Turnitin Sponsors Inaugural MidSummit Thinkference
Turnitin is an industry leader in supporting originality in writing around the globe. Turnitin’s reputation as an innovator extends beyond their and to other technologies in the education sector. Director of New Product Development, Stephanie Butler, will present at the opening day plenary.
Butler leads Turnitin’s international expansion of products to improve student writing. She joined Turnitin after they acquired LightSide Labs from Carnegie Mellon where she completed her Masters in Human-Computer Interaction. Before working for technology startups, Butler earned her Bachelor’s degree in English from Harvard University and worked in publishing as an editor on multiple university-level Rhetoric and Composition volumes.
Other MidSummit sponsors include online exam and training platforms, Oracle and Proctorio. Turnitin’s sponsorship extends to the leading annual global conference on technology in education, OEB.
OEB MidSummit will be held at Hilton Reykjavik Nordica, June 8 – 9, 2017.
The first details of the conference programme have now been published online and are available on the MidSummit website – www.oebmidsummit.com.
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OEB MidSummit
When: June 8 – 9, 2017
Where: Hilton Reykjavik Nordica, Suðurlandsbraut 2, 108 Reykjavik, Iceland
The MidSummit is a two day Mid-Atlantic event which will explore the complexity of learning in the digital era through multidisciplinary perspectives.
Speakers will include, amongst others, workplace learning leader Niyazi Arda Aygul - Isbank (Turkey), neuroscientist Harold Bekkering - Radboud University (The Netherlands), commentator on the digital revolution Andrew Keen, Penn State Chief Academic Learning Officer Andrew Shean - The Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning, Penn State University (USA), education foresight researcher Tryggvi Thayer - School of Education, University Of Iceland , Roger Schank, leading visionary in artificial intelligence and education technology writer Audrey Watters - Hack Education (USA)
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