Conference Highlights
Experts from around the globe are set to discuss an impressive variety of crucial, leading-edge issues facing learning and training.
Andreas Schleicher
Director for Education and Skills at the OECD,
Andreas Schleicher is Director for Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
He initiated and oversees the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international instruments, like the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), which create a global platform for policy-makers, researchers and educators to innovate and transform educational policies and practices.
He has worked for over 20 years with Ministers and educational leaders around the world to improve quality and equity in education. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said about Andreas in The Atlantic (7/2011) that “He understands the global issues and challenges as well as or better than anyone I’ve met, and he tells me the truth”. Secretary of State Michael Gove in the United Kingdom called Andreas “the most important man in English education”, never mind that he is German and lives in France.
Andreas is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the “Theodor Heuss” prize, awarded for “exemplary democratic engagement” in the name of the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany. He holds an honorary professorship at the University of Heidelberg.
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http://www.oecd.org/edu/andreas-schleic…
Iffat Gill
The Code To Change, The Netherlands
Social Innovation – Gender Equality – Digital Inclusion
Iffat Gill is an experienced international NGO leader-activist, digital strategist, and social entrepreneur working on gender equality and economic empowerment of women through digital inclusion. With more than 14 years of experience in the non-profit sector, Iffat founded ChunriChoupaal as a training and capacity building initiative for the social and economic empowerment of women in remote areas of the world. Iffat launched ‘The Code To Change’ to bridge the gender and e-skills gap in the technology industry.
Ms. Gill has a strong focus on up-skilling and re-skilling the current talent pool to meet the ever growing and evolving needs of the digital economy.
Her recent success, The Code To Change Pakistan, has trained 80 women in digital skills and the project is now gearing up to launch an extensive program for female entrepreneurs in Southern Punjab, in partnership with Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Techstars US. The venture is also supporting 200 teachers to build their digital skills in disadvantaged communities of Punjab, Pakistan to enable continued education of children from slum areas.
Iffat has been at the forefront of shaping the policy debate of women’s digital inclusion for close to a decade at grassroots and international level. She has advocated for gender equality through economic empowerment and digital empowerment at the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society-WSIS Forum, the UN’s Internet Governance Forum and the European Parliament.
Iffat's project 'Community Technology Center for Women' in rural Pakistan won the Syster's Award from the Anita Borg Institute and led her to start ChunriChoupaal and The Code To Change.
Iffat’s work has been featured in more than three publications by German government.[1]
Her latest venture is a social enterprise; an Artificial Intelligence enabled EdTech & online Marketplace that aims to train women from global south and connect them to employment opportunities globally. She aims to build a platform that will utilize AI to match the skills of the trainees and connect them to entrepreneurs looking for those skills. The AI will also analyze how the growth trajectory of a trainee will look like if they want to keep growing.
See Iffat’s LinkedIn for more information
[1] Women’s Pathway to the Digital Sector: Stories of Opportunities and Challenges by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (2017)
Women in Tech: Inspiration, No Fairy Tales by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (2018)
#eSkills4Girls – An initiative to promote digital skills for women and girls by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (2020)
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Richard Cannane-Zemp
Trafigura PTE LTD, Switzerland
Born in Australia, and holding conjoint Swiss and Australian citizenship, Richard Cannane is Trafigura's Global Learning and Development Manager since October 2015. He started with the company in 1999 and has held various positions including Global Operations Manager while managing global teams and logistics strategies across more than 30 countries. Richard is a certified executive coach and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of NSW as well as an MBA from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He speaks competent Mandarin Chinese, French and German.
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Luis Eliécer Cadenas
Cooperación Latinoamericana de Redes Avanzadas (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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HIG169
Learning Knowledge Isn't Enough! The Essential Behaviours of the New L&D Team
HIG169
Learning Knowledge Isn't Enough! The Essential Behaviours of the New L&D Team
If Learning and Development teams are to thrive or even survive in the new world of L&D, they must drive organisational performance. However, impact is often limited. Whilst knowledge of learning principles is important, what sets outstanding, impactful professionals and teams apart are broader underpinning professional behaviours.
Evidence-based research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development creates the foundation for this interactive Learning Café, in which we'll explore the keys to embedding eight core behaviours which empower learning professionals to create impact.
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Andy Lancaster
CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), UK
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.
Andy leads the direction and delivery of CIPD’s new vision for learning and development. He was part of the team that developed CIPD’s new global L&D qualifications and is pioneering digital learning at the Institute. He also supports CIPD’s business consultancy services.
