WLS

Living and learning in a networked world

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About publication and presentation

Publication process and paper/presentations selection

WLS 2018 is a "leap-year" event and will not offer double-blind per review as a pre-condition to presentation at the conference. There is no separating of full papers and short papers in 2018. On the contrary, we ask for the submission of abstracts and put together the panels on the basis of that. After the summit, presenters have one month to complete their papers, upon which each one is sent to double blind peer review. With revision, these papers make up the main body of the WLS 2018 Official Proceedings, published in print and online as an open access document with full documentation and referencing. Authors who follow through on the publication will get a choice of refund for their summit fee in 2018 or a free ticket and "priority lane" for WLS 2019. A best paper prize is set up, with a diploma and a book certificate worth € 1000. The selection will be anonymous, based on points given during the double blind review. 

The the summit proceedings are the second issue of its series and will be submitted for indexing by Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Web of Science, Directory of Open Access Journals, EdTech Journals, Google Scholar, DBLP and Norwegian register of scientific journals, series and publishers.

 

 USE this template for the Abstract and the full paper
WLS-2018-Full-Paper-Template

 

Deadlines

Abstract: September 5th. 
Full paper: October 20th

Review received by November 10th
Final deadline for printable paper: December 10th

About the tracks

Track A: Thematic sessions

Breakout sessions divide into two categories: Best practice and innovative ideas is Track A. It caters to entrepreneurs, planners, teachers, education managers and others with an interest in the practicalities of learning transformations. The Track A breakout sessions will follow the themes of the keynotes and plenary discussions. All sessions will have a host and a prepared agenda, but also remain open in order to define its course of discussion. The over-arching theme is: Virtual.Visual.Viral. 

We will be exploring Blockchain and related learning/policy issues, Nordic EdTech collaboration, work-life learning, and more. 

Track relevance: Teachers, EdTech entrepreneurs, Business leaders, Public sector officials, School managers. 

Track B: Research and publication sessions

Research oriented attendees are invited to join sessions focused on project development, papers in progress and publication. These sessions are organised around received abstracts, with a set number of papers/presentations on a theme. Presentations will all have an assigned discussant. There is no requirement to present a paper or project in order to attend these sessions but we ask you to send us an email below to let us know your interests. All B Track sessions will have prepared discussions as to possible project collaboration. We will also explore the framework of a virtual media playbook for learning interactions in the areas of relevance to our venue host: The Archives Foundation. 

Track relevance: Researchers, research interested media and other publics. Publishers. Student counsellors. 

Sessions September 19th

A1: The challenge of life long learning: New policy?

Session host: Donna Kidwell

"The future of learning is the future of work". This was a theme at the Oslo Roundtable held in June at Litteraturhuset. But what does it mean and how does the future of life long learning challenge politics and policy? What issues, questions and concerns ought to be more clearly emphasised in policy and it is possible to talk of general as well as common concerns in a future learning political agenda? 

A2: Blockchain and the transformation of learning

Session host: Phil Komarny

Bitcoin and the Blockchain technology behind it is currently a hot topic in discussions of digital transformation. What does this technology or these technologies imply for learning, educational institutions in the ways in which they relate to the workplace? 

B1: Rethinking learning spaces

Session host: Oddgeir Tveiten

The over-all theme of the conference is NEXT GENERATION LEARNING SPACES. We begin by asking what is behind that title. The session will build on submitted projects and papers abstracts. Typically, the concept invites cross-disciplinary and explorative projects and papers, but any topic of relevance will be considered. If possible, we will collect and connect all discussions related to new learning theory in this sessions. 

B2: Design thinking -- research ideas and prospects

Session host: Michael Shanks

What is design thinking and how does the idea of "design" connect with pedagogy, course construction, our approaches to organising classrooms, teacher-student relations, and more? How can social science and the humanities incorporate design thinking?

Sessions September 20th

A3: Nordic EdTech for Higher Ed

Session host: Eilif Trondsen

Across the Nordic countries there have been movements the past decade to spur networks in Education Technology and Entrepreneurship. What is the Nordic status? How does Nordic collaboration move forward? The session presents a number of projects, networks, issues and challenges. The legacy here is past conferences and summits at our Future Learning Lab since 2012, when we first began these deliberations. 

