OEB 2016 Speakers and Chairpersons Included:

Martin Addison is CEO of Video Arts Group. With more than 20 years experience in the learning content and technologies business, he has become one of the foremost speakers and thought leaders on the subject in the UK and Europe.

Video Arts was established in the UK in 1972 by a small group of television professionals, including the actor and comedian John Cleese, who pioneered the use of humour in training.

Video Arts delivers video and e-learning courses to customers in over 50 countries. Our resources draw upon the best in subject matter expertise, learning design and television production to create longer lasting learning.

We continue to add to our library and produce custom content for our clients, distributing content through e-learning portals, our new video ON>DEMAND platform and on DVD.

Links

http://www.videoarts.com

Tammy Alexander and Sharon Monie are both Product Development Managers in the Online Student Experience team in the Learning and Teaching Solutions Unit and have been at the OU for over 10 years. The team have a broad range of skills and experience including educational technology, web and mobile development, teaching, project management and user experience design. Over the last two years they have all been committed to delivering an engaging and purposeful online learning and teaching experience for students at the OU, transforming the current online learning systems to exceed increasing market-based student expectations and digital skills.

Links

http://www.open.ac.uk

Roberto works in Madrid as a Project Manager at IE Publishing, where along with a team of programmers, designers, audiovisual professionals and academic staff he creates learning materials for subjects across business areas such as Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Information Systems & Technologies among others. Roberto has a Computer Engineering major from Universidad Simon Bolivar and a Master in Business Administration degree at IESA, both in Caracas, Venezuela.

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http://www.ie.edu/multimedia

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http://www.wooclap.com

Peer Andersen is associate professor in mathematics didactics at Department of Teacher Education at University College of South-East Norway. Andersen has 23 years’ experience from teacher education, and has in the last six years taken a central part in developing the online teacher education programme at the university college. Andersen has given several presentations demonstrating the technical possibilities within online teaching. In the autumn of 2015, Andersen was awarded the Norwegian Online Teacher of the Year prize by the organization Flexible Education Norway (“Fleksibel utdanning Norge”, in Norwegian).

Links

http://usn.no

Martin Henrick Andresen is a Project Manager and mLearning Specialist at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway’s largest business school. With a business-development background from media, Andresen was challenged to use technology to disrupt existing methods of teaching. Andresen has explored the opportunities in mobile micro learning in the higher education industry.

Learn more about microlearning from Martin Henrik Andresen.

Links

http://www.bi.edu/about-bi/employees/bi…

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Yannis Angelis is working the last 20 years in the organizational environment in different roles, mainly Training & Learning Management, Marketing Communication and Organizational Development. He is a founding member of INTAGIO, an association that supports Organizations in their Change processes guided by a human orientation. He is also a founding member of beyondstorytelling.com, a forum of experts who work with the narrative approach as a catalyst for organizational transformations in learning, change, leadership, branding and communication.

Yannis's field of interest is the Corporate Training and the change that technology provokes in this area. He is a frequent keynote speaker in international conferences and events. He has designed a participatory process for e-learning development and a model, which has its engagement base on the “Flow Experience” from Positive Psychology. His “Lov-e & Car-e” model leverages principles and tools from the Gestalt Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Theory U, Gamification, and Story Building.

Yannis is a passionate online learner and enjoys inspiring other people to become lifelong learners as well. He believes that the key attitude during the development process of any successful learning initiative is not only to inspire people to learn but also to make them feel happy about the way they learn.

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Alejandro (Ale) Armellini is Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and Director of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in HE, University of Northampton.

Ale’s key role is to lead change in the area of learning and teaching across all schools and services at Northampton. Three aspects of Ale’s work are (1) the development, implementation and evaluation of Northampton’s Learning and Teaching Strategic Plan, (2) the development of a robust framework for continuous professional development for academic staff, and (3) fostering evidence-based, innovative practices in both campus-based and online learning and teaching. Ale’s research focuses on learning innovation, online pedagogy, course design in online environments, institutional capacity building and open practices.

Ale has extensive international teaching and programme development experience across different education sectors and modes of study. Over the years, he has used, researched and refined evidence-based design-for-learning interventions to promote positive change in further and higher education. Teams under his leadership have researched the application of learning technologies in diverse academic settings. His PhD tutees research specific areas in the field of educational technology, pedagogy, openness and innovation. Ale is active in consultancy work globally.

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http://www.northampton.ac.uk/

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Dr. Sylvester Arnab is a Reader in Game Science at Coventry University, co-leading research at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL). With more than 10 years research experience in simulation, serious games and gamification combined, his research interests include gameful, playful and persuasive designs that transform ordinary tasks into extraordinary experiences. As leader of Games Science research at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Sylvester is coordinating the EC Horizon 2020 BEACONING project which aims to foster ‘anytime anywhere’ learning using pervasive, context-aware and gamified techniques. He is also leading DMLL’s contribution to the EC H2020 C4Rs project and the Erasmus+ Gamification for Hard to Reach project. He currently has over 80 publications and has a portfolio with a total value of in excess of £7 million research funding. He is consistently ranked in the top 10 of the Gamification Guru Power 100 (Rise.Global). He delivers regular keynotes at national and international events related to serious games, gamification and technology-enhanced learning (https://sylvesterarnab.wordpress.com/speaking/).

Links

http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/rese…http://dmll.org.uk/about/team/sylvester…

Steven has been involved with the HCM market for over 9 years, initially at Softscape and more recently at Saba. Here he has helped organisations achieve value and transformation using Saba’s cloud-based Intelligent Talent Management solution to develop and engage their employees. With machine learning at its core, Intelligent Talent Management offers proactive, personalized recommendations on candidates, connections and content to help your employees and organization lead and succeed.

Links

http://www.saba.com

My name is Demet Avci and I am 20 years old. I was born and raised in berlin but my roots are in turkey. It is really important for me to travel the world and see diffrent cultures to widen my mind and spirit.

Since the wintersemester 2015 I am attending the technical university. I knew from the very beginning that I wanted to become a teacher. The main aspect was the huge influence of teachers and teaching itself. From my point of view the philosphy and the positiv mind of a teacher has a really grave impact on life planning and motivation of pupile. My main subject is WAT ( Arbeitslehre) and my second subject is German. 

Furthermore I believe in technic and its positiv and benefical effects. Based on that I am really curious about the development of e-learning.

Paul Bacsich is working for Matic Media Ltd.

He was Senior Consultant at Sero Consulting Ltd. He is Project Manager of the EU project POERUP (Policies for OER Uptake), funded under the Lifelong Learning Programme. Formerly he was Project Manager of the EU project VISCED (Virtual Schools and Colleges) and played a leading role in the Erasmus project Re.ViCa (Review of Virtual Campuses). 

He is also active in benchmarking, change management, and market research for online providers.

In addition to open and distance learning, and open and online resources, he has a long-standing interest in competency-based education and in particular generic skills.

Some of his recent thinking can be found in his paper for the "Open Education 2030" HE workshop, published in their blog, and his UNESCO policy brief on "Alternative Models of Education Delivery".

In his former academic career he was a researcher at Oxford University, lecturer and researcher at the UK Open University, and Professor of Telematics at Sheffield Hallam University.

Links

http://www.sero.co.uk/people/paul/http://www.matic-media.co.ukhttp://bacsich.typepad.com/elearning/

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Director of David Banes Access and Inclusion Services and formerly CEO, at the Qatar Assistive Technology and Accessibility Center, David has developed services ensuring the digital inclusion of disabled people. He works across Middle East and Europe to address how access is maintained during periods of technical and social change, seeking to build capacity, linking awareness, policy, technology development and the need for training.

With a background in special needs education and supporting digital inclusion in Europe, he supports emerging access ecosystems promoting cooperation between states, supports development of accesisble technology solutions and content.

Recent work includes a framework for contextualisation of access technology, transference of knowledge across communities and a policy framework to address the rights of people with a disability. His current activity includes educational support for refugees and the disruptive innovation upon the access industry.

Links

http://davebanesaccess.org/

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Brenda is a Knowledge and Learning professional with over twenty-five years of experience leading teams and managing projects that empower people to capture and use knowledge well. She is the Manager of the Knowledge and Communications Department of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Independent Evaluation Group (IEG).  The department aims to ensure effective learning and knowledge sharing from IEG’s work.

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http://ieg.worldbank.org

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Over a period spanning 25 years, Dr. Fawzi Baroud has been engaged in promoting technology as a pedagogical tool tied to meeting educational objectives and assessment of learning outcomes in higher education. Specialized in eLearning, systems management, mathematics and electrical engineering, he combines numerous areas of academic expertise for advancing the use of technology in different curricular content areas.

As the Assistant Vice President for Information Technology at Notre Dame University – Louaize (NDU) in Lebanon, Dr. Baroud leads in the campus-wide planning and implementation of information technologies that support teaching and learning, including training faculty members to integrate educational technology in their teaching.

As champion of open education on campus, Dr. Baroud has made the integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) a key strategic goal of the University. Under his watch, NDU became an institutional affiliate of Creative Commons, and he is currently in the process of formulating policies for the successful use of OER in teaching and learning. He conducts seminars and hands-on workshops on open education and open licensing at leading Lebanese higher education institutions and has become a reference point on the subject.

Dr. Baroud has published several studies on eLearning and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use in education, participated in conferences, coauthored the informatics national curriculum for Lebanon, and offered consultancy to academic institutions. His research centers on the use, integration and evaluation of ICT, OER, and eLearning implementation in higher educational contexts.

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http://www.ndu.edu.lb

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In 2012, Christoph Benzmüller was awarded with a Heisenberg Research Fellowship of the German National Research Foundation (DFG). In this position he is currently affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, where he holds a venia legendi in Mathematics and Computer Science, and with Stanford University, CSLI/Cordula Hall, CA, USA. Previously, Christoph held positions as a full professor at the International University in Bruchsal, Germany, and as an Associate and Assistant Professor at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Christoph received his PhD (1999) and his Habilitation (2007) in computer science from Saarland University. His PhD, titled 'Equality and Extensionality in Higher-Order Theorem Proving', was supported by a grant of the 'Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes' and was partly conducted at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. Core research interests of Christoph include the theory, implementation, and application of reasoning systems for expressive logics, including classical and non-classical first-order and higher-order logics.

Christoph is well known for his automated higher-order theorem provers LEO-I and LEO-II. The latter system was developed in a project at Cambridge University, UK (2006-2007). Previously, Christoph has also been working at the boundry of computational logic, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics and computer-supported mathematics in several projects at Saarland University, the University of Birmingham, UK, and the University of Edinburgh, UK. The latest research activities of Christoph include the automation of various quantified non-classical logics logics as natural fragments of classical higher-order logic, and the automation of challenge aspects, in particular, modal contexts, in ontology reasoning. In the latter research Christoph cooperated with Articulate Software, Angwin, CA, USA (2008-2011). Recently, Christoph received major international recognition for his work (with B. Woltzenlogel-Paleo) on the formalization and automation of Kurt Gödel's ontological argument for the existence of God on the computer.

Christoph is trustee and vice-president of CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction), board member of AAR (Association of Automated Reasoning) and spokesman of the section Deduction Systems of the Gesellschaft für Informatik. He is editorial board member of the Journal of Applied Logic and the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and a permanent steering committee member of the User Interfaces for Theorem Provers workshop series. Moreover, he served as a trustee or steering committee member of several other conferences and he is an executive officer of The International Federation for Computational Logic (IFCoLog).

Prior to his academia career, Christoph Benzmüller was a successful long-distance runner at German national level.

Links

http://christoph-benzmueller.de

Matteo Bertazzo holds a Master Degree in Computer Science from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. After a research fellowship in Location-based Services from the National Research Council he works as web developer and technical project manager. He currently works as Solution Designer and PMP® certified Project Manager at CINECA InterUniversity Consortium. He has been involved in a number of Education and Digital Humanities projects, both for the consortium’s members and for EU-funded projects. He currently leads the development of Bestr, the Italian Open Badge platform. See Linkedin profile at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbertazz

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http://www.cineca.it/en

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Tarek R. Besold is a researcher active at the intersection between artificial intelligence, computational creativity, and cognitive systems. Before joining the Digital Media Lab of the University of Bremen in September 2016, he studied mathematics, computer science, and logic in Erlangen, Zaragoza, and Amsterdam, obtained a PhD from the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the KRDB Research Centre of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Among others, Tarek was the General Chair of the HLAI 2016 Joint Multi-Conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, and founder and/or organizer of several international workshop series bridging between AI and cognitive science. He was co-editor of the book “Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines”, and serves in different editorial functions for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), for Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition, and for Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA).

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http://www.unibz.it/it/inf/people/Staff…

Carmen Biel is a research associate at the German Institute for Adult Education in Bonn, Germany.

Since 2015, she has been working as a project manager of a research and development project that aims at the development of an interactive, open learning space for the large community of adult educators in Germany. She holds a degree in educational science of the University of Hamburg, Germany.

In 2009, she worked as the training coordinator at a north German broadcasting company for an in-house software changeover.

From 2011 to early 2015, she was employed at the Knowledge Media Research Center in Tuebingen, Germany. Within that position, she worked in a FP7 project as a research associate and work package leader.

Links

http://www.die-bonn.de

Ursel Biester is a Design Thinker, Host for conversations that matter and Social Entrepreneur. She has co-designed educational programs for organizational change, supported the build-up of an intentional community for journeyers on their quest for personal growth and transformation, authored three books and founded three companies. She specializes in coaching individuals and groups for mastering their current learning edge, matching their personal growth with their next professional challenge. She is currently working with Somos Más, harnessing collective intelligence in social ecosystems.

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http://europe.somosmas.org/about/team/u…

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Dr. Marius Boboc is Professor of Education and Vice Provost for Academic Planning at Cleveland State University (CSU) in Cleveland, OH. Marius earned his M.A. in Teacher Leadership from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and his Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. His work experience includes being the Director of the Office of Student Learning Assessment at CSU, chair of the Department of Curriculum and Foundations, and overseeing the Office of Academic Planning, where he manages strategic planning, student learning assessment, academic program review and institutional research and analysis, e-Learning, as well as Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, among many other responsibilities. Marius’ research interests relate to online instruction (ranging design to implementation and evaluation), assessment and accreditation in higher education, postmodern education, leadership in higher education, and teacher preparation reform. 

Links

http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufa…

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.

Links

https://www.surf.nl/

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http://www.fboschman.nl/http://www.windesheim.nl

Jane Bozarth is a veteran classroom trainer who transitioned to eLearning in the late 1990s and never looked back. As leader of the State of North Carolina USA's award-winning eLearning program, Dr. Bozarth specializes in finding low-cost ways of providing online training solutions. Her abiding interest in social learning and communities of practice framed her graduate work and dissertation and led to the publication of her bestselling book Social Media for Trainers and the new Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-Tos of Working Out Loud. She is the author of several other books, including eLearning Solutions on a Shoestring, Better than Bullet Points, and From Analysis to Evaluation. She frequently contributes material to trade publications and writes the monthly "Nuts & Bolts" column for Learning Solutions Magazine. A popular conference speaker, Dr. Bozarth has keynoted events in the US, Canada, Australia, Turkey, and Scotland. She and her husband live with Thomas the Corgi in Durham, North Carolina, USA

Links

http://bozarthzone.blogspot.de/

Teaching

23 years of teaching Mathematics and Physics at Faculty of Engineering and Science. My teaching is based on the use of

-      Visualization and Simulation

-      Computer Aided Assessment - CAA

-      Video lectures and short videos

From traditional lectures to no lectures at all. Students watch videos and meet up for weekly seminars. Grading with CAA – tools.

MatRIC - Centre for excellence in Education

The Centre for Research, Innovation and Coordination of Mathematics Teaching (MatRIC) is a learning community working for excellence in teaching mathematics in universities.

Coordinator of two networking groups:

-      Digital Assessment. This network connects university level mathematics teachers who are using, or thinking about using, CAA to support their students' learning.

-      Video. This network connects university level mathematics teachers who are working on the production of video resources for teaching and learning mathematics (streaming, tutorial support, flipped classroom, blended learning).

Links

http://www.matric.no

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Claudia Bremer is the head of studiumdigitale, the elearning center of the University of Frankfurt. She coordinates the project lehr@mt, a project for the state wide qualification of teachers in the area of media competencies and a certificate for new media for teacher students. Claudia Bremer conducts research and gives consultation in the are of elearning scenarios and implementation, usage of web 2.0 technologies and the implementation of elearning strategies at educational institutions. Her organisation offers one of the largest elearning qualification programs for teachers, trainers and educational institutions.

Links

http://www.psychologie.uni-frankfurt.de…http://www.studiumdigitale.dehttp://www.bremer.cx/profil.htmlhttp://www.mooc-online.de

Peter A. Bruck is the world’s pioneering expert in microlearning, microcontent, micromedia and return-on-investment when using smartphones, tablets or desktop computers for micro-education.

Prof. Bruck has invented the term “microlearning” in 2004; he has conducted many influential research projects since then and published key books in the field, such as ‘Global Mobile: Applications and Innovations for the Worldwide Mobile Ecosystem’ (Ed. with Madanmohan Rao) Medford, NJ & New York: Information Today Inc., 2013; ‘Microlearning & Capacity-building’ (Author and Editor with Martin Lindner) Innsbruck University Press, 2008; ‘Micromedia and Corporate Learning’ (Ed. with Martin Lindner) Innsbruck University Press, 2007; ‘Micromedia & e-Learning 2.0: Gaining the big picture’ (Ed. with Theo Hug, Martin Lindner) Innsbruck University Press, 2006; and ‘Microlearning: Emerging Concepts, Practices and Technologies’ (Ed. with Theo Hug, Martin Lindner) Innsbruck University Press, 2006.

In 2012, Prof. Bruck founded a successful start-up company called KnowledgeFox GmbH which develops and distributes innovative self-learning microlearning solutions to B2B-customers in currently more than 25 countries in the world. Among the distinguished customers are the eGovernment Authority of Bahrain, the Executive Council of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Rekindle Learning South Africa, the Robert Morris University Pittsburgh or worldwide operating companies such as Samsung.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, Peter A. Bruck is one of Europe’s leading multimedia professors and IT researchers specializing in technology enhanced learning, knowledge systems, smart agent technology, pervasive computing and big data analytics. He has founded, built and managed entire research centers and universities in Austria, Canada and the USA.

As Honorary President of the ICNM - International Center for New Media, Peter A. Bruck is the main visionary behind the United Nations World Summit Award on e-Content. This United Nations mandated initiative is based on an extensive network of companies, professional organizations, governments and UN agencies. With national contests and national experts in more than 168 countries, this award is the international benchmark for excellence in digital content ranging from websites and apps to interactive installations.

Bruck has advised companies and governments in Europe, North America, the Arab Region and Africa and has lead young people to use Internet and Mobiles to act on the UN MDGs.

Bruck has authored the EU white book on electronic publishing and the future of knowledge society for the European Union and chaired the research programs on digital transformation for the European print media industry and the broadcasting industry in Canada.

Bruck works as CEO and Chief Researcher of the Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria’s public-private research network of innovation excellence to bring technology innovations from universities into markets. Bruck acts also as honorary President of the ICNM-International Center for New Media, Salzburg, which has pioneered in Europe and around the world the selection and promotion of best practice in ICT applications and multimedia contents.

Peter A. Bruck is passionate about innovations which deliver an added value for users, creating a high quality knowledge society with new media and ICTs. He has studied at universities of Vienna, Iowa and at McGill, Montreal, and holds doctorates in law and in communications and MAs in sociology and economics. He has won competitive research grants from leading social science and technology research funds in the US, Canada and Austria, and most successfully in the European Union.

In the innovation business, Bruck has been senior partner in ICRA - International Communications Research Associates, Ottawa. From 2001-03, Bruck was Chief Content Officer of the Austrian Telekom Group and on the Board of Management and lead the Business Unit on Interactive Media.

He is successful as start-up entrepreneur and innovator helping more than 25 young companies to develop their technologies and businesses.

Links

https://knowledgefox.net/

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Ilona Buchem (PhD) is Professor for Media and Communication at Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw (Poland), Concordia University (WI, USA) and University Duisburg-Essen (Germany). She studied Educational Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin and obtained her PhD degree in Business Education in 2009. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of digital media and society, with special focus on emerging technologies such as social, mobile, wearable and smart technologies. Her research interests include Digital Collaboration, Digital Diversity, Digital Learning and Digital Leadership. Ilona Buchem has led a number of R&D projects dedicated to emerging digital media for learning and digital strategies in organisations. She is the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Wearable Technology Enhanced Learning at the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL), the founder of the Europortfolio German Chapter and a member of several organisations related to distance education and technology-enhanced learning, including the Association of Media in Science (GMW) and the European Distance Education Network (EDEN). She has initiated and has been actively involved in a number of national and international projects both as a project coordinator and a researcher, including Mediencommunity 2.0, iCollaborate, Networked Identities, Future Social Learning Networks (FSLN), Credit Points (BMBF, BMAS, BA), BeuthBonus (BMBF, BMAS, BA, ESF), fMOOC (BMBF), Digital Future (Stifterverband) and Open Badge Network (Erasmus+).

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http://www.beuth-hochschule.de/impressum

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Natalia Castellana is expert in generating innovative learning content. Holding a multidisciplinary formation ranging from a bachelor of design to postgraduate courses in design, advertising, communication and audiovisual production.

Natalia is leading the content area of the e-Learn Center (UOC) which has the mission of providing the university with new content, tools and experiences for students’ lifelong learning.

Having long experience as a consultant and producer of new content solutions for corporative universities she has focused recently in producing educational interactive videos.

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http://uoc.edu/portal/en/index.html

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My name is Seher Cemen and I am 21 years old. I was born and raised in Berlin but my roots are in Turkey. It is really important to me to travel the world and see different cultures to widen my mind and spirit. Also spending time with children and teenager is a pleasure.

Since the wintersemester 2015 I am attending the Technical University. I knew from the very beginning that I wanted to become a teacher. The main aspect was the huge influence of teachers and teaching itself. From my point of view the philosphy and the positiv mind of a teacher has a really grave impact on life planning and motivation of pupile. My main subject is WAT (Arbeitslehre) and my second subject is German. 

Furthermore I believe in technic and its positiv and benefical effects. Based on that I am really curious about the development of e-learning. The communication between students and teachers is the main connection between them.

Natalie CERNECKA is Director of Partnerships at OpenClassrooms, the largest vocational edtech platform in Europe focusing on digital skills. 

Natalie has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from University of Latvia and PhD in Classics from University of Cambridge. She was involved in academic research and teaching in the UK, France, and Japan, before moving onto managing international partnerships and projects for public, private, and non-profit sector.

At OpenClassrooms, her job is to develop academic and international partnerships, to pilot innovative learning projects, and to spread OpenClassrooms' renown across the world.

