Our summit in June 2016 was a great success, with close to 300 people visiting the first open day, and about 200 following up on day 2, about 100 on day 3. Visit our testimonials page to see comments as they come in. A main feature was of course Peter Norvig, head researcher at Google in Mountain View, California. We were fortunate to have the collaboration of Aftenposten, BI Norwegian Business School, NHO/Abelia, and Oslo EdTech cluster. More will be posted as we process the presentation videos and upload some of the key presentations. The program for our 2017 version of the summit is under way. We can already announce a keynote featured talk by Catherine Casserley -- former CEO of Creative Commons. And there is lots more to come. …
Derek Woodgate joins FLL
Happy to announce Derek Woodgate as our newest FLL member. Read more about him: Derek Woodgate is a consulting futurist, author, university lecturer and curator. He is President of The Futures Lab, Inc. an international futures-based consultancy, founded in 1996, which specializes in creating future potential for major corporations and institutions, He is also Vice-President and Director of Learning at the company's non-profit arm LIFE (Learning Innovations in Future Education and Chief Creative Office at TFL's "living the future" events company, FEEL (Future Entertainment and Events Lab). Derek is co-creator of the highly successful “living the future” event STEAM3 – The Future of Learning. Derek is also an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Communications Technologies at the University of Adger in Norway; and Adjunct Professor in the Learning Technologies Division of the College of Education and …
A teacher, a learner; do you have a story to tell?
Future Learning Lab Partners with EdCast to Launch Global Educator Teach‐A‐Thon Competition to award grand prize of $100,000 to inspire educators to share their knowledge in 10 min. SAN DIEGO, April 19, 2016 – Future Learning Lab has partnered with EdCast to announce the launch of the Global Educator Teach‐A‐Thon, a new annual competition for educators to showcase the impact and power of social learning technology. Designed to challenge professional and independent educators to embrace the sharing economy, The Global Educator Teach‐A‐Thon is the first ever open‐knowledge viral challenge to help students and adults worldwide to learn from free open content. Educators and those with a passion for a specific subject or discipline are invited to demonstrate their teaching acumen by recording and uploading short video lessons from their smartphone. The educator(s) who garner the highest user engagement will win the grand prize of …
Robert Reich; how to reinvent education
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Digital learning landscapes
An interesting video from TedTalks: We´ve also added a new blog page for more video postings. Here is the link. …
Upcoming spring Roundtable
Here is a note on the upcoming Spring Roundtable on the globalization of learning, hosted by Future Learning Lab, HStar Institute Stanford University and Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto. The Roundtable will ideally organize between 50 100 people from Silicon Valley and invited guests. The event is booked for a Stanford venue, but we are still keeping a small opening for change of days - since we still hope to get a commercial sponsor for the event. As it now looks, the plenary session will be hosted by Oddgeir Tveiten and Matt Bowman. A number of keynotes will be given in rapid sequence, with a follow up Q/A roundtable discussion, which we hope to stream and otherwise make available. Keynoters will be: Keith Devlin, Michael Shanks, Donna Kidwell and marti Hearst. For a brief review: Keith Devlin is co-founder of the H Star Institute at Stanford University and an associate of Future Learning Lab since 2011. Michael Shanks is …
2015 Conference notes
Mid November 2015: Following up on our September – October 2014 workshop at Stanford University, the Future Learning Network will be hosting our annual 2015 conference around the same time and theme: Imagine Classrooms of Tomorrow. At the workshop in 2014, we invited a range of different perspectives - brought up and presented by academics, entrepreneurs, media commentators and more. The end result was a solid learning experience and a better network. At the conference in 2015,our hope is to achieve more of the same, for more people -- growing the network. We have some exciting speakers, a very nice venue, and the support of the Nordic community of innovators and interest parties in Silicon Valley. Our hope is that as many as possible of our Nordic peers will seek out the conference, join the network and otherwise partner with us to make it a solid event. For the conference poster, program and updates, please go to …