Presentations
Trusted and Secure Digital Credentials and Degrees
Date Thursday, Dec 2 Time – Room: Tiergarten
Discover the potential, challenges, and opportunities that digital credentials are able offer. From implementing to creating and from issuing to transferring: speakers in this session will share best practices.
Helen Gray
International project development Manager, IÐAN education centre, Iceland
Helen Gray is the International Development Manager at IÐAN Education Centre in Iceland. She holds a BS in Administration Dietetics from Umeå University, Sweden, an MA in Pedagogy from the University of Iceland, and a teaching qualification. With over 20 years in the vocational education and training (VET) sector, Helen has led research and development at IÐAN for 15 years, contributing to both national and international initiatives in initial VET (IVET), continuing VET (CVET) and continuous professional development (CPD). Currently, she is focused on advancing digital transformation in education.
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Andreas Wittke
Head of Platform & Blockchain Development, Technical University of Applied Sciences Lübeck, Germany
Andreas Wittke is the CDO (Chief Digital Officer) of the Institute for Digital Learning at Luebeck University of Applied Sciences and of oncampus – a wholly owned subsidiary of Lubeck University of Applied Sciences.
Holding a degree in Electrical Engineering, Andreas is a specialist in the fields of Digital Transformation, Innovation and Educational Technologies in higher education. He has invented the interactive MOOC platform mooin (www.oncampus.de) and the cloud based authoring tool LOOP (https://loop.eduloop.de/). Organized by the federal state of Schleswig Holstein, Andreas visited both Silicon Valley in 2016 and Shanghai in 2018. As a project manager of various international MOOC projects, Andreas publishes articles on www.onlinebynature.com and on Twitter under @onlinebynature. Andreas is a keynotespeaker and he organizes various events, among them the Moodlemot DACH and the Barcamp Luebeck.
Andreas’s current research focuses on a Quorum Blockchain for digital certificates using a Moodle interface (www.digicerts.de) and is Head of Platform development for the FutureSkills project (https://futureskills-sh.de/de/).
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Moderator
Rolf Reinhardt
Member of the Executive Committee, International Council on Badges and Credentials [ICoBC], Germany
Rolf Reinhardt works for LinkedIn at the intersection of government, education and organizational learning. He is also an active member of the International Council on Badges and Credentials [ICoBC] to ensure a systemic view of badges and credentials for individuals, organizations and societies. Additionally, he serves as a Council Member to the Union of International Associations, as a Council Member to the OEB Global and as a Certified Supporter to the Corporate Social Responsibility community of ZiviZ at Stifterverband (W.I.E.). Prior to joining LinkedIn in 2016, he worked for Pearson, the largest education company in the world, on secondary, post-secondary and corporate training initiatives across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
From 2011 to 2012, Rolf was tinkering on various visionary projects such as eLearning quality (epprobate), streaming (TEDx etc.), ePortfolios, Immersive Worlds, Networks of Change Structures as well as Coworking and Community Spaces.
The focus of his work from 2007 till 2009 was on the ROI of eLearning programs for larger corporations. This focus changed with his assignment as Executive Manager of the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning where innovation and technology as an enhancer of personal, organisational and societal development became a central topic.
By the time he obtained his Engineering degree in Media Technology, Rolf worked on large digital transformation projects, for instance, for the L&D department of L’ORÉAL. Rolf later designed and managed complex eLearning projects mainly for corporate customers.