Links

https://openclassrooms.com/

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Co-Founded NoteBowl as a freshman in college at the University of Arizona. Advocated for student entrepreneurship to University of Arizona Administration. Successfully created Innovate UA for startups and entrepreneurs. Worked at Microsoft as Student Partner, Senior Student Partner and Student Developer Evangelist.

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https://notebowl.com

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Marianne’s work has focused on developing strategies to increase educational opportunities for all. She has developed a multi-disciplinary approach using digital technology in implementing these strategies and contribute to evidence based theory in the field. Current projects include iScoil, an online learning community providing accreditation and progression opportunities for young early school leavers. The model has evolved to include online and blended learning programmes that support collaborative teaching and project based accredited learning opportunities. She is also part of the team of a new Virtual Community College with a focus on strategies for embedding technology and digital literacy in Community Education programmes. Her main research interest is how to achieve a design, using digital media and online learning, to provide creative, engaging and inclusive learning environments, particularly for those at risk of being on the margins of the digital divide.

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http://www.iscoil.ie

Vinayagum Chinapah (Sweden and Mauritius) is Professor, Chair Holder and Head of the Institute of International Education (IIE), Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden since 2009. He joined IIE in 1976 and served in different professional and research capacities from a lecturer up to the present position as Professor and Director.

Dr. Chinapah worked at UNESCO in Paris (1992-2008) as Director of the Joint UNESCO-UNICEF International Program on Monitoring the Quality of Education and Learning Achievement which covered some 80 countries world-wide. 

Dr. Chinapah is member of various research associations and councils and author and co-author of some 75 books. He has successfully led to completion some 35 PhD Candidates and some 180 MA students and has done research, training, and consultancies for several UN, International and Bilateral agencies and several national governments and institutions in some 150 countries world-wide over the past 35 years.   

Links

http://www.edu.su.se/english/institute-…

Marie graduated as a designer in Visual Communication from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Design in 2006; She has had 3 children books published through the prestigious publishing house, Lindhardt and Ringhof, and received a scholarship from the Danish Arts Foundations.

Marie has been teaching art and graphic design since 2007. Her target audience has varied from primary school children, over specially challenged young people to university students at master level. At present, Marie teaches AP students of Visualization and Design at KEA.

Her experience with storytelling and ensuing the product from idea to implementation affects the way she works with Learning Design. As multimedia is the core of Marie’s present teaching, it is easy for her to incorporate different medias into her experiments with blended learning and flipped classroom. This is the subject matter that Marie will share at OEB. 

Links

http://www.kea.dk/da/

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Donald is an entrepreneur. He was CEO and one of the original founders of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market, floated on the Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005. Describing himself as ‘free from the tyranny of employment’, he now has a foot in two camps, one as an investor and Board member of PlanB learning, WiQi, LearningPool, Cogbooks, the other in the public sector as a Trustee for the University for Industry, City & Guilds and Deputy Chair of Brighton Arts Festival & Dome. He has been involved in consulting and implementing online learning in schools, FE, HE, corporate and government.

Donald has been involved in film, games, web, mobile, MOOCs, Oculus Rift and won many awards for the design and implementation of online learning. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, having delivered talks in the US, Europe, Far East, Middle East and Africa, and won several ‘Best speaker’ awards … also a regular (and controversial) blogger on online learning!

Links

http://www.planblearning.com/Bio/

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http://dmll.org.uk

Ruth Cobos received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain, in 2003. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the UAM. She has been as post-doctoral researcher at the Technical University Munich (Germany) and at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). She is author of more than 80 scientific publications and has participated in more than 15 research projects related to CSCW, CSCL and Educational Technologies. During 2008 and 2009 she coordinated a project funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation. She was designated as Rector’s Delegate for Educational Technologies from 2014 to 2016 at the UAM. During this period, she was the director of the UAMx Office (the technological department for generating MOOCs by UAM Faculty) at the UAM. She has been invited as a speaker in different events related to on-line courses management, learning analytics and collaborative learning. Her main research areas include Social learning, Blended learning, Learning Analytics, MOOCs and Educational Technologies.

Links

https://www.uam.es

CURRENT POSITION

Novoasoft World Market Manager

WORKING EXPERIENCE

From 2004 to date, Emile COMLAN has led various training projects as mandated by government ministries, departments and agencies and, universities and research bodies in African countries

In 2012 and 2015, he was given the mandate to train the researchers of the Council for Scientific and industrial Research and the tutors of Colleges of Education of Ghana on Learning 6.0

In 2012-2013, he was given the mandate under the auspices of Ghana Education Service to train the secondary and technical schools teachers in Ghana on the use of Learning 6.0

In February 2016, he was given the mandate to train under the auspices of the Ministry of Education the inspectors of education in Mali on the use of Learning 6.0

Recently in September 2016, he was given the mandate to train under the auspices of the Ministry of Education the inspectors of education in Benin on the use of Learning 6.0

He is the author of Learning 6.0 Help book

Links

http://www.scienceoffice.com

Marcia Conner, former corporate executive, now dedicates her time to making the world a better place. She works with everyday people doing ingenious work and ordinary organizations reinventing themselves to work in inspiring ways. She has authored four books, including The New Social Learning: Connect, Collaborate, Work (2nd ed., ATD Press, June 2015). She was vice president of Education Services at PeopleSoft before founding the company’s design organization; ensuring training wasn’t needed to navigate a confusing user experience. She lead education strategy at Wave Technologies International, instrumental in taking the company public in 1994, and headed Worldwide Training at Microsoft in their early days. A SupporTED Mentor and fellow of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, she’s advised executives on employee, support partner, and customer communities in more than 30 companies in five countries. 

Links

http://marciaconner.com/contactme.html

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Links

http://companyofthought.com/

An Coppens is the founder and chief game changer of Gamification Nation and member of the Company of Thought. She contributes to the Company of Thought on gamification, virtual and augemented reality for elearning. 

Gamification Nation is the leading provider in employee and learner engagement, based in London with a global and multinational client base. Our aim is to create engaging gamified solutions that achieve business results.

Links

http://gamificationnation.com/http://ancoppens.com/

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Links

http://www.bbc.com/news/correspondents/…

Alec Couros is an associate professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, in Saskatchewan, Canada. An award-winning educator, Alec helps his undergraduate and graduate students take up the incredible affordances of our connected world through the integration of educational technology in teaching and learning. Alec is also a well-recognized scholar and researcher who has given hundreds of keynotes and workshops around the globe on diverse topics such as connected/networked learning, digital citizenship, social media in education, and critical media literacy, providing educators, students, and parents with the knowledge necessary to take advantage of and thrive in our new digital reality. Finally, Alec is a passionate advocate of openness in education and demonstrates this commitment through his open access publications, considerable digital presence and contributions, and highly successful MOOCs and open boundary courses.

Links

http://www.uregina.ca/education/faculty…http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/cou…

As Technology Director at HEC, Jacques leads collaborative initiatives in technological R&D, in cooperation with French universities, high-tech companies from the Systematic Paris Region cluster and academic partners from Europe and French-speaking Africa. These projects involve next-generation networks, distance learning as well as evaluation and learning analytics. Jacques is the coordinator for the PERICLES project, an e-education project from the national Investments for the Future program (Programme des Investissements d'Avenir). He is a member of the French delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36, Secretary for AUNEGE, the French OER repository for Management & Economics, and a member of the Steering Committe for Telecommunications at Systematic Paris Region. 

Links

http://www.hec.fr

Mark deBoer, Canadian, is a lecturer at Akita International University (AIU) in Northern Japan and has taught English in Japan for 20 years to all age levels. He holds both a BSc in Chemistry and a BSc in Biology from York University in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MA in TESL/TEFL from the University of Birmingham and is a Ph.D. candidate also through the University of Birmingham. He was responsible for creating ICT English as a Medium for Instruction curriculum for Applied Chemistry, Materials Science, and Biochemistry at the university level in Japan. At his current position at AIU he is involved in the creation of MOOCs for Liberal Arts Education and is also currently actively involved in COIL.

His research investigates online peer-peer Dynamic Assessment instances in English language learning and he is developing a learning process theory based on collaborative tool-mediated learning environments.

He is a semi-professional cellist and loves to bake bread.

Links

http://web.aiu.ac.jp/en/

Perrine de Coëtlogon is an expert for Digital technology, Europe & International, within the MIssion for Pedagogy and Digital Technology (MIPNES) of the French Ministry for Higher Education. She is member of the working group of the European Commission “Digital skills and competences” since January 2016 and has been member of the team that lead to the French innovative portal www.sup-numerique.gouv.fr. She has practised for 6 years as general secretary for the Frenchspeaking Digital University for Health and Sport Sciences (UNF3S), having therefor knowledge and practice in OER, in France but also in French speaking countries (Senegal, Ivory Cost, #IDENEUF). She has studied law and German law in Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense and the Potsdam University (Germany). Before going back to higher education in 2009, she practised law at the Paris Bar for 7 years in French, English and German.

Links

http://sup-numerique.gouv.fr

Experience

Bert’s professional life is all about competent people. He thinks, publishes, consults, designs and sets up learning and development projects for corporations. His areas of expertise include technology enhanced learning and leadership development.

Bert has been active in the field of corporate learning and e-learning for the last 15 years, first as instructor and course designer, later as project manager, consultant and business development manager. He worked at IBM Learning Development Europe where he was responsible for commercial e-learning development projects across Europe, and the management of the learning innovation initiatives. Five years ago he joined the Center for Creative Leadership where he is now a faculty and EMEA's IP & Innovation Lead. 

Bert wrote the book 'Homo Competens – Let’s talk about competent people in the network age', frequently speaks at conferences such as ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN and blogs.

Current Role

Bert is currently a faculty member of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) EMEA office. In his role he designs and develops customized leadership interventions and programs for clients. Bert is also the IP and Innovation Lead, making knowledge flow and orchestrating innovation initiatives.

Educational Background

Bert holds a degree as Commercial Engineer in Information Management (KULeuven) and an Executive MBA title from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. 

Languages

Bert’s working languages are English, Dutch and French.

Links

http://www.ccl.org

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My field is workplace learning and mobile learning with the focus on new strategies and concepts to improve human performance and improve the organizations’ capacity for change and innovation.

The main issues are: business scenarios for learning in the extended enterprise, learning value management, impact assessment, informal and autonomous learning and learning technology.

To date I am involved in development and research projects with industries and higher education, including the service industry, automotive, do-it-yourself, energy and defense.

Links

http://www.tudelft.nl/

My professional journey (Institute of Tropical Medicine - Belgium, Athabasca University - Canada, The Open University – UK, and Women's gender equality movement - Belgium) immersed me in online and mobile learning from 1999 onward. I have set-up, coordinated and developed several online and mobile learning projects, always with a focus on participation and durability. These projects involved partners and individuals from both the Northern (Canada, United States, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Germany, UK) and Southern regions (South-Africa, India, Peru, Morocco). As an avid enthusiast of open science, I am an active international speaker giving keynotes and guest lectures, as well as providing knowledge input (and consequently receiving lots of input) at seminars, SIGs and workshops.   

Enlightened by the first connectivist MOOCs, I have set up one of the first MOOCs on mobile learning, called MobiMOOC (2011 & 2012), enabling learners to realize their own project. In 2013 I decided to investigate FutureLearn MOOCs and specifically how individual learners with online learning experience self-direct their learning, which resulted in obtaining a PhD at the Open University in UK.

I have come to realize that there is no single solution for all. The diversity which is at the core of nature’s success, seems to be replicated by the diversity in learning preferences and ways to achieve learning success in humans. But above all, I am a social learner, so feel free to talk to me. 

Links

http://www.open.ac.uk/

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Andre de Wit, current role is Vice President of Learning and Capability Building in Carlsberg-group.

Andre de Wit has had positions as responsible for Learning in the Metro-Group and in Carlsberg. Before entering in the Learning field he worked as CEO for IKEA Iberica (Portugal and Spain) and Metro Cash & Carry in Croatia.

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http://www.carlsberggroup.com/

Stephen Downes works for the National Research Council of Canada where he has served as a Senior Researcher, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, since 2001. Affiliated with the Learning and Collaborative Technologies Group, Institute for Information Technology, Downes specializes in the fields of online learning, new media, pedagogy and philosophy.

Downes is perhaps best known for his daily newsletter, OLDaily, which is distributed by web, email and RSS to thousands of subscribers around the world, and as the originator of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). He is a popular speaker, appearing at hundreds of events around the world over the last fifteen years. He has published hundreds of articles both online and in print through two decades of research and development into learning networks and related technologies.

Prior to joining the NRC, Downes worked for the University of Alberta as an information architect, and prior to that, as a distance education and new media design specialist for Assiniboine Community College in Brandon, Manitoba. This followed a decade of teaching experience both in person and by distance with Athabasca University, the University of Alberta, and Grande Prairie regional college. 

At the University of Alberta he built a learning and research portal for the municipal sector in that province, Munimall, and another for the Engineering and Geology sector, PEGGAsus. He also pioneered the development of learning objects and was one of the first adopters and developers of RSS content syndication in education. Downes introduced the concept of e-learning 2.0 and with George Siemens developed and defined the concept of Connectivism, using the social network approach to deliver open online courses to three thousand participants over two years. 

Downes obtained a BA and MA in philosophy from the University of Calgary, specializing in epistemology and the philosophy of science. He also studied at the PhD level at the University of Alberta, completing all but his dissertation. Among numerous volunteer and committee positions while a student, Downes served as editor of the Calgary student newspaper, the Gauntlet, for two terms, and as president of the Graduate Students' Association at the University of Alberta, also for two terms. He served as a member of the Board of Governors, University of Alberta, and with the Athabasca University Governing Council.

After completing high school at Ottawa's School of Continuing Education while working as a concession stand worker and dishwasher, Downes studied computing science for one year at Algonquin College while working as a telephone equipment installer and (later) as a security guard. He worked for a year as a computer operator for Texas Instruments in Calgary, then as a pot washer, 7-Eleven clerk, and development education programmer for the Arusha International Development Centre. Downes has also been a newspaper carrier, waiter at a race track, hot dog vendor, building cleaner and camp counsellor. He was a candidate for mayor in the city of Brandon in 1995.

Downes was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1959 and has four brothers (all younger). He lives in Moncton, New Brunswick, with his wife Andrea (b. Colorado Springs, Colorado; married 1998) and four cats (Bart, Polly, Lexi and Alex).

Stephen reads a lot of science fiction and books in general. He enjoys movies, television and sports, especially hockey. He enjoys playing darts and NTN Trivia (though since Moncton has no NTN locations, it's a lot harder to play). He is an avid Civilization III player and an enthusiastic photographer.

Read more about Stephen Downes' views on the next era of learning.

Links

http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/http://www.downes.ca/

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Multifaceted Creator with a background in Arts, Activism and Entrepreneurship. Having refuted formal education, grants and institutional relationships early on his career, Felipe advanced head on into his interests with passion. Amongst his achievements are a painting teaching methodology, participatory projects that moved thousands of people, and a design business constantly looking for new forms of organizing itself. Currently identifying himself as a process facilitator, courage and curiosity are his wind and sail to navigate the world. He trusts in abundance, collaboration and the power of collective intelligence.

Xavier Durochat earned an MBA in International Management in San Francisco. He began his career in 1989 at SFMI Chronopost in sales and managerial positions before joining the Westland consulting firm two years later where he engaged in managerial consulting and coaching assignments, an experience that led him to create Outline, his own management and organization consulting firm, in 1993.

In 1996, he joined the Altran Group where he worked through 2008 in a number of different positions, including Consultant Manager in a startup, and Coach and Training Manager in the Group’s Corporate University, before creating, in the capacity of ‘intrapreneur’, a skills development service unit. In 2006, he assumed the position of Human Resources Director in the Group’s holding company.

After completing an assignment for Altedia on behalf of Hewlett-Packard as coach of the executive responsible for HP’s merger with EDS, he joined BNP Paribas International Retail Banking in 2010, assuming the position of Director of Learning, Change and Transformation, and thus becoming a member of the BNP Paribas Group’s Learning & Development committee.

Dr Harold Elletson is an international communications and public affairs consultant. He is also the Director of The New Security Foundation, which conducts research into the implications of the new security environment for civil society. The New Security Foundation provides an international forum for dialogue between the public and private sectors and offers analytical insight and information about new security conditions. The Foundation hosts the Security and Defence Learning track at OEB, as well as organising other conferences and seminars. A particular area of expertise is tourism security and the connection between culture and security.

He is a founding director of the Africa Forum on Business, Investment and Security, a member of the steering committee of OEB, a member of the Organising Committee of eLearning Africa and a consultant to ICWE GmbH. He is also the editor of The eLearning Africa Report, which is published every year and contains a survey of ICT in education in Africa, a comprehensive country report outlining progress in ICT4E in every African country and a funding guide.

Dr Elletson was previously Director of the NATO Forum on Business and Security, which he created with support from the NATO Science Programme.

A former Member of the United Kingdom Parliament (from 1992-1997), he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the early stages of the peace process and was also a member of the Select Committee on Environmental affairs. He served as a member of the Lancashire Education Authority (the Education Committee of Lancashire County Council) before being elected to Parliament where he represented the interests of schools and colleges in his constituency in discussions with Ministers and on the floor of the House of Commons. He is a Fellow of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme and of the Industry and Parliament Trust.

As a communications and public affairs specialist, he has advised many leading companies on aspects of their business in challenging markets, including BP in Azerbaijan and Alstom in Siberia. He has written widely on political and historical subjects and his first book, The General Against the Kremlin, was published by Little Brown. His journalism has been published in a variety of newspapers and magazines. Dr Elletson holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Bradford.

Aziza Ragai Ellozy is Professor of Practice, the founding Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT, 2002) and the Associate Dean for Learning Technologies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Under her leadership, the Center for Learning and Teaching provides significant support for the enhancement of teaching, learning, and faculty development. Dr. Ellozy has overseen the successful implementation of a large number of programs and services such as the Faculty Development Institutes, the Student Technology Assistants Program and the Midterm Assessment Program. As Associate Dean for Learning Technologies, she is responsible for coordinating the technology-related activities of Center for Learning and Teaching, University Academic Computing Technologies, Classroom Technologies and Media Services, the students’ Learning Commons and the Libraries.

Dr. Ellozy has fostered several international faculty development collaborations, including the Center for Teaching & Faculty Development (CTFD), UMass Amherst, US, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) at Columbia University, US, the Palestine Faculty Development Program/AMIDEAST and recently with EDRAAK, the first non-profit Arab MOOC platform. These long term collaborations span a wide variety of activities, from consultations on a range of teaching, learning and faculty development issues to collaborative technology projects.

Dr. Ellozy has given keynote speeches, invited presentations, consultations and workshops in Morocco, Portugal, the West Bank, Denmark, South Africa, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and the US, and is considered a regional faculty development expert. 

In 2007, Dr. Ellozy was awarded AUC’s President’s Distinguished Service Award and in 2011 she received AUC’s Excellence in Academic Service Award. She received the Provost’s Award for exceptional leadership of the Center for Learning and Teaching in 2012, and in 2013 she received the President’s Catalyst for Change Award.

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http://www.aucegypt.edu/llt/clt/contact…

Marina Encheva graduated in Library and Information Sciences (MA programme) at Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ in 2000. She also holds a qualification of English Teacher from the same university (2002). In 2006 Encheva was awarded a PhD degree in Information Retrieval Systems. Her doctoral thesis is entitled ‘Ädaptability of the Models for Distance Learning in Library and Information Sciences through the Internet’. She has been a part-time Assistant professor in Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ since 2007 and a full-time Assistant professor in the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies since 2009 giving lectures and seminars to BA and MA students in E-Learning; E-Resources and Metadata; Business Information Systems; Cataloguing of E-Resources, etc. Encheva has had experience as a librarian at the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia and as an expert at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria. She has worked on a number of projects co-financed by the EU (as a team member and a coordinator) amongst which: ‘Distance learning in Library and Information Sciences and Print Communications’ (2012-2014), ‘Introduction of electronic management of administrative and information services in recognition of higher education diplomas’ (2009-2011), etc. Since 2004 Marina Encheva is a member of the European Distance and E-Learning Network.

Links

https://www.unibit.bg/en

Professional Experience
• Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary to Germany August 2016
• Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Geneva 2012-2016
• Ambassador to the Holy See, since December 2013
• Ambassador to Liechtenstein, since December 2012
• Director General MFA – External Trade and Economic affairs, 2007-2012
• Director MFA – European affairs, 2007
• Deputy Director MFA, Department of External Trade, 2007
• Head of Overseas Business Services MFA, 2003-2004
• Head of Unit MFA – International Trade Agreements, 2002-2003
• Embassy of Iceland in Brussels – First Secretary 1998-2002
• Legal expert EU and EEA law – MFA 1996-1998

Other Activities
• LDC Facilitator WTO Ministerial Meeting, Nairobi 2015
• Chairman of the WTO Council for Trade in Services, 2015-2016
• Chairman of the WTO Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions, 2014-2015
• Member of Chief Negotiation Committee on Iceland's Membership to EU, 2009-2012
• IMF Programme of Iceland - Negotiations, 2008
• Icesave Negotiation Committee, 2008-2009
• Negotiations with various countries on Foreign Currency Reserves, 2009
• Negotiations on various Air Services Agreements from 2002-2011
• EEA Enlargment negotiations, 2007
• EEA Enlargment negotiations, 2004
• Legal pleadings before the Court of Justice of the European Communities and the EFTA Court on behalf of the Government of Iceland
• Various articles on EU law in Iceland and International Academic Journals and lectured in Universities in Iceland on EU law

Education
• Cand. Juris. University of Iceland, Faculty of Law, Reykjavík, Iceland
• Languages: Icelandic, English, German, French and Danish

Personal Information
• Born 18 May 1971 in the Westman Islands, Iceland
• Married to Eva Thengilsdóttir (cand.oecon, MPA). Three children; Thengill (1991), Sylvía (1999) and Tinna (2001)
• Played football in the Icelandic Premier League for 5 years with IBV

Sina is truly a wanderer between the worlds and has never stopped being curious and open for what life offers her. Her passion is building a new reputation of HR as a strong partner of the huge (cultural) transformation many companies are going through.
Born in a little village in the German area “Sauerland”, she spent her Kindergarten-time in the Netherlands and her teenager years by travelling to China twice a year. She studied, worked and lived in Germany, Switzerland, UK, the Netherlands and Belgium. Her highest degree is a Ph.D. about the future of Learning & Development (University of St.Gallen).
She changed sides several times: from academia to the business world, from smaller (e.g. inside, Fressnapf) to larger companies (e.g. METRO Group, Deutsche Telekom, AXA), from Germany to other European countries (e.g. Switzerland, U.K.) – and vice versa.

