have first reacted and then proactively addressed the consequences of the COVID pandemic by creating a sustainable wave of change and innovation aimed at making our university resilient amid these turbulent times.
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Jocelyn Manderveld
Academic Director EDUiLAB, TILBURG UNIVERSITY, Netherlands
Jocelyn Manderveld is the Academic Director of the EDUiLAB at Tilburg University. EDUiLAB is the innovation and education hub of Tilburg University that facilitates innovation projects of faculties and programmes and initiates and coordinates its own experiments. EDUiLAB focuses on increasing and sharing knowledge: evidence-based learning, lifelong learning and experimenting with new technologies. In addition to her work at Tilburg University, Jocelyn also works at SURF where she is responsible for the development of an infrastructure that supports flexible education and student mobility.
Re-imaging the Context of Learning and Introducing Learning Courts
Re-imaging the Context of Learning and Introducing Learning Courts
What happens when we change the context of learning? If we move outdoors, or just move the furniture around in the classroom to match better what we teach? At Berghs SOC we challenge our teachers to try our four O:s of teaching: Onsite, Online, Outdoor & Outsourced.
Inspired by sport courts, we painted learning courts on the classroom floors to facilitate new seating constellations. Our purpose is to inspire teachers, and students, to create energetic and purposeful learning experiences.
Speakers
Joakim Thulin
Head of Insight, Berghs School of Communication,, Sweden
Joakim Thulin has a background as a strategic planner and advisor with an accelerating passion for learning and education. During the last 12 years he has devoted a majority of his time to different roles at Berghs School of Communication, first as Head of School and Director of Education and today as Head of Insight. Over the years Joakim has created and implemented new models and processes that empower both learners and teachers at Berghs combining his skills and experiences working with communication strategy, creativity, learning design, psychology and business insights.
Patrik Hambraeus
Learning Developer, Berghs School of Communication,, Sweden
Patrik Hambraeus has a background as a television producer and tv format developer who turned his focus to the education sector, focusing on developing the formats of how education is delivered and how to enhance the student's experience. His focus has been to design educational programs in an action based manner and he has collaborated with Sweden's top creative schools. He teaches storytelling, creative innovation, personal skills development and learning techniques. Patrik has created teach the teachers initiatives enhancing pedagogical skills for professionals entering the education profession.
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Ulrike Wild
Programme Director Educational Innovation, Wageningen University&Research
At Wageningen University&Research Ulrike has lead several innovation programmes with a huge impact on the organization of education: Open&Online Education, Flexibilization and now Professional Education. She leads as well a National Programme for Flexibilization, which is part of the Dutch Acceleration Plan for Educational Innovation with ICT. Being an innovator in heart and mind, she follows Wayne Gretzky famous saying: 'skate where the puck is going, not where it's been'.
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Kevin Fullbrook
Director, Al-Bayan Bilingual School, Kuwait
Kevin Fullbrook is the Director at Al-Bayan Bilingual School, Kuwait. Having started his career as a Math and Physical Education teacher in a remote Australian school, he then taught at a range of schools across the country before serving in leadership positions in Australia, China, and the Middle East. Kevin is passionate about creativity and innovation in education and speaks at conferences and workshops around the world on design-thinking, innovation, and community engagement.
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Patrik Hambraeus
Learning Developer, Berghs School of Communication,, Sweden
Patrik Hambraeus has a background as a television producer and tv format developer who turned his focus to the education sector, focusing on developing the formats of how education is delivered and how to enhance the student's experience. His focus has been to design educational programs in an action based manner and he has collaborated with Sweden's top creative schools. He teaches storytelling, creative innovation, personal skills development and learning techniques. Patrik has created teach the teachers initiatives enhancing pedagogical skills for professionals entering the education profession.
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Gwendolyn Britton
Vice President, Product Strategy, Southern New Hampshire University, United States of America
Dr. Britton has 30+ years in both private industry and academia within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) space. She has worked in varying positions spanning a gamut of content areas including software engineering, systems administration, network administration, data analysis, database administration and design, web development engineering, cyber-defense, mathematics, and computer science. Her expertise is around strategy, leadership and Business/STEM education and administration.
In her current role, Dr. Britton is passionate about expanding and growing both credit bearing and non-credit learning opportunities and access for individuals who otherwise would not have an opportunity.
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The Influential L&D Practitioner: Evidence-based Insights for Effective Practice in the Post-pandemic World
The Influential L&D Practitioner: Evidence-based Insights for Effective Practice in the Post-pandemic World
COVID-19 and the resulting devastating circumstances are no welcome thing. However, the pandemic has forced learning practitioners to reflect on their practice and accelerate change. However, what skills do learning professionals need to meet the new agenda? Drawing on latest CIPD research this session will present the evidence of the key shifts required. Then through a Learning Café format, delegates will create a manifesto to underpin the approach of the effective post-pandemic L&D team.
Speakers
Laura Overton
International Speaker, Author, Facilitator, Analyst , Unknown
Laura Overton is an award winning learning analyst and the original CEO and founder of Towards Maturity. Dedicated to uncovering and sharing effective practices in learning innovation that deliver business value. Her work through #LearningChangemakers and as co-founder of Emerging Stronger, reflects her continual passion for bringing communities together to explore, challenge, share and grow.
Laura is the author of over 40 reports and hundreds of articles. Her insights are based on 30 years of practical experience and a commitment to evidence based learning decisions backed by decades of global independent research with learning leaders and workers around the globe. In the UK, Laura is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD and she has been recognised by several prestigious awards including the Learning and Performance Institute’s prestigious Colin Corder Award for services to training and was the Learning Technology Special Achievement award.
Andy Lancaster
Head of Learning, Cipd, United Kingdom
Andy Lancaster leads learning at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) where he is responsible for the vision and creation of innovative learning solutions to support the people profession worldwide. He has more than 30 years’ experience in learning and organizational development in commercial, technological and not-for-profit organizations and has a research Masters' degree in instructional design. He regularly speaks at conferences, writes and contributes to research. His latest award-winning book “Driving Performance Through Learning” is available through Kogan Page publishing. You can connect with him on Twitter at @AndyLancasterUK.
