Panel Presentation Session FUT25
The Learning Space: Classroom Arrangement in the Digital Age
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomCharlottenburg III
Do you think it is necessary to adapt and refurbish existing classrooms so that they allow for better use of technologies? How would this affect the empowerment of learners? Are educators ready for this change? Join for inspirational examples of the implementation of future classrooms.
Federica Oradini
Senior Lecturer eLearning, University of Westminster, UK
New Teaching Practices, Innovative Classrooms, Mobile Learning: SMART Teaching
I have been working in the UK Higher Education sector since 2005 planning, designing and implementing e-learning and blended learning courses in collaboration with the University’s Faculties, by providing expertise in instructional design and advice on pedagogic and regulatory aspects of online delivery.
I am thrilled to be able to help extend pedagogical innovation in the online space to empower students to think in more sustained and sophisticated ways through collaboration in engaged learning communities. I support professional development for academic staff, conceiving and running staff development seminars and workshops about the use of online platforms and web tools to enhance and support learning and teaching on both blended and distance learning courses. I am passionate about making education more accessible while creating a collaborative, experiential and social experience.
Recently my role has been focusing on transforming learning and teaching through the use of mobile technologies, into practical deliverables, analysing underlying learning practices and devising ways to change them to ensure curriculum delivery becomes aligned to the new vision for learning and teaching across the University. I gather intelligence from across the institution to ensure that a robust and appropriate institutional mobile learning strategy is produced and kept updated and validated against external benchmarking and trends, approved by both academic and corporate services stakeholders.
I have been an e-tutor on a variety of online distance learning courses since 2009. I undertake research into the use of web 2.0 tools in teaching and learning, evaluates and presents case studies concerning the effective use of technology enhanced learning at national and international conferences.
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Wim Trooster
Senior teacher, Senior Research Scientist, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
Owning Learning. From Teacher-Control to Learner-Control: How to Make the Shift?
Dr. Wim Trooster (1961) is currently working as a Senior Lecturer/Researcher on eLearning at Windesheim University, Zwolle, The Netherlands. He gained experience in research (PhD) at the University of Groningen, and he gained experience in Education as well. After years of teaching and developing curricula in settings like secondary vocational education and university, he was the manager of an Educational Department at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen. During this period Wim developed a big interest in the application of IT for Education.
Based on this experience he came to the Windesheim University to combine his knowledge in the fields of IT and Education. He developed university policy and managed projects on IT for Education. For the past 6 years he has been working as a researcher at the Research Group on Educational Innovation & IT at Windesheim University.
Currently Wim is setting up a “Laboratory” on Didactics & IT (LAB21) at Windesheim University.
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Harri Kuusela
Development Manager, Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland
BYOD and Teaching Practices – How Do Students’ Own Devices Change Learning Space Design?
I currently work as a Development Manager at Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland. To put it shortly, my responsibilities - and luckily my interests, too - relate to bridging pedagogics, processes and technology, and all this through as user-friendly interfaces as possible. Previously, I have worked in both private and public sector, developing digital solutions for various purposes. My background is in philosophy and I have a Master’s Degree and Teacher’s Qualification from the University of Turku.
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Moderator
Gilly Salmon
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education Innovation), University of Western Australia, Australia
Professor Gilly Salmon is one of the world's leading thinkers around learning futures and pedagogical innovation. She researches and publishes widely on the themes of innovation and change in Higher Education and the exploitation of new technologies of all kinds in the service of learning. She is internationally renowned for her significant contributions to online education including research, learning design, teaching methods and the use of digital technologies.
Gilly is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education Innovation) at The University of Western Australia (UWA). She has established The Centre for Education Futures to realize UWA's Education Futures principles and visions, including the 'Mobile is the new Blend', establishment of the futures and radical thinking and achievements through the Futures Observatory, the collaborative design of UWA teaching units through the Carpe Diem methodology and the achievements of extensive digital learning environments for the university.
Previously, she was Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning Transformations at Swinburne University of Technology, Executive Director and Professor (Learning Futures) at the Australian Digital Futures Institute, based in the University of Southern Queensland, Australia and was Professor of E-learning and Learning Technologies, and Head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance and the Media Zoo, at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.
Recent publications include the third edition of her seminal E-moderating, the 2nd Edition of E-tivies, Learning in Groups and Podcasting for Learning.
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http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/gilly.salm…