Interactive Breakout Session EMP15
Teasing out Agency: Learner-led Curriculum Design
Education needs to be ready for action in a new world and be ready to adapt: quickly, fundamentally and often. How can we take user experience into consideration? How can we design learning environments from the point of view of a target audience? Let us discuss how we can develop a new (or improved) curriculum in which student empowerment and ownership are key.
Rogier Slaman
Lecturer, Hogeschool Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rogier Slaman is lecturer Communication at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, where he is involved in both teaching and course development. Rogier has gained experience in professional practice while working for several communication consultancies. For more than ten years, he was employed as communications consultant with knowledge in the areas of media (relations), public relations and digital trends.With his practical experience, Rogier enjoys tutoring students for projects, internships and graduation assignments.
At HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, education and research are closely related. In cooperation with the research group Cross-Media Business and a group of 4 ‘excellent’ students, Rogier Slaman researched the so-called 'user experience' of the electronic learning environment. Based on the research outcomes, they redesigned the electronic learning environment from a ‘target audience (students) point-of-view’.
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Michael Leitner-Hickisch
Head of Research, CREATE 21st century, Austria
Michael is head of research, interaction designer and user experience expert at CREATE.21st century.
At CREATE Michael designs and works on new products and services in the area of digital learning technologies and media, Smart City participation tools, approaches, and mobility information services.
Michael got a Ph.D. from Northumbria University, Department of Arts, Design and Social Science, at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is author for several research publications in the area of interaction design research.
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John Harper
Founder and President, Grapple News, USA
After a career writing for two of the United States' largest metropolitan daily newspapers, I left the newspaper industry to find a solution to the pervasive fraudulent and misleading content that plagues online news feeds. I have a degree in economics from Tulane University of New Orleans and also studied at the Warsaw School of Economics. I live in Brooklyn, New York and work as a contributing writer for The Points Guy, Occupy Democrats and others.
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Nives Kreuh
Senior Consultant, E-learning, National Education Institute, Slovenia
Nives Kreuh is a Head of e-learning at the National Education Institute in Slovenia. She is doing the national research, strategy planning and implementation of new curricula through teacher continuous professional development in the field of digital pedagogy and e-learning. She holds a B.A. in Slovene and English language and literature, a M.Sc. in English language and didactics.
She was leading the national E-competent teacher project in which they designed the standard of e-competent teacher, principle and ICT coordinators in schools framework called The Way towards E-competency. She focused on designing key e-competencies and developing the efficient training model called The Way towards E-competency, leading the instructional design and online courses (MOOCs) development for in-service teacher training and professional development to raise pedagogical digital literacy in schools nationwide.
She is the Head of Programme and Organising Committe of the international SIRikt* conference (*Enabling Education and Research with ICT), which is the largest educational conference in Slovenia with around 1000 delegates each year.
She also works internationally as the national expert and is the author of E-Competent Teacher, Principle and IT expert Framework and Designing E-Student Books Framework.