Andy has a Master’s Degree in Instructional Design and regularly speaks at conferences, writes and contributes to research. His latest book “Driving Performance Through Learning” won an award and was highly commended at the “2020 Business Book Awards” and is available through Kogan Page publishing.
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HIG160
University Should Be Just for the Elite!
HIG160
University Should Be Just for the Elite!
Could it be argued that by far the majority of people who go to university do so for these three reasons; for status, to get a job, and to have some fun. While it could also be argued that it is not the responsibility of the state to subsidise those who wish to improve their status and have fun, perhaps it is their responsibility to help its citizens become productive and self-sufficient. But do we really need universities to do that?
We, in online learning, know that it can be done in other more cost effective ways. It could be argued that people learn more efficiently at work. Combining work with study and training both online and on the job may well be a better way to make them productive and self-sufficient. So why do we need higher education?
This Panel will provide those responsible for the provision of education and training at all levels, from national policy development to teaching professionals, with ideas on how higher and further education might be better structured in the future.
Perhaps we should return to a better version of the older model, where universities were for the elite, except now for the brilliant rather than the rich. The rest of us may need to accept that we are better suited to the needs of the everyday workplace and appreciate the wondrous and useful things and ideas that the “eggheads” produce for us.
Five highly experienced learning professionals will discuss the above proposition. The speakers supporting the motion will describe how learning technologies can provide cheaper and more effective training and education services outside the higher education system. The speakers supporting the motion will argue that learning technologies can be used to address the deficiencies within the current system.
Speakers
Brian Mulligan
Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland
Brian Mulligan is a Civil Engineer who originally worked in mathematical modelling and simulation and the application of information technology in engineering. He is currently Manager of Online Learning Innovation in the Centre for Online Learning at the Institute of Technology Sligo where he has lectured since 1984. He has been the key driver in the rapid growth in online distance learning in IT Sligo since 2002 and significantly involved in the growth of e-learning in Ireland since 1999, organising the EdTech series of conferences since 2000 and as a founding member of the Irish Learning Technology Association in 2002. His main areas of expertise and interest are now in web-casting, webinar management, synchronous online training, instructor-led online training, lecture capture, open education (MOOCs and OER) and the rapid development of online content. He led the Erasmus+ funded LoCoMoTion project on low-cost MOOC development (moocs4all.eu).
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http://www.itsligo.iehttp://brian.mulligan.googlepages.com
Donald Clark
Plan B Learning, UK
Donald is an entrepreneur, CEO, Professor, speaker and blogger. He was CEO and one of the original founders of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market, floated on the Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005. Describing himself as ‘free from the tyranny of employment’, he now the CEO of an AI learning company WildFire, investor and Board member of PlanB learning, LearningPool and Cogbooks. He has been involved in consulting and implementing online learning in schools, FE, HE, corporate and government.
Donald has been involved in film, games, web, mobile, MOOCs, Oculus Rift and won many awards for the design and implementation of online learning. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, having delivered talks in the US, Europe, Far East, Middle East and Africa, and won several ‘Best speaker’ awards … also a regular (and controversial) blogger on online learning!
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http://www.planblearning.com/Bio/
Jane Bozarth
The eLearning Guild, USA
Jane Bozarth is a veteran classroom trainer who transitioned to eLearning in the late 1990s and never looked back. As leader of the State of North Carolina USA's award-winning eLearning program, Dr. Bozarth specializes in finding low-cost ways of providing online training solutions. Her abiding interest in social learning and communities of practice framed her graduate work and dissertation and led to the publication of her bestselling book Social Media for Trainers and the new Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-Tos of Working Out Loud. She is the author of several other books, including eLearning Solutions on a Shoestring, Better than Bullet Points, and From Analysis to Evaluation. She frequently contributes material to trade publications and writes the monthly "Nuts & Bolts" column for Learning Solutions Magazine. A popular conference speaker, Dr. Bozarth has keynoted events in the US, Canada, Australia, Turkey, and Scotland. She and her husband live with Thomas the Corgi in Durham, North Carolina, USA
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http://bozarthzone.blogspot.de/
Paul Bacsich
Matic Media Ltd, UK
Paul Bacsich is the Founder and Managing Director of Matic Media Ltd, a consultancy in the UK active in online learning since 1996. He is also Professor of Practice for the University of West Indies Open Campus, which is headquartered in Barbados.
In addition he consults for the SeroHE division of Sero Consulting Ltd as a Senior Associate: he was a member of the Sero team who recently reviewed Learning Technology Support at the University of Oxford, and currently he is leading a 12-month project at Sero to develop an accredited vocational short online course to teach teachers to teach online for Wey Education (who run Interhigh Virtual School and other similar entities).