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How to Optimise Your Learning Technologies in a Post-pandemic World
How to Optimise Your Learning Technologies in a Post-pandemic World
As digital learning became the only game in town post-COVID-19, the learning technologies landscape shifted dramatically. Suddenly barriers to technology were blown away, implementation and digital adoption happened almost overnight.
But as we look to the future, many questions remain. Will the classroom return to the corporate world, and how do hybrid working and the inclusion agenda influence this strategy? What will the digital learning ecosystem look like going forwards? And how will you create learning experiences that make a real difference to behaviour and performance?
This interactive Learning Café revolves around the practicalities of optimising your learning technologies in a post-pandemic world.Speakers
Sven Elbert
Senior Analyst, Fosway, Germany
Sven Elbert arbeitet als Senior Analyst in der HCM- und Talent-Practice der Fosway Group, mit dem Hauptfokus auf Cloud HR, Talentmanagement und Recruiting. Seine praktische Erfahrung im HR- und HR-Tech-Umfeld umspannt zweit Jahrzehnte und bildet eine einzigartige Basis für seine Analysten-Arbeit bei Fosway. Im HR-Umfeld sammelt Sven in seiner Tätigkeit aktuelle Trends und Erkenntnisse von Käufern, Anbietern und Investoren und bringt diese in Fosways aktuelle Studien und Forschungsprojekte ein.
Auf Basis dieser Fülle an Daten und Analysen hilft Sven Unternehmenskunden, ihre Entscheidungsfindung in allen Aspekten der Lösungsauswahl bei der nächsten Generation von HR- und Talentmangement-Software zu beschleunigen.
Sven bringt ein breites Spektrum an Fachwissen von der Anbieterseite in die Rolle ein, da er Teams für Produktstrategie und Produktmanagement, Vertrieb, Customer Success und Professional Services geleitet hat. Er hat bei vielen HR-Software-Implementierungen und Change-Initiativen sowohl auf Anbieter- als auch auf HR-Seite in Unternehmen gearbeitet. Seine einzigartigen Einblicke und ein pragmatischen Ansatz helfen Unternehmen, aktuelle Herausforderungen bei der Auswahl der nächsten Generation an HCM- und Talentmanagement-Software erfolgreich zu meistern. Er ist auch ein erfahrener Redner, der regelmäßig auf Veranstaltungen in ganz Europa und online präsentiert.
Kompetenzen:
• Cloud HR
• Talent Acquisition/ Recruiting
• Learning
• Talentmanagement
• Markttrends
• Lösungsstrategien and -auswahl
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Fiona Leteney
Senior Analyst, Fosway Group
Fiona Leteney has worked in the learning technology market since 2000, gaining a wealth of experience by either selling, implementing or managing learning solutions in a corporate context. As a recognised industry figure, she has been a magazine columnist since 2006 and judges the annual LT awards.
In 2016 Fiona joined Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, as a Senior Analyst. Currently, she is the primary lead on research in the Learning Systems market. With this abundance of market information, Fiona also helps corporate clients accelerate their decision making across all aspects of next generation learning.
Prior to joining Fosway Group, she was the Global Learning Technologies Services Manager at healthcare provider, Bupa.
Fiona is a Charter Engineer and has an MBA from Manchester Business School.
How AkzoNobel is Preparing its Employees with Skills of the Future (Resilience, Digital, Social & Emotional)
How AkzoNobel is Preparing its Employees with Skills of the Future (Resilience, Digital, Social & Emotional)
You will learn how AkzoNobel defined their New Skills based on internal and external research, what the design is and what elements where key in the approach, how it was delivered and what the results where. It provides you implementation ideas for your work and company.
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Carin De Weme
Senior Global L&D Adviser, Akzonobel, Netherlands
It is Carin de Weme's passion to guide employees to develop themselves, which in turn supports the growth of the organization. By analyzing what the needs are, she creates engaging and inspiring learning opportunities that also cater to cultural norms and preferences. Measuring and showing the effectiveness of talent & development activities, as well as the return of expectations, are key to add value as well. Being aware of new technologies and methods as well as being inspired by other learning professionals is her vital for her to stay updated.
Nele Graf
Professor of Human Resources and Organisational Development, University of Applied Management, Mentus GmbH, Germany
Prof. Dr. Nele Graf is a researcher, entrepreneur, speaker and author in the field of human resource development. At the University of Applied Management she leads the Competence Centre for Innovations & Quality in Leadership & Learning (CILL) , which conducts research on corporate learning, learning competencies and leadership for the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, among others. In addition, she teaches on the topic of human resources at the University of Applied Management in Berlin.
As managing director of Mentus GmbH, she advises companies on future-oriented personnel, organisational and management development. Nele Graf is a recognised expert and author on the topic of agile learning and trainer of agile learning coaches.
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Prof. Dr. Nele Graf beleuchtet das Thema Personalentwicklung als Professorin, Forscherin, Unternehmerin, Speakerin und Autorin. Sie leitet das CompetenceCentre for Innovations & Quality in Leadership & Learning (CILL), das Forschungsprojekte zu den Themen betriebliches Lernen, Lernkompetenzen und Führung u.a. für das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung durchführt, und lehrt Personal an der Hochschule für angewandtes Management in Berlin. Zudem berät sie als Geschäftsführerin der Mentus GmbH Unternehmen in der zukunftsorientierten Personal-, Organisations- und Führungskräfteentwicklung. Sie ist führende Expertin zum Thema „Agiles Lernen“, hat u.a. den gleichnamigen Bestseller geschrieben und bildet agiles Lerncoaches aus.
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Nerea Sánchez Urien
Researcher and Lecturer, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain
Action Researcher in Organizational Learning Ecosystems at Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain.
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Irina Matthews
Learning Services Coordinator, GÉANT Vereniging (Association), United Kingdom
Almost 20 years experience of being a teacher, trainer, facilitator, coach, learning and development practitioner and ... still enjoying it! Empowering effect of learning technologies, human capital development, organisational development and transforming communities via international development projects have been the focus of career and professionals interests against the backdrop of various organisational settings from big corporate business (American Express) to non-profit - further education and local government (UK) and for the past 4 years fast-paced, supremely diverse world of high speed connectivity at GÉANT.
