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World Learning Summit 2019
About WLS 2019
World Learning Summit 2019 is our ninth annual conference on learning, education and the impact of digital media on society. Not a pedagogy conference, nor a technology conference, WLS adresses the wider framework of knowledge production, flows, spaces and knowledge consumption in a world defined by online presence 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Join us in charting the future of learning, together with world class speakers and a community of returning speakers and attendees.
SUMMIT THEME
E-QUALITY
Equal access to Quality learning and education:
An online, Digital & globalized world
Technology in education is as old as education itself; what has changed over time is not the basics of education as much as the technologies being used. Learning is a key aspect of being human, but what sets our age apart from any other is the extension of media and communications technologies — now enabling “education at scale” as well as learning in a media-rich and self-defined eco system of available insight. An unprecedented wave of innovations has given us the internet, interactive media, a wealth of content, and also new media monopolies that give cause to familiar concerns with equality, as much as with quality of communications flows.
Across the world, education as a social institution is being challenged to re-shape the ways and contexts within which learners learn. Yet, education research paradigms and education institutions are surprisingly slow in meeting the challenges of the brave new world of education technologies – the ideals, ideologies, possibilities and pitfalls represent an open invitation to cross borders between scholarly disciplines, as well as the “the wall” between theory and practice. Join World Learning Summit to help tear down that wall, reshaping our understanding of quality and equality in an age of global learning possibilities – where what we do meets how and why we do it.
Who´s speaking at WLS 2019?
Phil Komarny
Cathy Casserly
Anjum Malik
June Breivik
Peter Fagerström
Janet Walkow
Per Olav Nyborg
Yngvar Ugland
Märt Äro
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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Past WLS speakers
Rosan Bosch
Brian Magerko
Peter Norvig
Jarmo Viteli
Kristin Ingolfsdóttir
Joseph Press
Karl Mehta
Peter Jenner
Marques Anderson
Jane Frances Agbu
Donna Kidwell
Anjum Malik
Sir John Daniel
Janet Walkow
Stamenka Uvalic
Michael Shanks
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WLS 2019 Updates
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