He is also Visiting Professor for University of Derby Online Learning (UDOL) in the UK.
He has a long-standing interest in Open Education via a large EU project (POERUP) and several EU/European Parliament studies: in particular he is Co-Coordinator of the Open Education Working Group and an Ambassador for the global advocacy of OER and a member of the OER Advocacy Committee of ICDE. He was a co-author for the JRC 2017 report “Policy Approaches to Open Education in 28 Member States”.
His interests in leadership in e-learning were developed during the Erasmus+ D-TRANSFORM project 2014-17, which drew on and continued his work over 20 years on management of open and distance learning.
In addition to his public work he consults for a number of international, government, commercial, venture fund and university clients on market/competitor/pricing research, policy, education funding models and retention strategies. He has recently finalised a report on credit recognition and transfer for online masters' programmes, for a university client in Canada.
In 2015-16 Paul chaired the review panel for the Vision and Strategy Appraisal of the UK Open University Library, where he interviewed over 70 staff and students and carried out substantial comparative and policy research. He also chaired the E-learning review panel for Uppsala University, with three days of intensive meetings and presentations, and spent four months chairing a task force for the National Forum for Learning and Teaching in Ireland to prepare a scoping document on infrastructure issues related to online learning.
Some of his recent thinking can be found in his UNESCO policy brief on "Alternative Models of Education Delivery" and in a paper for the "Open Education 2030" higher education workshop run by the EU. He remains very interested in "Multiversity" models and competence-based provision, based on his earlier studies on "Time and e-learning", developed from a speech given in Austria, a country with which he has increasing links.
He is a co-founder of MultEversity, a start-up in online/blended post-secondary education which aims in due course to be an accredited university and higher vocational provider. He also has had involvement in other early-stage online providers over the last six years and has done several studies of them.
In the university phase of his career he was a researcher at Oxford University, had many roles over 25 years at the UK Open University, and was for seven years Professor of Telematics at Sheffield Hallam University and then a Director at the UK e-University. He was also Visiting Professor at Middlesex University and Advisor to the Rector of the Arab Open University.
He has knowledge of and/or experience in higher education in many developed countries.
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http://www.serohe.co.uk/team/professor-paul-bacsich/
https://www.derby.ac.uk/online/academics/professor-paul-bacsich
https://independent.academia.edu/PaulBacsich
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bacsich/
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http://www.sero.co.uk/people/paul/http://www.matic-media.co.ukhttp://bacsich.typepad.com/elearning/
HIG163
Creating Post-Covid Education Futures
HIG163
Creating Post-Covid Education Futures
This Learning Café led by two "practical futurists" will help you see post-Covid Education 4.0 and the transformation of Higher Education in a systemic way.
We need to ensure that the reconstruction of the Higher Education sector brings absolute benefits across the whole system and we will work together to understand ways of applying and achieving this in your own context.
Our interactive session offers you a rare opportunity to: acquire knowledge of research into skills of the future and the transformation of higher education; access well-researched tools and techniques; discuss and share with colleagues from around the world.
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Gilly Salmon
Education Alchemists Ltd, UK
Professor Gilly Salmon, PhD, PFHEA, NTF. is CEO & Principal Consultant. She has 30 years’ experience at senior levels, in universities in the UK and Australia. She has initiated, strategized, implemented & completed significant institutional change. Her experience & background includes the UK Open University as well as Associate Dean (Online) & Pro Vice-Chancellor roles in research-intensive and in vocational institutions.
She recently spent two years as academic director at an Online Programme Management company. Gilly Salmon is now an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, & Visiting Professor at Edge Hill University, close to Liverpool, UK.
See her web site www.gillysalmon.com
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Ulf-Daniel Ehlers
Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany
Ulf is a learning innovation expert, founder of mindful-leaders.net, serial entrepreneur, and Professor for Educational Management and Lifelong Learning at the Baden-Wurttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe in 2011.
From 2011-2017 he held the position of Vicepresident at the same university and has been responsible for Quality and Academic Affairs. He held positions as Associate Professor of University Duisburg-Essen (Germany), Professor for Technology Enhanced Learning of University Augsburg (Germany) and Associate Professor of the Graduate School for Management and Technology of the University of Maryland University College (USA).
