Inspiring and Visionary Keynotes

New Perspectives & Impulses for Innovation

Saul Carliner

Professor, Concordia University, Canada

Saul Carliner is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at Concordia University in Montreal, where his research focuses on the design of instructional and informational materials for the workplace, the management of groups that produce them, and related issues of policy.

Also an industry consultant, Carliner has provided strategic advice, and conducted workshops and evaluations for organizations like Alltel Wireless, Boston Scientific, PwC, ST Microelectronics, and several government agencies.

He is the author of the best-selling "Training Design Basics", award-winning "Informal Learning Basics", and co-author of "Career Anxiety: Guidance Through Tough Times", "The e-Learning Handbook", and "An Overview of Training and Development".

He is President of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, a Fellow of the Institute for Performance and Learning, past editor of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and a Fellow and past international president of the Society for Technical Communication.

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Date Friday, Nov 25 Time 14:30 – 15:30

Calling All Heroes: Adventures with Open Educational Resources

This Learning Café will engage with participants in different OER-themed, collaborative games to provide an opportunity to relax, network, and focus on the benefits of OERs. Presenters will discuss participants’ experiences with OERs, and what successes and/or challenges they have seen using OERs. Attendees will work in small groups and led in gaming experiences that will include role-playing and mini escape room experiences. Presenters will provide enjoyment and networking opportunities as well as emphasise (through the game goals and strategies) the benefits of OER.

Outcomes

Define and identify benefits of open educational resources.
Find freely available instructional materials.
Name the major resources to support creation and adoption of open educational resources.
Analyse various available resources to determine quality and usefulness.

Jeanne Law-Bohannon

Director of Composition, English Department, Kennesaw State University, United States of America

Elly Sloman

Student Assistant for Accessibility, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Educati, United States of America

Elly Sloman is a Student Assistant in Kennesaw State University's Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences' Office of Digital Education. They help faculty with ensuring that their courses meet federal requirements for accessibility, and have helped with making resources accessible. They are majoring in English Education with a minor in Korean language and culture. They are excitedly anticipating learning more about digital education in order to apply it to their studies and then their own classrooms in the future.

Kaylee Polk

Lead Student Assistant, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America

Kaylee Polk is an undergraduate student at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, US. As lead student assistant with Radow College's Office of Digital Education, she assists faculty members in ensuring that their online course materials all accessible to all students.

Stephen Bartlett

Associate Director, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America

An online educator for 12+ years and Associate Director of the RCHSS Office of Digital Education at Kennesaw State University for 6+ years, Stephen Bartlett has been involved with the evolving world of e-learning for more than half his teaching career. In addition to the thousands of students who he has taught a variety of world history topics, he has also trained 500+ faculty in online pedagogy and presented at e-learning conferences in the United States and internationally.

Aiden Reichner

Student Assistant for Accessibility, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America

Aiden Reichner is an undergraduate at Kennesaw State University studying Environmental Science. They are a student assistant for the Office of Digital Education in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. As a student assistant, it is their job to help faculty improve the accessibility of online courses for all students.

Julie R. Newell

Hybrid Specialist, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America

Brayden Milam

Program Coordinator, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America

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Tamara Powell

Director, KSU RCHSS Office of Digital Education, Kennesaw State University, United States of America

Dr. Tamara Powell is the Director of the Office of Digital Education for the Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kennesaw State University (KSU). Her research interests include student success, particularly for underserved groups.

Tamara began teaching online in 2001 and has been hooked on this exciting and versatile medium ever since. Currently, her work involves hybrid/blended and online course quality assurance, digital material accessibility, and open educational resources.

She has won several honors and awards, including Best Paper Award for “Student Success Innovations vs. Faculty Workload Concerns: How to Find a Balance for Success” at The Thirteenth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning eLmL 2021. July 18022, 2021. Nice, France.