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https://www.axa.de/

Dana-Maria Faneker is the first coach in the Netherlands who is working with Virtual Reality. She has won the Samsung VR Challange for the best VR idea in the Netherlands. That means that Samsung is going to help her to launch this idea first as a pilot in the Netherlands and then maybe worldwide. The idea is called: ''Fear or Love!'' With her Start-up called ''CaptainVR'' she wants to develop VR applications and train coaches, trainers, therapists and psychologists to work with this technology. So they can help people to get rid of all their fears, so they can realize their goals and dreams. Now she is training coaches from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Her mission is to help people to become the Captains of their Lifes. Rather than slaves TO their lives, or of their behaviors. With Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality this is now possible in the most powerful way.

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http://www.captainvr.nl

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After a degree in Economics and Management (BSc Hons), awarded from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) in 2003, Dario Faniglione worked in the Italian film industry for three years as an Assistant Producer. He then obtained a scholarship to attend a master course at Birmingham City University (BCU), where he was awarded with the MA Media Production in 2007. He was employed by BCU as Multimedia Content Creator, producing educational resources for the Learning Technology team. While working at BCU, he completed the MEd Academic Practice, and he is currently a PhD candidate in Education.

His current role as Senior Lecturer in Learning Technology, within the Centre for Excellence of Learning and Teaching at BCU, involves responsibilities for the PGCert Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and tutoring in various modules of the MEd Academic Practice. He is also still involved in the creation, development and implementation of learning technology resources and tools to assist with classroom based and distance teaching. He is currently researching new pedagogical approaches related to technology enhanced learning and teaching in Higher Education.

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http://www.bcu.ac.uk/

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Dr. Caroline Fell Kurban is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at MEF University, Istanbul. Being one of the drivers of Flipped Learning at MEF University, her role sees her: developing learner training support in Flip for students; providing professional development for instructors developing and teaching Flipped courses; and developing quality assurance parameters to ensure the successful implementation and continuation of Flipped Learning at MEF University. Dr. Fell Kurban authored 'The Flipped Approach to Higher Education: Designing Universities for Today's Knowledge Economies and Societies' in collaboration with the rector of MEF University, Prof. Muhammed Şahin. In June 2016, Caroline was invited to be an inaugural fellow of the Flipped Learning Global Initiative.

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http://www.mef.edu.tr/en

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Mark Fenton-O'Creevy is an educator, researcher and consultant with three current primary areas of interest.

1) He has a long standing interest in the work, behaviour and performance of professional traders. and the role of emotion in financial decision-making for traders and investors.

2) He studies the ways in which business and management practices develop and are transformed or corrupted within businesses and organisations.

3) He has a profound interest in the relationship between formal and informal learning. He previously ran a national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, the Centre for Practice-Based Professional Learning.  His book on "Learning in Landscapes of Practice"  with Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Chris Kubiak and Steve Hutchinson, further develops work on communities of practice. He codirects the AACSB Seminar on "Online and Blended Education".

Mark has also acted as an academic advisor to a range of  BBC documentaries.

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http://business-school.open.ac.uk/peopl…

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As a professional within the fields of cameras and communication, I plan, shoot and edit videos in collaboration with educators. I also help design the formats, standards and workflow associated with producing video content for online courses. On top of that I do workshops with my colleagues aiming to give professional educators better video performance skills.

My interestes include 360 VR video, interactive videos, communication and all things relating to cameras and lighting.

Originally a photojournalist, I have since taken the journey to video and brought it with me to the exciting field of online education.

Links

http://ucsj.dk

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Josie Fraser is a Social and Educational Technologist who has worked across education sectors, with governments, commercial service providers and not for profit organisations, developing innovative and effective practice in the use of technology to support learning and teaching.

Between 2010-2016, she lead the technology strand of Leicester City Council’s £340million Building Schools for the Future Programme - setting, promoting and delivering an agenda for educational transformation in relation to the use of technology within schools. Her work developing school workforce digital literacy, and introducing open education licences and practices to the compulsory education sector has been recognised internationally. 

She has worked on behalf of Childnet International to produce national cyberbullying guidance for both Labour and Conservative UK governments.  

Since 2015 she has served as a board member of Wikimedia UK, a charity dedicated to supporting access to knowledge for all, promoting engagement with Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, Wiki Data, and the Wikimedia Commons.

She blogs at Social Tech and you can follow her on Twitter as @josiefraser

Links

http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech

Manuel Freire has a PhD in Computer Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). His research interests are centered on Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Online Learning and Serious Games. In 2008, he enjoyed a a postdoctoral Fulbright grant at the University of Maryland's HCIL. In 2010, he became a member of the e-
UCM research group at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is an Associate Professor since 2013.

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https://www.ucm.es/directorio?id=25338

Christian is a of the founding team member of Leuphana Digital School. He works with faculty and staff at Leuphana University and the Hamburg University of Technology to encourage open teaching and learning practices. Christian was involved in open and connected learning scenarios at Leuphana Digital School and other institutions. His interests are now focused on open education, its policy, technology and culture as well as its potential impacts. Find out more on his website or contact him on twitter.

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https://www.tuhh.de/alt/tuhh/startpage…http://digital.leuphana.de/

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Dr. Eran Gal is an e-learning expert with over 17 years of experience in applying cross-company technology-based learning solutions. Dr. Gal holds both M.A. and PhD degrees from the Knowledge Technology Lab at the Tel Aviv University, School of Education. Following several years as an e-Learning manager in large enterprises Dr. Gal joined the Holon Institution of Technology (HIT), Faculty of Instructional Technologies as a lecturer and a research team leader. 

Isabel García-Wülfing ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung in Bonn und seit Anfang 2011 zuständig für die fachliche Begleitung der Fördermaßnahmen des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung zur Entwicklung und zum Einsatz digitaler Medien in der beruflichen Bildung.

Zuvor war sie mehrere Jahre im Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung tätig, in dem sie im Bereich Öffentlichkeitsarbeit in der Auslandsabteilung arbeitete. Im Jahr 1999 wechselte sie ins Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung und war bis 2010 im Arbeitsbereich „Modellversuche, Innovation, Transfer“ für die Begleitung der Transfermaßnahmen in die Berufsbildungspraxis und für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Modellprojekte zuständig.

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http://www.bibb.de

Anna Garseth is currently working as Head of Department – Learning Solutions in DNV GL, Oil & Gas. With over 15 years of experience in learning and development and training design and delivery, Anna’s main fascination has been on the role of training in supporting the business and helping an organisation gain and maintain its competitive advantage. She has been responsible for developing strategic competence build programs and designing learning that suits a changing and complex environment. Anna's focus in recent years has been on the industry challenge of knowledge transfer, something especially relevant in a company with a worldwide operation and a worldwide network of competent people. She has been in the forefront of developing protocols and techniques to ensure an efficient and highly valuable transfer of company critical knowledge.

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https://www.dnvgl.com/

Dragan Gasevic is a Professor and Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics in the Moray House School of Education and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the current president and a co-founder of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) and holds several honorary adjunct appointments in Australia, Canada, and USA. A computer scientist by training and skills, Dragan considers himself a learning analyst developing computational methods that can shape next-generation learning technologies and advance our understanding of self-regulated and social learning. Funded by granting agencies and industry in Canada, Australia, Europe, and USA, Dragan is a recipient of several best paper awards at the major international conferences in learning and software technology. Committed to the development of international research community, Dragan had a pleasure to serve as a founding program co-chair of the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge in 2011 and 2012 and the Learning Analytics Summer Institute in 2013 and 2014. Currently serving as a founding editor of the Journal of Learning Analytics and the general chair of International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK2016), Dragan is a (co-)author of numerous research papers and books and a frequent keynote speaker. Recently, he has founded ProSolo Technologies Inc that supports personalized, competency-based learning through social interaction.

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http://www.ed.ac.uk

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http://www.ucd.ie/teaching/

Bas Giesbers is learning innovation consultant and researcher within Rotterdam School of Management's Learning Innovation Team. After studying educational psychology, he gained experience in educational technology, teaching, teacher professionalisation and research in the context of both on-site and (remedial) distance education. In the learning innovation team of RSM, he works on the innovation of the whole educational portfolio in collaboration with program directors and teaching staff. This includes educational (re)design toward blended models of delivery, providing advice to management and faculty, organising teacher professionalisation, and participate in project teams that work on a variety of projects such as digital assessment and the development of multimedia learning material like video.
He obtained a PhD in educational psychology at Maastricht University (2013), on a dissertation that focused on the use of synchronous and asynchronous communication in distance education, and the role of motivation and learner interaction. His current research interests lie in the field of online collaborative learning, synchronous and asynchronous online communication, motivation, and the use of learning analytics to understand and improve learning.

Links

http://rsm.nl/home

Dorien Ginsel was born in 1981 in Leiden in The Netherlands. After graduating in 2000 from the Nijmeegse Scholen Gemeenschap (VWO) in Nijmegen she started her bachelor’s to become a Physical Therapist at Thim van der Laan, University of Applied Sciences for Physiotherapy, in Utrecht. She studied there for 4 years and graduated in 2004. She then lived in Utrecht and worked in primary care as a Physical Therapist and also started lecturing at Thim van der Laan, University of Applied Sciences for Physiotherapy, in Utrecht. Besides that she enrolled in a 2 year educational program to become a Physical Rehabilitation Trainer at the International Academy for Sportscience. Combining work as a physical therapist and as lecturer, she really enjoyed sharing knowledge, skills and experience with the students. In 2006 she took a position at the Institute for Human Movement Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (UASU) while still working as a physical therapist. In 2011 she starts her Masters in Care Trajectory Design which she finishes in 2013. Besides lecturing she starts as a project manager at UASU and she founds the ShoulderCommunity in co-creation with the professional practice.

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http://www.hu.nl

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Torunn Gjelsvik (born 1970) has more than 16 years of experience from the field e-learning and ICT in education. As head of development for the E-learning Centre at BI Business School and rector and managing director of two Norwegian online schools Torunn has developed both highly strategic and operative expertise in distance and flexible education, social media and the use of technology in teaching and learning. In 2013 Torunn was engaged as project manager for Flexible Education Norway and published the report: «Innovation and challenge – pedagogical development of Norwegian distance education institutions 1995-2015». Since 2015 Torunn Gjelsvik has been engaged as Senior Adviser and project responsible at International Council for Open and Distance Education – ICDE, the leading global membership organization for online, open, flexible and technology enhanced education. In 2016 Torunn took place in the orientation board of the French National Center for Distance Education - CNED.

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http://icde.org

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Christian Glahn is the director of the Blended Learning Center and professor for educational technologies at the HTW Chur, Switzerland. He actively contributes to technology enhanced learning for many years. His work is centered on bridging future technologies into todays’ higher education practice. Dr. Glahn co-developed and operationalized the concept of micro learning. He is experienced in bridging innovative personalized and context-aware technologies to formal training, non-formal learning, and performance support in universities, public services, and industries. His research focusses on integrating smart technologies into existing technology-enhanced learning environments and practices in higher education institutions and organizations.

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http://www.htwchur.ch/

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Atish Gonsalves is a social technologist and the Global Learning Director of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy based in London.

Prior to the Academy, Atish was the Executive Director of DisasterReady.org (in Los Angeles, USA) and has worked for many years with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) where he led the learning technology team.

With a strong background in technology and human-computer interaction (HCI), Atish’s experience includes a combination of private sector and humanitarian assignments, having moved between the two sectors over the last 16 years in Asia, Australia, Europe, US and Africa.

Atish is a global citizen, has lived in six countries (India, Australia, Switzerland, Hungary, US and UK) and has traveled to over 30 countries.

Atish graduated from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

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http://www.humanitarianleadershipacadem…

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Danny joined Oracle in January 2013 with more than 15 years of experience managing vendor-led technology education programs. He was formerly the EMEA program leader at Learning@Cisco. He has worked with Ministries of Education around the world from Russia to Africa. Danny’s global experience contributes to his passion for ensuring that young people develop the skills to become the leaders and entrepreneurs of the future. Danny looks after the Oracle Academy EMEA, as Senior Manager, and works closely with the European Union Grand Coalition and is board member of the European e-Skills Association.

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https://academy.oracle.com

Nik Gowing was a main news presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London, plus location coverage of major global stories.

For 18 years he worked at ITN where he was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw, and Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News (1988-1996). He has been a member of the councils of Chatham House (1998–2004), the Royal United Services Institute (2005–present), and the Overseas Development Institute (2007-2014), the board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy including vice chair (1996-2005), and the advisory council at Wilton Park (1998-2012 ). In 1994 he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center in the J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Nik has extensive reporting experience over three decades in diplomacy, defence and international security. He also has a much sought-after analytical expertise on the failures to manage information in the new transparent environments of conflicts, crises, emergencies and times of tension. His peer-reviewed study at Oxford University is “Skyful of Lies and Black Swans”. It predicts and identifies the new vulnerability, fragility and brittleness of institutional power in the new all-pervasive public information space.  It can be downloaded free online after registration.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Exeter University in 2012 for both his ongoing cutting edge analysis and distinguished career in international journalism. From 2014 he is a Visiting Professor at Kings College, London in the School of Social Science and Public Policy.

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Dom Graveson leads Hominal, a UK based service design and transformation consultancy focusing on the transformation of businesses by leveraging both digital technology and the insights of their people at the front line.

Hominal has developed a framework for the mapping and improvement of processes across organisations both small and large, with innovation and self determination led by teams from the executive leadership board, through operational management, to the teams serving the end customer. Co-creation, accountability, measurement and lean business practices all play a part in enabling businesses to put people at the heart of effective transformation.

Hominal can be found at www.wearehominal.com. Dom can be found on twitter @dombles.

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http://www.wearehominal.net/

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Jens Greefe is the Director of Studies at the ILS in Hamburg, Germanys biggest distance learning provider, educating app. 70.000 students in more than 300 distance courses. He is responsible for the development and the organization of the course programs and for the quality management of the ILS.

Jens Greefe holds a diploma in Economics and is member of the board of the Forum Distance Learning, the german association for distance learning. Since 2014 he is also Chairman of the Research & Developing Committee of EADL.

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http://www.forum-distance-learning.de/

Sarah Grund and Sara Thornes are Academic Instructional Designers in the Distance Learning Team at Leeds Becket University. They have worked in Higher Education for over 10 years and have extensive experience in pedagogical design, online learning, web design and project management.

As Academic Instructional Designers they work with faculties and services to create and actively promote a robust and supportive structure for the development and delivery of high quality, flexible, innovative and accessible online courses. These provide an excellent experience to Distance Learners - by engaging, motivating and empowering both academics and students. 

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http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/

Marjolein Haagsman applies short videoclips within biology education at Utrecht University. Her videoclips are enriched with interactive tools and she uses the obtained data from these tools to guide her in-class discussions. Marjolein also investigates how students use these tools and whether they affect students’ attention. Furthermore, she participates in a university broad project on pre- and e-labs to help improve students' research skills and learning comprehension within laboratory education.

Marjolein obtained her bachelor degree in Biology with greatest honor and obtained her master degree in Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences with a GPA of 4.0. After finishing her research master she decided to become a teacher and obtained a master degree in international and bilingual education. She started teaching at a secondary school and helped to initiate and develop the bachelor track Molecular Life Sciences at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). Currently she works as a PhD student within education at the Department of Biology. She is also a lecturer in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.

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http://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/MEHaagsman…

Stephan Hamberg is the head of evaluation and quality enhancement at the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT). Stephan is a political scientist and has worked extensively with quantitative and qualitative indicators related to quality assurance and enhancement in Norwegian higher education. Currently Stephan is leading multiple eveluation and development projects at NOKUT. 

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http://www.nokut.no/en/

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Since several years Ann-Katrin Hardenberg sets up educational institutions as customer or vocational training center and supports enterprises in the area of HR and educational management. She has gained experiences with institutions from different sectors and various countries as Australia, Myanmar and Haiti - just to mention some.

Her passion is the teaching of digital media competence as well as the implementation of educational concepts including the newest digital media and teaching methods. With her work she would like to experience and to cause changes – in people, organizations and societies. With her broad international experience, Ann-Katrin Hardenberg established together with other educational experts a consultancy network which is called THE MAK'ED TEAM - WE MAKE EDUCATION. This international network works in worldwide projects to change education, to develop people and organisations and to teach how to use technology in education. 

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Mignon Hardie is the executive director of the FunDza Literacy Trust, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to growing a culture of reading and writing among South Africa’s youth. She has been involved in the organisation since inception and has been instrumental in ensuring FunDza’s growth and success in getting young people reading for pleasure. The organisation is hailed for its innovative use of mobile technology to disseminate locally-generated, exciting content and for developing a new generation of writers. The organisation has received various accolades for its work, including being a finalist for the WISE Awards 2014 and for The Tech Awards in both 2014 and 2015. In addition to her work with FunDza, Mignon is a director of Cover2Cover Books, an innovative for-profit publishing house. Previously she has been involved in the start-up and management of a number of small and medium enterprises. Mignon has a BA (English and Economics) from UCT and an MBA from Stellenbosch University.

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http://fundza.co.za

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Head of Section 3.2 “Digital Media, Distance Learning, Training Personnel”

Advisory services to the Federal Government and to the corporate sector in the thematical field of ICT-based VET learning and working environments, designing, launching, monitoring & evaluation of national funding programms, joint shaping of implementation strategies for high quality results into the world of work. Ongoing improvement of web based services for trainers in VET (www.foraus.de) to support their daily practice of training in companies. Development of national standards for teacher & trainer qualification (Trainers`s Aptitude – AEVO, www.foraus.de), designing of (web based) training moduls and tools for further training of teachers & trainers (e.g. IT-Literacy). Advisory services within BIBB´s international co-operation activities. Appraising, quality management and certifying of (web based) distance learning courses for continuous training.

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http://www.bibb.de/

Dr Stylianos Hatzipanagos is Senior Lecturer (King's Learning Institute) at King's College London, UK. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at the University of London. His research portfolio includes: learning design and evaluation of online learning environments, formative and technology-enhanced assessment, computer supported collaborative work, open education, digital literacies, social media and social networking in an educational context. His output is peer-reviewed articles, books, edited journal special issues and has led and participated in research projects at a European and national (UK) level.

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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/learningteac…

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Jeff is Emeritus Professor of Education & Technology in the School of Education at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in the development of strategies for effective use of ICT in education at institutional, national and international levels, with a particular emphasis on understanding learner experiences. He has led, and been a partner in, numerous EU-, JISC-, SFC- and Research Council-funded projects in the field of technology in higher education and lifelong learning. Jeff was academic lead on a study for the European Commission looking at options for EU governments for modernising their HE systems using technology. He is a past member of the UK JISC Board, the Chair of the Coimbra Group E-Learning Group, and a member of the Scottish Government’s ICT for Excellence Group.

Until 2016 he was the Vice-Principal Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, leading the university’s digital education strategy, including its expanding portfolio of taught online Masters degrees and CPD, distance PhDs, and MOOCs.

His presentations and publications can be found at http://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/jeffhaywood/

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http://www.ed.ac.uk/http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/jhaywood/

Olivier Heidmann is lead developer and designer in serious games projects, responsible for designing and creating virtual experiment demonstrators. He has a Master Degree in Parallel Computing from the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France. He also taught computer science, mathematics and management to students ranging from 14 years old to adults for 7 years. Since 2004, he participated in more than a dozen different EC-funded projects, using ICT and web-based solutions to enhance the teaching and learning methodologies and tools. He has published several papers at international conferences over the past 8 years.

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http://ireteth.certh.gr

Kirsten Ingmar Heiss is the CEO of OpenCampus GmbH, a startup company with focus on education management and open adoption technology. Together with several German universities, OpenCampus has built the unique OpenCampus framework to manage education processes and next generation learning. Kirsten studied Medicine at the Technical University Munich and was working as a resident physician at the Institue of Human Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum Munich and as a stringer consultant for Gartner. As a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme and the Worldbank he conducted several education related projects in Eastern Europe before he founded OpenCampus GmbH.

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Erik has extensive consulting experience with international management teams and boards. He has worked on a wide variety of assignments in more than 26 countries in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia & the Americas.  He is also an Associate Professor at IE Business School in Madrid and co-founder of Atazar; a venture that develops strategic business simulations.

Clients see Erik as a strategic, creative & result oriented change agent. He is specialized in the field of people & team development and change management. He knows what it takes to manage a company P&L, to start businesses and to become successful in the international business arena. Erik displays a high level of energy, optimism, he knows how to motivate individuals, teams and organizations.

  Education

  MBA, University of Glasgow; Great Britain 1991

  Faculty of Social Sciences and Psychology, Royal Military Academy; NL 1984

  Company Experience

  Managing Director The Next Level, The Netherlands  www.thenextlevelnow.com

  Adjunct Professor IE Business School, Spain

  Co-founder Atazar, The Netherlands

  Project Director Randstad Europe, Spain

  Business Unit Director Randstad, The Netherlands

  Project manager 1996 Olympic Games, USA

  Infantry Officer Royal Army of the Netherlands 

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http://www.thenextlevelnow.com/?page=co…

Melissa is Director of Learning, Teaching & Web at University of Edinburgh, Information Services. She is part of the senior management team leading institution-wide strategic projects and services. She has significant management level experience in the higher education sector delivering technology projects with global reach. 

Before University of Edinburgh she was Director of Academic IT at University of Oxford for 6 years and  worked in University of Leeds, Royal Holloway University of London and Edinburgh Napier University. Melissa has a reputation for innovation/creative thinking and a track record of success in transforming the organisations of which she has been part. She has a background in facilitating change in complex institutions and experience in working with academic leadership teams. An advocate of values-based leadership, she is committed to principles of access, diversity, inclusion and openness in higher education and has the enthusiasm to continue to champion these.

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http://www.ed.ac.uk/information-service…

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Kari A. Hintikka works as a researcher and usability designer in the Otava Folk High School, specialized in future trends of the Internet. He is making his PhD in University of Jyväskylä in Unit of Sociology. He graduated from the Media laboratory of Aalto University in Helsinki in 1998 with concept and usability design as major.

Hintikka's work - like faction books and reports - and studies relate to collective intelligence, co-creation, education and learning, internet collaboration, social networks and ecosystems, open data and open science and the future of the Internet. He has participated as an expert member to several boards and committees including ministries and Sitra concerning issues information society and the future of Finland.

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http://www.otavanopisto.fi/in_english

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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http://www.iubh.de

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David works for Jigsaw Consult, a social enterprise based in London that works with a wide range of international development organisations.  He has participated in eLearning Africa since 2007. David works with a variety of donors, governments, private sector and civil society organisations on issues of education, technology, partnership and impact assessment. He holds a PhD in evaluating the impact of ICT on education in Africa and also lectures on the MSc course in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is Chair of Trustees for Refugee Support Network, a London-based charity providing educational support to young people affected by displacement and crisis.

