EDU41
The Change: Connected and Collaborative for Quality Learning Outcomes
Date Friday, Dec 4 Time – RoomCharlottenburg I
Is this the path to the future higher education landscape? This session will explore how connectivity and collaboration can achieve quality learning outcomes, and determine if this will be the future for higher education. This panel will be facilitated by the International Council of Distance Education, Norway.
Paul Rühl
CEO, Bavarian Virtual University, Germany
Paul Rühl has been Managing Director of the Bavarian Virtual University (BVU - Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern) since its foundation in 2000. The BVU is an institute set up by 30 Bavarian universities and universities of applied sciences. It is funded by the Free State of Bavaria.
The BVU finances the production and the operation of online-courses which the member universities can integrate into their study programmes. All courses provide individual tutoring; students of the member universities can take part free of charge. In the academic year of 2014 / 2015 there were 150,000 enrolments by nearly 50,000 Bavarian students.
Before he joined the BVU, Paul was Chief Editor at Langenscheidt's, Germanys leading publishing house for bilingual dictionaries. Until 1986 he worked as a reasercher in comparative educational and cultural studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he earned a doctorate in psycholinguistics.
Paul is Co-Chairperson of the Steering Committee of the German Eduserver (Deutscher Bildungsserver). He has been serving as a consultant for several German State and Federal Ministries and is a member of the Editorial Board of EURODL, the European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning.
Links
https://www.vhb.org/vhb/kontakt/ansprec…
Belinda Tynan
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Innovation), The Open University, UK
Professor Belinda Tynan is the Pro- Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Innovation) and a Professor of Higher Education at the Open University, UK. Reporting to the Vice-Chancellor, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Learning and Innovation contributes to the strategic vision and mission of the University and has a focus on supporting student success by providing executive leadership in the areas of innovation, strategy and policy development, production, informal learning and research and scholarship in technology enhanced learning. The PVC(LI) is Chair of the Education Committee amongst others and is a driver of initiatives relating to learning and innovation. She has a doctorate in education from the University of Western Australia and is an active researcher with expertise in technology enhanced learning, staff development and scholarship and learning and teaching pedagogy.
Links
http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/admin-…
Mark Brown
Professor; Director of the Institute, Dublin City University, Ireland
Professor Mark Brown is Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) at Dublin City University (DCU). Over the last decade Mark has played key leadership roles in the implementation of several major university-wide digital learning and teaching initiatives. Professor Brown has published extensively in his areas of expertise and serves on several international journal editorial boards in the fields of Online, Blended and Digital Learning. Mark is centrally involved in several European funded online learning initiatives, including two major projects exploring the role of MOOCs. He currently chairs the Teaching and Learning Steering Committee for the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) and before taking up his current position was President of the New Zealand Association for Open, Flexible and Distance Learning (DEANZ). Mark is a recipient of a National Award for Sustained Excellence in University Teaching. See...
http://www4.dcu.ie/nidl/people/director.shtml
Links
http://dcu.ie/nidl/people/director.shtml
Christine Appel
Director, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain
Thanasis Hadzilacos
Researcher, Project leadership, research, Open University of Cyprus, Greece
Moderator
Gard Titlestad
Secretary General, International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), Norway
As Secretary General for International Council for Open and Distance Education, ICDE, Gard Titlestad is head of the ICDE Permanent Secretariat. In close partnership with UNESCO, online, open and flexible education including e-learning is positioned to contribute to Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all. Before ICDE he served as director at the Nordic Council of Ministers, NCM, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He managed the secretariat for several configurations of ministers including the ministers for education and research, the ministers for health and social affairs, the ministers for labour affairs, and ministers for IT. Gard has been Research Counsellor for Norway and member of the executive team for the Norwegian delegation to the European Union in Brussels. Prior to this, Gard was a senior official in the European Commission, Directorate General Information Society. In Norway Gard worked for the Norwegian Government in research and development agencies. Gard is educated Physiochemist and in legal and management issues.
Links
http://www.icde.org/en/contact/