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Natalia Kmiec-Braun

Management Consultant, Accenture, Poland

Natalia Kmiec-Braun is a seasoned corporate trainer with strong academic background in teaching and languages. In Accenture, her main areas of focus include Change Management, Learning & Development and Communications. She is a part of the Talent Development & Learning Team, where she designs and develops learning experiences for her clients. As a member of the Storytelling Team, she focuses on workshop delivery and on tailoring messages for specific audiences.

Date Thursday, Nov 24 Time 11:45 – 13:00

Teaching for the Future: 10 Hands-On Teaching Tools to Boost Creativity & Innovation for our Accelerating World

This hands-on How To session is designed to equip participants with practical tools and approaches to learn at least 10 well-tested, effective, interactive classroom methods for teaching creativity and innovative thinking, and you will directly experience 3 - 4 of them through brief interactive exercises that the speaker will facilitate. You will also get an understanding of a how a framework for innovation in our accelerating world (viability, desirability, feasibility) can help you and your organisation plan future L&D endeavors.

Outcomes

Engage with several effective training tools that boost creative and innovative thinking.
Be able to collaborate and interact with others as you directly experience each method first-hand.

Charles Wood

Professor of Marketing, The University of Tulsa, United States of America

Dr. Charles M. Wood (Ph.D. University of Missouri) is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Tulsa. He has academic degrees in Engineering, Journalism, and Business, and worked for a dozen years in industry - as an engineer for a Fortune 10 firm, and as a founder of a successful stage production company and creative agency. To date Dr. Wood has published over 50 articles in both refereed journals and conference proceedings, and received a Fulbright Scholar Award to Ireland from the U.S. Department of State. Dr. Wood's teaching and service have also received a national award from Houghton-Mifflin, the top teaching award and top service award at The University of Tulsa, along with several “Most Valuable Professor” awards. He has made presentations by invitation at major business conferences in India (AIMS), Sri Lanka, and in several universities across India, Austria, Ireland, and Italy. He specializes in teaching innovation and has helped students develop over 100 applied projects benefiting small businesses and non-profit organizations.

Maria Spies

Co-CEO, HolonIQ, Australia

Maria is Co-CEO of HolonIQ, the world's leading platform for impact intelligence. HolonIQ’s intelligence platform is shaping the global impact economy, accelerating social and economic outcomes around the world. Prior to HolonIQ, Maria led digital learning futures for a global education company, envisioning new futures for education through investment and research into the future of learning.

Maria has worked in public and private higher education for over 20 years in the APAC region specializing in transforming education through technology. Maria has built and led global innovation teams, driving innovation in curriculum, teaching and the student experience in over 50 countries.

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Papa Youga Dieng

Program Coordinator, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Senegal

Papa Youga Dieng works for the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) as Coordinator of the Initiative francophone pour la Formation à Distance des maîtres (IFADEM), in Institut de la Francophonie pour l'Education et la Formation , based in Dakar (Senegal), since 2017. IFADEM is a distance learning program for the capacity building of teachers in 15 francophone countries in Africa, Haiti and Lebanon.

Former Board member of Open Education Global, Dieng has a rich and long experience in the development and implementation of e-learning programs in Africa and across the Francophonie.

Prior to Join IFEF in Dakar, Dieng works in OIF’s Headquarter in Paris, was project Manager of the NEPAD e-Schools Initiative in the e-Africa Commission in Pretoria (South Africa), and Inspector General of National Education, responsible for ICT in Senegal. He is a former Professor of Physics and Chemistry, a trainer in the Senegalese in-service training institution (SFC), Head of the Science and ICT office in the Ministry of Education, and he was also the Coordinator of RESAFAD.

