Interactive Breakout Session ENG15
Engaged, Collaborative Learning Organised by Students?
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomCheck
We are in a time when learners get together by their own accord to dive deep into a topic. They may organise their learning process themselves across different levels of competencies.
This learning café is about this type of student-driven e-learning, and how to transfer the hackathon spirit to the blended classroom. Topics that may be discussed include: the role of the teacher, whether weak students may suffer, the demand for personalised instruction and the resources needed to organise this.
The facilitators of the session set the scene with experiences from their projects, and invite you to join a new community of practice.
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Moderators
Helle Rootzen
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Helle Rootzen is professor in learning technology and digitalization at DTU Compute and director of Center for Digital Learning Technology. Her research in and development of new learning technologies has changed the way mathematics are taught at DTU and at other universities. She has had a long engagement in digitalization of industry, in education/learning, and in exponential technology and she is alumnus from Singularity University. She has a statistical background and an extensive experience in working as a statistician with industry and with researchers from many different fields of sciences and engineering. From 2010-15 she was Head of Department at DTU Compute. In this period she led a value-adding merger between DTU Informatics and DTU Mathematics into the new DTU Compute with almost 400 employees. She has overseen the successful move of parts of the department into a new, modern building, which has set new standards for innovative learning environments and office spaces. During her time as director DTU Compute has multiplied the number of external research grants, has made substantial contributions to innovation, and has impacted the political scene. She has been leader for many research- and teaching projects and was elected as teacher of the year at DTU in 2000.
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Sidsel-Marie Winther Prag
E-learning Consultant, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Sidsel-Marie Winther Prag is an e-learning consultant at LearningLab DTU, the Technical University of Denmark. In this position she is an advisor and sparring partner to the academic staff and management at DTU on how, when and why to use learning technology. She also gives courses and workshops on incorporating learning technology in teaching and learning activities and course design.
Sidsel-Marie holds and M.Sc. in IT from the IT University of Copenhagen and has been working with e-learning and continuing education since her graduation in 2007 in both the public and private sector.