Sina Fäckeler
Global Head of People Development & Wellbeing, AXA Group Operations, Germany
Sina is truly a wanderer between the worlds and has never stopped being curious and open for what life offers her. Her passion is building a reputation of HR as a strong partner of business and cultural transformation. She is currently working at AXA Group Operations /AXA's tech & data engine) in Paris as Global Head of People Development & Wellbeing. In her current role she is leading three teams with global responsibility (L&D, Talent & Leadership Development, D&I/Wellbeing) to accelerate AXA Group Operations Business Transformation.
Born in a little village in the German area “Sauerland”, she spent her Kindergarten-time in the Netherlands and her teenager years by travelling to China twice a year. She studied/worked in Germany, Switzerland, UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Her highest degree is a Ph.D. from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
She changed sides several times: from academia to the business world, from smaller to larger companies (e.g. METRO Group, Deutsche Telekom, AXA), from Germany to other European countries – and vice versa.
How the Digital Skills Revolution is Shaping Employers and Employee Futures
How the Digital Skills Revolution is Shaping Employers and Employee Futures
Join our session to learn how organisations are embracing the digital skills transformation to future proof their business and drive employee productivity and retention, whilst delivering ROI which matters.
After the session you will have learnt about the following key topics:
- The global trends in digital learning skills helping shape industry and forward thinking businesses aligning their workforce for tomorrow’s skills requirements
- Skill proficiency and top-trending skills, providing a guide of sorts to companies and governments looking to stay on the cutting edge
- How to use online learning to drive employee experience and development whilst driving a culture that drives ROI
- The key trends that will reshape the global and local learning strategy for business leaders and how a skills-first learning strategy will boost employee retention.
Speaker
Valerie Focke
Regional Director, Enterprise Sales EMEA, Coursera, Germany
Valerie Focke is a Regional Director at Coursera. She is leading a passionate and high-performing team of Account Executives and Managers to drive value in existing and new partnerships with Europe's largest organisations and across EMEA to deliver tangible returns on their skills development investments.
Crisis as Opportunity: Collaboration and Synergy in Online Learning Strategies among Development Actors
Crisis as Opportunity: Collaboration and Synergy in Online Learning Strategies among Development Actors
This session shares good practices that have been implemented within the Learn4Dev network as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Panellists (sustainable development actors) will discuss the impact of the shift to online learning tools and solutions and their expertise and lessons learnt in creating engaging solutions and streaming knowledge sharing and inter-organisational cross-cooperation.
We look forward to discussing with the audience how to:
- Improve informal learning through interactive online sessions.
- Capitalise on know-how exchange in view of upgrading the learning structure within your organisation.
- Contribute to upskilling your organisation's staff in producing engaging online learning formats
Chairperson
Vladiana Apetroaie
Instructional Designer and Webmaster, EU International Partnerships Academy, European Commission
Vladiana Apetroaie is an Instructional Designer and Webmaster for the EU International Partnerships Academy. She has more than 3 years of experience in eLearning development, webinar organisation and website administration, her areas of expertise including the design and production of audio-visual content. She holds a Master's Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Leuven, where she pursued trainings in video production and co-directed an ethnographic film.
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Jimena Pereyra
Training Specialist, UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)
Alessia Messuti
Learning Innovation Programme Officer, International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO)
Alessia Messuti, is Learning Innovation Programme Officer at ITCILO where she is responsible of the thematic cluster on Learning Technologies by ensuring the Centre’s in-house capacity to use and mainstream learning technologies in capacity development projects. She is graduated in Foreign Languages for International Communication, with a special focus on the use of new media and webradio for social inclusion and local development. Before joining the International Training Centre of the ILO in 2016, she worked as training specialist in both private and development sector in Italy, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands where she gained experience in instructional design and quality assurance for e-Learning, facilitation of online and face-to-face trainings, applied research methods, mobile learning, MOOCs and gamification. As a certified international facilitator (IAF) she is actively involved in training facilitation with a focus on participatory learning approaches.
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Be a Part of It: A Collaborative Ecosystem for Achieving the SDGs
Be a Part of It: A Collaborative Ecosystem for Achieving the SDGs
Based on our extensive expertise in developing (digital) educational programmes this session will share best practice and discuss how schools, institutions and businesses can all become more involved in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Our online activities and tools to achieve the 2030 Agenda are dynamic, participatory, certified and innovative, such as "2030 Competencies" and "Ideathons for the SDGs".
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Ángel Sola
Head of International Projects, Fundación Cibervoluntarios, Spain
Angel Sola is Director of International Programs at Cibervoluntarios Foundation, fostering alliances with other organizations to promote the social use of technology to foster citizen's rights, opportunities and participation. Angel Coordinates the communication area of Horizon 2020 European projects and managing branding and creative concept of projects from the point of view of social action, NGOs and Digital Social Innovation. He works actively with international partners in the creation of Digital Solutions at National and European level always focusing on how technology can change people lives for good through Digital Skills Training.
"For me is critical to promote Technology to achieve a more inclusive society, and our work focuses in puting citizenship in the center of Social Innovation"
Angel Sola gives talks at international conferences as Social Innovation expert related to citizen participation, Next Generation Internet, The impact of technology in our society, inclusion and technological volunteering. He has participated as speaker in international events such as 4YFN at the MWC, NGI Forum, Internet Society workshops or WSIS Forum among others.
He's got a Degree in Advertising and Public Relations and a Masters Degree in Institutional and Corporative Communication. Having specialized afterwards y Social Media and Digital Marketing.
Stefan Gunther
Associate Vice President Faculty Affairs, University of Maryland Global Campus, United States of America
Stefan Gunther has 25+ years of experience in academic administration for institutions as diverse as University of Maryland, Strayer University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Virginia, George Washington University, DeVry University and USDA Graduate School. His areas of expertise are program development and administration and working with and supervising both adjunct and full-time faculty. His abiding professional interests focus on serving adult learners and the methodologies surrounding online education. He holds a PhD in English and American Literature from Brandeis University (2000), an MA in English Literature from SUNY Oneonta, and a Certificate in Online Teaching from UCLA (2000).
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Jürgen Handke
., Linguist, Educator, Awardwinning Digital Learning and Teaching Pioneer, Germany
Jürgen Handke is a German Professor for English Linguistics and Web Technology. He retired from university in April 2020 but still conducts several teaching and learning projects.
