Presentations
Fast Forward: Success Factors for Innovation
Date Thursday, Dec 2 Time – RoomPavillon
Digital transformation, collaboration and new possibilities offered by technological solutions can be drivers of educational innovation. Both research and best practices will be discussed in this session.
Merja Laamanen
Digital Transformation Lead, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, Finland
Merja Laamanen (M.Sc. (Econ) in information system science and MA in research of art) works at the University of Jyväskylä digital services where she is a Digital Transformation Lead. She is an alumna of University of Jyväskylä and has 20 years of work experience in developing e-learning models, training and support modules, and new digital tools for Higher Education. She is a PhD student in education technology and her research interests are usability, accessibility and new learning technologies.
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Ulrike Wild
Programme Director Educational Innovation, Wageningen University&Research, Netherlands
At Wageningen University&Research Ulrike has lead several innovation programmes with a huge impact on the organization of education: Open&Online Education, Flexibilization and now Professional Education. She leads as well a National Programme for Flexibilization, which is part of the Dutch Acceleration Plan for Educational Innovation with ICT. The Dutch pilot for introducing Microcredentials in HE has been initiated in this context. Being an innovator in heart and mind, she follows Wayne Gretzky famous saying: 'skate where the puck is going, not where it's been'.
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Afif Rustom
International Business Development, VitalSource, United Arab Emirates
Based in Dubai, Afif works closely with key stakeholders in ministries of education, consortiums, and institutions. He enables content providers to enable learners, instructors and management to make a systematic transformation to digital. Leading the teams in his regions he likes to tackle educational solutions and to gain successful outcomes and enhanced learning experiences.
Moderator
Miguel Rodriguez-Artacho
Associate Professor, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia
MIGUEL RODRÍGUEZ ARTACHO (Málaga 1968) is a computer scientist and university professor at the UNED University (Spain), where he investigates the improvement of ICT in education and coordinates a postgraduate program in this line. He is also the founder and head of the technical secretariat of the CTN71 / SC36 committee on standardization of educational technologies at AENOR. Since 2018 he has a diploma in higher defense studies from CESEDEN in the XXXVIII National Defense Course.