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http://jigsawconsult.com

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…

Armin Hopp is founder and president of dp (digital publishing AG), the global provider of the world’s leading online language training resource Speexx. His academic background is in Linguistics and English literature. Mr. Hopp is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars. He has been bestowed with the National German Award for Further Education and is member of the steering committee to the HR Expo Professional Learning Europe Conference, LEARNTEC, ELIG (European Learning Interest Group), and ambassador for Towards Maturity.

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http://speexx.com

Andreas Hörfurter is involved with eLearning since 1994 and passionate about the possibilites of electronic learning formats. He is working at common sense eLearning & training consultants as senior consultant and project manager. He has supported companies, educational institutions and international organizations in the introduction and implementation of eLearning in more than 30 countries.

Andreas Hörfurter studied Education and Psychology at the University of Munich (Germany) and Enschede (Netherlands) and "Start-Up-Counselling" at the Distance University Hagen. His projects were awarded with the German eLearning Award for the best international project in 2011, 2012 and 2016 and the European eLearning Award EureLeA 2012 and showcased at the Eye on the Earth Global Summit Innovation Showcase.

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http://www.common-sense.at

Rob is a designer through and through who is fascinated by how we learn, what we remember and why. He is a great enthusiast of all that technology can offer to enhance learning and has completed a huge variety of projects in his 15 year career.

In 2005, Rob founded LAS, which has grown to become a multi award-winning digital learning company. He served on the Board of the eLearning Network for four years including two as the elected Chair. A regular conference speaker he is also the editor and co-author of the 'Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual' published by Wiley and featuring contributions from the brightest and best elearning minds on both sides of the Atlantic.

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http://www.las-hq.com

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I founded LingWeLink while studying Management & Entrepreneurship at IESEG School-of-Management. Passionate about innovation, I dedicate my life looking for new business trends and opportunities. 

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https://www.lingwelink.com/

Nina Huntemann is director of academics and research at edX. In this role, Nina is leading cross institution faculty initiatives, developing curriculum strategies and providing pedagogical expertise, managing educational policy projects, and facilitating research across edX university partners. Nina has over 15 years of college-level teaching, program administration, and faculty development experience. Prior to joining edX, she was an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Suffolk University in Boston where she taught courses and published research in digital media studies. Nina received her Ph.D. in communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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https://www.edx.org/

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Kirsten Huter has taught German as a second language at all levels and has been a lecturer in German Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Research at the University of Sydney and the University of Hamburg.

For the last ten years, she has worked in the field of distance learning, focusing on curriculum design and learning styles. The latest course development project that she has been involved in at the Institute for Personal Development and Health at ILS, Hamburg is the Refugee and Integration Worker. This is a course which supports volunteers and professionals in the field of migration.

K. Huter received her Masters in Second Language Research, Linguistics and Japanese Studies from the University of Hamburg, Germany and her PhD in Linguistics from the Australian National University, Canberra.

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http://www.ils.de/

Anca is the EMEA Head of Social Learning & Collaboration at Citi.

In her everyday work, Anca helps Citi employees and teams across the region become more effective at how they learn and perform. She creates value by enabling better conversations and collaboration at all levels of the organization.

Anca has been with Citi for almost 13 years, and together with her team, she is currently leading the workplace learning evolution, with coaching and collaborative social learning at its heart. (If you are curious to find out more follow Anca on Twitter and explore some of her work on #BeMore).

Anca spends a significant part of her time and energy helping our leaders utilizing new learning and collaboration technologies and platforms, as well as advising on large scale culture and change initiatives. 

A Romanian-born, global citizen, she brings listening, curiosity and creativity to everything she does, including raising her two boys, learning, communication  and collaboration work at Citi.

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http://www.citigroup.com/

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Peter Isackson has worked in France for over 30 years as a consultant, trainer, coach and trainer of trainers. A prolific author, producer and publisher of a wide range of multimedia and e-learning products, he has acquired a reputation as a pioneer in the use of new technology in training, collaborating with multiple publishers in Europe and the US. He has authored programs on sales techniques, foreign languages, intercultural skills, team management and sustainable development. 

He is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of SkillScaper, proposing next generation authoring tools, methods and content for learning in a Web 2.0 context. 

In 1995 Peter Isackson was a member of the steering committee that founded Online Educa Berlin. He is an expert with the European Commission in the area of TEL (technology enhanced learning).

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http://www.skillscaper.com

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Charles is a director of The Internet Time Alliance, a multinational think-tank of leading learning and business performance experts helping organisations exploit emerging practice in workplace and social learning to ‘work smarter’.

He is a leading expert on building and implementing 70:20:10 learning strategies. 70:20:10 is based on observations that high performing individuals and organisations build most of their capability by learning within the workflow.

Past roles include:

- Chief Learning Officer for Reuters and Thomson Reuters

- Head of the UK national centre for network-based learning

- Professor at Southampton Business School

- Senior business roles for global companies

- Evaluator for the European Commission’s learning, performance and eCommerce research initiatives

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http://www.duntroon.comhttp://www.charles.jennings.net

Dr. Erik Jentges is the educational developer at ETH Zurich’s Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC). He consults and works on a range of activities from conceptualizing and re-designing courses to developing feedback and evaluation processes with faculty. Erik has been a lecturer in Sociology, Political Science, Media Studies and Management at universities in Switzerland and abroad. He has worked for many years with several NGOs on intercultural youth exchanges and adult education across Europe.
Erik completed his PhD in sociology in 2009 at Humboldt University Berlin and holds a diploma in social sciences following studies at Humboldt and at ENS de Cachan in Paris. In 2014-15, he conducted research as the Swiss Scholar in the Global Europe Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. He is perminent resident in the D-MTEC Teaching Innovations Lab at ETH Zurich.

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http://www.sustec.ethz.ch/people/affili…

Johan Jeuring is a professor of Software Technology for Learning and Teaching at the department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Furthermore, he has a small appointment as professor of Software Technology at the Open University of the Netherlands. He designs and develops advanced programming technologies, methods, and languages to support the development of software supporting learning and teaching. He has contributed to projects on giving feedback in learning environments for mathematics, an intelligent tutoring systems for learning functional programming, and a serious game for practicing communication skills. The technologies he has developed are used yearly by thousands of students. Jeuring received his PhD in software technology on 1993, and has since then worked at Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg, Sweden, at a software company, and as lecturer, director of education, teaching fellow and professor at Utrecht University.

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http://www.uu.nl

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http://ucsj.dk

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Helen Keegan is a UK National Teaching Fellow, currently holding a dual role as Principal Project Lead for the Disruptive Media Learning Lab (University of Coventry) and Senior Lecturer/Researcher at the University of Salford, MediaCity UK.

Her expertise lies in curriculum innovation using mobile and participatory media, with a focus on creativity, interdisciplinarity and playful learning. She is particularly known for her work on alternate reality gaming, digital cultures and identities, and the interplay between formal and informal learning. Helen works across sciences and media arts, developing partnerships and creative approaches to learning and collaboration, both in the UK and overseas. 

As a regular international speaker, Helen has delivered keynotes and invited talks across Europe, the US and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, at events ranging from research seminars and academic conferences through to film festivals, BBC Global News, and the New Media Consortium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Alongside consulting and advising institutions on the use of social technologies in Higher Education, Helen has published in journals and edited collections including the European Journal of Open and Distance Learning, Selected Papers of Internet Research, A Manifesto for Media Education and the Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. 

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http://dmll.org.uk

Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution.

He is the author of three books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and his current international hit The Internet Is Not The Answer which the London Sunday Times acclaimed as a "powerful, frightening read" and the Washington Post called "an enormously useful primer for those of us concerned that online life isn't as shiny as our digital avatars would like us to believe". 

He is executive director of the Silicon Valley innovation salonFutureCast, the host of the popular Internet chat show "Keen On", a Senior Fellow at CALinnovates,a columnist for CNN and a much acclaimed public speaker around the world. 

In 2015, he was named by GQ magazine in their list of the "100 Most Connected Men”.

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http://ajkeen.com/

Harri Ketamo, Ph.D., is an independent researcher and start-up entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in Learning Sciences, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence. He is a Senior Fellow at University of Turku and Adjunct Professor at Tampere University of Technology. His current start-up, HeadAI, focuses on creating artificial labour (i.e. bots). Before HeadAI he has found e.g. SkillPixels (games based learning) and gameMiner (game AI & data mining). Ketamo has published more than 80 international peer-reviewed research articles and had approximately 200 presentations in international forums. 

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http://www.headai.com

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Ralf Klamma has a diploma degree, a doctoral degree and a habilitation all in computer science from RWTH Aachen University. Currently, he leads a research group at the information systems chair, RWTH Aachen University. In 2001, he was a visiting fellow at the MIT  Entrepreneurship Center of MIT Sloan School of Management. He is vice coordinator of the IP ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environment) and involved in 3 other EU TEL projects (GALA, TELLNET, TELMAP). He is also member of the research excellence cluster "Ultra High Speed Mobile Information and Communication" (UMIC). He chaired several conferences in technology enhanced learning and multimedia (EC-TEL, ICWL, UbiMedia) and is associate editor of IEEE TLT and Springer SNAM. He is standing expert in the W3C Multimedia Annotation Working Group and active member of the Multmedia Metadata Community where he organized numerous workshops and panels related to digital video on the Web. In 2011 he was co-editor of a special issue in the World Wide Web Journal on "Advances in ubiquitous media technologies and applications".

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http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms

Dr. Diana Knodel has a background in computer science, psychology and educational research. After graduating from university she co-founded CyberMentor, an e-mentoring program for girls and women in STEM. She worked as a project manager and team lead in in the IT industry and was a product manager at XING. 
In 2014 Diana started App Camps, a non-profit that aims to bring coding and digital skills into the classroom. Teachers in different countries use App Camps' teaching resources and thousands of young people have already participated in courses on app development or HTML & CSS. 
From October 2016 Diana will be a guest professor at the Technical University Berlin. 
Diana is an ambassador for the Hamburg Geekettes, a community of women dedicated to helping aspiring and established female tech innovators. Edition F and D64 named her as one of the 25 leading women in Germany for the digital future.

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http://www.appcamps.de

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Mehmet Korkmaz is a Learning and Development Specialist with the UNICEF Supply Division and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to joining the HR team at UNICEF, he worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, Italy. He has extensive experience in designing and delivering learning programmes for different target groups and leads the online learning initiatives for the UNICEF Supply Division. Mehmet holds a Master's degree in Sociology and Pedagogy and is specialised in blended learning, e-learning, instructional design, social media, educational technology and knowledge management. He recently delivered comprehensive learning programmes to develop capacities of food security professionals in three regions: Southeast Asia, Western Africa and Eastern/Southern Africa.

Mehmet is a member of the UNeLearn network and engages with various expert groups and online communities to exchange knowledge on good practices and trends in the field of online learning.

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Jeff is a Senior e-learning specialist working in Global L&D AkzoNobel, with 20+ years of experience in training, online learning and multimedia. He’s an Articulate e-Learning Super Hero, initiator and co-organizer of the annual Dutch and Belgian Articulate User Days and loves sharing his insights with others.

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http://www.akzonobel.com

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Thierry Koscielniak is Vice CIO and Executive Director of the EdTech & Digital Pedagogy Office (ICT for Education) ; Research Engineer at the Paris Descartes University in Paris, France (www.parisdescartes.fr). 
As a member of the IT Strategic Steering Board of his university, he plays a role in strategic planning and policy development for information system, infrastructure and programs. 
He is also member of the board of CSIESR (www.csiesr.eu), French association of IT professionals in higher education.

His department is in charge of the eLearning plateform Moodle, the e-portfolio management system Mahara and of the university social network based on Elgg.

Thierry completed his Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry at the Pierre et Marie Curie University.

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http://www.parisdescartes.fr

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Dr. Claudia Krebs is a Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia. She went to medical school and obtained her doctorate in anatomy at the University of Cologne. After two postdoctoral research fellowships she followed her passion for education and joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia to teach gross anatomy and neuroanatomy. She has published a textbook on neuroscience and has established herself as a scholar in medical education research, and in particular in the use of technology in the classroom. Her approach to the creation of open online educational content for the anatomical sciences has made a difference both in her own classroom and around the world. 

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Nives Kreuh is a Head of e-learning at the National Education Institute in Slovenia. She is doing the national research, strategy planning and implementation of new curricula through teacher continuous professional development in the field of digital pedagogy and e-learning.

She was leading the national E-competent teacher project in which they designed the standard of e-competent teacher, principle and ICT coordinators in schools framework called The Way towards E-competency. She focused on designing key e-competencies and developing the efficient training model called The Way towards E-competency, leading the instructional design and online courses (MOOCs) development for in-service teacher training and professional development to raise pedagogical digital literacy in schools nationwide.

She is the Head of Programme and Organising Committe of the international SIRikt* conference (*Enabling Education and Research with ICT), which is the largest educational conference in Slovenia with around 1000 delegates each year.

She also works internationally as the national expert and is the author of E-Competent Teacher, Principle and IT expert Framework and Designing E-Student Books Framework.

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http://www.zrss.si/

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http://web.mit.edu/vkumar/www/

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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http://www.lamk.fi/english

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Dr. Wolfram Laaser, Born 03.10.1943,

PhD. in Economics at Technical University Berlin (1974)

Academic Director (Akademischer Direktor) at FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany until 2008

Temporary Lecturer at Universities of Paderborn (1985-87) and Frankfurt (1981)

Lecturer Online Course at UNED, Spain 2003/2004 (Master in Distance Education)

Lecturer Online Courses (Multimedia in Distance Education, Economics of eLearning) University of Joensuu, Finland 2005/2006 (IMPDET International Multidisciplinary PhD Program on Educational Technology)

Online  Seminars (Master in Distance Education) PROED, University of Cordoba, Argentina 2007-2012

Online  course “Diseño y Gestión de Materiales Electronicos, Master Program in Computer Science, University of Alcala, Spain 2007-2013

Consultant ELBEP (Eliminating Language Barriers in European Prisons through Open and Distance Education Technology) EU Grundtvig Project 2008/2009

Member of International Panel, Reforming Higher Education Distance Learning in Portugal, 2009

Consultant of Worldwide Education  (2014 renamed Austrian School of Applied Studies), Wels, Austria 2010 -2015

Development of interactive multimedia courseware (CD-ROM and WEB-based Training).

Training seminars for distance educators in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.  

Research and curriculum development in Educational Technology.

Educational Video and TV Productions about subjects of Education, Humanities,

Economics, Business Administration, Law and Electrical Engineering.

Numerous international publications in books and journals.

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http://laaser.wordpress.com

Jon Lacivita is Vice President of Business Development for Proctorio. As an innovative leader in technology, education, and business, Jon has a passion for helping others become more productive and successful. He is adept at finding new paths around old obstacles, and his experience as a public speaker and sales team leader has helped Jon become an empathetic dot connector as well as visionary problem solver.

Jon has helped Proctorio become an integral part of securing exams and improving learning outcomes for secondary and post-secondary institutions worldwide. Most recently, Jon engaged members of the educational technology community in discussions regarding academic integrity, maintaining accreditation, and verifying identities of digital learners.

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https://proctorio.com/

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Diana Laurillard is Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at the London Knowledge Lab, UCL Institute of Education, leading research projects on developing the Learning Designer suite of tools and online community for teachers and trainers, on adaptive software interventions for learners with low numeracy and dyscalculia, and on the use of MOOCs for CPD.

Previous roles include: Head of the e-Learning Strategy Unit at the Department for Education and Skills; Pro-Vice-Chancellor for learning technologies and teaching at The Open University; the Visiting Committee on IT at Harvard University; Royal Society Working Group on Educational Neuroscience.

Most recent book is Teaching as a Design Science, 2012. Previous book, Rethinking University Teaching, Routledge, 2002, is one of the most widely cited in the field.

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http://www.ioe.ac.uk

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http://www.open.ac.uk

Michael is head of research, interaction designer and user experience expert at CREATE.21st century.

At CREATE Michael designs and works on new products and services in the area of digital learning technologies and media, Smart City participation tools, approaches, and mobility information services.

Michael got a Ph.D. from Northumbria University, Department of Arts, Design and Social Science, at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is author for several research publications in the area of interaction design research.

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http://www.create.at

Bob Little is a writer, commentator and publicist specialising in the corporate learning industry. Yet he is also so much more - with interests and skills in such fields as music, history and sport.

Formerly a journalist and editor specialising in the corporate training/ learning sector, Bob was introduced to what became the corporate online learning technologies industry in May 1990. He now works globally and his work in this field is published around the world, especially in the UK, the USA, Germany and South America.

Bob advises and helps promote the interests of a number of organisations around the world - ranging from small, niche organisations to large enterprises.

In 2015, Bob became one of three Founding Principals of the Compnay of Thought (TCoT), an international think tank, currently comprising seven thought leaders from around the world in the e-learning and related industries. In addition to industry-leading knowledge, its world-renowned industry specialists provide TCoT’s clients with quarterly reports that allow them to reduce both risks and costs by revealing industry developments to allow decision-making based on the best possible market knowledge at the time. For further details, ask Bob (@email) – or your most successful competitors (if they’ll tell you).

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http://www.boblittlepr.com

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Mr. James Ma is Head of Learning & Development Center at a pharmaceutical MNC in China. James has over 20 years experience in Talent Management, Organization Development and Leadership Training and Development, covering pharmaceutical and healthcare, Fast Manufactured Consuming Goods, consulting and training industry. James received his MBA degree in UK and is also a Certified Assessor and Facilitator from some outstanding international consultation and training company. He has collaborated with GE, P&G, FedEx, Amway, PepsiCo, Goldman Sachs, Baidu, HSBC, Shell, Intel, HP, Merck, Huatai Insurance and others. James will discuss the Chinese perspective as part of a global HR organization.

Prof. Andreas Mack has a degree in business administration with a focus on strategy development, consumer behavior, innovation management, and organizational psychology. Since 2012 he is a honorary professor at the University of Arts in Berlin. At Partake he is responsible for consulting and brand management. Andreas manages customer projects in the field of  strategy development and the development of user experience design. He uses the methods and techniques of Design Thinking.

His best-known projects include, among others, the brand campaign and the “Be Berlin” claim. In addition, he has led customer projects conducted in the sectors of energy, ICT, and public administration.

Andreas Mack is the practice lead consulting.

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http://www.partake.de

My passion in life is promoting formal and informal education and learning and I am working for more than 25 years in the fields of European Education, Training & Active Social Inclusion. 

 Initially, co-ordinating international academic cooperation and large Higher Education/ Research partnerships/projects for the Coimbra Group asbl, a Network of European Universities (co-founder) for ten years and for the MENON Network EEIG for five years, I spent some time later at the European Commission’s Education Agency as eLearning Project Officer, dealing with selections, monitoring and valorisation of European eLearning projects.

Today, collaborating with Higher Education institutions and research centres in European projects, I am also involved in external evaluation for the European Commission since 2010 and on demand for European projects.

Being part of the Steering Committee of OEB and Programme Team of two annual global conferences : eLearning Africa & OEB (Online Educa Berlin) engages my expertise and networking competence.

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmaeshttp://www.ec.europa.eu

Bernd Mahrin ist Maschinenbau-Ingenieur und Berufspädagoge. Nach Tätigkeiten als Konstrukteur und Fertigungsingenieur arbeitet er für die gewerblich-technische Berufsbildung in wechselnden Funktionen, Bereichen, Praxis- und Forschungsprojekten im In- und Ausland für verschiedene Universitäten, Institutionen der Wirtschaft und freie Träger.

Zurzeit unterstützt er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Berufliche Bildung und Arbeitslehre der Technischen Universität Berlin zwei Projekte aus der Förderlinie „Digitale Medien in der beruflichen Bildung“ des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) konzeptionell, didaktisch, methodisch und durch formative Evaluation. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind digitale Medien in der technischen Berufsbildung, Kooperation und Netzwerkbildung, Berufsbildung im internationalen Kontext, Fachdidaktiken Bautechnik, Metall- und Elektrotechnik und Benachteiligtenförderung in der Berufsbildung.

Zugleich ist er im Auftrag des Bundesinstituts für Berufsbildung (BIBB) und des Bundesamtes für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle (BAFA) tätig als Gutachter für überbetriebliche Berufsbildungsstätten und Kompetenzzentren und moderiert das bundesweite Kompetenznetzwerk Bau und Energie e.V., einen Zusammenschluss anerkannter Kompetenzzentren der beruflichen Bildung.

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http://www.komzet-netzwerk-bau.de/Anspr…

Sotiris launched one of the very first e-schools back in 1997 but failed to make a commercial success. After 12 years building Operating Systems at Nokia he moved and created Eliademy.com with a mission to democratize education with technology. He is passionate about books, travel, and technology. Father of 2 and inspired by the open source movement.

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https://eliademy.com

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Mikkel is a science-tech communicator with a PhD in digital technologies and learning. He also has a science degree in nanotechnology and a business graduate degree in management and communication. Mikkel’s list of publications include popular media contributions, academic journal contributions in both natural- and social science fields, as well as editorial responsibilities for academic journals. Mikkel continue to teach at various universities and his work at Labster is to drive research and establish partnerships with universities, states and governments across the globe to improve science education and research using 3D immersive simulations, virtual reality, gamification and other forthcoming IT technologies. You can connect with Mikkel via Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikkel_marfelt

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http://www.labster.com

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Jill holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations and has worked in Tokyo as an editor, writer and teacher. She writes on her teacher blog, maintains a teaching YouTube channel, and publishes articles on growth mindset, collaborative communities, teenage literacy engagement and constructivist teaching practice. In 2014, she was selected to lead an International Boys School Coalition Action Research project on Maker Culture; an approach inspired by educationalist Seymour Papert. In 2015, Jill was further awarded a fellowship through The Asia Education Foundation to implement an e-twinning project with a Malaysian school in Pahang. In 2016, Jill was asked by the Department of Education to represent Australia as an educational leader on the South-East Asian Education Summit held at Nanyang University in Singapore. Jill is a trained IB examiner and more recently been selected as a trial external examiner in the Queensland Syllabus.

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http://tss.qld.edu.au

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Web service developer who loves to learn new things, play digital games and find new technology solutions for people with all ages and abilities.

My work consists two different projects. Every other week I do preventive social and educational work with children and youth by chatting and playing games in social media and web. Every other week I try to find new ways how technology and social media could help elderly people in their daily life.

I'm a occupational therapist. My experties are mobile devices and social media in education and rehabilitation. I'm convinced that people with all ages can learn, use technology and play digital games if they are educated, supported and encouraged to do so. Technology should be easy to use for everybody and modified by users needs. Games, social media apps and other software can signicantly increase happiness and social life.