A pioneer of digital teaching and way ahead of his time Handke started to introduce innovative, digital and interactive teaching methods in the form of CD-ROMs in the early 1990s. This new way of teaching resulted in the creation of the world’s first and largest e-learning platform for linguistics, the Virtual Linguistics Campus (VLC) in 2000. The VLC offers more than 500 fully certified linguistic courses and course material for theoretical and applied linguistics, ranging from introductory classes such as Phonology, Morphology, Syntax und Semantics to highly specialised courses such as 'Human Language Technologies'. Currently, the VLC has more than 18,000 active users with more than 3,000 visitors daily. Since 2014 the VLC has hosted the world's first MOOC-curriculum with currently more than 12,000 active participants.
In 2013, Handke started the Virtual Linguistics Campus YouTube channel, now the largest linguistics channel in the world with more than 8 million clicks and more than 92,000 subscribers and more than 400 videos, which all involve the CC BY licensing model.
Since 2012 Handke published several books about modern teaching, the most influential ones are 2012 'E-Learning, E-Teaching and E-Assessment', 2014 'Patient Hochschullehre', 2015 'Handbuch Hochschullehre Digital' (2nd ed. 2017, 3rd ed. 2020) and 2020 'Humanoide Roboter – Showcase, Partner und Werkzeug'. He was part of the book sprint initiative as a result of which he co-authored the book “Robots in Education” in 2021.
In 2013 Handke received the highest Hessian Teaching and Learning Award for his Inverted Classroom Mastery Model, in October 2015 he was awarded the highest German teaching award, Ars Legendi Prize for Digital Teaching and Learning. 2016 he received the DIE-prize for his MOOC #DEU4ARAB and in 2017 he received the national OER-Award for his MOOC FIT4UNI. 2019 Handke and his team were awarded the prize “Science in Dialogue” for their communication concept “Robotikum”.
Handke is a member of the national board "Hochschulforum Digitalisierung" and of the advisory board for the foundation of the new TU Nuremberg. In 2017, he started using humanoid robots in digital teaching and learning scenarios (state government funded project H.E.A.R.T), in 2019 he added another educational robot project RoboPraX. Whereas H.E.A.R.T. aims at making humanoid robots partners in higher education digital teaching and learning scenarions, RoboPraX introduces humanoid robots as tools for pupils to develop and reach new stages of algorithmic thinking.
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Perttu Pölönen
Futurist, Inventor and Author, ., Finland
Perttu Pölönen has been given many titles, such as inventor, author, composer, keynote speaker, futurist and visionaire.
In Finnish media Perttu has been called a gentle highbrow and a fearless inventor. Perttu himself still prefers not to use titles at all –it’s difficult to put him into any known box.
Perttu is a classically trained composer by education, but became an entrepreneur at a young age. Perttu has studied at Singularity University, a think tank located at the NASA Ames Research Center in California. While in California, he co-founded a non-profit, 360ed, that develops AR apps for the education sector in developing countries–the company is run and operated in Myanmar.
Perttu’s own invention, MusiClock, is an example of how a personal challenge can be turned into an internationally awarded and patented invention. It won the at biggest science fair in Europe, the European Union's Competition for Young Scientists. The MusiClock mobile app became #1 music app in over 10 countries. In 2014 Perttu was given the “Most Creative Finn” Award at Slush and in 2018 MIT Tech Review honored him among 35 Innovators Under 35 in Europe.
Perttu has written two books: Future Skills (2020) and Future Identities (2021). Perttu is known as an inspiring thinker who believes that human skills and values will be crucially important in the future, to balance technological advancements.
Fons Trompenaars
Organisational theorist and Author, Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Consulting, Netherlands
Dr Fons Trompenaars is a Dutch organisational theorist recognised around world for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business.
He has spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance, particularly in the areas of globalisation, mergers and acquisition, HR and leadership development.
Listed regularly one of the most influential management thinkers alive and inducted into the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame in 2017 as one of the world’s most influential, living, management thinkers, he has been awarded the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development. Fons was voted one of the top 20 HR Most Influential International Thinkers 2011 by HR Magazine. He is also ranked in the Thinkers 50 2011 2013 and 2015 He was inducted into the Thinker 50 Hall of Fame in 2017.
Fons joined Shell in 1981 and moved into the Personnel Division for Shell in Rotterdam. From 1985 he worked in job classification and management development at the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam In 1989 he founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 we operate as Trompenaars Hampden Turner.
Fons Trompenaars has worked as a consultant for Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, TRW, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, Cable and Wireless, CSM and Merrill Lynch.
Fons wrote Riding the Waves of Culture, Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business This book sold over 120 000 copies and was translated into 16 languages amongst them, French, German, Dutch, Korean, Danish, Turkish, Chinese, Hungarian and Portuguese and it is in its 4th edition. He is co author amongst others of Nine Visions of Capitalism Unlocking the Meanings of Wealth Creation and Rewarding Performance Globally.
Video for Learning - What the Research Says
Video for Learning - What the Research Says
Video for learning is great at some things, not so great at others. Research evidence shows that many of the things we do in video can result in illusory learning: it may look as though people are learning and they may feel as though they are learning, but it is an illusion. To produce effective videos for learning we must look at learning research. That not only tells us about the cognitive basis of good learning, it gives us sound recommendations about what we need to do to increase retention, some of it surprising and counterintuitive. You have to break some of the rules of traditional video production and directing to adjust video towards learning.
Among others, we’ll discuss why, when and how to: chunk videos; support learner-created videos; produce interactive videos, boost learner engagement & retention and; use AI for video generation.
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Donald Clark
eLearning Expert and Strategist, eLearning Expert and Strategist at Plan B Learning, United Kingdom
Change Your Breath, Change Your World
Change Your Breath, Change Your World
Breathwork is the leading global trend in wellness. It supports mental and emotional state management and self-regulation which are keys to developing more resilience. Breathwork increases mindfulness and interoception too, which are also keys to developing resilience as well. People who work in high stakes, life and death situations are trained to breathe. This training needs to be extended to everyone, because what works on the battlefield works in the boardroom and works in the classroom.
In this session you will gain practical knowledge and skills in the art and science of breathwork for physical, emotional and psychological resilience. It will provide a solid foundation for further study and practice in overcoming stress and anxiety, and will improve performance.
