Panels and Discussions PAD327
For What It’s Worth: Leadership Visions for Higher Ed
Date Wednesday, Dec 2 Time – Room
How do we generate added value in digital education for learners around the world? How do we establish new ways of digital collaboration that do not exacerbate existing inequalities? How do we leave the competitive mindset of higher ed and create responsible leadership for a networked future? In this session we will share and discuss with you ‘glocal’ perspectives on leadership visions for digital transformation strategies.
Sylvia Schwaag-Serger
Lund Universtiy, Sweden
Bitange Ndemo
ICT Champion and Professor of Entrepreneurship, ICT Champion and Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Bitange Ndemo is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi’s Business School. His research centers on the link between ICTs and small and medium enterprises with emphasis on how ICTs influence economic development in Africa. Prof. Ndemo is an advisor to several organizations including the Better than Cash Alliance, a global initiative under UNCDF dedicated to promotion of cash alternatives; UN’s Global Pulse on Big Data; the I-Hub, a premier innovation hub in Africa and Vienna-based World Data Lab. He also sits in the Boards of Safaricom one of the leading telecommunication company in Africa, Mpesa Foundation, Research ICT Africa that is based in South Africa. He is a former Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication where he was credited with facilitating many transformative ICT projects. After years of developing the supply-side of broadband, he has now changed gears to demand-side through assisting start-ups in Africa and actively playing a key role in building sustainable models of innovation hubs. Prof. Ndemo holds a PhD in Industrial Economics from the University of Sheffield in the UK, a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from University of St. Thomas. He is an Open Data/Big Data evangelist and dedicated to simplification (visualization) of data for ordinary citizens to consume.
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Friedrich W. Hesse
Professor - Scientific Vice Chair, Global Learning Councel, Germany
Friedrich W. Hesse studied psychology at the Universities of Marburg and Düsseldorf, received his doctorate at the RWTH Aachen and qualified as Professor of Psychology at the University of Goettingen.
His research focuses on learning with digital media, especially on net-based knowledge communication and computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL).
Since 2013 he is the Scientific Co-Chair of the Global Learning Council. He is also Founding Director of the Research Cluster „Digitalization, Diversity and Lifelong Learning – Consequences for Higher Education“ (D²L²) at FernUniversität Hagen.
Formerly he served as Director of the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (2001-2016), Scientific vice-president of the German Leibniz Association (2010-2018), and Head of the Department for Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology at the University of Tuebingen (1999-2019).