Ulf has delivered keynotes and been speaking to audiences in more than 45 countries. He is author of more than 10 books and 150 scholarly articles with over 3000 academic citations. Ulf is a trained coach, facilitator and expert for mindful communication, and holds degrees in English Language, Social Sciences and Education Sciences from the University of Bielefeld, where he finished his Ph.D. with honors in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning in 2003. He was awarded his habilitation in 2008 from the University of Duisburg-Essen. His writings on Quality in education are internationally awarded.
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HIG161
Using AI to Connect OER
HIG161
Using AI to Connect OER
X5GON is a European project in its final stages. The project has resulted in a free, open source solution that focuses on improving access to Open Education and Open Educational Resources using AI for all around the globe.
Join and hear all about its (technical) development and various uses; learn how to use artificial intelligence tools while searching for OER yourself; see OER in a Cross Modal, Cross Cultural, Cross Lingual, Cross Domain, and Cross Site approach; discover how AI tools can answer the question of access for all and; know how AI can contribute to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
Anne-Marie Chase
Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia
Dr Anne-Marie Chase is the Course Coordinator for Postgraduate Courses and Online Learning. In this role she is responsible for the effective management of postgraduate courses at ACER, including curriculum that aligns teaching, learning and assessment approaches in a strong pedagogical framework. Anne-Marie coordinates a team of online facilitators, student administration and technical support staff to provide a high quality student experience in line with ACER policies. She also coordinates the input of subject matter experts who have academic oversight of the courses. Dr Chase has worked in initial teacher education with a focus on development for online delivery and managing the professional experience component. Dr Chase has experience as a researcher and lecturer in teacher education and online learning in Australia and the UK. Her research has focused on information technology in learning and more recently on teaching and learning online. Dr Chase has a background teaching in secondary education in both the government and non-government sector in the UK and Australia. Dr Chase has managed school-based projects with a focus on digital technology in education for the Department of Education and Multimedia Victoria, developing professional learning for teachers and encouraging the growth of online learning communities.
Ryan Craig
University Ventures, USA
Ryan is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of UV.
Ryan’s commentary on where the puck is going in higher education regularly appears in the Gap Letter, Forbes, TechCrunch, Inside Higher Education, Fortune, HR Dive, and VentureBeat, among others.
He is the author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College (Ben Bella, 2018), which describes the critical importance of last-mile training and the emergence of bootcamps, income share programs, staffing and apprenticeship models as preferred pathways to good first digital jobs, and was named in the Wall Street Journal as one the Books of the Year for 2018.
He is also the author of College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), which profiles the coming shift toward competency-based education and hiring.Prior to UV, Ryan led the Education & Training sector at Warburg Pincus where he was the founding Director of Bridgepoint Education (NYSE: BPI), one of the largest online universities in the United States. His prior experience in online education was at Columbia University. From 2004 to 2010, Ryan founded and built Wellspring, a national network of boarding schools and summer camps for overweight and obese children, adolescents, and young adults. He began his career at McKinsey & Co.
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http://www.universityventures.comhttp://www.gapletter.com
Andy Lancaster
CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), UK
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.
Andy leads the direction and delivery of CIPD’s new vision for learning and development. He was part of the team that developed CIPD’s new global L&D qualifications and is pioneering digital learning at the Institute. He also supports CIPD’s business consultancy services.
Andy has a Master’s Degree in Instructional Design and regularly speaks at conferences, writes and contributes to research. His latest book “Driving Performance Through Learning” won an award and was highly commended at the “2020 Business Book Awards” and is available through Kogan Page publishing.
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Joseph King'ori Githaiga
DanChurchAid, Kenya
Joseph is a learning and development specialist with experience in designing and developing in-person and virtual classroom learning solutions for a wide range of organizations. He has led the development of over one-hundred courses, aimed at creating engaging and lasting eLearning experiences.
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HIG165
Digitalising Business Training of Refugee Youth
HIG165
Digitalising Business Training of Refugee Youth
What could be a better example of "making learning meaning" than using education and technology to connect vulnerable youth to the skills they need to pursue their dreams and foster their deep potential?
This is a great case with transferable lessons on how mobile and blended learning can be used to meet learners where they are and develop real skills appropriate to their context. The project taking place in the Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Settlement offers an example of cooperative design as well, with learners taking ownership of the learning process and in turn training others.
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Joseph King'ori Githaiga
DanChurchAid, Kenya
Joseph is a learning and development specialist with experience in designing and developing in-person and virtual classroom learning solutions for a wide range of organizations. He has led the development of over one-hundred courses, aimed at creating engaging and lasting eLearning experiences.