Papa Youga Dieng is a citizen of Senegal. He holds a D.E.A. (Master’s) in Education from Rouen University, France, the DUTICEF, Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, (now a Master’s in ICT in Education), a certificate for teaching in secondary schools, FASTEF University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal, an a B.Sc. in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal

Date Friday, Nov 25 Time 11:45 – 12:45

Performance Based Functional Onboarding

Most companies have a lot of vacancies for new employees. Many also support internal mobility. New and existing employees need to be onboarded rapidly and effectively in their (new) role/function. This shouldn’t be an unwelcome chore for L&D. On the contrary. Learn about an onboarding programme in one department, that has been an international success, leading to requests from other departments and a raising of the profile of L&D to that of a true strategic business partner.

In this Boardroom Dialogue you will find the applied approach, first outcomes and lessons learned, followed by a group discussion on how this could be applied in your organisation.

Geraldine Voost

Global L&D Manager, BRONKHORST HIGH-TECH, Netherlands

With an educational background in Cognitive Science, my work experience has always been a mix of psychology and computing science. I enjoy working in the area where these two interact. After several years in IT, I started working in L&D in 2000. I gained experience as a trainer, instructional designer, e-learning developer, learning technology specialist and L&D management.

In September 2019 I started my current job as Global L&D Manager at Bronkhorst High-Tech. When I joined there was 1 e-learning module in the recently acquired LMS. All other training was instructor led classroom training, with participants flying in from all over the world. My mission is to modernize the training (now L&D) department, to integrate learning and working, and to introduce and implement performance based (learning) solutions.

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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.

Date Thursday, Nov 24 Time 11:45 – 13:15

Using the Latest eLearning Developments to Foster More Personalised and Effective Learning Experiences

As we all adjust to the realities of life and work after a global pandemic, learning professionals are looking for ways to achieve better engagement in hybrid learning activities, support active learning in the virtual classroom, and build strong online learning communities. Face-to-face education can no longer be the norm; every learner needs to thrive in the virtual learning environment, and education technologies hold the key to making that happen.

In this Learning Café, we will discuss the latest edtech trends that enhance the learning experience and ensure it can happen continuously. We will provide a snapshot of the past, present and future of e-learning, discuss strategies to support effective skills development for learners, and talk about the role of learning platforms (LMS, LXP and ILP) in promoting individual learning journeys.

Outcomes

How the evolution of e-learning has transformed the process of building learning experiences.
What e-learning technologies support effective skills development for learners-
How to promote personalised learning using the latest ILP features.

Valeria Fomina

Educational Technology Specialist, Cypher Learning, Spain

Valeria is an Edtech Specialist with over six years of experience in education. Having worked as a school administrator, academic coordinator, LMS manager and teacher, she has extensive knowledge and expertise in e-learning implementation processes and instructional design.

Antonio Maratea

Lecturer, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy

Antonio Maratea has a Master's Degree in Statistics and a PhD in Information Engineering. Since 2008 he works at University of Naples "Parthenope", teaching mainly Databases and Data Science at the graduate and post graduate level. His recent research focus is on Rough-Fuzzy methods, Machine Learning and XAI.

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Date Thursday, Nov 24 Time 16:30 – 17:30

Driving Smarter Business Impact – Start-up Tips for Corporate L&D

Business start-ups have a unique set of challenges when it comes to L&D – or do they? Many have an all hands on deck approach to business, strong entrepreneurial leaders create high octane environments designed to disrupt, innovate and digitise. This presents a number of challenges for those involved in building skills and developing talent. Challenges that are shared by many in corporate L&D.

How do we align learning to support fast paced business changes? How do we build a positive learning culture? How do we equip leaders and line managers for the future?

In this fun and interactive Learning Café, we will consider the strategies of high performing learning teams and combine them with the innovative approaches of start up companies. Join us to combine our collective wisdom. We will explore creative ways to :

Let digital take the strain.
Tap into purpose and values.
Tackle the management challenge.
Co-create value in rapidly changing environments.

