WORLD
LEARNING SUMMIT
2020
May 27 - 29
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
WLS POSTPONED
DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS THE WORLD LEARNING SUMMIT 2020 HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2020. EXACT DAYS WILL COME OUT AS SOON AS WE HAVE REORGANIZED THE EVENT. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. PLEASE VISIT BACK FOR UPDATES.
LEARNING IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL MOBILITY
EDUCATION FRONTIERS IN A TURBULENT AGE
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.
CONFERENCE HOSTS
ODDGEIR TVEITEN
Professor, UiA
DONNA KIDWELL
CTO Arizona State U
PANEL MODERATOR and MC
June Breivik
Hofter Institute Texas UiA
PANEL MODERATOR
ANJUM MALIK
WORKSHOP MODERATORS
EILIF TRONDSEN
Specialist Nordic EdTech
RESIDENT ENTREPRENEURS
PHIL KOMARNY
VP, Salesforce Global
Marcus Hjelleseth
CTO Moods of Norway
“If you´re through learning, you´re through”
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