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Iva Matasic is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Consulio, Inc., Zagreb, Croatia and Palo Alto, California, and a founding member of the global e-learning Think Tank ‘Company of Thought’. She has more than 10 years of e-learning, knowledge management and technology consulting experience and is a networker with clients and colleagues worldwide.

Iva implements e-learning and connects e-learning implementation and project management. She is a graduate of the Founder Institute and the author/ co-author of publications presented at numerous conferences. Her expertise includes entrepreneurship, e-learning consulting and training (a focus on innovation in e-learning, personalized learning and big data analytics), future learning, loyalty marketing and motivational speaking.

http://companyofthought.com/
http://consulio.co/

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http://companyofthought.com/

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Dr Rachel Maxwell (@DrRachLTB) is Head of Learning and Teaching Development at the University of Northampton. Rachel is currently leading a number of projects supporting the student experience, including improving the first year experience. A key focus this year has been the development of a framework of graduate attributes embedding employability and Changemaker skills across our curricula. Her work also focusses on developing assessment and feedback practices suitable for the 21st century, promoting academic integrity and supporting staff to introduce innovation into their own pedagogic practice. Rachel previously worked as a Learning Designer, supporting staff to redesign modules and programmes as part of an institutional move to blended learning. This work draws on her experience as a lecturer in both Higher and Further Education in the UK.

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http://www.northampton.ac.uk

Vegard Meland has been working at Centre for Lifelong Learning (CLL) at Lillehammer University since 2010.

His focus has been on in service training for teachers and leadership in schools. He has been project manager in developing two organizational based MOOC`s (oMOOC) in formative assessment. The two MOOC´s have over 11 250 participants from over 375 different schools in Norway. The project was initiated by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training.

He was also central in developing two Swedish MOOC´s for teachers in collaboration with Karlstad university. A project initiated by the Swedish National Agency for Education that resulted in over 25 000 participants. 

Vegard will continue working with MOOC`s. He has a strong belief in the use of technology to facilitate professional development, and the next step now is to combine Virtual Reality (VR) video in MOOC`s and e-learning programs.

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http://www.hil.no/lillehammer_universit…

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I Graduated in Psychology in 2000. Actually I lead the Digital Learning and Collaboration area in Fondazione Politecnico di Milano. Before (2001) I have worked in Vocational Training projects and in 2004 I was involved for the 1st time in a research project focused on e-learning. Then I worked in Polimi-Metid approaching innovation of didactics and e-collaboration methodologies. In the last 3 years with my team we are focusing on applied-games, business games, transition university-work new skills, MOOCs, support to cooperation, Hospital and Home Education.

I always loved learning. Or rather, experiencing. I liked books but they needed to be experienced: a lot of effort... And then I discovered that there were many ways to teach and learn. And that this world does not stop, vibrant and lively. I was and am curious to discover these methods. I like to explore how far you can push. I never married only one Idea, perhaps for this reason I have more questions to ask than answers to give.

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http://www.fondazionepolitecnico.it/

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Iikka Meriläinen works as Managing Director at Caleidon Ltd, helping higher education institutions and students achieve more with the Tuudo mobile app.

Over the last 15 years, Iikka has worked with several aspects of IT in education, e.g. at the University of Oulu, as well as other private and public sector organizations. At the University of Oulu Iikka was one of the technical primus motors behind the university’s top notch operational learning analytics solution, in addition to having successfully led software development, amongst other things.

As one of Caleidon’s co-founders, Iikka is running one of the most innovative student mobile app companies in the world. With the Tuudo mobile app, Caleidon brings mobility to institutions that need cost-effective and feature-rich mobile solutions for their students and alumni. Iikka has been working on Tuudo right from the start, and while now running the company, he is making sure that the users of Tuudo are getting the best out of it.

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http://www.caleidon.fi/

Alessia Messuti has a background in communication with a special focus on the use of new media for social inclusion and local development. Since 2009 she is working as a training specialist in both private and development sector, where she has gained experience in instructional design and quality assurance for e-Learning, facilitation of on-line and face-to-face training, educational research and web 2.0 for learning and social interaction. Fascinated by the idea that distance education and the use of new technology increases access to learning and promotes life-long learning, she keeps exploring new pedagogical approaches for adult learning.

Since 2013 Alessia has been working for the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO) on e-Learning, mobile learning for development, MOOCs and Gaminfication.

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http://www.itcilo.org

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Ann S. Michaelsen is a teacher /administrator at Sandvika High School in Norway. She is the author of the blog “Connected teaching and learning” where she shares lesson plans and articles about learning with technology. She was a member of the 2013 Horizon Norway Advisory Board, 2014 Scandinavian Horizon board, and the 2014 Horizon Report Europe Advisory Board. In 2012 she wrote the book “Connected Learners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Global Classroom” with 27 high school students. She spoke at Bett in London 2014 and was recognized by BBC News technology and BBC Click. The result was an article on BBC News and a team of reporters from BBC Click and BBC school report visited her school, this was aired on BBC World. She was portrayed in the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera in 2014, and project leader for the Norwegian connected educators month. She has written a book for teachers in Norway published by Cappelen Damm in 2015. 

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https://annmichaelsen.com/

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Claudia Moessenlechner has been active in the field of teaching and higher educaiton for some 20 years, focusing on English as a second language, communication skills, intercultural training and leadership. Her courses and coaching sessions focus on language, communication and leadership for tourism and hospitality businesses. She has conceptualized courses for tertiary education as well as for private and public companies. She has been heavily involved in the course conceptualization of online courses and graduate programs and has extensive experience as an examiner and accreditor.

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http://www.mci.edu

Mark Molenaar is currently holding the position of Chief Technology Officer at Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), home of TAO: the Leading Open Source Assessment Platform for Education & Employment.

He is responsible for determining long-term TAO product requirements and strategy by interacting with a broad range of stakeholders, communicating product strategy to both internal and external audiences and leading the company’s marketing efforts and engagement with the broader Open Source community.

Before joining OAT, Mark held the position of Chief Information Officer at Cito. He was responsible for Cito’s Reference Architecture, advising the Board of Directors and leading a dedicated team of enterprise architects. In the past, he has worked as a Systems Designer, Information Analyst and Software Architect at Cito's IT Department. In this role, he has lead the development of Cito's next generation test development and delivery systems.

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http://www.taotesting.com

Sharon Monie and Tammy Alexander are both Product Development Managers in the Online Student Experience team in the Learning and Teaching Solutions Unit and have been at the OU for over 10 years. The team have a broad range of skills and experience including educational technology, web and mobile development, teaching, project management and user experience design. Over the last two years they have all been committed to delivering an engaging and purposeful online learning and teaching experience for students at the OU, transforming the current online learning systems to exceed increasing market-based student expectations and digital skills.

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http://open.ac.uk

Michael Moore holds a master’s degree in Computer Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Accounting. He has worked extensively in the software industry with over 20+ years of experience managing and manipulating data and customizing software. Mike has created a variety of data analysis tools from simple, straight-forward tables to complex, automated financial models, work-flow automation systems, scientific analysis models, as well as web-based applications to front-end SQL databases.
Mike was a Desire2Learn higher education client for three years and managed the Analytics implementation at Daytona State College during that time. He also served as the project manager for a co-development project that the client was pursuing with Desire2Learn to develop institutional outcome reporting, competency assessment and learning evidence tools to support accreditation, re-affirmation and the continuous program improvement cycle. Mike is particularly interested in the effective integration of educational technology tools into the online teaching environment and the classroom. His experience is both in learning analytics to examine the presentation of information to students to help them learn as well as the academic analytics to evaluate the learning achievement metrics and help improve the process. He was also a system administrator for the Desire2Learn implementation and is fluent in all aspects of the learning environment and system administration elements.
Prior to working with Daytona State College, Mike has a rich consulting history spanning the past 15 years. He has been an independent consultant developing custom web-based software and database integrations as well as developing custom database and reporting applications.

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https://www.d2l.com/blog/author/mmoore/

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Dr Norbert Morawetz is a creative business academic and digital entrepreneur. Prior to joining Henley Business School, Norbert built up and ran the largest entrepreneurship programme in the UK at the University of Hertfordshire, for which he received the National Enterprise Educator Award from the UK Higher Education Academy.

He is the founder of ed-tech startup potential.ly, where he fuses psychology and technology to enhance personal development, collaborative learning and employability. 

Norbert's research focuses on technology entrepreneurship, psychometrics, team analytics, online education and economics of creative industries, especially the film industry.

As a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Henley Business School, he teaches undergrads and MBAs and looks after the BA Entrepreneurship as UG Programme Director for Entrepreneurship.

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http://www.henley.ac.ukhttp://www.potential.ly/

Jarrod is a co-founder of ProctorU and was the company's first proctor. He created the initial prototype of the service to fill a need for Andrew Jackson University, where he served as director of technology. He works out of ProctorU's Birmingham, Ala., office where he coordinates the marketing and partnership aspects of the company. In 2013, the Birmingham Business Journal named Jarrod one of the area's Top 40 People Under 40. When not at ProctorU, Jarrod spends time with his two daughters, Maddie and Lizzie. He is a dedicated foodie, devoted Catholic and gourmet beer connoisseur. He studied computer science at the University of Florida and is a die-hard Gators fan.

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http://www.proctoru.com

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I have a master in psychology, with a particular focus on learning and social-systemic perspectives, and a Ph.D. in Education and Communication obtained at the University of Milano Bicocca. My main area of research pertained the creation of games in informal participatory communities, both online and in real contexts, and its implications for the future of learning ecosystems. I am currently working on both H2020 and local projects at Coventry University, as to explore innovative, ethical and participatory ways to include game creation practices in learning institutions.

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Gary Morris is the programme leader for the Bsc (hons) Nursing (Mental Health) programme at the University of Leeds. He lectures in mental health nursing, running modules in dementia care; media and mental health; and lived experience in mental health. He is the author of a number of academic textbooks, chapters and articles. He is involved in creating e-learning materials / packages (primarily using Articulate Presenter) and supervising and promoting online learning uptake amongst teaching colleagues. Significance of this e-learning work was recognised by the award of a University of Leeds Student Education Fellowship in January 2016.

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http://leeds.ac.uk

Hoda Mostafa is currently as Associate Professor of Practice and Associate Director at the Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo.  She teaches freshman within a multi-section course, Scientific Thinking and has also designed  and developed a course on Creativity and Creative Problem Solving, exploring design thinking and educational game design with her students. She has also participated in the planning, design and implementation of a new Freshman Program in 2013 and continues to work on foundational teaching and learning at AUC.

As a faculty developer she designs and facilitates professional development workshops for faculty and teaching assistants over a wide range of topics including pedagogy, assessment and integration of educational technology into the classroom. She also works on the dissemination and promotion of innovative teaching practices into the classroom. Her interests include integrating creative thinking, critical thinking and scientific thinking into primary level higher education and helping in the advancement of these habits of mind in Egyptian society.

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Brian Mulligan is a Civil Engineer who originally worked in mathematical modelling and simulation and the application of information technology in engineering. He is currently on secondment as a Programme Manager responsible for online learning development in the Centre for Online Learning at the Institute of Technology Sligo where he has lectured since 1984. He has been the key driver in the rapid growth in online learning in IT Sligo since 2002 and significantly involved in the growth of e-learning in Ireland since 1999, organising the EdTech series of conferences since 2000 and as a founding member of the Irish Learning Technology Association in 2002.  His main areas of expertise are now in web-casting, webinar management, synchronous online training, instructor-led online training, lecture capture, open education (MOOCs and OER) and the rapid development of online content. He currently is the leader of the Erasmus+ funded LoCoMoTion project on low-cost MOOC development.

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http://www.itsligo.iehttp://brian.mulligan.googlepages.com

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Jari Multisilta is the director of Cicero Learning Network in the University of Helsinki, Finland and the professor of multimedia at the Tampere University of Technology, Information Technology at Pori, Finland. Multisilta got his M.Sc. from the University of Tampere in 1992 in Mathematics and his Dr.Tech. at Tampere University of Technology in 1996. He did his doctoral thesis on hypermedia based learning environments for mathematics. Prof. Multisilta has studied learning and modern communication and information technologies and has taken part in several research projects on this area. Currently, his research interests include games for learning, mobile video storytelling, and mobile social video applications. Professor Multisilta has published over 100 international conference papers and journal articles on his research area. He was a Visiting Fellow at Nokia Research Center on 2008-2009 and Nokia Visiting Professor 2012. Multisilta has also been Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, H-STAR Institute for over 15 months during the period of 2007 - 2014.

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http://www.ucpori.fihttp://www.jarimultisilta.net

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Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. In 2009 he received his PhD in Telematics Engineering from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He obtained his acreditation in May 2012 as Associate Professor. He has made two long research stays: one in Ireland for more than 3 months at the Intel company in 2005, and another in Germany for more than 6 months at the Fraunhofer Institute of Technology in 2009-2010. He is author of more than 80 scientific publications and has participated in more than 20 research projects. He has been invited as a speaker in different events in topics related to learning analytics and educational data mining. He is also an IEEE Senior Member since 2015. His skills and experience include research and development in learning analytics, educational data mining, evaluation of learning experiences, user studies, gamification or Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

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http://www.it.uc3m.es/~pedmume/index.ht…

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Having acquired an MDes from OCADU in Strategic Foresight and Innovation, Mary’s work is all about applying her knowledge of performance and learning design and also the application of design innovation methods, systems thinking, and foresight to fuel transformative and sustainable change for people and organizations.

A Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP) steeped in years of experience, Mary has performed a variety of roles, from Consultant to Senior Learning Strategist to Programmer and Instructional Designer to Project Manager.

Much of her work has been strategic in nature and has consisted of developing overall strategies for her clients informed by expertise in customer experience, service design, and instructional design across the Automotive, Tech/Telco, Retail, Financial Services, and Health Sciences industries. Mary has spoken at many industry conferences (ASTD/ATD, OnlineEduca Berlin, CSTD/IPL and eLearning Guild conferences) on the topics of accelerated eLearning development, Social Media & Web 2.0, Mobile Learning, Customer Experience, Driving Engagement & Performance, Leadership, and Applied Foresight Methods.

Mary is currently applying her skills in her work at Kingston General Hospital and is deeply committed to work that makes a positive difference in people’s lives and communities.

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http://www.kgh.on.ca/

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Salima Nathoo. Inspiring people and organizations to connect as their best selves. Futurist. Storyteller. Experience innovator. Fiercely curious about what’s new + next. Passionate about building brands with purpose and living stories worth repeating + retweeting. Currently designing a more social and digital workplace at Cigna, influencing 40,000 employees in 37 countries as part of Cigna University, the corporate learning and development group. Side hustle: RocktheGLOW, a guide for women who want to live a more creative, connected, inspired life. Champion of constructive non-conformity. It’s cool to be human again.

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http://www.salimanathoo.com

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Gwen Noteborn is a Researcher at Maastricht Univeristy where she serves as the director of the Edl@b: a both physical and virtual ‘Educational Lab’ enabling experiments in higher education; serving as an inspirational environment to experiment with new digital tools and education methods. Combing both functions allows Gwen to put research into practice, but also adds relevance to her research by understanding what practitioners deal with. Her work has been published in several international refereed journals. Gwen has been awarded with the UM education Prize in 2009, for her efforts developing a brand management course in a virtual world. In 2013 Gwen has been awarded with the Wynand Wijnen Education prize for her efforts in developing online video courses, increasing student- passing-rates significantly from both a statistical perspective as well as in size effect. Gwen's research is published in several journals, Teaching and Teacher education and Internet and Higher Education amongst others.

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http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl

Regina Obexer, M.Ed., is an eLearning professional with extensive experience in the design, development and implementation of eLearning programs. She has held leadership roles at various universities both in Australia and Austria and has implemented large scale projects in educational technology. Regina's research interests include blended and online learning and teaching strategies, organisational development, and strategy and change management in the context of digital transformation in Higher Education. Regina is currently a senior lecturer at the Management Center Innsbruck, where she teaches in several blended learning programs and provides training and coaching for faculty teaching in blended and online mode. 

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http://www.mci.edu

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Morten Oddvik is an educator with 10 years teaching experience from lower- and upper secondary education in Norway, and with an expertise in educational technology. He has a Master in ESL and Collaborative Writing from NTNU, Trondheim. He was an early adopter of Google Apps in Education in lower secondary school at Birralee International School. For the past 5 years Oddvik has been responsible for building a virtual school in Vestfold municipality, which caters to high-achieving students in mathematics and foreign languages. This school is a municipal-owned initiative which provides immersive online courses. His job is to train, coordinate and support teachers and students. Morten Oddvik is a Microsoft Certified Educator, and Nettskolen Vestfold is a Microsoft Showcase School. Oddvik specializes in training teachers in didactical use of Office 365, sky-based collaboration and immersive teaching and utilization of flipped lectures in Campus Inkrement and Adobe Connect.  

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http://vfk.no/Tema-og-tjenester/Utdanni…

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Louise Olney is the Head of Online Student Experience at the Open University in the UK, she has worked at the OU for the last 14 years. Tammy Alexander and Sharon Monie are both Product Development Managers in the Online Student Experience team in the Learning and Teaching Solutions Unit and have been at the OU for over 10 years. The team have a broad range of skills and experience including educational technology, web and mobile development, teaching, project management and user experience design. Over the last two years they have all been committed to delivering an engaging and purposeful online learning and teaching experience for students at the OU, transforming the current online learning systems to exceed increasing market-based student expectations and digital skills

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http://open.ac.uk

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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http://www.westminster.ac.uk/

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Dr. Ebba Ossiannilsson, is the V President for the Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE), and the V President for the Swedish Association for E-Competence (REK). She is the founder and owner of Ossiannilsson Quality in Open Online Learning (QOOL) Consultancy. Ossiannilsson is a senioer consultant at Mentorix, Denmark.

Dr. Ossiannilsson was awarded the EDEN Fellow title in 2014, and she became Open Education Europa Fellow in 2015. Since the year 2000, she worked at Lund University, Sweden, as an e-learning, open online learning expert, and advisor with special focus on quality. Ossiannilsson is a researcher, advisor and consultant. In addition, she has worked as a consultant at several of the prestige national universities. She is frequently invited as keynote speaker for international, and national conferences, within the area of open, online, flexible, and technology enhanced teaching and learning (OOFAT) and quality. She is board member in national and international associations, in the area of open online learning and education (EDEN EC, former EFQUEL, earlier in EUCEN). She was the research leader for the ICDE research study on global overview of quality models, and the evaluator of the SEQUENT project on quality. Ossiannilsson collaborated with the EC ET working group on digital and online learning on quality in OER, MOOCs and open education and with Commonwealth of Learning. She was an expert for IPTS on their work on the framework for open education. Ossiannilsson is a quality reviewer for both ICDE as well as for EADTU, ECB Check, and also for former EFQUEL. She Was in the board for LANETO, and was among the founders of EPPROBATE. Ossiannilsson is coordinating the ICDE_ON_BOLDIC on behalf of the Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE). She is in the Board for several scientific Journals and the Editor in the Education Sciences Journal, the topical collection on MOOCs. Ossiannilsson is representing EDEN in ISO, and she works at national level in SIS/ISO (Swedish Standards Institute /ISO. She has a passion to contribute to open education for a Future We Want for All, as is emphasized by UNESCO for 2030.

Ossiannilsson has conducted several research studies in open online learning, including flexible learning, OERs and MOOCs, and personal learning environments. She has conducted several national overview reports, for example, the POERUP, ADOERUP, Global OER Mapping, the IPTS Member States Case Studies on Policies for Opening up Education, and for the Open Education Working Group. She was one of the promoters for introducing MOOCs in Sweden, and she has finalized some 40+ MOOCs herself, since its start in 2008. She was invited as Quality expert for the investigation on MOOCs by the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ).

Ossiannilsson is a senior consultant at Mentorix, Denmark, and serve as a pedagogical consultant and researcher for the Next Generation Digital Learning Envioronment (NGDLE). She has conducted research in the area with an extensive publications on personal learning, and learning "just for me".

Ossiannilsson earned her PhD at Oulu University, Finland in 2012 with a dissertation on Benchmarking e-learning in higher education: lessons learned from international projects. Her dissertation has fortunately had a very large outreach and is often cited. Ossiannilsson’s publications comprise over 200 publications: Conference papers, Journal articles, Book Chapters, Reports, Editor for books, a forthcoming book (Springer on open education) and her dissertation. Please follow Ossiannilsson on ResearchGate, Linked In, Blog. and Twitter.

Special Recently Research Projects, and Activities on Quality Work in OOFAT, Including References

The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) 

The ICDE research study on Quality Models in Online, Open Education Around the Globe: State of the art and recommendations. The study was on behalf of ICDE, and Coordinated by EADTU. Ossiannilsson was the research leader for the study team comprised of K Williams, A Camilleri and M Brown

Quality Reviewer on Behalf of ICDE for University Terbuka, Indonesia

ICDE_ON

Ossiannilsson is coordinating the ICDE_ON_BOLDIC on behalf of the Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE)

The Europen Distance E-learning Network 

EC member on behalf of SADE, and besides the EC work she will take the lead for a SIG on quality in TEL

Ossiannilsson is appointed by the EDEN EC to take the lead on a Special Interest Group on Quality and Technology Enabled Learning

EDEN representant in ISO

In EDEN NAP EC 

The European Association for Distance Teaching Universities 

Evaluator for the Project Supporting Quality in E-learning European Networks (SEQUENT

Quality Reviewer EADTU, Excellence, University of Nicosia

Member of the Ed board for update of the Excellence manua

Quality Reviewer EADTU, OpenupEd, University of Derby

Member of the Ed board for updating the OpenupEd manual

Quality Reviewer EFQUEL, UNIQUe (University of Nicosia)

Quality Reviewer EFQUEL, ECB Check

European Commission ET Working Group on Open and Distance Learning

IPTS Working Group on Open Education Framework, Focus on Quality

Commonwealth of Learning

IPTS Member States Case Studies on Policies for Opening Up Education (2016--)

EUA on Comments for the Directive of the European parliament and of the council on copyright in the Digital Single Market 

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http://www.eurekos.com/

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Ivan is an international entrepreneur based in France, he has lived in Argentina, Spain, China and traveled to more than 35 countries. He is an engineer from the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (Spain) and ENSIMAG (France) and he holds an MBA from Neoma BS (France/China).

His international experience includes working in information systems, organization management, training and change management acquired in corporation (CaixaBank, SFR, Air France), public institutions (UPC, CNAM) and consultancy (EY).

Always involved in teaching and learning environments led to co-found Domoscio in 2013, a start-up specialized in combining cognitive sciences, Big Data and artificial intelligence to make true adaptive and personalized learning.

Thanks to his expertise on the Edtech market, he is teaching in Master EdTech curriculum for the famous and top-ranked Université Paris-Descartes. He is also a frequent speaker in different Edtech events, recently at TEDx.