Dinye Hernanda

Senior Learning and Development Manager, HEYJOBS

Dinye Hernanda is an award-winning Learning & Development Manager, highly experienced in establishing L&D departments in hypergrowth startups. Having worked as an innovation manager in top german companies, Dinye brought her entrepreneurial and creative mindset to L&D, often juggling the role of a trainer, facilitator, coach, and problem solver - all at once. A Berlin-based, passionate community builder, she regularly shares her learnings through a global community called L&D Shakers.

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Laura Overton

CEO, International Speaker, Analyst, Facilitator, Emerging Stronger, United Kingdom

Laura Overton is an author, facilitator and award-winning learning analyst dedicated to uncovering and sharing progressive practices that add strategic business value. She led a 15-year global research programme that explored impactful learning strategies. Her work through #Learningchangemakers and Emerging Stronger continue to support and inform the changing world of workplace learning.

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Marieta Jansen van Vuuren

Senior Academic Developer, North-West University, South Africa

Marieta is a former teacher from South Africa who majored in languages and started her teaching career in
1984. In 2000 she joined the North-West University School of Languages. In 2008 Marieta was subsequently appointed in the
School of Educational Sciences as language lecturer an also provided supervision to Honours, Masters and PhD students. In 2012 Marieta was appointed as Senior Academic Developer in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the North-West University.
She holds a doctorate in Sociolinguistics with the focus on Language and Internet based Communication,
Using Corpus Linguistics as a research method. She also holds a post graduate diploma in Design Thinking and Innovation from MIT. Current fields of interest and research include topics such as education and digital alternative assessment, hybrid virtual teaching mobility, Teaching Learning mentorship and micro credentials for higher education.

Date Friday, Nov 25 Time 16:00 – 17:00

Educational Design Patterns and the Academic Digital Skills of Students

In this Boardroom Dialogue you will try out a rapid design method for creating Educational Design Patterns (EDPs). The concept of EDP covers a method to capture best practices from educators and other experts and disseminate these into concrete educational design patterns and activities. Participants will get an understanding of a collaborative method to develop learning design patterns and they will get inspiration to work with academic digital skills within a framework of four core categories.

Outcomes

Didactic design in the format of educational design patterns.
A rapid collaborative method to create the first draft of an Educational Design Pattern.
Exploring new ways of collaborating on academic digital skills.

Anne Bagger

Information Specialist, The Royal Danish Library, Denmark

Anne Bagger is librarian and master in ICT and Learning. Since 2008 she has been teaching information literacy at the Copenhagen University Library (part of The Royal Danish Library) and she has been involved in several informaton literacy projects local as well as across the university library sector at national level.

Charlotte Arnholtz

Information Specialist, The Royal Danish Library

Henrik Tang

Librarian / Information Specialist, The Royal Danish Library

Date Thursday, Nov 24 Time 14:45 – 15:45

Educational Neurotechnologies: Trend, Need, or Futurity?

New expectations have been brought to the educational agenda with the application of neuroscientific discoveries to the improvement of teaching processes.

This Boardroom Dialogue is an opportunity to gain an understanding of the “learning brain”, the brain that interacts socially to respond to different educational situations or stimuli. Participants will acquire knowledge on the educational potential of these neurotechnologies (eye-tracking glasses, fNirs headbands, or neurostimulation), and their implications for providing real-time brain data for observation and stimulation, along with balancing the limitations related to ethical and technical issues.

Outcomes

What neurotechnologies are and how they are being used in applied education.
Potential affordances and opportunities of using neurotechnologies within a classroom with teachers and students.
Key ethical challenges to inform educational theory, practice, and policy.

María J. Hernández-Serrano

Tenured Lecturer, University of Salamanca, Spain

María J. Hernández-Serrano is Lecturer on Educational Theory at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Her two main research areas are the study of the educational process mediated by digital technologies, and the analysis of cognitive and affective processes in the context of neuroeducation and neurotechnologies. Much of her work and publications are on technological education and digital competences.

