WLS

World Learning Summit 2023

GENERAL PROGRAM

Learning in a post-truth world

May 25th Summit, Day 1, AM session

Place: Arkivet Peace Foundation
Time: 09:00 – 12:15

08:00 – 09:00: Registration

09:00: Welcome address
Oddgeir Tveiten: WLS chair
University/City representative, TBA

09:15 – 9:45: Opening keynote: Donna Kidwell
INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN DIGITAL CULTURES: NOTES FROM A DIGITAL TRUST OFFICER

09:50 – 10:30: WLS 2023 Opening Panel
ALWAYS ONLINE THESE DAYS, NEWER OFF – DOES IT MATTER FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING?
     Panel host: Phil Long (Georgetown University)
     Panel opening talk: Karl Emil Pull (University of Agder/Malmö University)

     Panelists:
     Thomas Bauer (Vienna University)
     Marthe Elden Wilhelmsen (University of Agder)
     Muhammed Zhudi
(———–)

10:35 – 12:15: WLS 2023 Theme Panel
LEARNING IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD – ISSUES AND FRONTLINES
     Panel host: June Breivik (Norwegian teachers Association)

     Panelists:
     Ebba Ossiannilsson (Open Education ambassador, Lund University)
     Joseph Salomonsen (UiA PhD student and political commmentator)

11:00 MORNING BREAK

11:30 – 12:15: WLS 2023 Future Learning Panel:
GENERATIONAL DIVIDES — THE STUDENT VOICE

12:15: LUNCH

SESSION 1

About the morning program

If you want to only participate in part of the program, there is the option to purchase half-day tickets for both days. Both the AM and PM tickets include lunch. Follow the keynotes and sessions of your choice. Download session materials and the summit proceedings for free.

the May 25th AM session introduces the summit theme, through a keynote centering on the digital transformation of Arizona State University in Phoenix, USA, where 120 000 out of the 170 000 students are online students. Although the contrast to all Nordic universities is present right there, key challenges and the ways in which ASU meet them, have profound relevance for how we understand the challenge of transforming higher education in the Nordic countries.

Exploring those challenges further, the keynote is followed by an opening panel debate, where we reflect on the realities of our contemporary “attention”-ridden society, and where being “always on” is a condition we ought to pay more attention to when thinking about education and learning.

In the debate we will listen to young scholars just coming into research, as well as seasoned acadmeics who have been around long enough to see the changes in our mediatized learning eco systems.

A key concern in contemporary society

 
 

May 25th Summit, Day 1, PM session

Place: Arkivet Peace Foundation
Time:12:15 – 16:30

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12:15: LUNCH

13:00 – 13:10: Session opening

13:10 – 13:50: Featured keynote: Adah Parris
Living + Tech: Stories of learning, creativity and transformation

13:50 – 14:30: Q & A with Adah
Session host: Phil Komarny

14:45 – 16:15: Break-out sessions

  • Break-out room 1: Education and innovation: Trasforming value chains
    Session hosts: Phil Komarny (Maryville University), Vidar Mortensen (Moment – an innovation company)
    Speakers: Beth Rudden,
    Donna Kidwell

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  • Break-out room 2: History, collective memory, storytelling – Exploring new learning designs
    Session hosts: Thomas Bauer,  Oddgeir Tveiten
    Speakers: Adah Paris, Remzie Shanini-Hoxhaj, Øyvind Økland, Phil Long

16:30 – 17:30: History in the past, present and future tense
TOUR OF ARKIVE´S GESTAPO / WW2 EXHIBITION
Tour guide. Stein Christian Salvesen

19: 00 – 21:30 SUMMIT DINNER
Location: Mannskapsmessa/Officers´Quarter, Odderøya
Tickets sold separately her

 

SESSION 2

About the afternoon program

Innovation in higher education concerns more than education technology — a lot more. And not everything concerns commercial success, either. In this break.out session we listen to- and learn from Phil Komarny´s approach to re-designing learning pathways at Maryville University of St. Louis, USA.