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Dan Brulé
Founder/Director, The International Center For Breathwork, United States of America
Dan Brulé (Breathmastery.com) is a modern-day teacher/healer. Dan is a world-renown expert and authority in the Art and Science of Breathwork. He is the founder of The Breathing Festival (TheBreathingFestival.com) and Director of the International Center for Breathwork (theicfb.com)
Dan is a former US Navy Deep Sea Diver and Medical/Rescue Specialist (Vietnam Era Veteran). He is one of the creators of Breath Therapy and was among the original group of Internationally Certified Rebirthers. He is a master of Prana Yoga (the Hindu Science of Breath) and Chi Kung/Qigong (Chinese Medical Breathing Exercises). And he leads the worldwide Spiritual Breathing Movement.
He coaches, trains and certifies Professional Breathworkers, and since 1970, he has travelled to 67 countries and has personally taught more than 250,000 people to use breath and breathing for personal growth, professional development, peak performance, self-healing and spiritual awakening. He has trained Olympic athletes, special forces and elite martial artists. He coaches leading medical experts, psychotherapists, yoga teachers, fitness gurus, corporate executives, life coaches, and celebrities including Tony Robbins.
Dan is the author of several books, including: Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business and Beyond.” (Published by Simon & Schuster, now in 10 languages)
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Challenges Are the Start of Great Solutions: Challenge Based Learning in Action!
Challenges Are the Start of Great Solutions: Challenge Based Learning in Action!
Everyone interested in using Challenge Based Learning to solve authentic societal challenges is welcome in this interactive Learning Café.
A transdisciplinary team of experienced CBL educators will briefly share different Challenge-Based Learning models (e.g. design thinking, action research, CBL challenge framework) to get everyone on the same page.
Then we dive into the action, dividing the participants into teams (resembling a true CBL situation), after which the participants will get access to CBL instruments that support setting up a CBL process either at your own university or in your own courses.
The group work is guided by four experienced CBL coaches from renowned universities (Utrecht University, University Medical Centre Utrecht from the Alliance network and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from the EIT InnoEnergy network).
After this session you will know how and where to start CBL, get pointers for collaborating with stakeholders, have ideas on quality assurance & continuity so that your students acquire the right skills to master future innovation challenges.
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Inge de Waard
Sr. Learning Strategist & hopeful explorer, EIT InnoEnergy, Belgium
Inge is a senior learning strategist, longtime researcher, award-winning learning innovator and (e)Learning coordinator. She developed multiple online and hybrid courses, she coaches and co-creates international, blended curricula with engineers and teachers, and explores new, innovative learning formats. Her expertise has been recognised by peers, resulting in additional co-authored papers, invited talks and keynotes in both academic as well as professional conferences, workshops and seminars. But most of all, she likes to connect, listen and share stories.
Her latest project is twofold and involve AI in Education (https://skillcharge.innoenergy.com/), as well as reskilling and learning above 50 (https://www.secretshakers.com). These two projects fit within the goal of providing a more tailored, lifelong learning journey to employees of all ages. In the AI project, Inge oversees the learning aspect of SkillCharge, a skill project launched by EIT InnoEnergy. This project combines AI, HR and Learning to match courses to skill gaps that individuals. In the Secret Shakers project, Inge researches what makes new projects started by people aged 50+ be successful, and how do these people reskill themselves. This project is a response to the societal view on employees over 50 and their capacities to learn and thrive in new, innovative environments.
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Gemma Tejedor Papell
Project manager, Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya
Jordi Segalàs
Associate professor at the Research Institute of Sustainability, Director of the Catalan Network of Education, Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya
Michèle Gerbrands
Educational innovator and advisor, UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT
After studying Computer Science and Media Innovation, she passionately spent the last twenty years working in higher education and health care as a lecturer, innovator, coach, workshop moderator, community leader, online content developer and project leader. She is driven by her passion to engage students in developing transdisciplinary skills to prepare them in becoming the future global complex problem solvers. For this, she introduced the Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) concept seven years ago. She is currently working for the Dutch strategic alliance (www.ewuu.nl) and Biomedical Sciences department where she co-develops pilots to translate her vision on educational innovations towards a sustainable academic CBL landscape.
Sabine Uijl
Project leader Innovative Educational concepts, UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, Netherlands
Sabine Uijl is programme manager ‘U-Collaborate in Education’ for Utrecht University and project leader for the Dutch strategic alliance of Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research, Utrecht University and University Medical Centre Utrecht. As project leader, her main projects are ‘Innovative didactic concepts’, focussed on challenge-based learning, ‘Flexible innovative programmes’ and ‘Research of educational innovation’. Her presentation experience over the course of her academic career has a wide range, and vary from conference presentations and teaching and leading workshops, to webinars and podcasts.
As epidemiologist and social scientist Sabine is familiar with the chances and challenges of transdisciplinarity in research and education. Due to her experience as education manager/ director and education innovator, she knows the developments in higher education and continues to contribute to these.
Rose Luckin
Professor of Learner Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London (UCL) and EDUCATE, United Kingdom
Rosemary (Rose) Luckin is Professor of Learner Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Laband renowned for her research into the design and evaluation of educational technology, influenced by the learning sciences and the use of artificial intelligence (AI). She was named as one of the 20 most influential people in education in the SeldonList, 2017.
Her 2018 book: Machine Learning and Human Intelligence: The Future of Education for the 21st Century describes how AI can be used effectively to support teaching and learning.
Rose is Founder of EDUCATE Ventures Research Ltd., a London hub for educational technology start-ups, researchers and educators involved in evidence-based educational technology.
She is a past president and current treasurer of the International Society for AI in Education; co-founder of the Institute for Ethical AI in Education; a member of the European AI Alliance and held an International Franqui Chair at KU Leuven in 2019.
Rose has published numerous academic articles and authored 2 monographs and 2 edited collections. She is lead author of Nesta’s influential Decoding Learning report published in 2012 and Pearson’s Unleashing Intelligence, 2016. She is a member of the EPSRC peer review college and is a regular reviewer for RCUK.
Rose has taught in the secondary, further education and university sectors and is a governor and trustee at St Paul’s independent boys’ day school in London. She is president of the Self-Managed Learning College in Brighton.