HIG166
Lessons from Lockdown - Making Adult Vocational Provision Better for the Future
HIG166
Lessons from Lockdown - Making Adult Vocational Provision Better for the Future
How can we lay the foundations for stronger and digitally enabled vocational systems? This presentation offers unique insights into challenges faced by the adult vocational sector and the current state of provision. Based on the innovations her organisation is seeing and funding, this speaker will discuss; tangible and practical examples of tools that have transformed learning provision; the ways in which organisations have successfully adapted to provision of high quality digital learning and; approaches and policies that increase opportunity and access from those furthest away from the mainstream.
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Rebecca Garrod-Waters
Ufi, The VocTech Trust, UK
I am passionate about the potential for digital technology to positively transform the way vocational learning is delivered, and the power this will have to positively impact people’s lives and opportunities. At Ufi we have been growing our activity across a wide portfolio of projects designed to impact across the UK, delivering better, faster and more effective vocational training. Ufi has a mission to enable more vocational skills for more people, more of the time, with a focus on increasing learning and skills opportunities for communities, sectors, industries and places that are traditionally ‘unloved’.
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HIG162
The Additive Manufacturing Teaching Factory: Hands-on Learning Nuggets for Educating 3D Printing Specialists
HIG162
The Additive Manufacturing Teaching Factory: Hands-on Learning Nuggets for Educating 3D Printing Specialists
The digitalisation of industry depends heavily on the skills of the involved workforce. An estimated 60% of jobs are able to automatise 30% of activities, based on currently demonstrated technologies. This implies a dramatic change in the employment landscape which highly skilled workers will benefit from.
Developments in 3D printing or additive manufacturing (AM) exemplify this change and the possibilities it offers. Join this talk to learn more about the European needs based curriculum offered by the EIT-AddManu project, which provides hands-on learning nuggets for teaching Additive Manufacturing (AM) in higher academic and industrial education on a guided learning platform.
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Julia Anna Schönherr
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Born in Kassel, Germany, Dr. Julia Anna Schönherr started her mechanical engineering studies at the University of Kassel in 2008 and continued 2 years later at Leibniz University, Hanover specializing in biomedical engineering and mechanics, graduating with her masters in 2014.
During her Master thesis, she joined the company Otto Bock in Vienna for half a year and stayed in the beautiful capital of Austria before starting her PhD at the Institute of Materials Science and Technology at TU Wien, in March 2014.
In TU Wien’s AM group, led by Prof. Stampfl, she worked on additive manufacturing for biomedical application, with a focus on 3D-printed dental restoration made of ceramics.
Since graduating in 2018 she continues to work as a post-doctoral researcher focussing on developing an international curriculum for educating technologies using digital methods such as additive manufacturing within the EIT-Manufacturing activity EIT-AddManu.
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HIG168
How to Construct and Use Data Cases
HIG168
How to Construct and Use Data Cases
If you are looking to build a comprehensive data case for your professional context then this interactive Learning Café is not to be missed: you will gain a better understanding of the benefits of data cases; of (free) tools available to develop them and; will be supported with the creation of a roadmap of a data case that will optimise and add value to your work.
The use of data and data science tools have a significant impact on the work of learning professionals and educators: from improving student experiences to optimising and showing learning value of courses and business value of L&D teams. Our session will start with an example of a data case from the highly dynamic renewable energy market to provide a brief introduction into how they inform more efficient decision-making in this specific sector.
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Hussain Kazmi
KU Leuven, EIT InnoEnergy, i.LECO, Belgium
Cristine Gusmão
The Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
Cristine Gusmão is an associate professor at Federal University of Pernambuco.
She is a permanent member of the Postgraduate Program in Biomedical Engineering – UFPE. She coordinates the Research Group – SABER – Educational and Social Technologies and UNA-SUS (Open University of Unique System of Health) at UFPE. She has a Scholarship for Productivity and Technological Development and Innovative Extension - Level 2 (CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).
She has obtained her PhD in Project Management in Computer Sciences at the Federal University of Pernambuco, in 2007. Her research interests are concentrated in the areas of Learning Analytics and Knowledge Intensive Processes; Educational and Social Technologies in Higher Education; OER and digital curation; Mobile Health and Health Information Systems; Health Educational and Software Engineering.
Guy Wilmshurst-Smith
Head of Network Rail Training,
Guy Wilmshurst-Smith is Head of Network Rail Training, leading a 500 strong team that delivers learning services to Network Rail and the wider industry. Recent years have seen a drive to utilise technology to create a system of more immersive training shaped by data to enable better train performance and safety in the service of passengers. He has served in Network Rail for 8 years following 30 years in various roles within the Royal Engineers seeing tours across the world including the Arctic, Falkland Islands, Balkans, Belize, Kenya, Hong Kong, Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan.
