Panel Presentation Session DES07
For Change-Making in Higher Education – Future Education: Meeting Needs or Missing the Mark?
This session invites you to explore the shifting meeting point of learner needs and educational institutions offerings. The question in focus will be: what can we change to prepare students for the future? Insights from different countries will set the scene.
Christien Bok
Programme Manager, SURF, The Netherlands
Christien Bok, Program manager Technology Enhanced Learning, SURFnet
Boosting the quality of higher education and research requires an advanced, reliable and interconnected ICT infrastructure. In the Netherlands SURFnet supports, innovates, develops and operates this infrastructure, which consists of both network and collaborative components. As program manager Technology Enhanced Learning, Christien’s field of interest and work is to support cooperation between institutions of higher education in the area of IT innovation for improving study success and the quality of education, stimulate experiments, sharing of knowledge and developing a portfolio of services for HE institutions. She has a strong interest in Open Education, Blended Learning, Learning Analytics, Testing and Assessments, Learning Environments and Governance for successful innovations.
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Stavros Xanthopoylos
International Director, ABED - Brazilian Association of Distance Learning, Brazil
Philipp Höllermann
Head of Online Learning Solutions, International University Bad Honnef - Bonn (IUBH), Germany
Philipp Hoellermann is an expert in digital learning and higher education. His areas of expertise include e-learning technologies, social learning approaches, distance learning models, higher education management, business development, and change management.
His recent activities cover the development and implementation of distance learning programs both in the higher education and corporate sector, as well as the development of online tools for HR development. He is also the publisher of "Trendstudie Fernstudium", one of the largest studies on distance learning in the German higher education market.
Philipp holds a master’s degree in political sciences, economics and modern history from the University of Bonn. He is currently working as Head of Online Learning Solutions at the International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef – Bonn (IUBH).
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Jan Pakulski
Head of Unit (Studies, Impact Assessments, Analysis and Statistics), European Commission, Belgium
Mr. Pakulski joined the European Commission in September 2009. Prior to taking his current assignment he worked for 16 years for the World Bank in WashingtonDC where he held numerous positions in the Bank's operational complex as well as the external affairs and operational services vice-presidencies. He has an extensive track record of project management, primarily in social sectors, held management as well as advisory positions related to Bank-funded operations in the Europe and Central Asia region.
Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as expert in the area of social development for the Netherlands Government, the European Commission Phare program, the Council of Europe and other agencies. Following his university graduation, he worked as Executive Director of a Netherlands-based international NGO network, working in the area of development education and social justice, traveling extensively through the developing world.
Mr. Pakulski holds a M.A. degree in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics and a doctorandus degree in development economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
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Moderator
Gordon Slaven
Managing Director, Slaven Consultancy Services Ltd, UK