Panel Presentation Session ENG35
The Voice of the Learner
Date Friday, Dec 2 Time – RoomCharlottenburg III
Let’s use technologies to connect learners and give them a voice and the confidence of critical thinkers, empowered and capable to organise their learning. The panel in this session will share how to make this a reality with the support of different stakeholders, whilst taking into consideration the role of the educator coping with demands, changes and challenges.
Leone Gately
Educational Technology Coordinator, University College Dublin, Ireland
All Aboard! Empowering Learners and Teachers to Flourish in the Digital Age
Renske Wiersema
Student assisstent, University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands
Voucher Education: Students as Leading Change Agents in Personalised Medical Education
Renske Wiersema is a 4th year medical student from the University Medical Center of Groningen (UMCG). In her first year she became actively involved with feedback of education as a year representator. This motivated her to apply and to be selected for the role of Student Advisor of the Executive Board of the UMCG 2014-2016. In this role she gained interest for not only education itself but also its organization and innovation.
In 2015 she became involved with the project of Voucher Education, in which she works together with a team of enthusiastic students and collaborators from the educational institute. Voucher Education is a project in which medical bachelor students at the UMCG are granted one voucher to buy and create their own education.
Currently she is a student researcher in the Intensive Care Unit, a teacher and moving towards her medical degree. She is still working on Voucher Education and is active as chairwoman in local and national medical student representation.
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Andrew Robinson
Director of Higher Education, Cengage EMEA, UK
Empowering Today’s Students Through Independent Study
Andrew leads the Europe Middle East Africa division of at Cengage, a leading educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education and K–12, professional and library markets worldwide. The company provides content, personalized services and course-driven digital solutions that accelerate student engagement and transform the learning experience. Throughout his 25-year career in the education sector in educational and academic publishing and content roles, Andrew has witnessed the transition and expansion of the higher education market globally and seen the advent of technologies and how they have been used by faculty and students alike, with varying levels of success. In recent years and during his tenure at Cengage, he has seen growing evidence that what was a gradual evolution is accelerating and becoming an innovation revolution, as technology enhanced learning becomes a genuine enabler, improving tertiary teaching and learning standards globally. Only when reliable robust technology solutions, researched intensively with both faculty and students, can actually demonstrate that they can meet pedagogical needs and solve contemporary challenges around student engagement, retention, satisfaction and employability, as well as develop students’ critical thinking and ‘soft’ skills alongside their conceptual understanding and knowledge, can they be truly relevant. Based on the Cengage experience, where we put students and then faculty at the centre, and create learning experiences to build confidence and momentum towards the future students want, that time is now.
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Moderator
Brian Holmes
Director, The European Commission, Belgium
Dr. Brian Holmes is the Director of the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA) in Brussels. The Agency is responsible for managing certain strands of the European Commission's programmes for Erasmus+, Creative Europe, Europe for Citizens and EU Aid Volunteers.
Brian has been working on education and training for many years at the European Commission. He has been involved with European policy for innovation and lifelong learning, supported by ICT, and was responsible for co-ordinating the EU's eLearning Programme.
Brian has an MBA from a Paris business school and has been a tutor with the UK’s Open University Business School, for the MBA module on Managing Knowledge. He holds a PhD on technology enhanced learning with the University of Lancaster in the UK.
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http://eacea.ec.europa.euhttp://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/index_en…