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http://www.domoscio.com

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Laura Overton is the founder and CEO of Towards Maturity – a not for profit benchmark practice that provides independent research to help organisations deliver improved performance through learning innovation. Her work is based on 30 years of practical experience in implementing innovative learning strategies for business advantage and is backed by her independent research with 5000+ Learning leaders and 25,000 workers.

Laura is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD and a fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute. She is on the steering board of Online Educa Berlin, and the L&D advisory board of the CIPD. In February 2010, she was the first woman to be awarded the LPI’s prestigious Colin Corder Award for services to training and was the recipient of the inaugural elearning age Special Achievement award at the 2012 elearning awards. In 2016 she was voted number 1 in the Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning in the UK (a position held since 2014) and was also voted 2nd most influential in Europe and 3rd in the Globe.

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http://www.towardsmaturity.orghttp://www.e-skills.com

Dr. Ron Owston is a professor of education and former Dean of the  Faculty of Education and founding Director of the Institute for Research in Learning Technologies (now IRDL) at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In June 2007, York University awarded him the honorary title of University Professor for his “extraordinary contribution to the University as a colleague, teacher, and scholar.” Currently, he is on sabbatical leave and serving as Research Associate at Contact North/Contact Nord in Ontario. 

He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences, and published in a variety of fields including technology in education, program evaluation, and teacher development in journals such as Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Research in the Teaching of English, Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, Journal of Information Technology in Teacher Education, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Internet & Higher Education, and Journal of Research on Computing in Education. His past projects include: external evaluator for the ABEL/Learning Connections online teacher community, a study on games to support literacy at grade 4, and an evaluation of Moodle use and lecture capture in large undergraduate courses in York’s Faculty of Health, the evaluation of blended learning courses at York's Faculty of Fine Arts. He just completed the evaluation of a 1:1 iPad project in the Hamilton Wentworth School District in the Toronto area.

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http://yorku.ca

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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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http://ec.europa.eu

Elizabeth Palmer (@ejpalmer1986) is a Learning Designer at the University of Northampton, where she is responsible for supporting staff in pedagogical design. Teaching and Learning design, and redesign, at the University of Northampton is undergoing substantial change in anticipation of a new Campus in 2018. The new teaching and learning plan places blended and active learning, ‘real world’ learning experiences, embedded opportunities for social innovation and both academic and graduate skill development as core requisites for teaching practice. In addition, Elizabeth is currently leading a meta-analysis of blended learning provision at the institution and supporting Dr Rachel Maxwell in the development of the ChANGE project  (the development of a framework of graduate attributes embedding employability and Changemaker skills across the curriculum). Her role is underpinned by a background in Undergraduate course leadership and lecturing within the Arts, as well as teaching research methodologies, academic and cognitive skills across all levels of Higher Education provision.

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http://www.northampton.ac.uk

I love history, I love to read. I have studied cultural history, education theory and religious studies. I love the stories behind people. I love to see people find and grow. That’s why I’m a teacher. That’s why I have worked as a director of childhood education and as a trainer in adult education. Now I work as a project planner in a project for retired people.

Learning new things and skills is not confined to a classroom. I’m an advocate of continuous learning irrespective of place. As an educator I want to help people see that they can learn, and that they have the tools for it inside of them; even when they are 90 years old.

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http://www.lahiverkko.fi

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Anastasia Parokha is CEO of Unplag, an online plagiarism detection software.  

With a background in business, psychology and behavioural economics, Anastasia has led her team building a new artificial intelligence software - EMMA- that will change the way of plagiarism checking – analysing students' writing style.  The product will be launched in Beta in early 2017.

Unplag also offers the traditional method of plagiarism detection for institutions creating their own database of student artefacts and checking billions of pages on the internet in seconds for plagiarism.  

Unplag offers full integration with your LMS or VLE, 24/7 customer support and great product experience.

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http://www.unplag.com

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Dr. Rob Pearson, CTDP is Chief Executive Officer of The Institute For Performance and Learning formerly the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD). In collaboration with the Institute’s national board of directors, Rob is responsible for the overall strategic direction and operations of the Institute including member experience, certification, programming, research and advocacy. Rob has a long career as a visionary learning and development practitioner and senior business leader having worked for a variety of organizations including TV Ontario, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Epstein Enterprises. Prior to joining The Institute For Performance and Learning, Rob led the Customer Experience Practice at Maritz, a St Louis based integrated marketing services company where he worked with some of North America’s major brands.  Rob’s educational background is eclectic, with degrees in fine arts, communications, a Ph.D., in Instructional Systems Design from Syracuse University and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management.  Rob is an active volunteer in his community and a documentary filmmaker and lives in Toronto with his partner Maria and their two children.

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http://www.performanceandlearning.ca

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http://www.ucsj.dk

Dr. Bastian Pelka, PhD in communication science, is co-ordinator of the unit "Labour and Education in Europe" at Sozialforschungsstelle (sfs), a central scientific institute of Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.

His main fields of work are vocational training in the European context, social innovation and "eInclusion"

Dr. Pelka is lecturer at the faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Technische Universität Dortmund. He has experience in qualitative as well as quantitative methods and evaluations.

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http://sfs-dortmund.de

Celine Peroni is Policy Officer in the Erasmus+ Higher Education unit at the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission. She studied political sciences at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Grenoble, France and finalised her studies in Italy at the Facoltà di Scienze Politiche Cesare Alfieri, Florence. Celine joined the European Commission in 2013 and moved on to the Education and Culture DG in 2015, where she is currently responsible for the Erasmus+ Online Linguistic Support (OLS).

Cristina Petracchi is heading the e-learning Center in the Capacity Development Unit in FAO, she manages and coordinates the design, development, delivery and language adaptations of e-learning courses, blended learning programmes and face-to-face training events, for the benefit of FAO member countries. Within the context of the position she holds, Ms Petracchi also consolidates partnerships with United Nations agencies, academic institutions and universities, regional organizations, CSOs and NGOs. In addition to a university degree in Biological Sciences, Ms Petracchi holds a PhD in Nutrition and Food Science, and has several years of experience of capacity development activities in India, Ethiopia, Nepal, Namibia, Senegal and Mali. Ms Petracchi is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish and has a good knowledge of Arabic.

After 40 years as an economist at the World Bank, including 15 years as Chief Economist of the International Finance Corporation, he saw too often how lack of management talent was impeding economic and social development in communities throughout the developing world. Now as CEO of GBSN, which started at the IFC and is today an independent nonprofit, Guy oversees programs and events that harness the expertise and passion of a worldwide network of leading business schools to strengthen the institutions and educators who deliver management education for the developing world. GBSN’s unique approach pairs a robust network of experts with efficient administration to build institutional capacity, foster collaboration and disseminate knowledge, all aimed at promoting management education that delivers international best practice with local relevance.

Born in Montauban, France, Mr. Pfeffermann received his Licence en Droit et Sciences Economiques in Paris in 1962 and was awarded first prize, Concours General, a French national inter-university essay competition. He was a Besse scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford from 1962-65 and received a B.Litt. (Oxon.) in 1967 for his thesis: "Industrial Labour in Senegal," which was also published as a book.

From 2000-2003 he was an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. From 2003-2007, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the GlobalGiving Foundation. He published "Paths out of Poverty – The Role of Private Enterprise in Developing Countries (IFC, 2000). He is currently on the Advisory Board of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS). Guy is also a member of the African Management Initiative's Advisory Panel. His most recent publications include “Technology, Education and the Developing World” in nBizEd, a publication of the AACSB (July/August 2013) and “Cutting a Path to Prosperity – How Education Pioneers are Building Better Business Schools for the Developing World… and Why” (with co-authors, 2013). Guy is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management.

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http://www.gbsnonline.org

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Paul Przemysław Polański (PhD, hab.) is a software engineer, attorney-at-law and a professor of law at Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland. The author of two books on international and European IT law  as well as more than 80 articles and expertises.  He is also a founder and a director of FREE - a research institute focusing on the intersection of law and ICT. A long-term fun of elearning platforms, Paul is one of the translators of Moodle into Polish and an active administrator of two LMSes. For almost 10 years he has been an executive director of electronic information system Legalis at C.H.Beck.

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http://www.kozminski.edu.pl

Hans Pongratz is Senior Vice President for IT-Systems & Services and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Technische Universität München (TUM) in Germany.

Since 2011 he is responsible for the implementation of TUM's IT-Strategy 'Digital University' and set up e.g. TUM's MOOC-programme. Hans started his career at TUM after working for FOCUS Online, Hewlett-Packard and abroad for Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) in the USA.   

He is member of several programme committees, reviewer groups, boards and thematic sponsor of the expert group "new business models, technologies and lifelong learning" of the German Forum for Higher Education in the Digital Age (Hochschulforum Digitalisierung), an initiative by Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE), Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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http://portal.mytum.de/tum/leitung/port…

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http://europe.somosmas.org/about/team/s…

Eva Poxleitner- Learning Technologies & Education Management

Since Febuary 2012 Eva Poxleitner is responsible for program management and learning technologies in the Fraunhofer Academy’s education management team. In particular for the project "iAcademy - Mobile Learning with the Fraunhofer Academy".

After graduating with a diploma in multimedia design (design and computer science) from the University of Augsburg, in which she mainly dealt with e-learning, she worked as a software developer in the IT industry.

She then studied Master of Science in Industrial Design at the TU Munich (2009 to 2011). Mrs. Poxleitner was involved in the development of projects for start-up companies and industrial customers, in the field of applications for mobile devices amongst other things.

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http://www.academy.fraunhofer.de/en.html

Chris Proulx has been working for over twenty years on breakthrough ideas and business models, especially at the intersection of learning and technology, that expand the reach and impact of learning globally. As CEO of LINGOs, he leads a global team and robust network of social and private sector organizations seeking new and innovative models for learning and professional development in the NGO and social sector; quite literally delivering learning to those doing the hardest work in the hardest to reach places on Earth.

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http://lingos.org/

Chandra R. Pudjiatie is the Digital Learning Coordinator at Aflatoun International, headquartered in Amsterdam. She is responsible for developing innovative digital learning projects targeted for young people and teachers through the use of online and offline tablet and mobile technologies.   Chandra earned her Master's degree in Strategic Product Design from the Delft University of Technology. She has a broad expertise in user participatory approach, design thinking, content development and educational technologies for developing countries. Chandra is currently working on a cross-sector collaboration project in amplifying teacher training through low-cost technology solution.

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http://www.aflatoun.org

Taras Pustovoy, the director of the Center of Innovative Educational Technologies at MIPT. The Center is the leader in creating and integrating new educational technologies in Russia.

In 2015 Taras initiated the creation of the National Platform of Open Education and is currently a member of its Board of Directors. As the head of the technical committee, he was responsible for the design and development of technical solution for the National Platform.

His past experience includes designing and developing several educational platforms for open repositories of educational materials, hybrid schools for K12,online masters programs, mobile apps for science olympiads.

Taras is a recognized expert in online education in Russia and abroad, actively promoting development and implementation of online learning format in high education. Develops the school of the Educational Engineering in MIPT.

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http://mipt.ru/enhttp://phystech.ru

Clark Quinn, Ph.D., helps organizations work smarter: aligning technology with how we think, work, and learn. He integrates creativity, cognitive science, and technology to lead development of strategic solutions including award-winning online content, educational computer games, and websites, as well as adaptive, mobile, and performance support systems. After an early academic career, Dr. Quinn has served as an executive in online and elearning initiatives and has an international reputation as a speaker and scholar, with four books on learning technology and strategy as well as numerous articles and chapters. He works through Quinnovation.

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http://www.quinnovation.com

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Nils Henry Rasmussen is associate professor in mathematics at the teacher education at University College of South-East Norway. He has a PhD in mathematics from the University of Bergen, and one year from the teacher certificate program in Bergen. Rasmussen has since autumn 2011 been involved in online mathematics courses, involving a variety of teaching methods. He also does research in mathematics and mathematics education, involving both algebraic geometry as well as the study of teaching cultures found in Asian countries.

Prof. Andrew Ravenscroft is a Psychologist and Learning Technologist who is a Professor of Education in the CASS School of Education and Communities at the University of East London (UEL), where he is Co-Director of the International Centre for Public Pedagogy (ICPuP). The Centre currently has 18 members and includes two major and related themes of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) for Social Innovation (led by Andrew) and Disaster Education (led by Prof. John Preston).  These themes are constituted by a portfolio of funded projects that have attracted over £2 Million in research and development funds.

Andrew is a Chartered Psychologist (C.Psychol), an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) and a Fellow of the RSA, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (FRSA).

He has a leading international profile in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and socially engaged research through publishing over 130 articles, being an active member of international and national committees and working groups and being a principal or co-investigator investigator on a broad portfolio of projects over the past 20 years (funded by various national and international agencies), that have attracted over £6.4 Million in total. Andrew is currently active in many cross-disciplinary initiatives at the interface of creative digital media, critical discourse, performance-based learning and social innovation.

Andrew’s contemporary theme of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) for Social Innovation emphasises non-formal, community-based and inclusive learning within a framework of social justice, and his current work is addressing mental health and substance misuse issues through psychoeducation. This work often applies a combination Community Action Research and Design based Research methods to design, implement and evaluate original educational interventions that address pressing education and social issues, by adapting the ‘space’ of participatory radio for example. Since being at UEL (from February 2011) this theme has been constituted by seven funded projects where Andrew was the Principal Investigator that have attracted £908K in total, most of which are international and multi-partner. These projects include: three consecutive funded projects and two funded PhDs – RadioActive101 – that are national and international projects using participatory radio as an educational intervention with a range of excluded groups throughout Europe and as a psychoeducation intervention to address mental health and substance misuse; Digging by Debating (DbyD), an international project that won the prestigious International Digging into Data Challenge 2011; and, Westfield Opening Observation Exercise, a research and consultancy project commissioned by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and working with the ODA, Engineers and Transport specialists to test the readiness of the transport system for the London 2012 Olympic Games.                

Previously Andrew was Deputy Director of the interdisciplinary Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI) at London Metropolitan University. This had 17 members and contributed to Education for Research Assessment purposes, that was ranked in the top fifth for the UK (with half the output ratings being 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'). The LTRI had attracted over £9 Million in competitive funds for collaborative research and development projects (e.g. Digital Dialogue Games, CETL in Reusable Learning Objects and MATURE: Continuous social learning in knowledge networks), with partners from the Academic and Commercial sectors in the UK and European Community. 

Andrew’s work can also be viewed as Deep Learning Design (or DLD), which  is a design based research approach to Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) that is particularly focused on learning and education in naturalistic settings linked to the evolving social media landscape. He has previously worked in key positions within other institutes which had the highest rating (5) for research in the UK, and out of the total of £6.4 Million in competitive funding for projects from a range of sources, he has been the Principal Investigator on those that have attracted over £1.8 Million. The interrelated foci of Andrew's research at this time were: the changing nature and practices of communication rich learning; designing next-generation social media systems; serious and social games; contemporary theory; and generally, designing for the interplay of non-formal and formal learning (related to education or learning at work). He was a co-investigator and Evaluation Work Package Co-leader on an EC funded Integrated Project, “MATURE: Continuous social learning in knowledge networks”.

Andrew has also led a significant strand of research and development into Digital Dialogue Games for Learning, that: attracted four rounds of external funding worth over £600,000 and additional internal funding; generated many publications; received considerable national and international recognition  through invited talks and articles; and, delivered 'state of the art' learning technologies (AcademicTalk and InterLoc) to the education and research communities.

These lines of work build upon a significant portfolio of previous projects that included: intelligent agent-based training simulations; pioneering networked and multimedia learning support systems (before the Web); computational modelling of learning dialogue and collaborative processes; and, generally, the development of new theoretical and pedagogical frameworks for learning in the digital age.

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http://www.uel.ac.uk/research/

Dr. Herwig Rehatschek studied Computer Science and Electronics and received his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. from the University of Technology, Graz. From 1997 until 2008 he worked at the research company JOANNEUM RESEARCH. His main emphasis was on eLearning and digital media analysis. He participated in many international EC research projects and also managed and co-ordinated some of them. In 1999 Dr. Rehatschek won the Austrian state price in the category learning, knowledge and culture. In 2008 he joined the Medical University of Graz as a head of the unit organization of teaching and learning with media with the main task to develop and maintain the virtual medical campus, the eLearning platform of the university. Since then he was actively involved in the set-up and implementation of the learning management system and the development of learning content. He introduced virtualized lessons, a new virtual microscope, and eLectures. In 2013 he won the Dr. Michael Hasiba price for innovative teaching. In 2014 open educational resources (OER) have been introduced under his leadership. In 2015 he co-developed the training programme "eDidactics" (6 ECTS credits) which enables teachers to improve their eLearning skills.

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http://www.medunigraz.at

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Jeanine Reutemann is a Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts FHNW Basel with a background in film, education and media sciences. Her main research interests are: science communication, excellence in film and animation, digital education, VR, gesture theory, multimodal communication.

She is Co-Founder & CEO of RedMorpheus GmbH, with a focus on science & research communication, digital learning and media consultancy. Productions for the ETH Zurich, WWF/COOP & Southpole Carbon, FHNW, Novartis, Department of Culture Basel City, PRO7/Sat1, Short Film Agency Hamburg in cooperation with Federal Foundation for Culture of Germany and ZDF/ARTE.

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http://fhnw.chhttp://audiovisualresearch.org

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Mr Reyes Lindsay has a long-spanning career within Santander in support of employee development within the highly ambitious country department of Santander Chile, spearheading a Digital Transformation L&D project. Santander was founded in 1857 and is one of the world´s leading international banks. The company boasts an 82% employee satisfaction index and in 2016 has over 193,000 people under – a staggering 97% permanent- contract. More than 55,000 Santander employees are enrolled in charity projects.

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http://www.santander.com

Sandra has been working in the area of Learning & Development for over 15 years in international organisations in the private and public sector in Latin America and Europe. Sandra holds an MSc degree from Copenhagen Business School in International Business Administration, Language and Culture.

Sandra joined the UN in 2012 as learning specialist in charge of UNOPS leadership development and performance management programmes. Since July 2014 she is leading the learning and development function for UNOPS global workforce of more than 8,000 people across 80 countries, with headquarters in Copenhagen. Sandra is originally from Colombia. 

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Debbie Richards, president of Creative Interactive Ideas, was named one of the most influential people in corporate eLearning for 2016. Debbie serves as a technology consultant to corporations and organizations, and she currently works with clients to design, develop, and deliver adult learning programs with measurable impact through the use of emerging technologies.

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For over 25 years Martin Riemer has been involved in medical 3D-image processing research. This work resulted in a prototype of the subsequently published VOXEL-MAN 3D-Navigator anatomical interactive medical atlases; which helped to introduce 3D virtual body models, made from tomographic data, to medical teaching. In the development group he was mainly responsible for the prototype, the user interface and the MS-Windows implementation of the 3D-Navigator.
Since 2003 he has concentrated on teaching Medical Computer Science and helped setting up eLearning at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), together with a group of eLearning activists.
His special interest is the creation and use of Virtual Patients. He is currently representing the UKE in several expert groups setting up the Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU). Being involved in teaching medical students in both real and virtual environments and software engineering he is familiar with pedagogical as well as technical aspects of eLearning.

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http://www.uke.uni-hamburg.de

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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http://www.cengage.co.uk

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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http://dtu.dk

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http://www.lingwelink.com

Wilfred Rubens (1964) currently works as an independent consultant on technology enhanced learning. He provides advice, keynotes, presentations, workshops and classes about technology enhanced learning. Wilfred has been professionally involved in e-learning for more than 20 years. For more than 12 years he blogs about ICT and learning. June 2013 he published a book about elearning trends and developments (in Dutch). In 2015 he was co-author of a book about social learning. Wilfred is also one of the editors of the Dutch portal e-learning.nl, member of the advisory board of the anual Dutch Next Learning conference and member of the advisory board of the ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN.

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http://www.wilfredrubens.com

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Snorre is a Learning Techology Consultant at RegionH E-læring, the in-house e-learning bureau at The Capital Region of Denmark. With a base of 40000+ employees, the Region is in constant need of learning. 

Snorre has a Bachelors degree in Educational Science, and a Master of Science in Information Technologly, Specializing in ICT, Learning and Organizational Change. In RegionH E-læring he has been working with Learning Technologies and e-learning productions for the last 2 years. His main focus through these two years has been enabling teachers and learners using Learning Technologies. 

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http://www.regionh.dk/e-learning

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http://www.tlu.ee/

Dr. Saarela has worked at Häme University of Applied Sciences as a Principal Lecturer for more than 17 years. She is currently a Research Group Leader in Multisensory and Assistive Technology that promotes learning, working, and working capability. Currently her particular areas of interest concern multimodal interaction and how use of other senses than the visual can be used in applications and services. Dr. Saarela is specialized in social­-neurocognitive learning difficulties (especially learning difficulties caused by developmental disabilities, dementia, sensory deficits), interaction, learning and knowledge assessment and education evaluation. In addition, Dr. Saarela has broad experience in developing innovative learning methods and innovation education. She is also specialized in user­-centered wellbeing and education technology, assistive technology, gaming, action and interaction platforms.

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http://www3.hamk.fi/hyvinvointi/yhteyst…

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…

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Perry Samson is professor of atmospheric sciences in the College of Engineering Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.  Prof. Samson has been awarded an Arthur F. Thurnau professorship in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate education at the University of Michigan.  Perry has also the past recipient of the College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award and the Teaching Innovation Award at the University of Michigan.  He has been honored as the Distinguished Professor of the Year in the State of Michigan.  Perry is a frequent speaker as an evangelist for active learning using technologies in the classroom.

In addition to teaching and research Perry is an entrepreneur as a co-founder of The Weather Underground. He also co-founded LectureTools which has been acquired by Echo360 and is a co-founder of the Wireless Indoor Location Device (WILD) Learning System. 

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Roger Schank is one of the world's leading visionaries in artificial intelligence, learning theory, cognitive science, and the building of virtual learning environments. He is CEO of Socratic Arts, a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations.

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http://www.socraticarts.com/

Maren Scheffel is a PhD researcher at the Welten Institute (Research Center for Learning, Teaching and Technology) at the Open University of the Netherlands. She studied computational linguistics at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Bonn and received her M.A. in 2008. She previously worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) focussing on research related to technology-enhanced learning. Since 2014 she has been working at the Welten Institute where she was involved in the management as well as the research for the Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE) project and now contributes to the Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics (SHEILA) project. Her PhD work focuses on creating an evaluation framework for learning analytics (EFLA). She is a member of the SURF SIG Learning Analytics.

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http://www.ou.nl/

I work as a Policy Officer for Innovation in Education at the European Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture (DG EAC). My specific focus is on the digital transformation of education, regarding both the use of digital devices as well as concerns around the provision of digital skills and competences in the population.

