Panel Talk PRS15
Making it Real: Can Personalisation Fix Education?
Date Thursday, Dec 3 Time – RoomCharlottenburg I
A wide array of digital strategies are now available to educators who hope to tailor lessons to individual students’ needs. This interactive session will emphasize the importance of individual, informal and personalized learning strategies in academic settings.
Moderators
Annette Q. Pedersen
E-Learning Consultant, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Annette Q Pedersen has worked in adult teaching and teacher training for 14 years, first as a teacher, and since 2008 as e-learning consultant at the University of Copenhagen.
She works with strategies related to online and blended learning across the university, and particularly with digital literacy in the humanities. She is also part of the organizing committee of The PLE conference as well as on the advisory board of SXSWedu.
At the university she is facilitating and developing blended and online learning in collaboration with the teaching staff, both by incorporating blended learning approaches in the existing curriculum and as part of curriculum development. Latest project was having 30 art history/visual culture students create their own location aware apps (ibeacon technology) with their own sound creations related to art around the campus.
Her interests currently include: Digital literacy in higher education staff and students, the potential of visualizations for research communication, digital humanities, PLE/PLNs and making organizational changes happen.
Links
http://www.ku.dkhttp://itmedia.hum.ku.dk
Nick Kearney
Director, Boundaries Observatory C.I.C., UK
Nick Kearney has been working in teacher training and educational management for over 15 years, focusing on new learning approaches with ICT in a wide range of educational and training contexts. This has included a large number of EU and nationally financed projects in which he has worked severally as coordinator, consultant, reviewer and evaluator. His interests currently include collaborative learning, informal learning, lifelong learning, virtual worlds, learning in groups at risk of exclusion and digital literacy. He is currently working as an independent educational consultant for ANDAMIO Education and Technology, and is President of SAHUARO Associacion Civil, based in México, which works on bringing technology to rural communities. Current projects include work for a range of governmental organizations on the use of ICT in rural and adult education, and work focusing on literacy, interaction, GBL, virtual worlds, and the integration of ICT in mainstream educational contexts.
Links
http://www.boundariesobservatory.orghttp://www.andamioeducation.orghttp://www.florida.eshttp://www.florida-uni.es