Currently, her research interests lie in the transdisciplinary application of brain-based research to educational contexts and virtual environments, and the neuropedagogical implications of technologies on the development of the brain in younger and older students. She is also interested in the promotion of creative and critical uses of digital technologies, the emerging uses of social media and transmedia, and informal learning through the media.

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Date Friday, Nov 25 Time 14:15 – 15:15

Integrating Online and Experiential Learning to Foster Global Citizens

There is common agreement that higher education, as it stands, is not equipping students with skills that allow them to thrive professionally nor contribute to their communities in a meaningful way.

In this Learning Café, you will learn how by combining an online programme that is intentionally designed, curriculum and pedagogy-wise, with in-person experiential learning, students can benefit from the best of both worlds. We will explore how to create opportunities for students to apply and transfer their classroom learning to the community and the workplace, narrowing the gap between what students “learn” and what they need to “do” to thrive in the real world, integrating a student’s entire learning journey.

Outcomes

Create experiential opportunities for students to apply their classroom learning and engage in their communities.
Design virtual classes that develop students’ skills and knowledge to be transferable to real-world scenarios.
Create intentional and integrated learning journeys that satisfy explicit learning objectives.

Ninon Godefroy

Experiential Learning Manager, Minerva Project

Özgür Özlük

Professor of Business & Academic Program Manager, Minerva University & Minerva Project, Turkey

Professor Ozgur Ozluk is an Academic Program Manager at Minerva Project and a data analytics expert. Ozgur also teaches in the Business College at Minerva University. Ozgur is the CEO and Founding Partner of Verite Analytics, a predictive analytics company. He has published research on various business applications of mathematical programming models, from supply chain optimization to pricing and revenue management. Ozgur earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc., both in Operations Research, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.

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Barbara Walder

Global Director of Student Life, Minerva University, Germany

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Stephen Downes

Researcher, National Research Council Canada, Canada

Stephen Downes works with the Digital Technologies Research Centre at the National Research Council of Canada specializing in new instructional media and personal learning technology. His degrees are in Philosophy, specializing in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. He has taught for the University of Alberta, Athabasca University, Grand Prairie Regional College and Assiniboine Community College.

His background includes expertise in journalism and media, both as a prominent blogger and as founder of the Moncton Free Press online news cooperative. He is one of the originators of the first Massive Open Online Course, has published frequently about online and networked learning, has authored learning management and content syndication software, and is the author of the widely read e-learning newsletter OLDaily.

Downes is a member of NRC's Research Ethics Board. He is a popular keynote speaker and has spoken in three dozen countries on six continents.

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Laura Pomares

Associate Learning Fellow , United Nations System Staff College, Italy

Laura Pomares is an E-Learning Fellow at the Knowledge Centre for Leadership and Management of the UNSSC. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Public Relations and Advertising from the University of the Basque Country where her final research focused on experiential marketing for the non-profit sector. Laura also holds a Master’s degree in Multimedia Design from the University of Turin. Her graduate research explored the design and implementation of digital learning experience strategies.
Laura has been part of the United Nations System Staff College since 2019, contributing to the development of several e-learning offerings. At the moment, she is involved in various projects aiming to increase learner engagement in the Blue Line platform.

John Helmer

Learning Hack Podcast, UK

John Helmer FLPI is best known as host of two of learning's most popular and valued podcasts: "Great Minds on Learning" and "The Learning Hack podcast".

A communications expert specialising in digital industries and emerging technologies, particularly in learning, HR & education, John is also a published novelist and musician (he once appeared on Top of the Pops and was joint winner of a Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe).
As a consultant he has developed many Thought Leadership programmes in the learning space, bringing together practitioners, vendors, and thinkers to grow mutual awareness and understanding.

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. Together with his team, he runs the Virtual Linguistics Campus, the world's largest learning platform for content in English and general linguistics. His associated YouTube channel "Virtual Linguistics Campus" contains many hundreds of freely accessible self-produced teaching videos and is the largest of its kind.

