WLS 2020

WORLD
LEARNING SUMMIT
2020

May 27 - 29

University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

LEARNING IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL MOBILITY

EDUCATION FRONTIERS IN A TURBULENT AGE

A three day summit at the University of Agder

At this 10-year anniversary, WLS will aim to provide new insight into the future of learning through the lens of global mobility. By that we refer to three interconnected social dynamics: 1) The role of education in societal mobility understood as improved social capital, 2) the challenge of mobility caused by and accelerated by technology innovations, and 3) the global trend of mobility understood as accelerated speeds of moving ideas, services and people. Increasing global mobility invites critical reflections on ethics, uses technologies and future spaces of face to face learning & education. Education and learning is local and place-bound but increasingly also global and mediated.

PROGRAM higHlights

Wednesday May 27th

OPENING KEYNOTE

TAWANA KUPE

Tawana is a Zimbabwean-South African media studies professor. He is the vice-chancellor of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Before this, he was the vice-principal of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Wednesday May 27th

WLS RESIDENCE KEYNOTE

PHIL LONG

Phil is a senior scholar at the Georgetown University Center for new designs in learning and scholarship. He previously worked as the chief innovation officer for Project 2021 as Associate Vice Provost ast the University of Texas, Austin. Current work focuses on Higher Education credentialing, learning analytics, emergent technologies and the design of physical learning spaces.

Thursday may 28th

FEATURED KEYNOTE

SARA TOBIN

Sara is an anthropologist focusing on Islam, economic anthropology, and displacement/migration in the Middle East and East Africa. Her latest research projects examine these questions with Syrian refugees in Jordanian camps of Za`atari, Azraq, and Cyber City, and in Results-Based Financing in Tanzania.