 
 

May 25th Summit, Day 2, AM session

Place: Arkivet Peace Foundation
Time: 09:00 – 12:15

08:00 – 09:00: Registration

09:00: Welcome address
Oddgeir Tveiten: WLS chair
University/City representative, TBA

09:15 – 9:45: Opening keynote: Donna Kidwell
INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN DIGITAL CULTURES: NOTES FROM A DIGITAL TRUST OFFICER

09:50 – 10:30: WLS 2023 Opening Panel
ALWAYS ONLINE THESE DAYS, NEWER OFF – DOES IT MATTER FOR EDUCATION AND LEARNING?
     Panel host: Phil Long (Georgetown University)
     Panel opening talk: Karl Emil Pull (University of Agder/Malmö University)

     Panelists:
     Thomas Bauer (Vienna University)
     Marthe Elden Wilhelmsen (University of Agder)
     Muhammed Zhudi
(———–)

10:35 – 12:15: WLS 2023 Theme Panel
LEARNING IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD – ISSUES AND FRONTLINES
     Panel host: June Breivik (Norwegian teachers Association)

     Panelists:
     Ebba Ossiannilsson (Open Education ambassador, Lund University)
     Joseph Salomonsen (UiA PhD student and political commmentator)

11:00 MORNING BREAK

11:30 – 12:15: WLS 2023 Future Learning Panel:
GENERATIONAL DIVIDES — THE STUDENT VOICE

12:15: LUNCH

SESSION 1

About the morning program

If you want to only participate in part of the program, there is the option to purchase half-day tickets for both days. Both the AM and PM tickets include lunch. Follow the keynotes and sessions of your choice. Download session materials and the summit proceedings for free.

the May 25th AM session introduces the summit theme, through a keynote centering on the digital transformation of Arizona State University in Phoenix, USA, where 120 000 out of the 170 000 students are online students. Although the contrast to all Nordic universities is present right there, key challenges and the ways in which ASU meet them, have profound relevance for how we understand the challenge of transforming higher education in the Nordic countries.

Exploring those challenges further, the keynote is followed by an opening panel debate, where we reflect on the realities of our contemporary “attention”-ridden society, and where being “always on” is a condition we ought to pay more attention to when thinking about education and learning.

In the debate we will listen to young scholars just coming into research, as well as seasoned acadmeics who have been around long enough to see the changes in our mediatized learning eco systems.

A key concern in contemporary society

 
 

May 25th Summit, Day 2, PM session

Place: Arkivet Peace Foundation
Time:12:15 – 16:30

  •  

12:15: LUNCH

13:00 – 13:10: Session opening

13:10 – 13:50: Featured keynote: Adah Parris
Living + Tech: Stories of learning, creativity and transformation

13:50 – 14:30: Q & A with Adah
Session host: Phil Komarny

14:45 – 16:15: Break-out sessions

  • Break-out room 1: Education and innovation: Trasforming value chains
    Session hosts: Phil Komarny (Maryville University), Vidar Mortensen (Moment – an innovation company)
    Speakers: Beth Rudden,
    Donna Kidwell

—-

  • Break-out room 2: History, collective memory, storytelling – Exploring new learning designs
    Session hosts: Thomas Bauer,  Oddgeir Tveiten
    Speakers: Adah Paris, Remzie Shanini-Hoxhaj, Øyvind Økland, Phil Long

16:30 – 17:30: History in the past, present and future tense
TOUR OF ARKIVE´S GESTAPO / WW2 EXHIBITION
Tour guide. Stein Christian Salvesen

19: 00 – 21:30 SUMMIT DINNER
Location: Mannskapsmessa/Officers´Quarter, Odderøya
Tickets sold separately her

 

SESSION 2

About the afternoon program

Innovation in higher education concerns more than education technology — a lot more. And not everything concerns commercial success, either. In this break.out session we listen to- and learn from Phil Komarny´s approach to re-designing learning pathways at Maryville University of St. Louis, USA.