B3: Transforming education: High and low

Session host: Oddgeir Tveiten

Institutions of learning at all levels are in the midst of a transformative adaptation to new technologies but very little attention is given to the common challenges of new media as they disrupt not only education but our entire knowledge eco systems and understandings of what knowledge is. In this session we will invite papers and projects that move at the forefront of institutional transformation, international networking, radical rethinking assessments as learning mode, and more. 

Sessions September 21st

A4: Entrepreneuring life-long learning

Session host: Donna Kidwell

Life-long learning is key to the future workplace, in a world of accelerating time and global networking. Yet, it is hard for education institutions, industrial clusters, small and big companies, and the public sector to find better means of collaborating on a new eco system. How do we go about it? Returning to the challenge of policy, how does one create an Open, Collaborative and Creative life-long learning Commons? 

B4: Globalisation, education and development

Session host: Oddgeir Tveiten

North-South co-operation, conflict mediation in the Global South and new challenges of managing a multi-cultural local society in the Global North are all parts of the emergent global eco system of learning. In this session we invite papers and projects/ideas that have Development and Learning as a point of origin, offering empirical insights, theoretical insights, comparative and critical research perspectives. 

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Building Economic Bridges to the Future through Educational Outreach to At-Risk Youth

Here is the latest news on the WLS 2019 panel hosted by Ms. Anjum Malik,:

The panel will highlight the growing demand on students to add character traits and competencies that are uniquely experiential.  Learning done outside the classroom is gaining increasing importance for future work.  How will the global society and local communities support students to maintain access to an environment that can provide them with opportunities to gain these intrinsic skills when so many of them are constrained and facing unparalleled disruption in their lives

How can educational stakeholders respond to the growing number of youth and adults who are losing access to education both inside and outside the classroom.  The hard and soft skill development synergies that are necessary to succeed in today’s workforce require an integrated education system that is not available to the millions who are marginalized and/or displaced.

The panelists will reaffirm the case for diversity and inclusion and share best practices.

Panelists

Sarah Craig  

Director Strategic Global Programs, University of Massachusetts Amherst

H. E. Professor Hassan Diab

Vice President, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Former Minister of Education, Lebanon

Dr. Besma El Zein, NanoScientist and Dean of Scientific Research & Graduate Studies
at University of Business Technology, Jeddah, KSA

Dr. Sarah Tobin (TBC)

Senior Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute, University of Bergen

Moderator

Anjum Malik

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Alhambra-US Chamber; Co-Founder & VP HOFT Institute, USA

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Phil Long (Ph.D) is a Senior Scholar, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown University. He is a Faculty Affiliate, Arizona State University, and Honorary Professor, Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. He is Founder and Principal of RHz Consulting LLC (Inquire-Listen-Design-Prototype-Analyze-Repeat).

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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 as well as entrepreneurs and – at times – policy-makers, business leaders and education manageres. We pride ourselves in being able to open doors for PhD students at high levels, while at the same time offering a friendly and low-key atmosphere for the presentation of PhD papers at varying stages of completion.

Our PhD colloquium model is simple: We offer signed-on PhD students a chance to meet before the start of the summit to set up a four-day long interaction, and then join for the general summit program, before getting together to complete discussions in a forum after the summit that is only open to PhD students. In the process, students present papers much like at any other conference. They receive feed-back from high-level scholars. They are invited to publish their papers through the WLS official proceedings, where all completed PhD papers will be subject to double blind peer review by our highly capable corps of reviewers.

Upon completion, PhD students receive a World Learning Summit badge, as well as recommendation from the Future Learning Lab hosting research center that five (5) ECTS points be granted by their home hosting PhD program. World Learning Summit does not offer such points and neither does the hosting center Future Learning Lab. However, our program is high quality and our publications are indexed, providing students with all necessary documentation to seek ECTS accreditation for their completed papers.

Paper guidelines apply. Please confer the pertinent information and links.

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Interested in keeping a stand 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 space for posters and stands. In the coming weeks we will work out a floor plan. This post is to announce the possibility of securing that sort of space, to demonstrate projects, summarize research, and generally invite networking at your stand. All stands and poster submissions need to be cleared with the organizers and will be documented by inclusion in the online version of the World Learning Summit Official Proceedings. WLS proceedings are ranked at Level 1, for all submissions that are blind-peered reviewed.