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http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm

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http://www.gbsnonline.org

Andreas Schleicher is Director for Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

As a key member of the OECD Senior Management team, Mr. Schleicher supports the Secretary-General’s strategy to produce analysis and policy advice that advances economic growth and social progress. He promotes the work of the Directorate for Education and Skills on a global stage and fosters co-operation both within and outside the OECD. In addition to policy and country reviews, the work of the Directorate includes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), and the development and analysis of benchmarks on the performance of education systems (INES).

Before joining the OECD, Mr. Schleicher was Director for Analysis at the International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA). He studied Physics in Germany and received a degree in Mathematics and Statistics in Australia. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the “Theodor Heuss” prize, awarded in the name of the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany for “exemplary democratic engagement”.  He holds an honorary Professorship at the University of Heidelberg.

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http://www.oecd.org/edu/andreas-schleic…

J. Philipp Schmidt is Director of Learning Innovation at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the ML Learning initiative, teaches courses, and conducts research on learning communities. He is also a cofounder and board member of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU), a non-profit organization that provides access to online higher education through public libraries. Philipp served on the founding board of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, co-authored the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, and is an advisor to a number of non-profit and for-profit education projects. He has received Shuttleworth and Ashoka fellowships, and came to MIT as a Media Lab Director's fellow.

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https://www.media.mit.edu/people/ps1http://1l2p.net/about.html

Christoph Schmidt-Mårtensson founded with Ricardo Bayer in 2000 the company CREATE.21st century. 2002 he developed the first virtual learning world and at the beginning of 2006 he brought corporate podcasting to Austria. He got for R&D-projects awards like: VCÖ-Mobilitätspreis 2013, DAPHNE Preis 2011, nomination for the Staatspreis Mobilität 2011 & 2015, New Yorker INTERACTIVE MEDIA AWARD 2013 & 2015. Furthermore he won since 2007 many times the German eLearning Award. Also the Comenius-Siegel 2014, 2015 & 2016. His product cBook is part of the list of the Innovationspreis-IT 2015. 2016 he won the German Brand Award for a corporate learning project with the ERSTE Bank Austria.

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http://www.create.at

Christel Schneider is the founder and managing director of CSiTrain. From 2006 until 2012 she was EU project manager and director of the international language association ICC. Before this, she worked as head of the language department for the German adult education association in Schleswig Holstein. For over ten years she taught didactics and methodology at Hamburg University (Dept. of Education) and has run numerous teacher training seminars both on a national and international level. Her experience in online training stretches over a period of more than fifteen years. She designed, set up and delivered an online teacher training course for Cornelsen Publishing. As part of her project work she has been involved in teaching and learning in virtual worlds and has recently developed her skills in machinimatography. Christel worked as research assistant for the CAMELOT Project for the University of Central Lancashire, UK, while completing her MA in Virtual Education at the University of the West of England (UK), this year.

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http://www.csitrain.net

Tim Scholze has been working in R&D in different educational sectors related to innovative learning fields in VET and AE and as scientific expert in (Universities of Kassel, German Institute for ADULT Education, DVV International, the REVEAL group).

He holds a PhD in educational sciences and is chairman of the blended learning institutions’ cooperative (blinc eG); a European umbrella orga­nisation of experts from practice and science from 22 EU members states working on competence oriented learning and validation of informal and non-formal learning.

Since 1997 Tim has developed and coordinated various European projects in the framework the Lifelong Learning/ERASMUS+ Programme and its sub-actions (LdV, Grundtvig, Comenius, KA3), LIFE+ (Environment) programme, the eLearning initiative, INTERREG, the ESF and the Climate KIC (EIT, H2020) since 1997. Since then he has designed and managed more than 50 transnational European projects, mainly in the field of innovative, cross-sectoral and participative learning approaches, competence based learning, validation of key competences and regional capacity building; partly with a focus on projects related to sustainable development and climate change.

Since 2015 he is scientific officer in a research and development project at the German Institute for Adult Education (www.die-bonn.de) which aims at developing an interactive, open learning space for the large community of adult educators in Germany.

Since the early 90s he has been regularly teaching in the VET and Adult Education sector. Currently, he is teaching at the University of Duisburg Essen of the module “International Adult Education” with a focus on Validation of informal and non-formal learning. He has gained an extensive list of keynotes and panel inputs on the topics of blended learning and VINFL since 2007.

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http://www.die-bonn.de

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Herr Dr.-Ing. Schopbach ist promovierter Bauingenieur mit langjähriger Erfahrung in einem renommierten Ingenieurbüro für Holzbau. Aktuell ist er Geschäftsführer am Bundesbildungszentrum in Kassel, Kompetenzzentrum für Zimmerer- und Holzbauarbeiten. Er ist Lehrbeauftragter der Universität Kassel, Vorsitzender des Zimmermeisterprüfungsausschusses der Handwerkskammer Kassel und stellv. Chefredakteur der Zeitschrift "Holzbau – die neue quadriga".

Abgeschlossene und laufende Forschungsvorhaben beschäftigen sich unter anderem mit den Auswirkungen der europäischen Bemessungsnorm EC5 sowie dem Einfluss digitaler Medien in der beruflichen Bildung. In seiner Freizeit ist er als Stadtrat seiner Heimatgemeinde Romrod im Einsatz.

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http://www.bubiza.de/kontakt/geschaefts…

Tanja Schubert, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Arbeitsbereich 3.2 „Digitale Medien, Fernlernen, Bildungspersonal“, seit 2008 fachliche  Begleitung der geförderten Projekte des BMBF zu digitalen Medien in der beruflichen Bildung. 

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http://www.bibb.de

Dr. Frederick Schulz befasst sich als Diplom-Informatiker und Pädagoge mit den Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der digitalen Technologien für die Bildung. Im Schwerpunkt steht dabei die Transformation bewährter didaktischer Modelle und ihre Ergänzung und Erweiterung mit innovativen Entwicklungen. Dabei deckt er thematisch ein breites Feld von der beruflichen Erstausbildung über Studium und Wissensmanagement bis zur Altenbildung ab.

Momentan leitet er für die Handwerkskammer des Saarlandes das BMBF-Projekt „KOLA – Kompetenzorientiertes Lernen im Arbeitsprozess mit digitalen Medien“, das die Potentiale mobiler Endgeräte für die Lernortkooperation in der handwerklichen Berufsausbildung erforscht.

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http://www.hwk-saarland.de/handwerk_reg…

Principal lecturer Lasse Seppänen, Lic. Sc., has a strong background in programming (12 years) and teaching (19 years). He is currently responsible in the degree programme in Business IT of Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK), Finland, for curriculum development, thesis management, internationalization, several courses and student projects and he is teaching both daytime classroom and evening online studies. He is developing studies related to Big Data, Business Intelligence and Analytics. He is developing systems that indicate students who are in danger of delaying or interrupting their studies. Mr. Seppänen has developed a thesis management system. His hobbies include music, building and travelling.

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http://www.hamk.fi/

Joshua Shannon-Chastain is the Faculty Academic English Coordinator at MEF University. For the last two years as an instructor and coordinator of freshmen English at MEF University he has been developing curriculum and materials that motivate and engage students using a flipped learning model.

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http://www.mef.edu.tr/

Toby Shapshak writes and speaks about how innovation is better in Africa. 

His TED talk on how Africa is solving real problems has had over 1,4-million views; and he has been featured in the New York Times.

Toby is the editor-in-chief and publisher of Stuff magazine; is a contributor to Forbes and writes a weekly column for the Financial Mail. He has been co-hosting a weekly TV show on CNBC Africa for the past three years.

He believes Africa is a mobile-driven continent, about which he has written for CNN, The Guardian in London and for Forbes. He is writing a book on innovation in Africa, looking at how the problems Africa is solving for itself will benefit the rest of the world.

Toby has spoken at the South by South West (SxSW) conference in Austin, Texas, (thrice) on how mobile is being used in Africa (2013) and how music is being consumed (2014); and The Guardian's Activate: Johannesburg on innovation out of necessity.

He has also spoken at Intel's IDF conference in San Francisco, Germany's Zukunftskongress (Future Congress), TEDxGateway in Mumbai, Pivot East in Nairobi, and Tech4Africa in Joburg.

Toby was named in GQ's top 30 men in media and the Mail & Guardian newspaper's 300 influential young South Africans list; and has won the ICT Journalist of the Year. GQ said he "has become the most high-profile technology journalist in the country" while the M&G wrote: "Toby Shapshak is all things tech... he reigns supreme as the major talking head for everything and anything tech."

As a news and political journalist, he ran Mail & Guardian newspaper’s website when it was the first news site in Africa, shadowed Nelson Mandela when he was president, and covered the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

He has interviewed a range of tech industry luminaries, including Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

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http://www.shapshak.com/

Eric is a Senior Fellow and Thought Leader on Digital Leadership with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). Prior to this he was the award-winning Principal at New Milford High School.  Under his leadership his school became a globally recognized model for innovative practices.  Eric oversaw the successful implementation of several sustainable change initiatives that radically transformed the learning culture at his school while increasing achievement. 

His work focuses on leading and learning in the digital age as a model for moving schools and districts forward. This has led to the formation of the Pillars of Digital Leadership, a framework for all educators to initiate sustainable change to transform school cultures.  As a result Eric has emerged as an innovative leader, best selling author, and sought after speaker.  His main focus is purposeful integration of technology to facilitate student learning, improve communications with stakeholders, enhance public relations, create a positive brand presence, discover opportunity, transform learning spaces, and help educators grow professionally.

Eric has received numerous awards and acknowledgements for his work. He is a CDE Top 30 award recipient, Bammy Award winner, NASSP Digital Principal Award winner, PDK Emerging Leader Award recipient, winner of Learning Forward's Excellence in Professional Practice Award, Google Certified Innovator, Adobe Education Leader, and ASCD 2011 Conference Scholar. He has authored and co-authored the following:    

Uncommon Learning: Creating Schools That Work for Kids
Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times 
Communicating and Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals
What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science

He has also contributed on education for the Huffington Post, co-created the Edscape Conference, sits on the FEA Board of Directors, and was named to the NSBA "20 to Watch" list in 2010 for technology leadership. TIME Magazine also identified Eric as having one of the 140 Best Twitter Feeds in 2014.  He now presents and speaks nationally to assist other school leaders embrace and effectively utilize technology. His blog, A Principal's Reflections, was selected as Best School Administrator Blog in 2013 and 2011 by Edublogs. It was also recognized with an Editor’s Choice Content Award in 2014 by Smartbrief Education.

Eric began his career in education as a Science Teacher at Watchung Hills Regional High School where he taught a variety of subjects (Biology, Chemistry, Marine Biology, Ecology) and coached several sports (ice hockey, football, lacrosse). He then transitioned into the field of educational administration as an Athletic Director/Supervisor of Physical Education & Health and Vice Principal in the New Milford School District. During his administrative career he has served as District Affirmative Action Officer and was the president of the New Milford Administrator’s Association. During his tenure as high school principal he successfully implemented numerous initiatives including a new teacher evaluation system (McREL), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), oversaw Common Core implementation, and initiated a new grading philosophy. Eric received his M.Ed. in Educational Administration from East Stroudsburg University, B.S. in Biology from Salisbury University, and his B.S. in Marine/Environmental Science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

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http://www.leadered.com

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Clive is a learning and development consultant, with a long-standing fascination for the applications of media and technology to learning at work. In a career spanning more than 35 years, Clive has headed up a corporate training function, co-founded a leading multimedia development business and operated as an independent consultant operating worldwide. In recent years, Clive has devoted his attention to design of next generation workplace learning solutions. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, has been recognised with two lifetime achievement awards, has written five books and more than 200 articles, and nearly 1000 posts to his blog, Clive on Learning. For four years he was Chair of the eLearning Network. His most recent book, More Than Blended Learning, was launched in January 2015. He now provides his consulting services through The More Than Blended Learning Company

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http://morethanblended.com/http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk

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I was born in Saint-Petersburg and went to the school 524 there. After that I obtained Bachelor Degree majoring in Management of Innovation Technologies in Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbSTU). My interest to the education technologies started to grow from the course of working over thesis project “Design and Implementation of feedback system" where the prototype was developed. Following that, I attended a Double Degree Program between Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbSTU) and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT). Main field of the Program was Industrial Engineering and Project Management. My Master's research was devoted to educational technologies focusing on the Flipped classroom project. Currently I am a doctoral student in the LUT School of Business and Management in Doctoral Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management. Practically I focus on the design and implementation of flipped classroom. Alongside with that I make up a research about cost-effectiveness of flipped classroom.

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Patrick Singer designs and facilitates training programs for Google's advertising clients. He is curriculum lead for Squared Guru, a two-week face-to-face program for senior audiences that covers digital marketing strategy and digital transformation.

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• 2009 - Project Manager - Technical University of Denmark, Innovation and Sectors Services
• 2006-2008 - HRM Manager - PostNord (the former Post Denmark)
• 2003-2006 - HRM Development Manager - Danish Metal Workers Union
• 1995-2003 - HRM Manager and Head of Secretariat – Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark

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I am the founder and director of AlgebraKIT, a Dutch company that develops and licenses software for interactive mathematics education.

In 1997 I finished my masters in engineering mathematics. I have extensive experience in the high-tech industry as engineer and account manager. One of my activities was the successful launch of Districs, a logistics company that reduces parcel volume by 30% using advanced mathematical optimization.

I have also been a math teacher for five years and I am board member of Math4all, the Dutch society of online math education in the Netherlands. 

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http://www.algebrakit.nl/

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“Why don’t organisations learn and innovate fast enough?”

Jef Staes offers an answer to this question. As a thought leader in the fields of learning and innovation management, he analyses the way in which people resist and even obstruct change processes. And Jef does not shy away from confrontation! With a vast range of new insights and metaphors, he illustrates why managers and policymakers often reach the wrong decisions.

Expert

Jef Staes (Belgium, 1956) is one of the leading experts on these topics in Belgium and is quickly gaining international respect for his energizing mindset. He currently assists organizations in their quest to find a comprehensive answer and approach to the changing dynamics of today’s world. Based on his career as a software designer (GTE ATEA in Belgium & USA), training Manager and Corporate Learning Officer (Siemens, Belgium), he gained practical insights in the dynamics of organizational development.

Speaker

Jef Staes is often the keynote speaker on various topics concerning culture innovation and this for a diverse audience (conferences, education, in-company, ...). He has given hundreds of keynotes, both in English and Dutch. Furthermore, he’s a visiting lecturer at several Management schools (Vlerick, UAMS, EHSAL). His refreshing stories are guaranteed eye-openers and his new look at the role of managers has inspired many.

Author

He is also the author of a number of books on the topics of innovation and change management. One of which, “My Organisation is a Jungle”, was also translated to English. Through the use of rich metaphors and exciting parallels, he truly engages you in the story of the Red Monkey. Other books in the series, “My Manager is a Hero” & "I was a Sheep" continue the story and are often featured in Jef's speeches. All books have been bestselling publications with over 15.000 copies sold.

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http://www.jefstaes.com

Melanie has a background in European Ethnology and Computer Science and a PhD in Communications, researching on the intersection of digital technologies, communication studies, STS and international development. Since 2013 Melanie is a research associate at TU Berlin with a teaching a research interest in electronics, digital labs and ICTs and education and working on a freelance basis as a consultant in the same area. Previous cooperations include One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Afghanistan, Ustad Mobile (Mobile Literacy), GIZ, MICT, Parliamentwatch, GIG and others. She is also co-founder of Konnektiv, Agency for Education and Development und Digital Unite e.V.

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Dr. Christian M. Stracke is Associate Professor for Open Education and Innovation at the Open University of the Netherlands. In addition he is Advisory Professor at the East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, and Adjunct Professor at the Korea National Open University (KNOU) in Seoul.

His main working fields are Open Education, technology-enhanced learning, educational policies and philosophy, learning innovations and quality, impact assessment and competence development.

He has founded and established ICORE, the International Community for Open Education and Research and LINQ, the annual international conference on Learning Innovations and Quality.

He has got 20+ years of business and research experience in HR and E-Learning in leading research teams and large scale projects (> 100 projects, > 50 Mio. EUR) and in consulting institutions and public authorities to develop long-term policies.

His latest news online at: www.opening-up.education and on twitter: @ChrMStracke.

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https://www.ou.nl/

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http://www.globethics.net/

Özge is senior researcher at Human Computer Interaction Group at Vienna University of Technology (TUW).

At TUW Özge collaborates with partner organisations and key academic people from various disciplines. Her work aims for designing better futures at the intersection of state-of-the-art social theories such as gerontology, future education, mobility, smart and participatory city, sharing societies.

Özge has a long list of designerly, artistic and d-anthro techniques that allows her to co-design services, products and concepts in multidisciplinary settings and teams.

 Özge got a Ph.D. with focus on “Design Anthropology” from Vienna University of Applied Arts (d’angewandte), Department of Arts Sociology.

She is author for several international research publications majorly on role of design innovation.

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http://igw.tuwien.ac.at/hci/people/osub…

The web is one of our most valuable public resources -- it’s Mark Surman’s job to protect it. Mark serves as Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, a global community that does everything from making Firefox to taking stands on issues like online privacy. Mark’s biggest focus is building the movement side of Mozilla: rallying the citizens of the web, building alliances with likeminded organizations and leaders, and growing the open internet movement. Before Mozilla, Mark was the Managing Director of telecentre.org and president of boutique consulting firm Commons Group. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship, where he explored how to apply open source approaches to philanthropy. Mark lives in Toronto with his wife Tonya, founding Executive Director of the Centre for Social Innovation, and his sons Tristan and Ethan.

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http://www.mozilla.org

Siv Svendsen is an educator with 10 years teaching experience from lower- and upper secondary education in Norway. She has a Master in Teaching and Education from the University of Bergen. The last 3 years she has been an assistant professor in teacher education at the University College of South-East Norway.

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http://www.usn.no

Dr. Anne Swanberg is the Project Director of EOCCS, EFMD Global Network Online Course Certification System - a newly launced certification system for online courses within the management and business field.  She is also the Director of LearningLab at BI Norwegian Business School which has more than 20,000 students - among them 3,000 online students.  LearningLab is a support and innovation senter for teaching, learning and ICT. Dr. Swanberg is also the leader of a national expert panel on digitalization and quality in higher education in Norway. Her research interest is within the field of educational psychology and how we all learn differently (personality and learning styles). The last year she has contributed to the start-up of Oslo EdTech Cluster as a member of the board.

Miho is an interactive technologies consultant at Gumpp & Partners, where she is currently working on the product strategy for Mailiam.de – a secure email service for Mac and iOS. Prior to this she founded AirMarkr, a mobile app that lets you draw in the air. It was named one of the hottest startups in Germany by LeWeb, and The Next Web. Miho has won multiple awards as a digital concepter and UI/UX person, working for major clients such as Vodafone, MINI, and Sony-Playstation. She continues to share her passion for AR & VR as co-organiser of München Mixed realitz Meetup.

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https://www.gumpp.comhttp://mailiam.de

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Dr Alek Tarkowski (1977). Sociologist, copyright reform advocate and researcher of digital society. Director of Centrum Cyfrowe, a think-and-do-tank building a digital civic society in Poland. Public Lead of Creative Commons Poland, the Polish branch of the global organization promoting flexible copyright models, for which he also works as European Policy Fellow.  Member of the Administrative Council of Communia, a European advocacy association supporting the digital public domain. Former member of the Polish Board of Digitisation and member of the Board of Strategic Advisors to the Prime Minister of Poland, responsible for issues related to the development of digital society. Co-author of the report "Poland 2030" and the Polish long-term growth strategy. International policy expert on open content licensing and copyright policies, open and digital education, ICT for culture and heritage. For over a decade involved in building a digital commons and public domain in Poland and abroad. 

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http://creativecommons.pl/http://centrumcyfrowe.pl/

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Donald H Taylor is a 25 year veteran of the learning, skills and human capital industries, with experience at every level from design and delivery to chairman of the board. He has been chairman of the Learning and Performance Institute since 2010.

A recognised commentator and organiser in the fields of workplace learning and learning technologies, Donald is passionately committed to helping develop the learning and development profession.

His background ranges from training delivery to director and vice-president positions in software companies. Donald has been a company director and shareholder for three companies through start up, growth and acquisition.

He is an influential writer and speaker in the fields of the professional development of L&D and of technology-supported learning. He was the 2007 recipient of the Colin Corder award for services to training and has chaired the Learning Technologies Conference since 2000. He also chairs the Learning and Skills Group, hosting its bi-weekly webinar programme, and edits Inside Learning Technologies Magazine. He is a graduate of Oxford University and in 2016 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Middlesex University in recognition of his work developing the L&D profession.

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Sara Thornes and Sarah Grund are Academic Instructional Designers in the Distance Learning Team at Leeds Becket University. They have worked in Higher Education for over 10 years and have extensive experience in pedagogical design, online learning, web design and project management.

As Academic Instructional Designers they work with faculties and services to create and actively promote a robust and supportive structure for the development and delivery of high quality, flexible, innovative and accessible online courses. These provide an excellent experience to Distance Learners - by engaging, motivating and empowering both academics and students. 

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http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/

As Secretary General for International Council for Open and Distance Education, ICDE, Gard Titlestad is head of the ICDE Permanent Secretariat.  In close partnership with UNESCO, online, open and flexible education including e-learning is positioned to contribute to Education 2030: Towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all. Before ICDE he served as director at the Nordic Council of Ministers, NCM, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He managed the secretariat for several configurations of ministers including the ministers for education and research, the ministers for health and social affairs, the ministers for labour affairs, and ministers for IT. Gard has been Research Counsellor for Norway and member of the executive team for the Norwegian delegation to the European Union in Brussels. Prior to this, Gard was a senior official in the European Commission, Directorate General Information Society. In Norway Gard worked for the Norwegian Government in research and development agencies. Gard is educated Physiochemist and in legal and management issues.

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http://www.icde.org/en/contact/

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Sophie Touzé is Head Elearning of VetAgro Sup, Veterinarian and Agronomic Institute of Higher Education in France. Vetagro Sup is member of Université de Lyon. Born in 1761 by the king Louis XV, it is the first Veterinarian school in the world.

Expert on new technologies and Innovation for ministers from 1997, Sophie has over 15 years od experience advising teachers and governance on pedagogical scenarios integrating new technologies.

She received two awards on pedagogical innovation for her work in 2004, 2007 and the leardership Learning impact "best multimedia platform" in 2009.

Convinced on the power of knowledge to make the world a better place to live,  she is engaged with MIT and OCWC on the movement of Open Education. Head project manager for Université de Lyon, member of the Europeen project OCW EU for mobility, she is writing a report "Etat de l'art" on Open Education in France for Unesco.

