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PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 19TH

  • OPEN REGISTRATION 8:30 am

    Registration and badge pick-up all day

  • Welcome addresses 9:00 am

    Future Learning Lab, venue hosts and City officials

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Break 10:30am
  • Breakout sessions 10:45am

    A1 and B1: Review sessions description here.

  • Lunch 12:00 pm
  • 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.

  • Breakout sessions 1:45 pm

    A2 and B2: Review sessions description here

  • Break, before plenary summary 3:15pm
  • Closing the day´s talks 3:30 - 4:00 pm

    Hosted by the WLS Team

SEPTEMBER 20TH

  • Open registration day 8:30 AM

    Registration for day 2-3 attendees all day

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Breakout sessions 10:30 am

    A3 and B3 Review sessions description here

  • Lunch 12:00 pm
  • 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

  • Breakout sessions 1:45 pm

    A4 and B4: Session descriptions here.

  • Break 3:00 pm
  • WLS 2018 Roundtable 3:15pm

    Speakers will be Kristin Ingolfsdottir, Rosan Bosch, Michael Shanks and Phil Komarny. Hosted by Oddgeir Tveiten and Donna Kidwell.

  • DAY 2 END 4:00 pm

SEPTEMBER 21ST

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Lunch 12:00 pm

    Sessions continue after lunch for paper authors and planners of the 2019 WLS event

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • END 3:30 pm

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