Handke is the main German proponent of the Inverted Classroom Model, for which he was awarded the Hessian University Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2013 in the Mastery variant. In 2015, he received the Ars Legendi Award, the highest German teaching award for "Digital Teaching and Learning" from the German Donors' Association and the German Rectors' Conference.

In 2016, he won the German Adult Education Innovation Award with his refugee language course #DEU4ARAB, a MOOC with more than 3,100 participants, and his MOOC #FIT4Uni was awarded the national OER Award in the 'Higher Education' category in 2017. Since June 2017, he has been conducting the BMBF project H.E.A.R.T., which tests and evaluates the use of humanoid robots in university teaching. With the RoboPraX project, he was able to acquire another BMBF-funded project in 2019 that tests robots in school use and adapts them to the respective target groups. For this approach, he and his team received the "Science in Dialogue" award in 2019.

In 2020, he was a moderator/subject matter expert for the topic of "Digital Campus" as part of the structural planning for the planned Nuremberg University of Technology. In 2022, he took on the task of advisor for digital teaching at the Louisenlund Foundation.

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Esther Grieder

HPass Lead / Platform Solutions Specialist, Humanitarian Leadership Academy (part of Save the Children), United Kingdom

Esther Grieder has worked in the international development and humanitarian sectors for fifteen years, with a focus on education and employment, youth and learning. In recent years she has led the HPass initiative from concept through to implementation as a digital badging currency platform used by 30+ organisations and over 20,000 individuals in the humanitarian sector.

Sazilah Salam

Professor, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia

Sazilah Salam is a Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Interactive Media, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM). Currently, she is also a Visiting Professor at the Web Science Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She obtained her BSc. (Hons.) in Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and her Ph.D in Multimedia Information Systems from the University of Southampton, UK in 1997.

Her current research work focuses on MOOC observatory, semantic Web, learning analytics, pervasive computing and assistive technology. She is active in doing research on the latest education technology including mobile systems & applications, gamification, cooperative learning, flipped learning applying & integrating augmented reality, speech recognition, cloud-based conversational robots, and wearable technology to increase the efficiency of learning & teaching.

Appointed by the Ministry of Higher Education, she contributes as a Council member for the Malaysia Institute of Higher Learning & e-Learning Coordinators (MEIPTA) and is a member of the Technical Committee for Malaysia Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

Before becoming an academic in 2006, Sazilah has been leading for 13 years the execution of several e-learning projects in MIMOS Berhad, a Malaysia's premier Applied Research and Development Centre in Information and Communications Technology, Industrial Electronics Technology and Nano-Semiconductor Technology.

Date Wednesday, Nov 23 Time 17:45 – 19:00

Join The Innovative Learning Arena: Let's Battle It Out!

Following a global 'black swan' event, we all looked for the best possible new learning approaches in a mostly online learning world. Now it’s time to shape the future by making the most valuable choices and thinking about the long run.

This is an embodied learning session in which each willing participant is invited to speak out and defend their preferred learning method. You are permitted to lurk, but taking action is always heroic….

Are you willing to stand up and spontaneously share your ideas in this highly spirited Plenary? Or do you prefer to sit back, relax, reflect and show your support for speakers by asking questions or applauding their “pitch”?

Although the subject is serious, this session will be very animated. Each argumentation (3 minutes) will contribute to what will no doubt be a lively exchange, under the expert guidance of its host. The idea is to win over the audience for your case and our host is unlikely to be too strict about the methods you use!

However, in the end, your fellow participants will hold the power; they will be able to vote for each learning approach. The winning method of this "learning battle" will be awarded "the best learning approach" and of course, the person defending it will get a trophy too.

This Plenary may challenge you on multiple levels. Do you dare to speak in a group? Are you willing to listen intently to arguments? Are you able critically to analyse learning approaches for their merits?