Alvaro Caballero
ING, The Netherlands
Alvaro is part of the ING Global Tech Academy, a squad of employee journey experts, event managers, and data analysts trusted with the mission of enabling and supporting an engineering culture within the IT community.
His current focus and ambition are to adapt and embed ING’s tailor-made PACE methodology, an iterative process bringing concepts from Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile Scrum, and User Experience, within his L&D squad.
Alvaro brings more than 10 years of experience in the fields of consulting, collaborative platforms adoption programs, and community and change management.
Curious about learning, networks, and innovation, he likes to experiment with the opportunities of new technologies, while trying to make sense of their implications and impact on community dynamics.
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Neelam Parmar
Ashford School, UK
Dr. Neelam Parmar currently works as Director of Educational Technology, Digital Learning and Innovation at Ashford School. Neelam draws on her research and practical experiences of working with technology and regularly presents around the UK and internationally on the role of EdTech in education, providing strategy, roadmaps and CPD programmes for blended and online learning approaches. Neelam offers advice and consultancy to schools in preparing schools for the future and is the author of the ‘Digital Literacy in the Primary’ series and ‘Digital Parenting’ book. Neelam is an award-winning professional, international researcher, author, thought leader and speaker on effective technology, pedagogy and curriculum integration within education and is currently engaged with the DfE EdTech Leadership Group, #EdTechImpact workshops and @WomenEdTech movement.
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Friedrich Hesse
Global Learning Council, Germany
Friedrich W. Hesse studied psychology at the Universities of Marburg and Düsseldorf, received his doctorate at the RWTH Aachen and qualified as Professor of Psychology at the University of Goettingen.
His research focuses on learning with digital media, especially on net-based knowledge communication and computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL).
Since 2013 he is the Scientific Co-Chair of the Global Learning Council. He is also Founding Director of the Research Cluster „Digitalization, Diversity and Lifelong Learning – Consequences for Higher Education“ (D²L²) at FernUniversität Hagen.
Formerly he served as Director of the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (2001-2016), Scientific vice-president of the German Leibniz Association (2010-2018), and Head of the Department for Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology at the University of Tuebingen (1999-2019).
Benjamin Hertz
European Schoolnet, Belgium
Benjamin Hertz is Senior Pedagogical Manager of the European Schoolnet Academy, the first European MOOC platform dedicated to school education professionals. He is also responsible for the Teacher Academy on the School Education Gateway, the European Commission’s website for the school education community. Benjamin has a background in educational technology with a particular focus on e-learning strategies for teacher professional development. He holds an MPhil degree in European Politics as well as a teacher qualification from the University of Oxford.
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Stine Brynildsen
Østfold University College, Norway
Assistant Professor at ØUC since 2018. My work and research revolves around teaching and learning in digital environments, both in classrooms and online. I am particularily interested in teachers' professional digital competence (PDC), digital agency and what being a 21st century teacher entails.
Prior to this I have worked as an Upper Secondary School teacher for 11 years, and I have been a pedagogic project leader in a Norwegian company offering training for schools/ teachers to increase their PDC.
My current and prior positions all focus on training, teaching and organizing learning for students and teachers, which also includes speaking to and lecturing for various audiences. I have attended several edtech conferences the past five years as a speaker, presenting pedagogical ideas and theoretical perspectives on teachers' PDC.
Being a teacher in this digital age is a hugely important, complex and rewarding task - and I love it!
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Marjut Anderson
CSC - Finnish IT Center for Science, Finland
Marjut Anderson (MSc., Eng) works at CSC - Finnish IT Center for Science where she works as a service manager supporting national and local solutions for organising educational and teaching cooperation across organisation boundaries.
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https://csc.fi/en/web/guest/home
Edephonce Nfuka
The Open University of Tanzania (OUT), Tanzania
Dr. Edephonce N. Nfuka is an ICT expert mainly in the areas of Systems Analysis/design, ICT management/governance and e-learning. He has more than twelve years of industrial and academic experience in these areas. Before joining OUT August 2012 as a lecturer in Information Technology/Systems for undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, he has worked with University of Dar es Salaam Computing Centre (UCC) in various technical, teaching and managerial duties including deputy managing director and department head of service control, software development and training services.
