Panel Talk DES47
Emerging Trends in Blended Classrooms
In this session, we’ll talk about the future of blended learning and how educators are taking advantage of cutting edge tools to enrich the educational experience of everyone.
Lise Lau Pedersen
Senior Lecturer, MPD, Consultant, University College Lillebaelt, Denmark
Lise Lau Pedersen. Senior Lecturer and Master in Educational Development.
Lise comes from University College Lillebaelt in Denmark and she works as a Consultant in Educational Innovation and Learning Resources. Educational Innovation and Learning Resources is an inter-faculty unit in University College Lille baelt.
Lise develops and supports digitalization and learning approaches in the professional bachelor programmes.
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Morten Fahlvik
Senior Adviser, Bergen University College - Centre for New Media, Norway
Morten Fahlvik is Head of Centre for New Media at Bergen University College in Bergen, Norway.
The combination of teaching, learning and technology have been the common denominator in most of what he has been working with since he graduated from Bergen University College in 1995.
Specialties: Blended Learning, ICT supported teaching and learning, Assessment for Learning, Reading instrucion, Educational Research and more
Links
http://www.hib.no/om-hogskolen/senter-f…http://www.itslearning.eu
Chrystina Russell
Chief Academic Officer, Kepler Kigali, Rwanda
Chrystina Russell is the Chief Academic Officer of Kepler, a university program based in Rwanda. The organization has two campuses--one in Kigali and one in Kiziba refugee camp in Western Rwanda. Previously, she was a founding principal of Global Tech Prep, a high-performing, innovative public school, and was on the faculty of City College of New York. Chrystina holds a B.A. in Social Organization and Minority Communities from University of Michigan and a M.S. in Bilingual Special Education. Chrystina is presently a Doctoral Candidate at the Ciy Univeristy of New York Gradaute Center in Urban Education Policy.
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Thomas Grønlund
Lecturer and Researcher, Danish Defense College, Denmark
2007- 2015: Researcher, educational consultant and lecturer at Royal Danish Defence College
Researching and teaching inside the scope of Adult- and Lifelong Learning and Workplace Learning.
Developing IT-teaching methods.
Educational consultant.
Lecturer and inspirations facilitator
2006: Dep. Provost Marshal in UN mision in Sudan:
Planning and coordination of UN military police action and education in Sudan.
Cooperation and diplomatic processes in UN enviroment
1985-2006: Officer in Royal Danish Navy
Blended service inside the scope of tactical Naval Warfare, Leadership and Training & Education
Publications:
Grønlund, T. & Sjøstedt, P. (2015) Instructor in Danish Defense Instruktørvirke i Forsvaret
København. ISBN: 978-87-7147-091-8
Links
http://forsvaret.dk/fak/eng/Pages/defau…
Moderator
Gernold Frank
Projectleader, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Gernold Frank is Professor emeritus for Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour at the Business School for Economics and Law, University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW Berlin; since 1995). He was Program Director Bachelor/Undergraduate `International Business´ and head of eLCC –the universities eLearning competence center. He was co-founder and head of Master/Graduate `Labour- and Human Resource-Management´ (launch: Oct 2010). Until 1994 and between 1999-2002 he worked for the Dresdner Bank AG, D-Frankfurt on Main, CorporateCenter Personnel. Among other activities he was responsible for creating and implementation of a new company-wide appraisal system and he created a personnel development system for young professionals with high potential. From 1999 – 2002 he has had a sabbatical for the Bank in the field of `NewMedia in HR Management´ with two remarkable projects: (1) HR eCommerce and (2) PROSIPS (soft factors for success based on an own Balanced Score Card). From 1991-2000 he was academic advisor of LaSalle-corporate university, D-Frankfurton Main. He was member of a National Expert Group for `Learning-Working-Competence-Innovation´ (International Monitoring Project-RWTH Aachen/D) and he still is member of the Academic Board for the studying programmes `Bachelor International Business´ and `Master International Management´ (HTW Berlin) as well as for the QUADRIGA-HR Management&Leadership Program. Research projects with focus on online-education: eCompetence Project (2004-2012 at HTW); “Interactive tv in training for small and medium sized enterprises” (LEONARDO-Project 2005-2008); “Teaching and Learning Technoloy Center - TLTC” (PALOMITA-Project 2006-2008); "Home Care Health System & eLearning" (IFAF 2011-2014). Actual research activities as well as various contibutions are in the field of `Blended & Informal Learning", "Learning Analytics" and further education for "(Strategic) Workforce Planning with Blended Learning".