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 large language model platforms took us by surprise in 2023. Since then, many of us who work in higher education have attempted to understand the implications of AI as well as come to grips with how it is likely to affect us beyond the present, into the future. Some institutions embrace AI and others do not. Some do nothing, but any which way there is bound to be consequence. How do we approach the challenge as institutions? How do we approach it as educators, individually and collectively in departments and centers, faculties and other group units?
This is our 14th consequtive 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.
WLS 2024 AT A GLANCE
ABOUT WORLD LEARNING SUMMIT
This year in Croatia
Speakers
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Program
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Venue
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Social events
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World Learning Summit 2024 is our 14th annual event, starting out 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.Â
These are big themes. And it explains why we try to keep the annual summit small enough for conversations and networking to matter. The summits began at the University of Agder in Southern Norway, 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. And in 2024, Future Learning Lab is joined by another center at the Unicversity of Agder: CreaTeME – a Center of Excdellence in Music Education.
This year WLS is also proud to be collaborating with the University of Dubrovnik on hosting the event.
One of several dimensions of this collaboration is the many ways in which a game-inspired education design pedagogy emerges from the convergence of technologies leaving older models of education less viable. Game-based learning and gamified learning introduces a narrative mode in which the learner is in charge, exploring different avenues of developing and advancement through engaging with a story, a plot, solutions and ways to get there.
These are deep-seated challenges and educators need to talk more about them, about how to structure learning designs around approaches that are less dependent on texts so easily searched, copied and pasted these days. What alternatives do we have and how do we make shifts? One thing we can do, is to get together in the city where many parts of Game of Thrones were filmed — a TV series based on games based on books.
WELCOME TO KINGS LANDING
SPEAKERS AT WLS 2024
Keynote speakers and panelists will be added continuously
Thomas Bauer
Professor Emeritus, University of Vienna
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Bruce Mutsvairo
Professor, Utrecht University
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Oddgeir Tveiten
Professor, University of Agder, Norway
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Donna Kidwell
CTO, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Rajko Radevic
Security expert, AI and security, Montenegro.
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. He has extensive experience in managing projects related to security and good governance. Radevic is the author of a number of academic articles and analysis on the security matters and sector in Montenegro and wider.Â
Daniel NordgĂĄrd
Professor, University of Agder
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Kristoffer Holt
Associate professor, Linnaeus University, Sweden
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Martin Clancy
World resource on AI converging with music
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Mato Brautović
Associate professor, University of Dubrovnik
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Two eventful days
PRINTABLE PROGRAM (COMING HERE)
Keynote Day 1: Mark Clancy
RESPONSIBLE AI IN EDUCATION - LESSONS FROM THE MUSIC ECOVERSE
Keynote BIO
Keynote Day 2: Bruce Mutsvairo
TEACHING MEDIA STUDIES IN THE AGE OF GENERATIVE AI
Keynote BIO
November 28th
November 29th
09:00 – 11:00 AM:
         • Registration, informal program for early arrivers
         • Coffee, tea, pastries & fingerfood
11:30 AM: OPENING ADDRESSES
12: 00 PM: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
         Mark Clancy:
12:30 PM: KEYNOTE PANEL
13:30 PM: BREAK
14:00 PM: PANEL SESSION 2
15:00 PM: PANEL SESSION 3
16:00 PM: DAY 1 ROUNDTABLE
17:00 PM: END
6:30 PM CONFERENCE DINNER
LOCATION: TBA
08:00 – 09:00 MORNING COFFEE
         – Registration for the unregistered
         – Informal networking
09:00 AM: OPENING & KEYNOTE ADDRESS – WITH Q&A
10:00 AM MORNING ROUNDTABLE
Summarising yesterday´s panel: Agenda for the day discussions
PANEL HOST:
10: 45 AM: COFFEE BREAK
11: 00 AM: PANEL 4
12:00 PM SUMMARIZING WORDS
12:30 PM: SUMMIT END
13:00 – 14:00 PM: COFFEE AND RESERVED LUNCH *
14:00-16:00 PM:
         • Social mingling for those still present
         • Tour of Dubrovnik´s Game of Thrones sites
* Sign up for this lunch when registering for the summit