PROGRAM
SEPTEMBER 19TH
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OPEN REGISTRATION 8:30 am
Registration and badge pick-up all day
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Welcome addresses 9:00 am
Future Learning Lab, venue hosts and City officials
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Opening keynote: MICHAEL SHANKS - STANFORD UNIVERSITY 9:15 am
Technology and the humanities. Reflecting on emergent ecosystems of learning and the future of higher education
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Keynote Q & A: A future-ready work force? Skills, capacities and higher education 09:50 am
On the panel: Truls Berg - Open Innovation Lab of Norway; Donna Kidwell - CTO Arizona State University; Yngvar Ugland – head of DnB NewTechLab.
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Break 10:30am
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Breakout sessions 10:45am
A1 and B1: Review sessions description here.
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Lunch 12:00 pm
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Featured keynote 1:00 PM
Phil Komarny: Blockhain and education – the future of work and education relations. Exploring trends and challenges More information on this link.
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Breakout sessions 1:45 pm
A2 and B2: Review sessions description here
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Break, before plenary summary 3:15pm
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Closing the day´s talks 3:30 - 4:00 pm
Hosted by the WLS Team
SEPTEMBER 20TH
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Open registration day 8:30 AM
Registration for day 2-3 attendees all day
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MORNING KEYNOTE: Kristin Ingolfsdottir, professor and former two-term president of the University of Iceland: 09:00 am
Changing higher education in an age of transition. Reflections on the digital challenge.
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Keynote Q & A: Responses and open discussion 09:45 am
Introduction by Jarmo Viteli, professor University of Tampere, Finland. Panel: Jarmo Viteli, Judith Molka-Danielsen -University College of Molde; Janet Walkow – University of Texas.
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Breakout sessions 10:30 am
A3 and B3 Review sessions description here
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Lunch 12:00 pm
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Featured keynote: Rosan Bosch, Designer, Copenhagen 1:00 pm
Building learning spaces for the future – a designer´s perspective on new learning spaces in an age of global and digital interactions
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Breakout sessions 1:45 pm
A4 and B4: Session descriptions here.
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Break 3:00 pm
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WLS 2018 Roundtable 3:15pm
Speakers will be Kristin Ingolfsdottir, Rosan Bosch, Michael Shanks and Phil Komarny. Hosted by Oddgeir Tveiten and Donna Kidwell.
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DAY 2 END 4:00 pm
SEPTEMBER 21ST
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MORNING plenary 09:00 am
Invited students, cultural entrepreneurs and education leaders: The challenge of mobility: Mobile people, multiculturalism and the globalisation of education and life long learning: A student-run video and twitter experiment.
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Nordic Futures 9:45 am
Roundtable discussion exploring the challenge of forging a Nordic/Baltic collaborative arena – "21st Century learning and work-life." Session features and introduction to our new EdCast learning interactions platform.
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Lunch 12:00 pm
Sessions continue after lunch for paper authors and planners of the 2019 WLS event
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Publication session 1:00 pm
Session for contributors to our WLS 2018 anthology. The session also includes our FUTURE LEARNING PLAYBOOK : Presence required for all contributors.
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EdCast session (parallel) 1:00 pm
Session for those interested and new sign-ups to nordic.edcast.com – Future Learning Lab´s new learning interactions platform. Demonstration of use/course building. Collaboration to get used to it all.
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Business session 2:30 pm
Evaluation and planning session for everyone planning to participate in building WLS 2019. Launch of our WLS 2020 concept – planned for Stanford at our 10-year anniversary.
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END 3:30 pm
Please bear with us as we complete the programming.