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http://learninglab.vetagro-sup.fr/http://www.opencourseware.eu/

Edmundo Tovar, Computer Engineering educator, has a Ph. D. (1994) and a Bachelor’s degree (1986) in Computer Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He is Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP) from the IEEE Computer Society.  He has been Associate Dean for Quality and Strategic Planning in the Computing School of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. From this last position he was in charge of the training for academic staff, the introduction of innovative solutions including new pedagogies; new approaches that improve student learning of technical skills and cultural skills, improved methods of blended learning and others.

He works in the open educational resources area. Leader of an Innovation Group in Education in the UPM, he has been Executive Director of Open Education UPM Office and member elected of the Board of Directors of the OpenCourseWare Consortium.

Author of many papers  in Engineering Education, he is member of the Steering Committee of and cochair for Europe of Frontiers Education Conference (FIE) , co general chair of the next FIE 2014 at Madrid. Member of the Board of Governors Committee of the IEEE Education Society, he is currently VicePresident of Educational Activities of the IEEE Education Society.

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http://www.upm.eshttp://www.vai.dia.fi.upm.es/ing/cv/eto…

John Trasler is the founder of Elearn which provides  provides consultancy in distance and blended learning together with training programme for individulas and organisations in management, leadership and coaching.

With over 25 years in the education and training business John has managed multi-national companies for Pearson and News Corporation in both Europe and Asia. John holds a masters degree and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and an Executive Member of European Association of Distance Learning (EADL).

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http://www.elearn.co.uk

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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Hariklia Tsalapatas is a software engineer at the University of Thessaly, Greece since 2000. She has a Diploma in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece (1990), an MSc Degree in Computer Science from Rice University, Houston, TX (1994), and an MBA from London Business School (2005). She has been working on ICT in education since 2000 focusing on combining technology with emerging learning methodologies including active, experiential, explorative, and collaborative learning. Over the past 6 years she has been active on serious games in education, mobile learning, and community-based learning. She has participated in 20 EU funded projects since 2000 several of which she has coordinated. She has published approximately 40 publications in the same timeframe. Earlier engagements inlcude working as a researcher at the Foundation for Research and Technology in Heraklion Crete (1998-2000) and as a network engineer for Oracle corporation, SF, California (1993-1997).

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http://www.uth.gr

Carlos Turro is M.D. and PhD from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. He is working there since 1992 and since 2000 is Head of its Media Services unit. From that place he has developed the Polimedia service as a system to create Video Learning Objects. Currently, the Polimedia system is used by more than fifteen universities and has produced more than 18000 learning objects. The Polimedia system was granted with the Spanish national award FICOD 2009 for digital services.

He has and is working in different EU- funded projects. He has worked at the Translectures project, for automatic and interactive transcription and translation of video lectures and the Rec:All project researching how video cab be used in learning environments.

Currently is involved in the edX project for MOOC production, in the Opencast community of Lecture Recordings where UPV developes of a media player for lectures called Paella Player and in the EMMA project for automated transcription and translation of MOOCs.

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http://www.upv.es

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Hans van Bergen is Consultant Technology in Education at the teacher training department of the University of applied sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht) since 2005.

He is specializing in the use of IT in Education for more than twenty years. First he created eLearning courses in music for primary school teachers. Then he was involved in developing and implementing a digital portfolio in teacher training for many years and now he is a consultant innovation in Education at Hogeschool Utrecht. The past four years his focus was on blended learning and the development of digital learning environment tailored to pedagogy.

Hans is asked many times to present his ideas on blended learning at Dutch universities and other educational institutes all over the world.

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http://www.hu.nl

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http://www.utwente.nl

Dr Corrin Varady is an academic and educational entrepreneur. He has two Masters degrees (Bocconi School of Economics/UNSW and LSE) with First Class Honours and a PhD at the London School of Economics in 2015 and has been an Australia Day Ambassador. Dr Varady currently works for African Digital Content Holdings and is Managing Director of Institute of Digital Education Africa South Africa both being digital education companies established to create and deliver self-paced, personalised, interactive content for students and teachers in Africa and the Middle East. Dr Varady also featured in the international documentary, “The Road to Freedom Peak”, which was received with critical acclaim, first premiering on Fox and is currently available on Netflix. Over a decade ago, Dr Varady established the World Youth Education Trust to educate former child soldiers and students in East Africa. Dr Varady established one a counselling centre for former child soldiers, a boarding house for over 200 students, the WYET Football league for female former child soldiers and hundreds of education sponsorships. The WYET Mwalimu Anna Primary School in Tanzania has been ranked 1st in the region in since 2013 and WYET runs the WYET Maasai school in Kigongoni, Northern Tanzania.

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http://www.ideaonline.com/

Dirk is TrainTool’s Director of Business Development for the education sector. Prior to his role at TrainTool, he had a successful career at Pearson, the world’s largest educational publisher.

At TrainTool Dirk follows his two true passions: helping people to improve their communication and soft skills and supporting the education sector in implementing e-learning materials in their curriculum.

Dirk holds an MA degree in English Language and Literature (Leiden University and University of York). After his graduation, he covered various international sales roles at Pearson and was responsible for delivering custom-made materials (books, e-books, e-learning platforms) to higher education institutions.

In his current role, he is responsible for partnerships across the education sector and consults most Dutch and an increasing number of international universities on online academic communication skills development.

Happy students and happy lecturers is what he aims for – and good communication skills are essential for reaching that goal.

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http://www.traintool.com

Tom Visscher, from origin a geography teacher, is now consultant at Teaching & Learning Technology.

He has been working for more than 30 years at Inholland University of Applied Sciences. His main concern and focus is supporting teachers in using ICT tools to enhance education.
Tom is specialized in streaming video, making web lectures with teachers and is always at the front edge of technological innovation. His latest research is on how to use 360 camera’s in education.

You can connect with Tom via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomvisscher

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http://www.inholland.nl

Carlo Vizzi is responsible for ALTEC Virtual Reality Laboratory (VR-LAB). He has a Master Degree in Computer Science Engineering with a specialization in Computer Graphics. In the past years, he has been working with Virtual and Augmented Reality as support of space activities and researches with the objective to enable new techniques and methods to analyse, visualise, simulate and disseminate data and information. He has also been involved in several EU projects leading the trial and assessment phases where the prototypes are tested and evaluated. 

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https://www.altecspace.it/en/

Nicola Vollmar is a Learning and Development Consultant. She started as a trainer and lecturer in adult education in 2003 while incorporating the experience from her former employments in national and international management contexts. Her portfolio has gradually developed concerning means and methods of learning and she advises nowadays as an Expert on New Learning Technologies and a Certified European E-Learning Manager. The strategic approach to the subject matter is based on her Master degree in Leadership and Management and she additionally holds a license for KODE® (competence diagnostics and development).

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http://www.vollmarcommunications.de/

Susan Voogd is assessment quality specialist at VU University Centre for Behavioral and Movement. Susan teaches courses on assessment in higher education in the Master program Docent Hogergezondheidszorgonderwijs and teaches courses on educational innovations in the Teacher Education course of the Master of Human Movement Sciences. She is fond to exchange ideas about quality of assessment in higher education and she advises teachers, management and Examination Boards of different colleges and universities about optimizing quality of assessment in the broadest sense (assessment policy, assessment programs, forms of assessment, assessment questions, etc). As teacher she likes to experiment with new available ICT tools and therefor has built and moderated a massive open online course to instruct examiners in the Netherlands. Nowadays she is exploring how assessment analytics for rubrics and scoreforms can help educational organisations and their students.

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http://www.fgb.vu.nl/nl/professionals/u…

Work experience has always been a mix of psychology and IT, I like working in the area where these two interact. After graduating I lived and worked in the UK for 5 years. In addition to that I've also worked on long-term projects in Ireland (Dublin), the US, as well as instructional/curriculum design & facilitating workshops and (classroom) training all over Europe, the US, and India.

Projects included: evaluating e-learning on usability, introducing e-learning in an IT software & consultancy firm, introducing e-learning in an industrial area, designing/developing/project management of e-learning courses, and LMS system administration. Most of the time on a low budget, which means coming up with creative solutions. 

Educational Background

Masters degree in Cognitive Science (Radboud University Nijmegen) with a Psychology base. Langevin certified instructional designer. Certified PCM Trainer. Certified in OPQ Assessments.

Personal Background

47 years old, married, 2 cats, member of the board at the Dutch Dance Sports Federation, NADB (responsible for IT and Communication) after having competed myself at the highest level until May 2016.

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http://www.heidelbergcement.com/

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Tricia Wang is a global technology ethnographer and the co-founder of Constellate Data. She studies and advises organizations on the patterns of how people use technology.

She consults companies on how to integrate “Big Data” and what she calls Thick Data — data brought to light from humans to improve strategy, policy, products, and services. Organizations she has worked with include P&G, IDEO, Nokia, Microsoft, Kickstarter, the United Nations, and NASA.

As a researcher, she seeks to understand how technology makes us more human. Her research spans from China to social media and most recently, virtual reality. For nearly ten years, she has lived and worked across four continents, studying the effects of social media on people’s lives. Her immersive research has taken her to internet cafés in Beijing, urban slums in India, small towns in rural Mexico, and immigrant housing in Sweden. Based on her extensive fieldwork, she formulated a sociological framework for understanding online behavior, The Elastic Self.

She was the first Western scholar to have worked within the China Internet Network Information Center in Beijing (the equivalent of the FCC in the United States, and the nucleus of the country’s censorship policies). Tricia’s work and points of view have been featured in Slate, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Fast Company, Makeshift, and Wired. She guests lectures widely and has taught at New York University. Tricia is also the co-founder of Ethnography Matters, a site that features cutting edge uses of ethnographic approaches in design, science, and tech.

Currently, she’s an affiliate at Data & Society, and at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Tricia holds a PhD in sociology from UC San Diego, and is a Fulbright Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow.

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http://triciawang.comhttp://ethnographymatters.net

Sally Ward works for the British Council as the Regional Manager for Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). She has worked across the broader MENA region for 10 years, starting her work with the British Council in Saudi Arabia as manager of the Gulf Region. She now manages the Higher Education Programme across the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on the developing education systems in the North Africa region.   

Sally has worked in Education for more than 30 years. Her background is in schools and universities from a strategic management and development perspective. She has worked as a teacher in the UK and South Africa, as well as being involved in teacher-education, adult education, health and development education and latterly, in higher education. 

Sally is actively involved in British Council work involving refugees and migrants in MENA, particularly around higher education for Syrians in the host countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq. This involves providing technical expertise for education projects and programmes. It also includes advocacy, policy development and communications around the barriers to and key success factors for online and face-to-face programmes being developed for displaced and refugee learners.     

Sally was responsible for writing the project proposal for the LASER Project and has also helped to develop the higher education component of the HOPES Project which currently runs across five host countries. She is currently leading on the management of research into higher education for refugees across the MENA region, in partnership with UNHCR and an initiative to further research structural obstacles and attitudes to the recognition and accreditation of online and distance education in the MENA region.   

In addition to her work in higher education for refugees, she manages and coordinates British Council’s higher education programmes in 13 countries across the MENA region. Sally has a degree in education, a Master’s Degree in Management and has completed the University of Geneva’s Higher Education in Emergencies summer school course. She has led and managed research, has conceptualised, written and trained various courses, and has written and edited textbooks, books and other learning materials. 

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http://www.britishcouncil.ae/en

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Nell Watson is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker who grew up in Northern Ireland. She has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of technology, and how extensions of human capacity drive emerging social trends.

Nell lectures globally on Machine Intelligence, AI philosophy, Human-Machine relations, and the Future of Human Society, serving as Associate Faculty at Singularity University.

She has had an unusual career, including teaching post-grad Computer Science at the age of 24, and later co-founding a successful Graffiti arts company. Her ability to bridge the world of technology and the Humanities makes it easy for her to translate complex subjects so that they can be clearly understood.

In 2010 Nell founded Poikos, a machine learning-driven ‘AI for for body measurement’. Nell’s patented technology ‘dematerialises’ the 3D body scanner, by providing accurate 3D scans of the body with only 2D camera hardware, such as that found within smartphones, or laptops. This may then be applied to a range of markets, such as mass customisation, and health.

Possessing a long-term mindset, Nell serves as Senior Advisor to The Future Society at Harvard, as well as serving as an advisory technologist to several startups, accelerators, and venture capital funds.

She is also Co-Founder of OpenEth, an ‘ethical explication engine’ that aims to crowdsource ethical heuristics for autonomous systems.

In her spare time Nell enjoys coding games, such as her startup life simulator, Founder Life. Founder Life attempts to teach the mindfulness and psychological habits necessary for entrepreneurs to consistently execute under pressure. She has also written two easily digestible books on philosophy – one for business leaders, and one aimed at children.

Monika Weber Fahr is Chief Operating Officer at Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All).

Previously, Monika was Chief Knowledge Officer and Senior Manager at the World Bank Group's Independent Evaluation Vice Presidency. Transforming how the World Bank Group and its staekholders learn from independent evaluation was her primary focus, working with IEG evaluators on shaping their products and engagement tools for enhanced uptake and usability - with the ultimate objective to deepen World Bank Group impact and effectiveness. Monika's teams also delivered IT supported analytical tools and coordinated partnerships and capacity development for evaluation, both within the Bank Group and externally. In her previous assignment, as Director for Knowledge, Learning and Results for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, Monika oversaw quality and portfolio management for knowledge services that were specifically designed to strengthen sustainable development. She was an advocate for innovative approaches in generating new knowledge and learning opportunities for the Bank Group and its clients.

Monika has worked for several years with the private sector, setting up and leading within the International Finance Corporation (IFC) its Business Line for Sustainable Business Advisory.  She also worked with the World Bank Institute (WBI) where she built and led the Global Development Learning Network and Multimedia Division at the World Bank Institute (WBI), spearheading the Institute’s engagement with an international partnership of independent Learning Centers.  In 2000, Monika led the team that designed and delivered the World Bank’s first global innovation competition, the Development Marketplace.  Monika brings private sector experience also from working several years with the Boston Consulting Group.  She holds a PhD in business economics.  Monika and her family live in Washington DC.

Monika heads the Council of the Centers for Learning in Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) Initiative and is a member of the Board of COSA (Committee on Sustainability Assessment).

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http://www.se4all.org/

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http://golastmile.com/

Studied fine arts and design at the Academies of Fine Arts in Munich and Berlin. 1980 to 1986 freelance work as TV graphics designer at public and private production houses. Since 1986 specialized on 3D computeranimation (mental images, ART+COM, etc.) on scientific, industrial and art projects for companies like ARD, BMW, Daimler Benz, Siemens, Schering, Telekom, ZDF. Founder of the companies TERRATOOLS and CYPARADE, specializing on 3D animation, simulation and interactive 3D projects such as computer games and cross media projects. Since 1994, Mr. Weinberg is working as a professor for computer animation at the Film & Television Academy Babelsberg (HFF). 2003 Co-initiator and head of n_space, the interdisciplinary network of excellence for nonlinear media in Potsdam. Since 2004 Visiting Professor at CUC Communication University of China CUC, Beijing. 2005 head of “Innovation Forum Nonlinear Media”. 2005-2007 director of Digital Media Institute DMI at HFF. Since 2005 programme director of EU symposium INSIGHT OUT. Since June 2007 head of “School of Design Thinking” at HPI Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam.

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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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http://rug.nl/umcg/?lang=en

Originally a banker, Ian has worked as an independent consultant for over 20 years. He has a BA(Econ), an MBA from Henley Management College and is a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005.

Ian developed and built one of the first Innovation Units in Europe for Barclays. He was also responsible for introducing coaching into Barclays. He now specialises in leadership education and has a reputation for originality and innovation across a range of client projects. These have included Boeing, the DfES Innovation Unit (projects on pedagogy and parental engagement), the SSAT’s Community Leadership Programme, and Odyssey Charter School Pasadena USA.  

He is a Trustee of the LIFE Education Trust and the Thomas Deacon Academy Education Trust. He is also a Trustee of the St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance.

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http://www.brightfield-consulting.com/o…

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Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from Henley Business School.  Has been working as a management consultant for 30 years prior to joining academia at BI Norwegian Business school, where he presently teaches strategy.  He has developed a number of courses and course elements and is at present heavily engaged in using blended learning principles in his teaching. Videos and webinars are familiar fields in his teaching.

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http://www.bi.edu

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Dr Fridolin Wild is a Senior Research Fellow, leading the Performance Augmentation Lab (PAL) of Oxford Brookes University, located in the Department of Computing and Communications Technologies. With the research and development of the lab, Fridolin seeks to close the dissociative gap between abstract knowledge and its practical application, researching radically new forms of linking directly from knowing something ‘in principle’ to applying that knowledge ‘in practice’ and speeding its refinement and integration into polished performance.

Fridolin is and has been leading numerous EU, European Space Agency, and nationally funded research projects, including WEKIT, TCBL, ARPASS, Tellme, TELmap, cRunch, Stellar, Role, LTfLL, iCamp, and Prolearn. Fridolin is the voted treasurer of the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL) and leads its Special Interest Group on Wearable-Enhanced Learning (SIG WELL). He chairs the working group on Augmented Reality Learning Experience Models (ARLEM) of the IEEE Standards Association as well as the Natural Language Processing task view of the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).

Before, Fridolin last held a post as Research Fellow, being at the Open University of the UK from 2009 to 2016. He worked as a researcher at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Austria from 2004 to 2009. He studied at the University of Regensburg, Germany, with extra-murals at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Hildesheim.

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http://cct.brookes.ac.uk/staff/fridolin…http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/member/fri…

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Dr. Jeanny Wildi-Yune is Senior Manager in Consulting Data & Analytics of KPMG Germany. She is currently the Manager of the KPMG Insights Center in Frankfurt. Her area of expertise lies in digital learning. Jeanny has over 20 years of experience in education management covering both the industry and academic sectors. Prior, she was key account manager for corporate programs of major international companies and relationship manager for selected universities. From these activities, she gained deep insight into diverse corporate programs and executive education at leading universities.

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http://www.kpmg.de

Co-founder and CEO of Peergrade. PhD-student within machine learning, data science, deep learning and learning analytics at The Technical University of Denmark (DTU). I started Peergrade when my class Computational Tools for Big Data at DTU grew from 20 to 150 students.

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http://www.peergrade.io

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Richard is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is currently co-academic lead for the health e-learning and media (HELM) team at the University of Nottingham. As well as leading online curriculum development, his research and development interests include open multimedia learning content, pedagogy and reuse, stakeholder involvement in content development and student generated content. He has headed a large number of funded research and development projects in these areas. The open educational resource outputs of these projects are being used in over 50 countries worldwide and his research has been published widely. Richard is a Principal Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy, and has previously been a SCORE Fellow in Open Educational development. Richard has been awarded two Lord Dearing Awards for innovation in educational technology.  THe HELM team he co-leads, was a runner up in the 2015 Guardian University Awards as well as the UK's Association of Learning Technologists' (ALT) Learning technology team award, 2016.  HELM was awarded the community-led award for 2016.  Richard is currently co-leading a MOOC based around the creation of digital learning resources for health.  Richard works as part of a cross-EU partnership, together with the University of Stavanger, Norway and the Catholic University of Valencia, Spain.  Currently the group is completing an EU funded project investigating the co-translation and delivery of multimedia learning resources.

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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthscien…

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http://www.vt.iao.fraunhofer.de/

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.

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http://www.llab.dtu.dk

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http://dmll.org.uk

Zac Woolfitt is a lecturer and researcher at Inholland University in The Netherlands. With a background in tourism where he worked in the US and Canada for ten years, he is now based near Amsterdam. Since 2010 he has been conducting research into the effective use of video in higher education. His master thesis examined the obstacles that teaching staff face when transitioning from face-to-face, to teaching via video (from 3d to 2d). Using a variety of technologies, he has recorded over 100 web lectures that are used when ‘flipping’ the classroom in a blended learning format. He is also experimenting with integrating video as part of a dynamic and interactive learning environment

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https://www.inholland.nl/onderzoek/onde…

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http://www.abed.org.br

Vincent Zimmer is a Co-Founder of Kiron Open Higher Education, a blended learning educational platform for refugees. He completed two master’s degree study programmes, “International Economics” at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and “Public Policy and Administration” at the London School of Economics. Vincent Zimmer has a lot of experience in the startup area, and has been already involved in several foundings. Furthermore he worked in a consultancy (Rambøll Management Consulting) and with students in crisis during his time at “Study without borders”. His experiences in the refugees area and a research stay in Istanbul, moved him to found Kiron together with Markus Kressler in 2015.

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https://kiron.ngo/about

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Vice President Forum DistancE-Learning

CEO ibbw-consult

Engaged in e-learning projects and e-learning training since 1994. Vice President of Forum DistancE-Learning, the German Association for DistancE-Learning and Learning Media. Chairman of the section for pedagogical and didactical issues in distance learning.

Initiator and organizer of the annual German FDL-FachForum, designed to identify future demands for vocational media-enhanced learning.

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http://www.ibbw-consult.de/institut/

International Training Project Director at CEDDET Foundation

Irene Zurborn has over fifteen years of experience working in the field of professional training, with a focus on the development of e-learning programs for international organizations. She started as a coordinator of several face-to-face training projects for Latin America, Africa and Asia at the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (now GIZ), but since 2003 she has been managing different online training projects at CEDDET for institutions like the WB,  AECID, FAO, EU,  IADB, among others. She has also launched the first virtual alumni communities of the WB program and worked as an e-learning consultant for projects in Eastern Europe and Mercosur. At present she is managing the IADB Capacity Building Training on Integration in collaboration with CEDDET aimed at professionals working in the fields of economic integration and international trade in the LAC region.

As a life-long learner she is particularly interested in education technology, open innovation and promoting meaningful conversations applying the Art of Hosting practices and Theory U. She has a degree in economics from Universidad Católica Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1987) and an international MBA from S.D.A. Bocconi (Milan, 1993). Before joining CEDDET she worked over ten years as a business consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Roland Berger & Partner, and as an international business manager for ZARA (Inditex Group).

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http://www.ceddet.org

Marjolein Zweekhorst is associate professor at the Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam. She graduated in Medical Biology in 1996 and then joined the department Biology and Society as a researcher. She wrote her PhD thesis on institutionalisation of an interactive approach to technological innovation. Her current research is focused on methodology development for interactive policy and interactive technology development in public health, biotechnology and biomedical sciences and on innovations in education. Marjolein is also Program director of the master Management Policy-Analysis and Entrepreneurship in the Health and Life Sciences, chair of the educational board of the bachelor health sciences and chair of the examboard of the bachelor and master biomedical sciences. Furthermore she is member of the curriculum committee of the bachelor program Health and life sciences of at the VU University and member of the International Academic Board of the Dutch Royal Tropical Institute.

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http://www.falw.vu.nl/en/research/athen…