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WLS 2019 program updates

February 10, 2019 By Oddgeir Tveiten Leave a Comment

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.

Oslo EdTech joins in for WLS 2016

February 2, 2016 By wlsteam Leave a Comment

Some months back, we began discussing the coming World Learning Summit with quite few different stakeholders in the Oslo region, one of them being the newly formed Oslo EdTech cluster. We’re happy to see a collaboration forming now, centering on issues and challenges facing the EdTech communites accross the Nordic countries.

Managing Director Hege Tollerud met with us in several meetings heldt at the Norwegian Trade Association’s HQ, and we are very fortunate to have them join the effort to create an annual, Nordic meeting space for “future learners” of all denominations – academics, politicians, bureaucrats and entrepreneurs.

Oslo EdTech is located together with Oslo StartUp Lab in the Oslo Science park at the University of Oslo. In later post we will be featuring Oslo ERdTech, but for now: Welcome. And here is a link to one of the their posts – unfortunately, in Norwegian. But a good one.

Another post, that we will recommend reading is this one – a story about a very unlikely group of young innovators, who in the future will be a lot more likely; in fact a part of the future of learning and education. They spoke in Oslo and then they spoke in London at the recently held BETT conference. Read their story here.

New speaker added to the summit program

January 13, 2016 By wlsteam Leave a Comment

We’re happy to add Rolf Assev to the speaker list for the June 2016 World Learning Summit. For many of those who know the Norwegian and Nordic start-up scene, Rolf has been a mainstay for a very long time. Some know him as a founding figure behind the web browser Opera. In recent years, Rolf has been working to establish the Oslo Start-up Lab, where we oversees the budding eco system of education technology companies and learning companies now being formed and finding a common space in the basement of the Oslo Science Park. We are many who once came out of that building. And we are many who wishes Rolf and his friends good luck with what they are doing.

In 2014, Rolf approached some of us in the South Norway Future Learning Lab group with an idea to forge a more nation-wide and potentially Nordic arena – which we in part answer with when inviting to merge future visions in a World Learning Summit. Taken together, the Nordic bloc of EdTech companies is actually very interesting. Lots of good stuff is coming through.

Some of this will be highlighted at the June summit. Rolf will be chairing a session where select companies will present their work, with a following Q&A session.