Academically Dr. Nfuka has a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Computer and systems science with specialization in IT governance from Stockholm University in Stockholm. Also he has a Masters Degree in Software Engineering (MSc) from Universitat Polytecnic de Catalunya in Barcelona and a Bachelor degree in Automatic Control and Computer Engineering (BSc) from CUJAE in Havana. Additionally he has a Diploma in management and Leadership from Damelin School of management in Cape Town and several e-learning related training in USA. Currently Dr Nfuka is serving as Director, Institute of educational and management Technologies at the Open University of Tanzania. As CIO of the University, among others, he has the responsibility to manage educational technologies including e-learning platform and other e-resources accessible to more than 40,000 University students.
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http://www.out.ac.tz/staff_detail.php?s…
Barbara Wasson
Professor and Director at the Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology at the University of Bergen,
Barbara Wasson is the Director of the Centre for The Science of Learning and Technology (SLATE) at the University of Bergen, where she is a full Professor in the Department of Information Science & Media Studies.
She has been involved in research on Technology Enhanced Learning since 1983 and has over 150 publications in the field. At SLATE she currenly is involved in several projects using machine learning and learning analytics and other modelling aspects of AI.
Wasson was one of the founders of Kaleidoscope, a European Network of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning, a European Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning and she is often used as an expert evaluator by the European Commission.
Her current research interests include collaborative learning in distributed settings, mobile learning, interaction design, computer support for collaborative learning (CSCL), mobile learning, learning games, intelligent tutoring systems, e-assessment, teacher inquiry, learning analytics, and pedagogical agents.
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Berin McKenzie
United Nations System Staff College, Italy
Berin McKenzie is the Learning Portfolio Manager for the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) designed United Nations Secretariat Executive Management Programme, which delivers blended content, linked to 360-degree assessments and coaching, to up to 400 UN Managers annually. He acted also as Project Manager for the UNSSC Helping Teams Navigate Uncertainty programme, which delivered management training to over 800 UN staff as they transitioned to lockdown and often newly remote teams during the inital phases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before joining the UNSSC, Berin acted as Senior Specialist at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Hiroshima Office, where he undertook full instructional design, monitoring, evaluation, and quality assurance responsibilities for all face-to-face, e-learning, and blended training, including programmes in Afghanistan, Iraq, and South Sudan.
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Sean Michael Morris
Universiy of Colorado Denver, USA
I am a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience especially in instructional design, networked learning, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. I've been working in digital teaching and learning for 16 years. My work in the field of Critical Digital Pedagogy and Critical Instructional Design is founded in the philosophy of Paulo Freire, and finds contemporary analogues in the work of Howard Rheingold, Audrey Watters, Henry Giroux, bell hooks, and Jesse Stommel. I am committed to engaging audiences in critical inspection of digital technologies, and to turning a social justice lens upon education.
I am currently Senior Instructor of Learning, Design, and Technology in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado at Denver. I am also the Director of Digital Pedagogy Lab, an experiential, exploratory professional development gathering for a global digital pedagogy community; and I am the former director and managing editor for Hybrid Pedagogy, a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology. I am the co-author of An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy, 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.
I have been working in digital learning environments since 1999, first as an instructional designer, and later as an adjunct instructor and English program chair. I've consulted with institutions and corporations including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Marylhurst University, the Community College of Denver, Udacity, Instructure, the City University of New York, HASTAC, the University of Delaware, the University of Dayton, the American University in Cairo, Iliff School of Theology, Warwick University, Open University, and the University of Mary Washington, among others. I received my M.A. in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Rebecca Garrod-Waters
Ufi, The VocTech Trust, UK
I am passionate about the potential for digital technology to positively transform the way vocational learning is delivered, and the power this will have to positively impact people’s lives and opportunities. At Ufi we have been growing our activity across a wide portfolio of projects designed to impact across the UK, delivering better, faster and more effective vocational training. Ufi has a mission to enable more vocational skills for more people, more of the time, with a focus on increasing learning and skills opportunities for communities, sectors, industries and places that are traditionally ‘unloved’.
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Pamela Burnard
University of Cambridge, UK
Pam Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
She Chairs the University of Cambridge Arts and Creativities Research Group and is co-editor-in-chief of the international Journal Creativity and Thinking Skills.
She has published widely with 12 books and over 100 articles which advance and expand the conceptualization and plural expression of diverse creativities in practice across early years, primary and secondary school settings, through to creative and cultural industry sectors. Four of her most recent funded projects investigate STEAM Why science and arts creativities matter: Reconfigurings for future-making education; Contemporising Careers in Music; MUSICEUM (How music matters to young children in museum spaces); and Transformative Practices and Policy Change in Professional Doctoral Education: Disrupting Positionality.
