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World Learning Summit 2019
About WLS 2019
World Learning Summit 2019 is our ninth annual conference on learning, education and the impact of digital media on society. Not a pedagogy conference, nor a technology conference, WLS adresses the wider framework of knowledge production, flows, spaces and knowledge consumption in a world defined by online presence 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Join us in charting the future of learning, together with world class speakers and a community of returning speakers and attendees.
SUMMIT THEME
E-QUALITY
Equal access to Quality learning and education:
An online, Digital & globalized world
Technology in education is as old as education itself; what has changed over time is not the basics of education as much as the technologies being used. Learning is a key aspect of being human, but what sets our age apart from any other is the extension of media and communications technologies — now enabling “education at scale” as well as learning in a media-rich and self-defined eco system of available insight. An unprecedented wave of innovations has given us the internet, interactive media, a wealth of content, and also new media monopolies that give cause to familiar concerns with equality, as much as with quality of communications flows.
Across the world, education as a social institution is being challenged to re-shape the ways and contexts within which learners learn. Yet, education research paradigms and education institutions are surprisingly slow in meeting the challenges of the brave new world of education technologies – the ideals, ideologies, possibilities and pitfalls represent an open invitation to cross borders between scholarly disciplines, as well as the “the wall” between theory and practice. Join World Learning Summit to help tear down that wall, reshaping our understanding of quality and equality in an age of global learning possibilities – where what we do meets how and why we do it.
Who´s speaking at WLS 2019?
Phil Komarny
Cathy Casserly
Anjum Malik
June Breivik
Peter Fagerström
Janet Walkow
Per Olav Nyborg
Yngvar Ugland
Märt Äro
World Learning Summit 2019 Team
Professor of media studies at UiA. Professor of journalism studies at NLA University College. Founder, WLS and Future Learning Lab.
CTO at Arizona State University. Vice Chair of Future Learning Lab. Early MOOC pioneer, in her former job at University of Texas.
CEO of Sunsense, co-founder of World Learning Summit. Entrepreneur and long-time employee at UiA.
Former Executive Director of HStar Institute at Stanford University. Now in charge of the their Nordic and Baltic relations.
PhD from the University of Aarhus, CEO and founder of the learning company Adapto.
CEO and Founder of Open Innovation Lab of Norway, a partner with WLS.
Former CEO of Creative Commons, pioneered Open Courseware at MIT.
Associate professor of pedagogy at UiA, with specialization in computer assisted collaboration.
Save your spot
Register for WLS early! It will help us plan the event and the rebates are substantial.
Full event + VIP workshops
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Tickets for the World Learning Summit + VIP workshops full sell with an early bird discount until April 1. Bulk discount rates apply. But tickets are selling out.
Full event standard
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Tickets for the World Learning Summit full event standard include all three days, conference dinner and open workshops,
Full event w. promo code
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Tickets for the World Learning Summit with promo code are cose to selling out, so contact us soon.
PhD students exclusive
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PhD students entering our PhD Colloquium and presenting their papers for critical review at WLS, have a great deal until April 15th.
Paper publishers
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Tickets for the full World Learning Summit sell for €250 for researchers presenting a paper. Abstracts for full papers are due March 1st. Full papers due May 1.
Students/start-ups
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Tickets for World Learning Summit event sell for €200 for entrepreneurs and start-ups with a presentation or a poster. Due date for submissions is April 1
“If you´re through learning, you´re through”
Past WLS speakers
Rosan Bosch
Brian Magerko
Peter Norvig
Jarmo Viteli
Kristin Ingolfsdóttir
Joseph Press
Karl Mehta
Peter Jenner
Marques Anderson
Jane Frances Agbu
Donna Kidwell
Anjum Malik
Sir John Daniel
Janet Walkow
Stamenka Uvalic
Michael Shanks
Our partners
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WLS 2019 Updates
Announcing our PhD Colloquium
Like WLS 2017, we will manage a PhD student colloquium in 2019. Our annual summits represent a unique chance to network with high-level international researchers
Posters and stands at WLS 2019!
Have your own stand at WLS 2019: We have secured significant increase in the space available to us for WLS 2019, enabling a “market” style
Diversty and social justice
Anjum Malik to hold WLS 2019 workshop A growing number of WLS attendees have not met Anjum before, but 2019 is a new chance to
Cathy Casserly to keynote at WLS 2019
Our third keynote for WLS 2019 announced: Cathy Casserly is familiar to many WLS attendees from several visits before. As we pride ourselves in our
WLS 2019 program updates
Entrepreneurship and research combined Key updates of the WLS 2019 program forthcoming: We are extremely happy to announce this workshop on global learning entrepreneurship: Finnish
Phil Komarny returns to WLS
WLS is extremely fortunate to have a wide international network of former keynotes/speakers returning to our conferences in new capacities. Phil Komarny contributed to World
What WLS attendees are saying
Ways of engaging
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