WLS
World Learning Summit 2024
Dubrovnik, Croatia, November 28th - 29th
EDUCATION
IN THE AGE OF AI
– Global crisis: A learning challenge
– Extremism: A learning Challenge
– Social media overload
– Media Literacy
– Knowledge & memory
– Creative exploration
– Education in the post-truth age
– Arts and civil society
– Convergent technologies
– challenges of artificial intelligence
– Designing education for an on demand society
– Virtual spaces of learning
– (why) Question the Virtues of online learning
– The student voice in education reform
– Education in a post-truth world
– Creating a cross-disciplinary dialog
INVITATION
PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OpenAI´s ChatGPT and other AI platforms took us by surprise in 2023. Since then, many of us who work in higher education have attempted to understand how AI it is likely to affect us as individuals and institutions. Some institutions embrace AI and others do not. Any which way there is bound to be consequence. How do we approach the challenge? How do we approach it as educators, individually and collectively in departments and centers, faculties and other group units? How are these deep digital transformations likely to affect the ways in which universities collaborate with professions, NGOs, and other civil society stakeholders?
This is our 14th annual WLS event, where we as usual attempt to provide a bridge between academic disciplines, academia and profession work, and learners from all walks of life. We are especially fortunate this year to be able to probe the challenge of AI together with experienced colleagues from the music sector and creative arts where learning and education designs have a pronounced performative dimension.
ABOUT WORLD LEARNING SUMMIT
This year in Croatia
Speakers
Keynote speakers: Martin Clancy (music and AI) and Bruce Mutsvairo (AI and media literacy).
Program
2-day workshop Nov 26-27th, and"lunch-to-lunch summit Nov 28-29th.
Venue
University of Dubrovnik, Faculty of media studies and public relations. Walking distance from Old Town.
Social events
Two or four days of good talks, small group conversations, evening dinners at select reetaurants.
World Learning Summits began in 2010 with a first conference on the theme of education´s digital future. Education and technology is still an important theme for us, but we invite discussions, panels and papers and workshops that contextualize challenges in higher education more broadly. Our mission is to explore and cultivate a sense of cross-disciplinary thinking on education challenges in the context of technology and globalization. The summits began at the University of Agder in Southern Norway (UIA), through the research center Future Learning Lab. It has by now gained an international community — with a number or returning attendees over the years. So far with visitors from 40+ countries.
In 2024, Future Learning Lab is joined by UIA CreaTeME – a Center of Excellence in Music Education.This year WLS is also proud to be collaborating with the University of Dubrovnik, hosting the event.
WELCOME TO DUBROVNIK
WELCOME TO KINGS LANDING
Home to Game of Thrones
SPEAKERS AT WLS 2024
Keynote speakers and panelists will be added continuously
Professor at Utrecht University, Bruce will be one of the keynote speakers at the summit, discussing media literacy and the meaning of that term across academic disciplines in the age of AI.
Thomas is professor emeritus at the University of Vienna and a board member of Center for Global Journalism and Communication. His extensive network in professional and academic media organizations around the world is of central value to the conversations planned at WLS. Thomas was also a speaker at our 2023 WLS event.
As head of the UIA Center of Excellence in Education, Daniel is both a former vocalist in a band once receiving international attention and a professor of music management. He holds an internationally acclaimed annual Roundtable at UiA on the digital transformation of the music eco system. At WLS 2024 we will hear from the CreaTeME vision and refect on how it is that the experiences forem the music industry has such clear bearing on the Higher Education sector.
Oddgeir founded the Future Learning Lab in 2010 together with Frank Reichert who later went on to become UiA president. The intention was to solicit a university wide network for sharing experiences and building capacities in the area of effective learning designs in an age of technology transforming education. At WLS 2024, Oddgeir will be presenting an agenda for similar cross-disciplinary concerns in meeting the AI challenge.
June is a long-time member of the WLS community, with previous keynoting and many other engagements. She is the former head of e-Teaching at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo and also a member of the Norwegian MOOC commission, some years back. She speaks frequently at conference venues and has also published a book on e-Learning earning praise in Norway.
Marko is Head of Department and Professor, Ph.D., at the Section of Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a former journalist, specializing as a researcher in news media autonomy, media literacy and the challenges of navigating polarizing online media cultures.
Donna is the vice chair of Future Learning Lab at the University of Agder and will join us online from her newly appointed job at the University of Toronto.
