Carla Aerts
Director of Futures, UCL Institute of Education, UK
Carla started her international digital career pioneering in the digital media landscape around 30 years ago.
She has worked for international publishers, digital agencies, had her own consultancy, developed digital strategies, directed programmes & partnered on digital initiatives with Blue Chip Clients in Retail, Finance, Telecomms, Healthcare and Life Sciences.
Carla has also worked with a number of start-ups in Healthcare, Technology and Lifestyle.
Having developed e-learning programmes for Healthcare and being asked by an international education publisher to manage their transition from the printed textbook to online and blended learning, Carla got totally absorbed by the e-Learning & blended education. She worked on learning innovation for and with a number of education publishers, before going to Cambridge University Press where she developed digital learning strategies and product concepts as Global Digital Director.
Carla advises e-learning start-ups including Gojimo in the UK and AhadooTec in Ethiopia and is a mentor for Wedu Rising Star.
In February 2016, Carla joined the Institute of Education - UCL London as Director of Futures.
Links
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/educationhttp://Www.underthebanyan.co.uk