 
 

May 26th Summit, Day 2

Place: Arkivet Peace Foundation
Time: 09:00 – 16:30

09:00: Morning welcome
UiA President for Education, Morten Brekke

09:15 WLS Featured debate
Debate host: Anjum Malik
Panelists: Manisha NAME (UiA); Joseph Salomonsen (UiA); Erlis Cela (Beder University, Albania); TBA

10:00: Keynote lecture: Alexandre Le Voci Sayad
Media Literacy in the post-truth age: Reflections from a researcher, artist and media critic

10:30: Q & A session
Session host: Thomas Bauer (University of Vienna)
Session panelists: Remzie Shahini Hoxhaj (Pristina University, Kosovo); Lee Schults (UiA); TBA

11:00 MORNING BREAK

11:20: Keynote lecture: Beth Rudden
The question of Artificial Intelligence – understanding, enabling

12:00: LUNCH

12:45: Panels and break-out sessions

  • BOS 3: Uses of artificial intelligence — descending into practicalities
    Session hosts: Phil Komarny Beth Rudden

  • BOS 4: Media Literacy: Charting a course across different academic fields
    Session hosts: Thomas Bauer, Oddgeir Tveiten

  • BOS 5: Out of the box: Radical change in education and learning
    Session host: Adah Parris

15:00 WLS 2023 Roundtable: Learning in a post-truth world
Session hosts: Donna Kidwell, Oddgeir Tveiten
Panelists: BOS hosts Phil, Beth, Thomas, Adah, with students

END: 4:00 PM

4:00 – 6:00 PM: Unconferencing — making new contacts, seeding ideas.

SATURDAY; SOCIAL OROGRAM FOR INCOMING GUESTS.

PhD COLLOQUIUM: GENERAL PROGRAM

May 23 PhD Colloquium, Day 1

Program will continue to develop

Place: University of Agder
Time: 10:00 – 15:30

Opening lecture: Oddgeir Tveiten, professor, WLS chair
Researching education´s digital future – Notes on the interdisciplinary research challenge
Comments: Cathy Casserly, PhD, specialist on Open Education Resources. Former CEO of Creative Commons.

Paper presentations

LUNCH

Paper presentations

END: 3:30 PM

May 24 PhD Colloquium, Day 2

Place: University of Agder
Time: 09:00 – 15:30

Lecture: Donna Kidwell, PhD, WLS Chair
Inclusion and exclusion in higher education – Thoughts on Digital Culture
Comments: Phil Long, Senior Scholar, Georgetown University

Paper presentations

LUNCH

Paper presentations

END: 3:30 PM

Time: TBA
Host: Oddgeir Tveiten & Thomas Bauer

Communication concerns us at different levels when reflecting on con temporary challenges in higher education: The escalation of artificial intelligence, new education technologies more generally, the looming challenge of media literacy in a world marked by uncertainties and deteriorating trust in institutions. In this break-out session we will pursue some of the main topics of the 2023 WLS progam in more detail.

Time: TBA
Host: Vidar Mortensen & Phil Komarny

Innovation in higher education concerns more than education technology — a lot more. And not everything concerns commercial success, either. In this break.out session we listen to- and learn from Phil Komarny´s approach to re-designing learning pathways at Maryville University of St. Louis, USA.

Time: TBA
Host: Donna Kidwell & Cathy Casserly

Innovation in higher education concerns more than education technology — a lot more. And not everything concerns commercial success, either. In this break.out session we listen to- and learn from Phil Komarny´s approach to re-designing learning pathways at Maryville University of St. Louis, USA.

Time: TBA
Host: Phil Long & Oddgeir Tveiten

What is the reality of the UN SDGs by 2023 — seven years before the “deadline”? Everyone is referring to them, from radicals to the Davos World Economic Forum returnees. We all know the term “sustainable development” and where it came from, what it once promised. Does it make more sense right now to think of the SDGs as an empty shell, rhetoric for the oil companies of the world, political sloganeering? What alternatives do we have in education, as educators? If “sustainable development” still is the answer it may be high time to ask whether the question is still the same?

Time: TBA
Host: Phil Long & Oddgeir Tveiten

What is the reality of the UN SDGs by 2023 — seven years before the “deadline”? Everyone is referring to them, from radicals to the Davos World Economic Forum returnees. We all know the term “sustainable development” and where it came from, what it once promised. Does it make more sense right now to think of the SDGs as an empty shell, rhetoric for the oil companies of the world, political sloganeering? What alternatives do we have in education, as educators? If “sustainable development” still is the answer it may be high time to ask whether the question is still the same?

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