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World Learning Summit 2023

Learning in a post-truth world

Program will continue to develop

SUMMIT: GENERAL PROGRAM

May 25th Summit, Day 1

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

Opening keynote: Donna Kidwell
Inclusion and exclusion in digital cultures: Working notes from a Chief Digital Trust Officer

WLS 2023 Opening Panel

LUNCH

Featured keynote: Adah Parris
Living + Tech: Stories of learning, creativity and transformation

Panels and break-out sessions

END: 4:30 PM

7 PM: SUMMIT DINNER

May 26th Summit, Day 2

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

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

Panels and break-out sessions

LUNCH

Panels and break-out sessions

END: 4:30 PM

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

BREAK-OUT SESSIONS

New breakout sessions added as the program develops

May 25th and 26th

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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