Prior to taking up her post at the Knowledge Lab in 2006, Rose was Pro-Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of Sussex
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Sean Michael Morris
director, Director of Digital Pedagogy Lab, University of Colorado Denver, United States of America
Sean Michael Morris is currently Senior Instructor of Learning, Design, and Technology in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is also the Director of Digital Pedagogy Lab, an an online professional development gathering for a the global digital pedagogy community; and he is the former director and managing editor for Hybrid Pedagogy, a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology. He is the co-author of An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy, editor of Critical Digital Pedagogy: a Collection, and a contributor to Disrupting Digital Humanities, Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, MOOCs and their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education, Applied Pedagogies: Strategies for Online Writing Instruction, and Critical Examinations of Distance Education Transformation Across Disciplines.
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Marleen Stikker
Founder of Waag, Professor of Practice at HvA, member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation, Waag, Netherlands
Marleen Stikker is founder of Waag.
Marleen Stikker (1962) is also founder of 'De Digitale Stad' (The Digital City) in 1993, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet in Amsterdam. She leads Waag, a social enterprise that consists of a research institute for creative technologies and social innovation and Waag Products, that launched companies like Fairphone, the first fair smartphone in the world.
She is also member of the European H2020 Commission High-level Expert Group for SRIA on innovating Cities/DGResearch and the Dutch AcTI academy for technology & innovation.
Marleen Stikker strongly adheres to the Maker's Bill of Rights motto: "If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It". Marleen believes that society needs open technologies that meet societal challenges.
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A New Era for Teaching Using Synthetic Media?
A New Era for Teaching Using Synthetic Media?
We can expect that major advances in AI-powered tools and technologies will lead to commodification and more common uses of synthetic media. This will offer possibilities for the future of teaching and teachers and in this Boardroom Dialogue, after a presentation of a case study, we will set out to explore technical as well as ethical questions together.
The case study “Everybody Can Speak Chinese” will cover:
- Learning content with synthetic voiceover (or synthetic media)
- AI generated facial expression
- Multilanguage videobased training
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Phillip Meyers
Head of Innovation, TÜV Rheinland Akademie GmbH
How a Community of Practice of L&D Professionals is Transforming Learning Design at Novartis
How a Community of Practice of L&D Professionals is Transforming Learning Design at Novartis
Workers’ performance starts with great learning. And that requires a solid design process that includes analysis and impact measurement. Without that, any learning solutions we produce will only be successful by chance, and we can't expect it to add value to workers and to the organisation.
So, how do you ensure your create great learning solutions? By building a wide community of practice that understands the principles and practice of great design – sharing good practice and supporting each other, so that the group’s influence and innovation spreads across the organisation like ripples across a pond.
Making this happen in practice can be a challenge. Join this session to learn how Mirjam, in her role as Head of Global Learning Design & Learning Sciences at Novartis, built a Community of Practice across more than 1,000 learning professionals to drive the change she knows is needed. Getting there hasn’t been easy. It has called for silos to be broken open, some honest conversations, and a lot of experimentation. And it’s not finished yet!
Mirjam will share how the community started, where it is now, how it captures value, what happens next, and some valuable lessons learned. But don't expect to get all the answers for your organisation! Rather, let's have an honest conversation. Perhaps you have tried a similar or different approach? What else could work? What are the differences between small and large organisations?
Let's explore, capture our shared experience and learn together.
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Mirjam Neelen
Learning Advisory Manager, Accenture, Ireland
Mirjam Neelen is a Learning Advisory Manager and Learning Experience Design Lead with almost 15 years of industry experience, working at a wide variety of companies. In her current role, she is responsible for strategic definition of learning experiences working with clients and various learning teams the organization. Mirjam is a proud advocate for evidence-informed approaches to learning experience design and has a collaborative blog with Paul A. Kirschner on https://3starlearningexperiences.wordpress.com/. Together, they have recently published a book on evidence-informed learning experience design. She presents about her work regularly.
She has completed an MSc in Learning Sciences, an MA in Psycholinguistics and a BA in Speech Therapy.
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Faculty Development for Academic Innovation
Faculty Development for Academic Innovation
Guidance and training courses that have elevated faculty's online presence will take centre stage in this session.
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Stefan Gunther
Associate Vice President Faculty Affairs, University of Maryland Global Campus, United States of America
Stefan Gunther has 25+ years of experience in academic administration for institutions as diverse as University of Maryland, Strayer University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Virginia, George Washington University, DeVry University and USDA Graduate School. His areas of expertise are program development and administration and working with and supervising both adjunct and full-time faculty. His abiding professional interests focus on serving adult learners and the methodologies surrounding online education. He holds a PhD in English and American Literature from Brandeis University (2000), an MA in English Literature from SUNY Oneonta, and a Certificate in Online Teaching from UCLA (2000).
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Jenni Houston
Head of Digital Skills, THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, United Kingdom
As Head of Digital Skills I work in partnership with the university’s professional services, colleges and external organisations to lead the development of staff and student digital capabilities. This includes developing digital skills strategy, steering training provision for organisational projects and directing a range of services for building digital capabilities.
Merja Laamanen
Digital Transformation Lead, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, Finland
Merja Laamanen (M.Sc. (Econ) in information system science and MA in research of art) works at the University of Jyväskylä digital services where she is a Digital Transformation Lead. She is an alumna of University of Jyväskylä and has 20 years of work experience in developing e-learning models, training and support modules, and new digital tools for Higher Education. She is a PhD student in education technology and her research interests are usability, accessibility and new learning technologies.
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Margaret Korosec
Head of Digital and Enterprise Learning Solutions, UNIVERSITY OF DERBY, United Kingdom
Margaret Korosec is passionate about the transformative impact of connection and community, ensuring individuals and organisations have the resources and skills to succeed within a sustainable system. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. Margaret has a positive track record in enabling organisational change, collaborating on online course design and development and conducting pedagogic research. She earned her PhD at the University of Hull researching the perceptions, concerns, and practices of change facilitators in relation to technology enhanced learning strategy in higher education. She lives in East Yorkshire, England and has worked and lived in USA, Austria and Slovenia.