Daniela Martini
CRIMEDIM, Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Instructional designer, capacity building and learning specialist with great experience in knowledge management. Daniela has been involved with the WHO Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) initiative, where she was responsible for the coordination of communication and training activities supporting the development of international emergency response mechanisms. Previously, she worked as knowledge manager and learning specialist for UN OCHA Geneva and for IT UNICEF in New York HQ. She is still consulting with WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) where she is part of WHE Simulation Task Team and Learning and Capacity Building Team. Her specialties include adult learning and the instructional design of learning and training activities (including all aspects of the analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation phases), technology enhanced learning (networked e-learning), new technologies (learning content management systems, authoring software and social software), creative design thinking and knowledge management.
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Frank Gielen
Education Director at InnoEnergy, The Netherlands
Prof.Dr.ir. Gielen has extensive experience with R&D in the telecommunication and software technology sector as well as in raising venture capital, university-industry collaborative research and spin-off creation.
Prof.Dr.ir. Gielen held a number of technical and management positions in the software industry. He started as a software architect with AT&T Bell Labs in the USA and was director of software technology at Alcatel.
In 1998 he joined Tellium, a US based start-up company in optical network technology, as the VP of Software Engineering. Tellium had a successful IPO on NASDAQ in 2001. He then returned to Europe in 2001 as the CEO for Tellium EMEA.
From 2010 to 2015 he was the Director of the Incubation & Entrepreneurship at iMinds, the leading digital incubator and business accelerator in Flanders. The iStart incubation programme of iMinds was ranked number 4 in UBI’s global ranking of university accelerators in 2015.
Prof.Dr.ir. Gielen was head of the EIT Digital Professional School with the ambition to lead the innovation of professional development and executive education for companies, organisations and individuals going through a digital transformation.
Since 2017 he has been the Education Director at InnoEnergy. Today, he is also a professor of software technology entrepreneurship at the University of Ghent.
Mildred Ayere
University of Maseno, Kenya
Mildred Atieno Ayere is a senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Technology and Curriculum Studies, Maseno University.
I teach Educational Technology courses at the University to undergraduate and post-graduate students. Currently I serve as the acting Director eCampus where I provide strategic leadership in the development and implementation of appropriate policies in eLearning and virtual learning at the University.
Earlier on, I worked as a high School teacher in Mathematics, a teacher trainer in Mathematics education and a staffing officer with the Teachers’ Service Commission, Kenya. In addition to the teaching experience, I am an entrepreneur in teacher education and a practitioner and a trainer in the Times Travel Methodology: An educational method that uses local heritage in a learning process, to create reflection on contemporary issues, and provide tools for community building.
My primary research interests include innovative and online learning methodologies; ICT integration in pedagogy; Interactive learner centred methodologies in teaching and learning in general and Mathematics education in particular; online examination systems; Mathematics in the Historic Environment; and use of Time Travel method in democracy, peace building and social cohesion
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http://elearning.maseno.ac.ke/
Eva Kohl
WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
Director Digital Strategy & Assistant Dean at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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Jens Greefe
European Association for Distance Learning (EADL), Forum DistancE-Learning (FDL), Germany
Jens Greefe holds a diploma in Economics and is member of the board of the Forum Distance Learning, the german association for distance learning.
Since 2014 he is also Chairman of the Research & Developing Committee of EADL.
Jens Greefe is the Director of Studies at the ILS in Hamburg, Germanys biggest distance learning provider, educating app. 70.000 students in more than 300 distance courses. He is responsible for the development and the organization of the course programs and for the quality management of the ILS.
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http://www.forum-distance-learning.dehttp://www.eadl.org
Melissa Highton
University of Edinburgh, UK
Melissa leads services and projects in support of the University’s strategic priorities for digital and distance learning on global platforms, blended learning, virtual learning environments, technology enhanced learning spaces, the digital student experience and use of the web for outreach and engagement.
She has particular interests in digital skills, 21st century curricula, open educational resources, research led teaching and online media. She leads the continuing expansion and diversification of the University website and provision of digital AV technology services in over 400 teaching rooms across the campus.
Melissa is strategic lead in the University for a wide range of technologies and support for innovative learning and teaching, including blended learning tools, bespoke web development, online video, lecture recording, VLEs, open education resources, partnerships with platforms such as Coursera, Edx, FutureLearn and Wikimedia. Her teams support a range of online provision including taught online Masters programmes, Micromasters programmes, CPD and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The Learning, Teaching and Web Directorate is one of the most successful and comprehensive learning technology groups in the UK, with diverse teams of muti-professional staff, student interns and expert consultants.
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http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-service…