The Future of Education is an online conference exploring trends impacting education - K-12, higher education, and corporation training.
An international panel of leading thinkers and visionaries will present on topics such as knowledge and authority, technology and art, and complexity science. Daily live discussions (which will be recorded) will be held June 4 - 8. Keynote presenters are listed below. In addition to daily keynote presentations, a series of excellent 20 - 30 minute presentations will address how various experts perceive tomorrow’s education system and processes.View the Schedule of Presentations for correct times.
To extend the live presentations, we will hold ongoing discussion in Moodle - allowing conference attendees to participate actively in the conference.
Registration:
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Keynote Presenters:
| • David Weinberger | Knowledge beyond Authority | |
| • René Barsalo | Cultural Mutations | |
| • Dave Snowden | TBA | |
| • Stephen Heppell | TBA | |
| • Sugata Mitra | Technology and Higher Education — Pedagogy for self organised learning systems |
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| • Derrick de Kerkhove | The City as Classroom |
Presenters:
- Jay Cross — http://internettime.com/
- Mark Oehlert — http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/
- Vicki Davis — http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
- Julie Lindsay — http://123elearning.blogspot.com
- Dave Cormier — http://www.davecormier.com/edblog/
- Brian Lamb — http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/brian/
- Cheri Toledo — http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/ci/faculty_staff/biographydetail.asp?u=catoled
- Teemu Leinonen — http://www2.uiah.fi/~tleinone/
- MaryFriend Shepard — http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/Researcher+Panel
- Chris Sessums — http://whttp://elgg.net/csessums/weblog/
- Teemu Arina — http://tarina.blogging.fi/
- Leigh Blackall
- David Wiley
Additional presenters will be added over the next few weeks as they are confirmed.
Questions? Please contact George Siemens at george_siemens@umanitoba.ca.
The Future of Education conference is proudly sponsored by Learning Technologies Centre and Extended Education of University of Manitoba and Elluminate, in consultation with CHERD.
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