Presentation Panel
Online Synchronous Delivery: How to Make it Work for Schools
Date Thursday, Nov 24 Time – Room: Koepenick III
As the pandemic forced schools to move learning online, many tried to replicate the face-to-face experience by delivering live online lessons. What have schools learned from this experience and what can we learn from the veterans: schools that already started with online education ages ago?
Frederick Dixon
Product Manager, BigBlueButton Inc., Canada
Frederick Dixon is the Project Manager for BigBlueButton, an open source virtual classroom built by teachers, for teachers. He also moonlights as the CEO of Blindside Networks.
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Torkil Valla
IT-Educator, Trøndelag nettskole, Norway
I work as a school administrator at Trøndelag nettskole, which is Trøndelag county's only online state school. I have tought English and history at Trøndelag nettskole since 2014, but I started working administratively from March 2019. I have a MA in historical reserach from University of Surry and I received my teacher training from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
From 2005-2014, I worked as a teacher at several upper secondary high schools in Trondheim, Norway.
Matt James
Head of Online Education, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, United Kingdom
Matt James has over 20 years' experience of working with schools and educational organisations around the world, developing strategy in complex environments, implementing change, developing and delivering products and balancing the needs of external stakeholders and customers. He has taught English, Media and Film Studies and held leadership roles at the International Baccalaureate, Fieldwork Education and Cambridge University Press & Assessment, where he has had a focus on professional development and support for teachers. In his current role as Head of Online Education, he leads Cambridge's work with online schools.
Moderator
Richard Powers
Online Operations & Learning Designer for Virtual Exchange, University of Stuttgart (Professional School of Education), Germany
A well-known and recognized e-Learning expert, Prof. Emer. Richard Powers is currently a Professor, Trainer and Learning Designer with the University of Stuttgart in Germany, where he teaches blended learning courses to develop competences in digitalization and diversity for pre-service teachers across five universities. He is an EU eTwinning Ambassador for Germany.
He teaches Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Project-Based Learning with eTwinning & Erasmus+ for Interculturality, and Digital Accessibility. Prof. Powers won the 2022 Teaching Award for Excellence at Stuttgart University, receiving Euro 10.000 for his research and future projects.
Remotely, Professor Powers develops, implements and evaluates UDL and synchronous "online-live" training programs for 4,000 faculty at City Colleges of Chicago.
He routinely teaches and trains faculty in Stuttgart and Chicago how to teach online with Moodle, ILIAS and Brightspace in webinars via Webex and Zoom. His DAAD and eTwinning/Erasmus+ virtual exchange & blended mobility classes involve student teachers from Germany, Turkey, the Ukraine, North Macedonia, France, Spain, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Nepal.