Registration is now open for the June 13-16th 2016 World Learning Summit. As announced at the Stanford 2015 summit close in May 2015, the summit in 2016 promises to be an equally wide-ranging event, with high-level keynote speakers and intens interactions. Please find information about the event here: www.wls.futurelearningab.org We are very happy to announce the main keynote team: Peter norvig (Chief Scientist at Google), Keith Devlin (Executive Director at Stanford Univesity's H-Star Institute) and Michael Shanks (Professor at Stanford University and a key member of the program at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design – also known as the "d.Schoo"l). In addition, we will be adding some surprise entries in the world-ranking division, as speakers and engaged mentors in ur planned workshops. Stay tuned for more updates. …
Future Learning Lab opens Knowledge Cloud
Starting August 2015, Future Learning Lab will begin actively pursuing bitesized content interaction and complete course delivery in our new knowledge cloud enabled by EdCast. There is a long story behind this, but the short version is simple: It was only when we found EdCast that we began to have any serious thought that we actually could pursue the world of MOOCs in a meaningful way. The hopelessly Victorian-style approach applied by Coursera and EdX to the world´s education and learning challenge will effectively be their downfall in the public domain. Their world will be commercial. We approached them, and the question was this: Are you one of the top 100 universities in the world? We´re not. And that was that. Not interested. As seen from universities outside of the sphere of the world´s "top 100" – a list that one could seriously question, no matter how it is constructed – the prospect of becoming a "client" …
Robert Reich; how to reinvent education
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Jeppe Bundsgaard returns to Future Learning Lab
In a different life, professor Jeppe Bundsgaard worked with some of us in the Future Learning Lab to establish Contact Education as a story-telling pedagogical tool -- and we did well together.... However, as life takes over and projects emerge that also take us elsewhere, paths part. In 2015 we´re lucky to have professor Bundsgaard back with us in our newly established Expert Panel, bringing a lot of expertise on proposal work as well as the forefront of ICT-related learning and teaching. Bundsgaard will be coming to our May 2015 Summit in Silicon Valley, and he will have fresh results to report from several large demonstration projects in Denmark. Jeppe is professor of ICT in Education at Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. His main areas of research is 21st Century skills and project and scenario based education. He has participated in developing several practice scaffolding interactive platforms to support …
Anne Swanberg on our Expert Panel team:
First to be asked to join our Expert Panel, Anne Swanberg represents a unique Nordic point of view, in that she runs one of the only Learning Labs at institutions of hi her education dedicated to an over-all transformation of learning: The Norwegian School of Business and their BI Learning Lab. We´re proud to have Anne in our team. For our May 2015 conference, BI is represented by other members of the Norwegian School of Business. That said, Anne is part of several projects and proposals. Her university college runs a series of demonstration projects that Anne oversees, and for us this gives a valuable point of resonance. Read more about Anne here. The rest of or short bio includes this, among other things: In 2010 she assigned by the BI Provost to build up a new competence center. She was then in the process of defending her doctoral thesis “Learning with style – The relationships among approaches to learning, personality, group …
New member of our Expert Panel
We´re pleased to be able to include Michael Carter in our Future Learning Lab expert panel. Mike has a deep interest in learning and a better basis for refection on emergent technologies than most: From his background in Silicon Valley high-tech to his current interest in K8 an K12 learning by gaming, he is an extremely valuable addition to our team. Read the rest of his bio here. At our conference in May 2015, we will run an invitation-based workshop on game based learning particularly aimed at contemporary issues like climate change, and how to tell that story in a persuasive and action-changing manner using game-based story-telling strategies. Mike will be with us for that workshop, and we look forward to it. From his bio you can read this, among other things. His academic career includes professing history at Dartmouth and directing academic computing at Stanford. As Co-PI of an ethnographic study of digital youth he helped …
MIT professor Dr. Shigeru Miyagawa to keynote FLS 2020
We´re happy to present Dr. Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor, MIT and UTokyo as opening keynote speaker on Friday May 29th 2015, as we kick off our conference Future Learning Summit 2020. Dr. Miyagawa is professor at MIT and for the past several years also UTokyo. He was on the original MIT team that proposed OpenCourseWare and he is former Chair of the MIT OpenCourseWare Faculty Advisory Committee. He was awarded the President’s Award for OCW Excellence from the Global OpenCourseWare Consortium. He is also Co-director of Visualizing Cultures (visualizingcultures.mit.edu) with the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, John W. Dower, which was awarded MIT Class of 1960 Innovation in Education Award. …
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Summit speaker updates
Susan Singer to open the summit We are very pleased to announce that professor Susan Singer has accepted our invitation to open the May 30th Summit on the future of learning, at Stanford University. Here is a short bio on Susan. And you will find more about her here. Susan Rundell Singer is Division Director for Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation and the Laurence McKinley Gould Professor, in the Biology and Cognitive Science Departments at Carleton. She pursues a career that integrates science and education. In addition to a PhD in biology from Rensselaer, she completed a teacher certification program in New York State. A developmental biologist who studies flowering in legumes and also does research on learning in genomics , Susan is a AAAS fellow and received both the American Society of Plant Biology teaching award and Botanical Society of America Charles Bessey teaching award. She directed Carleton’s …
Conference update; a note about EdCast
Future Learning Lab´s Spring 2015 conference is set for May 30th, at Stanford University. It will be a collaboration between Future Learning Lab, H Star Institute at Stanford University, the recently established Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto and EdCast -- a recent addition to the world of on-line learning providers, with a home base in Palo Alto. We first met up with Edcast in October 2014, at our Stanford-based workshop Imagine Classrooms of Tomorrow. Since then we have been pursuing several ways to collaborate. We learned about their exciting plans to promote international conversations on the future of learning in a globalized world. We, on the other hand, also found a receptive ear to our efforts at creating an international meeting space that actively promotes global collaboration on a resolutely practical level. We are concerned with students worldwide, with teacher and with learners. We are concerned with a mounting skills …
MOOCs in Europe: Important new report
The European discussion on MOOCs is – for various reasons – quite different than the North-American one. This is one reason why this first broadly comparative European report on MOOCs ought to be read carefully. It was launched on March 3rd, 2015. See the executive summary below. Download the entire report from here. First, the approach and phenomenon was launched in the US, with trials and early errors duly made and noted. As the next stage MOOC development goes global one is likely to see institutional issues and barriers coming to the surface in the discussions and approaches. Second, the European approaches reflect the "public service" philosophy and standards commonly found at institutions of higher learning. As seen from that angle, the MOOCs phenomenon may be not so much an aspect of combatting increasing costs of education as a meaningful tool to overcome institutional and nation-state barriers in an increasingly globalized …