The session will set the scene for the OEB days to come, in which we hope to enter into dialogue and learn from each other. And it will be fun too, listening to learning approaches and sharing our best (or worst) experiences of the last years.

Come along alone, bring your most argumentative colleague, invite a friend… and join this merry bunch of (online, hybrid, classroom) learning experts.

Inge de Waard

Sr. Learning Strategist & Connector, EIT INNOENERGY and Secret Shakers, 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 and professional conferences, workshops and seminars. But most of all, she likes to connect, listen and share stories.
Her latest projects are: an EU Cross-KIC project looking at AI skills for professionals, matching skill gaps to AI courses (https://aiskills.innoenergy.com/); and an initiative gathering stories of professionals beyond 50, 70, 70 ... who reignited their careers later in life (https://www.secretshakers.com). These two projects fit within the goal of diversity, ensuring a tailored, lifelong learning journey to professionals of all ages.

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Johanna Braun

Head of Teaching Center, Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Johanna Braun is leading the Teaching Center at the Department of Banking and Finance of the University of Zurich that focuses on online learning, online assessment and innovation in teaching. Before joining the University of Zurich, she worked in Strategy Consulting at Deloitte Consulting.

Olivier Crouzet

Head of Pedagogy, 42, France

With a scientific background, Olivier Crouzet got a Master degree as an IT engineer. After 2 years as System Administrator in the 3rd French Internet service provider, he spent thirteen years developing an IT training model. For the last ten years he has been involved in 42, the IT school founded by Xavier Niel, a French telecom tycoon. While still evolving the revolutionary Peer-Learning model of 42, Olivier Crouzet is also promoting the evolution of the French education system through various conferences.

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Date Friday, Nov 25 Time 14:30 – 15:30

Transforming Training Using Agile Design and Peer-to-Peer Support

When the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK reorganised, many departments got new missions. Old school linear radio and tv professionals suddenly had to deliver world-class digital content for an inpatient audience using mobile phones. New durable and perishable skills had to be learned, and old habits, roles and workflows had to be left behind.

How did we help people navigate this change successfully? By designing group learning in, or close to, workflows, using agile methods and peer learning for four to twelve weeks.

In two years, we scaled this to 200 employees in 25 different groups/programmes without using any classroom training. Everyone got to learn at their own pace as they experienced best practice, created content themselves, and got feedback from each other.

Join us to hear the story of how we did this, what outcomes the projects had and share some practices that we believe would foster learning culture in any organisation.

Outcomes

How to map, motivate and organize for peer learning.
How to help foster psychological safety in groups.
How to use simple agile rituals to strengthen learning.
How to use OKRs in learning programs

Andreas Bugge Grimsæth

Learning Business Partner, Schibsted, Norway

Andreas Bugge Grimsæth is a journalist with fifteen years of experience in developing digital content and online services, like the weather site YR.no. He has six years of experience from learning and organisational development in the Norwegian broadcasting corporation (NRK), two of them as head of L&D. He worked as facilitator in the wonderful jungle between strategy, tech, editorial and HR to create innovative products, workflows and processes. Education-wise: a serial drop-out with no finished formal training, he is now working at Schibsted with some of the biggest newspapers and strongest brands in Norway and Sweden.

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Guy Shtub

Head of Training, ScyllaDB, Israel

Guy Shtub is Head of Training at ScyllaDB and holds a B.SC. degree in Software Engineering from Ben Gurion University. He co-founded two start-ups and is experienced in creating products that people love.

Amy Zidulka

Associate Professor, Royal Roads University, Canada

Amy Zidulka teaches and researches in the areas of creativity and innovation in the Royal Roads Faculty of Management in Victoria, BC, Canada. She is also the founder and lead of the Royal Roads Design Thinking Challenge and the Design Thinking Educators' Conference.

She has a deep interest in innovative education and has long experimented with how virtual education might be engaging and creative, while serving to connect learners to each other and their personal and professional contexts.

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