Pre-Conference Workshop FD2
Education in Context: The Classroom of the Future, Today
Date Wednesday, Nov 27 Time – RoomCharlottenburg II Price: free of charge Status: fully booked
Myron Cizdyn
President, eLearning Journeys, USA
Myron Cizdyn is Founder of the eLearning Journeys Initiative, which seeks to advance eLearning in Europe and beyond; energize institutional, educational and business thought leaders to support and promote eLearning; and project standards-based educational values throughout all segments of society. The goal of eLJ is to implement programs in instructional design to encourage entrepreneurial initiatives in tool and curriculum development; and to explore the benefits of standards-based learning in all segments.
eLearning Journeys holds a conference in Rzeszow once a year in the autumn, as well as continuing initiatives throughout Poland and beyond with its educational and industry partnerships.
He is also the President of The BLPS Group, which created the Gateway2Achieve learning platform, and has 27 years of experience in religious and educational publishing in the USA, Vatican, and Europe. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the SIIA's Educational Technology Industry Network.
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Eva Kilar-Magdziarz
University College Dublin, Ireland
Eva has been involved in education for the last 15 years, teaching students of all ages (YL, secondary school students and adults) across multiple sectors, being involved in teacher training (Erasmus, DELTA Local Tutor) and integration of educational technologies in Curriculum Design (LXD), Instructional Design and Digital project management.
She holds a TUD MSc degree in Applied eLearning, MA, and BA in TESOL and Translation and her published research deals with mobile learning and BYOD in Teaching English as a Second Language. Her current role as an educational technologist at the University College Dublin (UCD) focuses on choosing and implementing educational technologies, designing and developing learning materials, designing assessment and feedback strategies aiming at providing students with coherent, inclusive and interactive learning experiences. She also trains on the use of innovative approaches to teaching, learning and assessment with the use of technologies and takes an active part in communities of practice at UCD as well as outside of it.
Harald Melcher
Managing Partner, m2more GmbH, Germany
Harald Melcher is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of m2more GmbH, Berlin. Since 2012 m2more develops and implements strategies and concepts in the field of education and media – for companies and institutions and with a strong focus on digitization. Moreover Harald Melcher is Managing Director of m21 Bildungsmedien GmbH, a company offering innovative digital products for schools under the family brand Lerneo.
Harald is an experienced senior manager in the German education and media business. Before starting his own companies he took over responsibility as Managing Director of the privately run AKAD universities, the leading educational publisher Ernst Klett Verlag and, during the 90’s, in the founding and establishing of Cornelsen Software (subsidiary of Cornelsen publishers). He served as member of the board of Didacta Verband, the biggest German education industry association, and currently in two working committees of Bitkom, Germany’s IT industry association.
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Discover
The world of educational technology and publishing is extremely fragmented and becoming more so every day. In the past, the device was paper and publishers were few. Now, information is ubiquitous, platforms are myriad, and devices are seemingly infinite. In this incredibly diverse environment, determining and developing best practices in the classroom is our greatest challenge. Join facilitators Myron Cizdyn and Eva Kilar-Magdziarz as they lead an interactive discussion centered on best practices in education, and on how to use technology to enrich the lifelong learning experience. The group will discuss a series of the most important themes in educational practice, so everyone present will have the opportunity to examine how learning is affected by technology, how technology can be a tool and not a distraction, and how lifelong immersion can be created in learning inside and outside the classroom.
Our discussions will be centered around five themes:
- Learning Experience Design (LXD): how do we use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to build curricula that are useful throughout the lifelong learning journey? How to ensure that the design of a learning path is coherent and meets the learning objectives of individuals?
- Building Learning Resources: how do all of us, teachers, administrators and even students, participate in making sense of information to increase knowledge by constructing and combining curricular resources? How to ensure the content curation is successful?
- Learning For All: how can we build inclusion and equity into our educational practice from the very start, using technology tools? How do we make our curricula and learning resources designed for all?
- Learning Everywhere: how can we build content that transcends the physical classroom space, and how can we adapt our spaces to improve learning? How do we design for microlearning on the go?
- Learning Differently: how can we use analytics, AI, and adaptive learning to improve the learning experience as well as learning outcomes?
Agenda
- Introductions
- Rotating Topic Discussion
- Coffee Break
- Rotating Topic Discussion
- Rotating Topic Discussion
- Lunch
- Rotating Topic Discussion
- Rotating Topic Discussion
- Coffee Break
- Rotating Topic Discussion
- Whole-Group Discussion: Conclusion and Next Steps
Outcomes
A clear idea of the greatest challenges posed by educational technology in classroom practice, and the start of a nascent but dedicated community of practice that is international, multidisciplinary, and comes from all segments of lifelong learning.
Who will benefit most?
Teachers, trainers and instructors from schools, universities and corporate L&D; Professors and Deans of university pedagogical faculties; and educational technology vendors already providing products to schools