WORLDS OF LEARNING
A summit on the future of learning and education in a media rich world

NORWAY, JUNE 14TH – 16TH, 2016

WORLDS OF LEARNING
A summit on the future of learning and education in a media rich world

NORWAY, JUNE 14TH – 16TH, 2016

WORLDS OF LEARNING
A summit on the future of learning and education in a media rich world

NORWAY, JUNE 14TH – 16TH, 2016

Invitation
World Learning Summit 2016

The world of education and learning is changing at an accelerated pace. Students are more mobile than ever. Digital technologies are reshaping learning institutions, practices and our very understanding of what learning is. Jobs and workplaces are affected too, as new technologies replace people with machines and software. Learning is to an increasing extent integrated with all kinds of different media. Social media and new, emergent information and communication cultures alter learning practices as home, on our leisure time. Globalising networks are forming around online learning platforms, impacting on the vey notion of access to information and learning.

Like the music industry, film and publishing a few years back, education and learning is now confronted with the full force of media and digital technologies transforming society. Being at the forefront of digital society transformation is a question of will and capacity to adapt. How do we as educators, learners and learning institutions respond? How does the emergent learning ecosystem challenge established norms, politics and practises – does it?

Featured speakers

Peter Norvig

Chief scientist at Google
Pioneered the first MOOC
More info here

Keith Devlin

Executive Director at H-Star institute, Stanford University
Serial entrepreneur with learning games in mathematics
More info here

Michael Shanks

Professor at Stanford University
Lecturer in Stanford's d.School
Archeologist, with long time interest in technology and the humanities
More info here

Other speakers you will hear

Oddgeir Tveiten
Professor in media studies, University of Agder
Professor in journalism, NLA University college
Co-founder, Future Learning Lab

Donna Kidwell
Adjunct professor, University of Agder
President of Webstudent International

June Breivik

Director of e-learning

Norwegian Business School

Sven Åke Bjørke

Senior lecturer, UiA

Pioneer in Nordic blended learning

Derek Woodgate

Futurist

Explorer, educator, author

Ola Erstad

Professor of media pedagogy

Head of the Department of pedagogy
University of Oslo

Rolf Assev

Director and founder of Oslo Startup Lab

Co-founder of the Opera web browser, and Dragonbox

Peter Jenner

Global champion of artists´copyright rights in the age of the internet

Former manager of Pink Floyd and other bands

Frode Arntsen

Director BIBSYS

Key planner in the futuer Norwegian digital learning ecology

Graham Glass

Founder and CEO of NEO

Next generation LMS, San Francisco

Bruce Mutsvairo

Senior lecturer

Northumbria University

Aleksandra Lazareva

PhD student, Finland/Russia/Norway

Project on collaborative learning

Dianah Nampija

PhD student, Uganda/Norway

Project on mobile learning and development

Njål Foldnes

Bi Learning Lab - project on teaching math

Norwegian Business School

Hege Tollerud

CEO, Oslo EdTech Cluster

Eilif Trondsen

Strategic Business Insights

Menlo Park, California

Antti Korhonen

CEO xEDU Accelerator

Helsinki, Finland

Ellen Karin Larsen

Special adviser on digital transformation

KS - Kommunenes Sentralforbund

Riku Alkio
Teacher and PD trainer

CEO, Seppio (Finland)

Signe Schack Noesgaard

PhD student Aalborg University

Consultant at the Kata Foundation for innovation and learning

Suvi Uski

Social Psychologist

Partner and Research lead, Mightifier

Kristian Collin Berge
CEO and co-founder of EdTech Foundry
Lecturer at University of Oslo

Erik Ræstad
Managing director
WeVideo EMEA

Dag Morten Dalen

Vice president for educational affairs

Norway Business School

Paul Berevu Muyinda

Dean, School of distance and lifelong learning

Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Marty Farrows

Director of Learnovate

Dublin, Ireland

Ghislain Maurice Norbert Isabwe
Associate professor
University of Agder

Marques D. Anderson

Founder and CEO World Education Foundation

Amrin Malik

Chief Operating Officer

House of Tutors

Please join us for the 2016 World Learning Summit in Kristiansand, South Norway on June 14^th - 16^th where we will pursue these questions in our 6th annual conference. The June 2016 World Learning Summit promises to be a valuable event for academics, entrepreneurs and education leaders interested in the changing landscape of learning and education. Together we will explore the lifelong learning arc for those across the globe, and the role of networks and community in that journey.

The event is hosted and convened by the Future Learning Lab international research network.

Conference host is University of Agder in South Norway, in collaboration with the HStar Institute at Stanford University. At the 2016 World Learning Summit we will continue our conversation from Stanford in 2015, with world class keynotes and three parallel workshop tracks for (1) scholars in a wide range of academic fields, (2) corporate/lifelong learning interests and (3) entrepreneurship.

We promise our usual mix of high velocity presentations, probing panels and a lot of time for networking. Join us, and be welcome!

Panel moderators

Oddgeir Tveiten

Professor, University of Agder, Norway

Director Future Learning Lab

Donna Kidwell

President of Webstudent International

Adjunct professor, Universiy of Agder, Norway

June Breivik

Director of e-learning

Norwegian Business School

Åke Bjørke

Senior lecturer and pioneer in blended learning

University of Agder, Norway

Eilif Trondsen

Director

Strategic Business Insights

Menlo Park, California

Derek Woodgate

Futurist

Explorer, educator and author

Great talks

Our conferences feature world leading speakers and the venue is small enough for you to get to meet them. At the World Learning Summit we strive to create a space that lasts also in between the annual meetings.

On the dock of the bay

The summit venue city is a truly extraordinary place during summer, walking distances to downtown, the ocean and the woods. June is summer, so join us, sit outside, and take a look at the city life and the boating.

New Friends

Our summits, conferences and workshops are not large and that is intentional. A key value is for every participant to make new friends and connections. This is why we allow a lot of time for mixing and sharing ideas in conversations.

You can join us for a single day getting in all the main speakers. Or you can join us foe the full three-day event, and take part in one of our workshops and more joint interaction between the workshops. Have dinner with us on the lovely dock outside one of Norway´s truly great conference venues -- we promise you; you will never forget. Bring your friends. Expect a great time.

One of the key features of our conferences is the informal talks and chance to meet people you seldom get to talk with. We key our numbers small and there is always a mix of academic people in the forefront, interesting entrepreneurs with good stories and cases, as well as people who teach, who explore and who create.