WLS 2021

After Corona: Transforming Higher Education

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Anjum Malik, VP HOFT Institute, Managing Partner of Alhambra US Chamber

Anjum Malik to hold WLS 2019 workshop
A growing number of WLS attendees have not met Anjum before, but 2019 is a new chance to get to know her and connect. We are very fortunate to have Mrs. Malik return to WLS. Founder of a number of companies in the US and elsewhere, Anjum Malik traces her commitments along a concern with diversity, inclusion, and open opportunities in education, entrepreneurship and innovation. Anjum runs a large network of globally connected women collaborating to gender-balance the workforce and open opportunities for migrants to consolidate and find a space for themselves to flourish and grow. Her home base is the city of Austin, in Texas. Her workshop will include a number of high-level speakers connecting online.

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Cathy Casserly • Independent consultant, former CEO of Creative Commons and VP of Education at EdCast

Our third keynote for WLS 2019 announced: Cathy Casserly is familiar to many WLS attendees from several visits before. As we pride ourselves in our attempt to forge a community of returning speakers as well as summit attendees, Cathy is high on our list of speakers we want to see coming back. Her history of pioneering Open Courseware at MIT, as well as her work for both Creative Commons and after this also the online learning platform EdCast (where she was VP) is highly relevant to scholars, policy-makers, education managers and entrepreneurs alike. More information on her topic will be forthcoming. As a special opening for PhD students internationally who want to join our PhD Colloquium, Cathy will be part of this from beginnig until end.

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Peter Fagerström, Educraftor CEO

Entrepreneurship and research combined
Key updates of the WLS 2019 program forthcoming: We are extremely happy to announce this workshop on global learning entrepreneurship: Finnish company Educraftor will be hosting a session on their global intiatives and networking to forge new learning models and approaches, based on recent work in Singapore, Vietnam, Northern Europe and USA. The workshop will be run by founder and CEO Peter Fagerström, who joined up with us at the Future Leaening Lab for our Oslo Roundtable in 2018 and then at WLS 2018, in the fall.

We are equally happy to announce confirmation that Cathy Casserly will also be joining our PhD Colloquium team, in addition to keynoting in the open plenary of the summit. As of today, WLS 2019 offers a unique opportunity for PhD students to present and publish papers in a meriting Summit publication, with a WLS recommendation of 5 ECTS credits to be awarded by their home institution upon submission of request. WLS does not offer credits, but our PhD colloquium provides PhD students with a separate course workshop space where international speakers from the Summit will be brought in to listen, comment, and give advise.

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WLS is pleased to announce Truls Berg as new member of our programming team. Truls is the Director and founder of Open Innovation Lab of Norway, which is a Oslo-based network of high-level professionals sharing an interest in innovation processes and cultures. Open Innovation Lab joined Future Learning Lab and World Learning Summit as partner in 2018, and we will continue to extend that partnership in 2019 by building work and work-related innovation challenges into our plenary program and workshop program. A later post will feature more background information on Open Innovation Lab of Norway and what they do.

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WLS is pleased to announce the first keynote for World Learning Summit 2019, happening in Kristiansand June 5-6-7, 2019. Our 2018 event was very favourably received by all those in attendance, including all the keynote speakers. Several of them will be returning as attendees and panelists in 2019. But for the time being, we are pleased to announce June Breivik as one of our keynote speakers. The theme for this year´s summit is E-Quality. June´s background and current position as a key stakeholder in public education policy gives her a unique perspective from which to address aspects of equality, quality and equal access to education and learning.

As we launch the website for the 2910 event, we will follow up with more info on all keynote speakers. he program will be launched shortly, so please save the dates.