HOSTED BY FUTURE LEARNING LAB: EXPLORING TRANSFORMATIONAL LEARNING
World Learning Summit 2019
Join us for our 9th annual, international conference
June 5 - 7
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
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Join us for this year’s World Learning Summit – our 9th annual conference at the Future Learning Lab, hosted in 2019 by the University of Agder, Faculty of social science. This year, our keynotes and panels weave through variations of “the digital divide”, bringing together perspectives on technology, human sciences, social sciences, entrepreneurship and policy challenges. Higher Education is at a transformational stage – locally, nationally and globally the challenge may be to engage in what C.Wright Mills once coined “the sociological imagination”.
How do we learn, teach and interact in globalized life-long learning – what challenges for students, teachers, education managers, business leaders, and policy-makers alike? At WLS, international entrepreneurs join with internationally recognized scholars as well as business leaders and policy-makers, to co-create new insights and understandings of our changing world learning eco system. Topics also coming up: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Virtual Reality, and New Designs for Life Long Learning.
Get to know our world class program of speakers and continuing discussions. Our community is growing and friendly, with speakers and attendees coming back year after year. Our theme this year is E-QUALITY: One key aspect of that term is future access to learning in a world that is increasingly becoming “digitalized” and “on-lined”. A number of future scenarios are open – technological, sociological, pedagogical, cultural and political. The other aspect of E-QUALITY is our understanding of learning in a world that is defined by uneven opportunity, and where the emergent eco system is understood by some as levelling the digital and institutional divides and by others as increasing social injustice and difference.
JUNE 5TH:
OPEN SUMMIT
Keynote: Phil Long
Keynote: Cathy Casserly
Keynote: June Breivik
Speaker: Yngvar Ugland
Speaker: Per Olav Nyborg
Speaker: Märt Aro
Speaker: Peter Fagerström
Speaker: Truls Berg
Speaker: Sunniva Whittaker
Entrepreneur in residence: Anjum Malik
Host: Keith Devlin
Host: Donna Kidwell
Host: OddgeirTveiten
JUNE 6TH – 7TH:
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Keynote: TBA
Keynote: Janet Walkow
Symposia, workshops,
In-depth project-maker sessions


PhD Colloquium, Open Summit, Invitation workshops
SUMMIT THEME: E-QUALITY
WORLD LEARNING SUMMIT IN BRIEF:
OPEN SUMMIT JUNE 5TH
KEYNOTES
JUNE 5TH
CATHY CASSERLY
PHIL LONG
JUNE BREIVIK
PANELS AND ROUNDTABLES
EDUCATION / TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY
INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CHANGE / MANAGEMENT
NORDIC ED TECH
HIGHER ED AND WORK LIFE
BREAKOUT SESSIONS 1:
EDUJAMMING
BREAKOUT SESSION 2:
TRANSFORMING
BREAKOUT SESSION 3:
GLOBALIZING
WORKSHOPS JUNE 6TH - 7TH
THEMES FROM JUNE 5TH CONTINUE IN MORE ELEBORATE DEPTH
KEYNOTES
JUNE 6TH AND 7TH
ANJUM MALIK
JANET WALKOW
COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOPS
VIRTUAL REALITY • AI
CROSSCUTTING RESEARCH
PHD COLLOQUIUM & PUBLICATIONS
PROJECT PRESENTATIONS WLS 2019 PROCEEDINGS
Speakers at WLS 2019
Phil LONG
Cathy Casserly
Anjum Malik
Per Olav Nyborg
Yngvar Ugland
Märt Aro
June Breivik
Peter Fagerström
Janet Walkow
Sarah Craig
Dr. Abdullah ben Sadeq Dahlan
Hassan Diab
Dr Basma Elzein
Dr. Hana Helmy
Maja Vikan
World Learning Summit 2019 Team

Professor of media studies at UiA. Professor of journalism studies at NLA University College. Founder, WLS and Future Learning Lab.

CTO at Arizona State University. Vice Chair of Future Learning Lab. Early MOOC pioneer, in her former job at University of Texas.

CEO of Sunsense, co-founder of World Learning Summit. Entrepreneur and long-time employee at UiA.

Former Executive Director of HStar Institute at Stanford University. Now in charge of the their Nordic and Baltic relations.

PhD from the University of Aarhus, CEO and founder of the learning company Adapto.

CEO and Founder of Open Innovation Lab of Norway, a partner with WLS.

Former CEO of Creative Commons, pioneered Open Courseware at MIT.

Associate professor of pedagogy at UiA, with specialization in computer assisted collaboration.
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