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"Pick your corner" - Visioning and Achieving Viable Futures for Learning
"Pick your corner" - Visioning and Achieving Viable Futures for Learning
Just bring yourself and your hopes and turn them into reality by "bouncing" them around with others from different sectors, countries and experiences. A fast, active, interactive and visual workshop, with follow up images after the physical conference.
In the uncertain and challenging post-covid educational world, there are 4 main ways for surviving and thriving in the near and further future. You need to focus, focus, and achieve.
- You could use your existing capabilities, capacity and technologies to comprehensively and extensively to solve problems and increase the quality of learning.
- You could be bold with entirely digital learning and open up new outreach prospects for your learners.
- You could look to deploy more imagination, insight and prototyping to "harness" commercial technologies in the service of learning.
- You could take a radical view of new missions, markets and technologies "just over the horizon" …and take the world by storm.
References: based on the 4 quadrants of learning innovation, and resource-based strategies. https://www.gillysalmon.com/uploads/5/0/1/3/50133443/realmoflearninginn…
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Gilly Salmon
Professor & Principal consultant, Education Alchemists Ltd, United Kingdom
Professor Salmon is the founder and CEO of Education Alchemists Ltd - formed around her life's work including Carpe Diem learning design, pedagogical transformation, online education, technology-enhanced teaching, the 5 stage model, e-tivities, and Education 4.0. Until recently Professor of Learning Transformation and pro-vice-chancellor at universities in the UK and Australia, she is now based in London with all workshops offered fully digitally and worldwide. She is a well-known keynote speaker and workshop leader. Her books E-moderating and E-tivities are considered seminal texts
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Andreas Zehetner
Vice President International Relations, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria
Andreas Zehetner is Vice President International Relations and professor of marketing at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. As VP International he is responsible for global student recruiting and university partnerships.
He teaches cross-cultural marketing and global business at the School of Business&Management of his institution as well as at other universities, among them the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, the Concordia University Wisconsin in the US, or the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University in Russia.
In his research, he is involved in international higher education research with respect to HE Internationalization and University-Industry relationships.
Alessia Messuti
Learning Innovation Programme Officer, International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO)
Alessia Messuti, is Learning Innovation Programme Officer at ITCILO where she is responsible of the thematic cluster on Learning Technologies by ensuring the Centre’s in-house capacity to use and mainstream learning technologies in capacity development projects. She is graduated in Foreign Languages for International Communication, with a special focus on the use of new media and webradio for social inclusion and local development. Before joining the International Training Centre of the ILO in 2016, she worked as training specialist in both private and development sector in Italy, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands where she gained experience in instructional design and quality assurance for e-Learning, facilitation of online and face-to-face trainings, applied research methods, mobile learning, MOOCs and gamification. As a certified international facilitator (IAF) she is actively involved in training facilitation with a focus on participatory learning approaches.
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Luis Cadenas
CEO, RedCLARA, Peru
LUIS ELIECER CADENAS is a Computer Engineer with postgraduate studies in economics, telematics, networks and computer science, with almost 30 years of experience in the sector of information technology and telecommunications in the private and public sphere.
He has been co-founder, President and member of the Board of Directors of the national academic network of Venezuela, REACCIUN.
He was President of the Latin American Research Network Association (Enredo 1998-1999), member of the board of the National Center of Supercomputing of Venezuela (Cecalcula, 1997-1999), and the directory of the Park Technological of Sartenejas (1997-1999). He worked seventeen years in Cisco Systems Inc.
He is Executive Director of RedCLARA since August 1, 2017 (Orcid at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9762-1986).
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Mariana Mocanu
Professor, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Mariana Mocanu, full professor, with habilitation, was head of the Computer Science Department between 2016 – 2020. Currently she is the president of the QA Commission of the University Senate, member of the Faculty Council. She is in charge with the"e-Governance" master study programm and participates in the development of the ERASMUS Knowledge Alliance project - IT in Aviation. She was member of the national team that developed, implemented and self-assessed the National Qalification Framework and coordinated the team that developed the National Register for Qualifications in Higher Education. She participated in several national and european projects related to quality assurance in HE. She participated in several activities concerning the development of digital society, like: coordinator of the team that published the report “Industrie 4.0 in Rumänien. Einblicke und Ausblicke”, published in “Abhandlungen der Leibnitz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, Band 54 – Industrie 4.0 zwischen Idee und Realität; participation at the Annual conference of the International Network on Cultural Diversity and New Media at the University of Potsdam, 2019. She also coordinates World University Service – Romanian Committe, an NGO that promotes the human right to education.
Make the Right Choice! Deciding Between Asynchronous Online Learning, Synchronous Online Learning and Face-to-Face Learning
Make the Right Choice! Deciding Between Asynchronous Online Learning, Synchronous Online Learning and Face-to-Face Learning
In this session we will explore possibilities and limitations of asynchronous online learning, synchronous online learning and face-to-face learning from a teacher’s perspective. Taking a pedagogical-didactical perspective, we will look at key issues and questions that you will need to consider whether you face making a choice - or a blend.
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Wilfred Rubens
Consultant, Edublogger and Editor at e-learning.nl, Open University in the Netherlands/WilfredRubens.com, Netherlands
Wilfred Rubens (1964) currently works as an independent consultant on technology enhanced learning. Furthermore he works for the Open University in the Netherlands. Wilfred works as a project leader, business developer and teacher. Wilfred provides advice about curriculum development, pedagogy and the use of technology for learning. Wilfred delivers keynotes and presentations, and he facilitates workshops and classes about technology enhanced learning. Wilfred has been professionally involved in e-learning for almost 30 years. For more than 18 years he blogs about ICT and learning. He published a book about elearning trends and developments (in Dutch), and he is co-author of a book about social learning. Wilfred is also one of the editors of the Dutch portal e-learning.nl, member of the advisory board of the anual Dutch Next Learning conference and member of the advisory board of OEB Global.
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Online Proctoring in Reality – Bridging the Gap between Data Security and Academic Integrity
Online Proctoring in Reality – Bridging the Gap between Data Security and Academic Integrity
The ongoing pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in the education system and introduced innovative solutions that will have a lasting impact on the sector. These digital alternatives can supplement and support more traditional teaching and testing practices, ultimately increasing opportunities for students.
