Exciting Keynotes at World Learning Summit Final Call: Submit your papers and register now! This is your last chance to submit your scientific paper to LINQ and WLS: The call is still open until 15th of April 2017. “Don't miss the opportunity to benefit from the extended deadline: Submit your paper and save your participation today!”, says Christian M. Stracke from the Open University of the Netherlands, LINQ chair and co-organizers of the summit. "We also emphasize the opportunity for PhD students to meet and engage with world thought leaders at the main summit and the PhD paper workshops", says Oddgeir Tveiten from the University of Agder and WLS chair. The Open Calls are available online at: www.worldlearningsummit.com/calls … [Read more...]
World Learning Summit 2017
Program and speaker details on World Learning Summit is now coming into place. Please reserve the dates June 6th - June 10th. Pre-summit event on the evening of June 6th. Main event June 7th through June 9th. Post summit workshops on June 10th, for those interested. As announced on the close of WLS 2016, Cathy Casserly will be joining us again for June 2017. … [Read more...]
Pleased to announce Martyn Farrows for WLS
We´re honored to have Dr. Martyn Farrows from Learnovate, Dublin, join our program for June 14th-16th. Check out Learnovate here. Martyn brings over 15 years’ experience in learning technologies to the role of Centre Director at Learnovate. He has successfully delivered a wide variety of research and product development projects and has been engaged as an expert consultant to government agencies and departments on the use and deployment of technology-enhanced learning. Martyn has worked with a variety of web tech start-ups and businesses, from strategic and business planning through to fund-raising and operation. He also has a strong background in EU research and innovation policy, having previously worked in Brussels for the European Commission. More recently, Martyn co-founded a network of web-based authoring tools and implemented a new digital content strategy for one of … [Read more...]
Dag Morten Dalen to World Learning Summit
Vice rector for education affairs at BI Norwegian Business School is confirmed for our panel discussions, June 14th and June 15th: Dag Morten Dalen has been at BI since 1998. He has a background from working at the Frisch Center, and also the Parliament – Stortinget. He will add and important dimension – so we´re excited about that. An economist with a PhD from the University of Oslo, Dag Morten will help us shed light on the economic and institutional aspects of education´s digital future. We tend to pay a lot of attention to uses of digital media, classroom studies and didactical issues. But what about the economic? Clearly, the ascent of effective and interactive technologies will also have a huge and building impact on education economies. BI in Oslo is perhaps the one institution in Norway that has had the most systematic focus on organisational change when it comes to integration … [Read more...]
Maria Amelie to the World Learning Summit
Some of you will remember the story of Maria Amelie, from when she made a media splash in 2011. To some she is a new name. Most do not know that since 2011, Maria has made a space for herself as a blogger, a bookwriter, a journalist and a speaker. And we are very, very fortunate to have her join us at the upcoming summit in Kristiansand, June 14th. Less well known by her real name, Madina Salamova, Maria came to Norway via Finland with her family, in 2002. The family´s application for visa and residence was rejected, as was their appeal. After that last verdict, the family went into hiding. In 2010 Maria published a book about her family´s existence as illegal residents. The book, Illegally Norwegian, became a controversial media issue. Maria was named "Norwegian of the year" in 2010. Her blogposts started to get attention. In 2011 she was arrested after a speaking engagement, and … [Read more...]
WeVideo to Kristiansand
Happy to announce Erik Ræstad as speaker on our presentation of Nordic EdTech companies, on June 14th. Erik is the managing director of We Video in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has been part of WeVideo since the establishment of the company back in 2011. He discovered WeVideo as a former strategy consultant in the media sector, working with digitalization of newspapers. Now, Erik spends most of his time supporting educators and journalists with digital storytelling - as a learning platform or a means to communicate news. We at the Future Learning Lab discovered WeVideo in California in 2012, not too long after the company was launched. WeVideo is a great Norwegian entrepreneur story! We urge everyone to check out their website and approach to learning. And we look forward to hearing more at the summit. By 2016, WeVideo is a cloud-based collaborative video and visualization … [Read more...]
Notes on Adaptive/Personalized Learning
Blogpost by Eilif Trondsen. Originally posted here. We have all heard it stated many times, I am sure, that learning is a very personal and social process, where “individual context” is key to how effective someone’s learning will be—in part because that context will drive the learner’s engagement in the learning materials. We all have very different needs, backgrounds, and experiences and most of us learn in different ways and at different speeds, and these things also affect, or are affected by, how engaged we are in the learning process. And this situation makes it very clear what challenges are faced by teachers and professors in the classroom, especially when they present the same lecture to all the students in the class, regardless of their contextual differences. It is not surprising, therefore, that many educators and edupreneurs have felt that this is an area where technology … [Read more...]
Nordic EdTech Network
Building a vibrant community By Eilif Trondsen: Curator of the WLS 2016 Entrepreneurship Workshop We hope to have strong Nordic EdTech representation at WLS2016 in Kristiansand, so we can continue the Nordic EdTech Network (http://net.futurelearninglab.org/) dialog and exploration of Nordic Edtech issues face-to-face (F2F) with anyone who is either part of the Nordic EdTech ecosystem, or interested in these types of issues and developments. As you will see when you visit our project website, the project—funded by Nordic Innovation (http://www.nordicinnovation.org/)—is a continuation and expansion of our Nordic Edupreneuring project from 2012/2013. That project found lots of interesting things happening on the Nordic EdTech scene, but also found everyone to be very keen on connecting with others EdTech colleagues in other Nordic countries, so they could share experiences and … [Read more...]
More info on the keynote speakers
Happy New Year from the WLS Team! On the summit blog you will now find updated information on the featured keynote speakers for the 2016 Summit. As we move into the new year, we will continue to add speakers, as well as updated information on the program as it develops. The workshop on corporate learning promises to be an engaging one, one of the reasons being Karl Mehta's presence there. Karl was key to our 2015 summit at Stanford, a co-collaboration between his company EdCast, the Stanford H-Star Institute and our Future Learning Lab network of dedicated friends from the University of Agder in Norway and beyond. You can read more about Karl here, and later we will be doing an interview on the website as well. [fblike] … [Read more...]