Plenary D
Getting Ready for More Agency
Date Friday, Dec 8 Time – RoomPotsdam 1
Business, education and society all need to be ready for action in a new world. And being ready for action means being ready to adapt – quickly, fundamentally and often. How should a school, an institution or a learner change to keep pace with new technologies and economic turbulence? How will schools, colleges and universities redefine their “service delivery” for tomorrow’s “consumers” or “customers” of education? Are schools, colleges and universities agile enough? Is the flexibility of education more relevant to the needs of the future than the discipline of training? Are today’s education systems flexible enough? Do current policies offer adequate guidelines to implement change? Are today’s virtual platforms, physical establishments and educators ready to adapt for the demands of tomorrow? Join this panel for different views on how learning can and must change.
Lauren Herckis
Anthropologist, Anthropologist Specialising in Faculty Culture and the Use of Technology at Carnegie Mellon University, USA
The Paces of Change
Lauren Herckis is an anthropologist at Carnegie Mellon University with appointments in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer science. She specializes in faculty culture and the use of technology in higher education, and her field research applies anthropological and archaeological methods and theory to analyze human engagement with the material world. Dr. Herckis is interested in learning science, human diversity (especially in urban contexts), the pedagogical training of future faculty, the politics of praxis in fieldwork, chaîne opératoire, and political economy in urban growth. Her research in Latin America interrogates assumptions about cultural heterogeneity in the context of long-term urban growth, and highlights the ways that social networks dynamically impact technical choices and the development of informal economies. Under the aegis of Carnegie Mellon's Simon Initiative, Dr. Herckis' current projects explore the intersection of campus culture, technological change, and effective teaching at the college level. Her research informs policymaking, shapes the development of learning technologies, and illuminates aspects of organizational culture and policy which affect teaching practice.
Dr. Herckis has spent her career working in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research design and execution, in public, private, and non-profit contexts, and across a variety of disciplinary domains. A former Fulbright fellow, Dr. Herckis worked with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.
https://www.cmu.edu/simon/news/stories/anthropologist-in-the-classroom.html
https://www.hcii.cmu.edu/people/lauren-herckis
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Andrew Keen
Executive Director, Author, Entrepreneur and Controversial Commentator on the Digital Revolution, USA
Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution.He is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and his current international hit The Internet Is Not The Answer which the London Sunday Times acclaimed as a "powerful, frightening read" and the Washington Post called "an enormously useful primer for those of us concerned that online life isn't as shiny as our digital avatars would like us to believe". He is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salonFutureCast and a much acclaimed public speaker around the world. In 2015, he was named by GQ magazine in their list of the "100 Most Connected Men”. His next book, How To Fix The Future, will be published worldwide in January 2018.
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Sanjay Sarma
Vice President for Open Learning, Vice President for Open Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
The New Age of Learning
Sanjay Sarma is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and Vice President for Open Learning at the Institute. He overseas OpenCourseWare, MITx, MicroMasters, the new MIT Integrated Learning Initiative and the World Education Lab at MIT. As a researcher, he founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide. He was also the the founder and CTO of OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems (NYSE: CKP) in 2008. He several on the boards of edX, GS1, EPCglobal, Hochschild Mining and several startup companies. Dr. Sarma received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Sarma also worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, California. His current research interests are Internet of Things, street scanning, sensing, RFID, logistics and manufacturing.
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https://odl.mit.edu/about/our-team/sanj…
Moderator
Ada Pellert
Rektorin, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Ada Pellert ist seit März 2016 Rektorin der FernUniversität. Die Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin hat zuvor bereits in verschiedenen Positionen zu den Themen Fernstudium und E-Learning gearbeitet. Auch als Hochschulmanagerin konnte sie in verschiedenen Funktionen ihre Erfahrungen zugleich wissenschaftlich auswerten.
Ada Pellert (Jahrgang 1962) war von 2009 bis 2015 Gründungspräsidentin der Deutschen Universität für Weiterbildung in Berlin und gleichzeitig Professorin für Organisationsentwicklung und Bildungsmanagement. Zudem war sie von 2011 bis Februar 2016 Präsidentin der Carl Benz Academy in Peking. Zuvor war Ada Pellert von 2005 bis 2008 Universitätsprofessorin für Weiterbildungsforschung und Bildungsmanagement sowie Vizerektorin für Lehre, Weiterbildung und Strukturfragen an der Donau-Universität Krems. Als Außerordentliche Universitätsprofessorin arbeitete sie von 1998 bis 2005 an der Abteilung Hochschulforschung der Fakultät für Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung der Universität Klagenfurt. Von 1999 bis 2003 war sie Vizerektorin der Universität Graz für Lehre, Personalentwicklung und Frauenförderung. Seit den 1990er Jahren ist sie in der international vergleichenden Bildungs- und Hochschulforschung, der Weiterbildung von Hochschullehrenden sowie der Beratung von Hochschuleinrichtungen national und international tätig. Promoviert zur Doktorin der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften hatte Ada Pellert 1987 an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.
Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören insbesondere Bildungs- und Hochschulmanagement, Personalentwicklung und Organisationsentwicklung. Die Wirtschaftswissenschaftlerin beschäftigt sich zudem mit Internationaler Hochschul- und Weiterbildungsforschung, dem Gender- und Diversity-Management sowie mit dem Lebenslangen Lernen.
Seit September 2016 ist Ada Pellert Vorsitzende der neu gegründeten Kooperationsplattform „Digitale Hochschule NRW“ (DH-NRW) für Projekte zur Digitalisierung an Hochschulen.
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/