With online proctoring, for example, educational institutions can provide a reliable alternative to on-site exams, maintaining academic integrity of assessments while giving students the flexibility to take tests when and where it is most convenient for them to do so.
In 2020, Proctorio supported around one thousand international Higher Education institutions in proctoring approximately 20 million online exams.
This session invites you to an in-depth exploration and conversation on proctoring, academic integrity, and data security. Proctorio and The Technical University of Munich, which ranks among Europe’s most outstanding universities in research and innovation, will share plenty of practical tips based on experiences and best practices from real proctoring projects and answer any questions you may have.
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Expert from The Technical University of Munich
Thomas Fetsch
Managing Director , Proctorio, Germany
Thomas Fetsch is the Managing Director of Proctorio GmbH, the German subsidiary of Proctorio, a comprehensive learning integrity platform with automated solutions for remote online exam invigilation.
With years of experience in the IT industry as a business development manager, Thomas is adept at supporting interdisciplinary teams in realizing their digital transformation goals. At Proctorio, Thomas is responsible for strategic and operative business development and represents Proctorio GmbH at lectures, seminars, and events.
Teachable and Learnable Resilience Skills
Teachable and Learnable Resilience Skills
For years we have talked about change in L&D and in Higher Education institutions, but last year the talking stopped. It was time for action. The shift to online teaching and training has not been easy for everyone. At the same time, there is more opportunity than ever before for digital learning to have a positive impact on all organisations.
In this session you’ll have a chance to meet and engage with others who are making sure that learning can have a bigger impact by investigating “resilience” in a pragmatic way. If we view resilience as having the capacity to re-shape, to develop the adaptive capacity to change, then we allows ourselves to approach the concept as a method, with a set of skills that are learnable and teachable. This approach can be applied to individuals, teams and organisations in their drive for resilience. How can these skills be acquired? How will you adapt to support resilience? What are your team’s needs to keep the pace and stay afloat? Make sure to join this conversation.
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Irina Matthews
GÉANT Vereniging (Association), UK
Last 14 years have been one continuous journey in the world of education, training, teachers’ professional development, technology enhanced learning and corporate learning. The professional environments of private, government-funded, work-based, community learning and lately multicultural technology driven EU project have provided the backdrop to the most exciting professional and personal journey.
Passion for the teaching, interest in the transformational impact of technology on pedagogy and life overall have remained the constant focus of professional interests. Perceptions of the role of technology, models and paradigms of learning and development have been evolving variables. The opportunity to share lessons learnt is the way to connect with the rich and diverse world of learning professionals, to get new experiences to enable further quest for innovation and creativity in supporting learning and professional growth in the landscape that is defined by the fast-paced technological change.
Moving to a Flipped Classroom: Preparing Students for Digital Learning Opportunities to Improve Learning Performance
Moving to a Flipped Classroom: Preparing Students for Digital Learning Opportunities to Improve Learning Performance
The aim of this session is to achieve a deep understanding of the change process which is necessary for successful implementation of technologies in a learning environment.
An overview presentation will help both identify the key issues and parameters that need to be taken into account when designing EdTech-supported courses.
The solution space is formed by considering, beside of course the students: the ability & motivation of lecturers and; the technological possibilities & limitations given by curriculum design.
Taking a Design Thinking approach, we will together analyse the problem space and the solution space, as well as draft solution prototypes.
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Bernd Schenk
Senior Lecturer, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Bernd Schenk is a senior lecturer for Business Administration and Information Systems at University of Liechtenstein. He is Academic Director of the BSc programme in Business Administration and Deputy Head of the Institute of Information Systems.
Bernd has worked as a consultant with different companies in the field of ERP systems and E-commerce and served as a trainer for SAP SE in the ASG region. He was a guest lecturer at different universities, including the University of Barcelona, Tongji University, Shanghai, and University Nettuno, Rome. Furthermore, he is a certified facilitator for Design Thinking and a TLS alumni of D.School at Stanford University
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Asha Alexander
Principal of GEMS Legacy School and Executive Leader - Climate Change, GEMS EDUCATION, United Arab Emirates
Asha Alexander is the Principal at GEMS Legacy School, Dubai and the Executive Leader of Climate Change at GEMS Education. She received her Master of Science in Educational Leadership from The Walden University, Minnesota in 2011. She holds Masters’ degrees in Education as well as English from Bangalore University, India. With 33 years of experience in the provision of education to K-12 students, she has overseen the school’s transition to an exclusively digital curriculum.
Passionate, driven to achieve aspirational goals and ready to take on any challenge, she believes in nurturing students’ hearts and minds and is particular about a value-based education. Forward-thinking, she is a believer in all things digital. She is excited by the prospect of watching every child achieve his or her potential.
Ms. Alexander is a UN certified Climate Change Leader and has made presentations at COP 25 and numerous other international webinars and conferences and has conducted workshops on leadership, and change management for several schools in India and the UAE. She has led the school’s Twinning Program with more than 20 schools that enable teachers, students and schools to develop partnerships with schools around the world to embed the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Annette Peet
Project Manager, SURF, The Netherlands
Annette Peet (1964) is an experienced project and program manager at SURF. SURF is the collaborative ICT organization for Dutch higher education and research. It offers students, lecturers and scientists in the Netherlands access to the best possible internet and ICT facilities. The last 20 years she has been working in the field of higher education. She has expertise on online & blended learning and digital assessment.
Annette graduated as Master of Science at Utrecht University. Since then she has worked as senior consultant and project manager for several consultancy agencies, the Ministry of Transport, Utrecht University and SURF. Her focus has always been on accelerating adoption of (IT) innovation within institutions and facilitating collaboration between parties involved; she's an experienced community builder and knowledge exchange manager.
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Anja Schmitz
Professorin für Personalmanagement/HRM, Pforzheim University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Anja Schmitz ist Professorin für Human Resource Management an der Hochschule Pforzheim und Studiendekanin des Masterstudiengangs Human Resources Management, wo sie zu Themen der Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung lehrt. Im Institut für Personalforschung forscht und veröffentlicht sie zu aktuellen Fragestellungen des Human Resource Managements (New Work - New Learning, Zukunftsfähigkeit der Personalentwicklung, Employee Experience, Auswirkungen der digitalen Transformation …) und begleitet Organisationen als Expertin für New Learning.