Ragnhild is a professor of musicology, exploring various uses and aesthetics of tecknology-enhanced composing and performing. She has published widely on the digital transformation of music, notably with books like these: Parody in the Age of Remix: Mashup Creativity vs. the Takedown (MIT Press, 2023) og Digital Signatures: The Impact of Digitization on Popular Music Sound. She us currently engaging in exploring uses of AI in performing arts.
Rajko Radevic holds a MA degree in international security and diplomacy from the Faculty of Political Science – University of Belgrade. He is currently a PhD candidate on the program of security studies at Faculty for Social Sciences, Ljubljana University. Radevic served as a fellow at leading research institutes in Norway, Slovenia, Germany. His special interests include international security, foreign relations, integrity building mechanisms in the security sector and public administration, artificial intelligence and security.
Martin specializes currently in AI and the music sector. He has a long rack record as a music manager, artist and consultant in the music eco system. Martin will keynote on the future of AI in music.
The University of Dubrovnik host of the 2024 WLS event, Mato has recently been appointed Vice Rector of UNIDU. He has extensive research backgorund in the area of media literacy, misinformation and disinformation. At WLS 2024 Mato will be one of the speakers linkin the lessons and exieriences from the media industry to the creative arts fields and the music eco system.
Kristoffer Holt joined the WLS community in 2023, with a presentation of his research center and community at Linnaeus University, in Sweden. At WLS 202r we will hear more about the Center of Intermediality at his university and their experiences exploring social transtiromation and mediatization of education across the aerts, humanities and social sciences.
Snježana served as dean of Bayan College, Purdue University NW USA affiliate in Oman, during the academic 2022-2023. Prior to that she was a long-time professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Sciences where she chaired Doctoral program in Culture and Media, MA program in Communication and was the founding chair of the Center for Media Research. Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia University, Chevening scholar at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.
Romana has her BA an d MA studies from Dubrovnik, her PhD studies from University of Lubljana, Slovenia. She teaches a range of courses in crisis communication, misinformation and disinformation, journalism and strategic communication. She is also engaged in the ADMO prohect – Adria Digital Media Observatory
Two eventful Summit days(Nov 28-29)
Keynote Day 1:
Martin Clancy
RESPONSIBLE AI IN EDUCATION - LESSONS FROM THE MUSIC ECOVERSE
Keynote Day 1:
Marko Milosavljević
News media trAInsformed – disrupted journalism (and) education
Keynote Day 2:
Bruce Mutsvairo
TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA LITERACY IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI – EDUCATION CHALLENGES
November 28th
November 29th
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10:30 -11:45 Pre summit mingling, morning refreshments and registration
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At the summit venue
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11:45 -12:00 Welcome remarks
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Odgdeir Tveiten & Mato Brautovic
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12:15 -12:45 Keynote, by Martin Clancy: Music, Creative Arts and Music
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Q & A
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13:00 -13:45 Panel 1: AI in the context of music - lessons to be shared
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Introduction by Daniel Nordgård
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13:45 - 14:15 BREAK
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14:15-14:45 Keynote by Marko Milosavljevic: News media traAInsformed
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Q & A
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15:00-15:50 Panel 2: Disrupted journalism (and) education
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Presentation by Romana John
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16:00 -17:00 Panel 3: Technology and the humanities - getting heard
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Introduction by Ragnhild Brøvig
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Comments by Keith Negus
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19:00 >> SUMMIT DINNER
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09:00-09:10 – Opening remarks: Daniel Nordgård, Oddgeir Tveiten
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09:10-09:50 – Keynote, by Bruce Mutsvairo: Media Literacy in the AI age
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Introduction by Kristoffer Holt
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Q & A
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10:00-10:50 – Panel 4: In Truth we Trust? Fake news is a fact
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Presentation by Solomon Kebede Gebremeskel
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Presentation by Mulatu Alemayehu Moges
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11:00-11:50 – Panel 5: The interdisciplinary challenge of new media
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Introduction. by Oddgeir Tveiten
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12:00-12:50 – Panel 6: Immersive learning designs -- education agendas
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Introduction by June Breivig
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LUNCH
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14:00-14:50 Panel 7: Creativity, Art, Media, Knowledge
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Presentation by Lee Schults
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15:00-16:00 – Summing up: Where we are -- policy, recommendations
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Daniel Nordgård & Oddgeir Tveiten
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AFTERNOON GAME OF THRONES EXCURSION
PARTNERS
