Tomorrow's New World: Extending the Reach of Learning

Anka Mulder studied History at the University of Groningen, where she later lectured in International Relations. She worked in Brussels, Vienna and The Hague and became Director of Education at TU Delft in 2004.

In 2008 she was a member, from 2011 to 2013 president of the board of the international OpenCourseWare Consortium. The Consortium is the largest international organisation in the field of free online provision of education in the form of complete courses. From 2011 to 2013 she combined the post of director with that of Secretary General of the university.

Since April 2013, she has been Vice-President at TU Delft responsible for Education and Operations.  Furthermore she is a member of the edX University Advisory Board, a global network of universities including Harvard, MIT and Berkeley, that produce Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and promote innovation in education worldwide. She is member of the Supervisory Board of the Hotel School The Hague and of the Comité d’orientation stratégique of the University of Sorbonne.

Links

http://ankamulder.weblog.tudelft.nl/

Lia joined the Wellcome Trust in 2014 to lead the innovative £6 million ‘Education and Neuroscience Initiative’ following a long-standing interest in this area.

After studying neuroscience at the University of Nottingham, Lia became a secondary school biology teacher and head of department for six years. During her time teaching she noticed that the lack of connection between the education community and the neuroscience/psychology research had left a gulf which was being filled by ‘brain-based’ teaching practices which were often unsubstantiated. This led her to complete an M.Ed at the University of Cambridge looking at how neuroscience could be used to develop the understanding of learning to improve practice.

The ‘Education and Neuroscience Initiative’ a collaborative scheme with the Education Endowment Foundation, aims to both build the evidence by funding research, but also to help support teachers with the research already available.

Toby Walsh is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
He is also Research Group Leader at Data61 (formerly NICTA), Australia's centre of excellence for ICT. 
He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and of AI Communications. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of the ACM covering Artificial Intelligence. He has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI for his research and service to the community.

Michael Teutsch is Head of Unit for country analysis in the European Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture. His activities include the analysis of national education systems and policies in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy for growth and jobs and the European Semester promoting structural reforms in EU Member States. His unit also supports the development and implementation of EU and national policies through peer-learning between countries, making best use of EU cohesion policy and funds in the area of education, and country specific analysis on issues related to school and early childhood education, higher education, migration, and innovation in education.

Links

http://ec.europa.euhttp://ec.europa.eu/staffdir/plsql/gsys…