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World Learning Summit 2023

Learning in a post-truth world

SUMMIT: GENERAL PROGRAM

May 25th Summit, Day 1

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

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

09:15: Opening keynote: Donna Kidwell
Inclusion and exclusion in digital cultures: Working notes from a Chief Digital Trust Officer

09:45: WLS 2023 Opening Panel
Panel host: Phil Long (Georgetown University)
Panel opening talk: Karl Emil Pull (University of Agder)
Panelists: Øyvind Økland (Volda University College); Marthe Elden Wilhelmsen (University of Agder)

10:35: Notes from a project on Artificial Intelligence
Hans Olav Hodøl (University of Agder), Per Ivar NAME and Øyvind Økland (Volda University College)

11:00 MORNING BREAK

11:30: Student voices – being heard, making a difference
Session hosts: Oddgeir Tveiten and Maria NAME
Student panelists: Name Name, Name Name, TBA

12:15: LUNCH

1:00 PM: Featured keynote: Adah Parris
Living + Tech: Stories of learning, creativity and transformation

1:40 PM: Q & A with Adah
Session host: Phil Komarny

2:30: Break-out sessions

  • BOS 1: Education innovations and life-long learning value chains
    Session hosts: Phil Komarny (Maryville University), Vidar Mortensen (Moment – an innovation company)

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  • BOS 2: History, collective memory, storytelling – Exploring new learning designs
    Session host: Oddgeir Tveiten

4:00 PM: Tour of Arkivet´s Gestapo/WW2 Exhibition
Tour guide. Stein Christian Salvesen

7: 00 PM: SUMMIT DINNER
Location: Mannskapsmessa/Officers´Quarter, Odderøya
Tickets sold separately her

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

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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