For registration, visit http://www.futureoflearningconference.com
For downloading the brochure click here
THEME: PEDAGOGY, POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY IN A DIGITAL WORLD
DATE & VENUE: JANUARY 15-17, 2018 IIM BANGALORE
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING CONFERENCE 2018
The education sector is set for a major makeover. The twentieth-century model characterized by intense faculty-student interactions in brick and mortar classrooms is fast changing to one of need-based and asynchronous exchanges in a virtual space. The forces that are driving this change include increasing globalization (fiercely competitive domestic and international student markets); greater global mobility (of academics, students and academic brands); an intensifying clamour for democratization of knowledge and access; and the emergence of disruptive digital technologies that drive innovations and offer leapfrogging opportunities.
These developments have important implications for the universities of the future. Successful universities of the future will not be limited by physical spaces or contracts. University learning spaces will be built collaboratively by traditional educational institutions, non-academic subject experts, technopreneurs and investors. This emerging convergence of technologies, entrepreneurship, and risk capital can create new educational market places and radically transform the future of educational institutions and the future of education itself.
How will the above developments change the landscape of higher learning and what implications does this have for the educationists and educational institutions? IIM Bangalore, in collaboration with IIT Bombay, is proud to organize an annual conference on the 'Future of Learning.' This event aims to bring leaders of higher educational institutions, educational policy makers, practitioners and L&D Technology providers on a single platform and aims to provoke thought, showcase innovation and share knowledge along three dimensions of the future of learning: Pedagogy, Policy and Technology.
While digitization promises to revolutionize pedagogical approaches regarding efficacy and effectiveness, these innovative approaches also pose new challenges. For instance, it is still unclear if and how learning platforms will come together to gain insights into how learners learn. Several facets related to the pedagogical aspects of digital learning, such as personalized learning, online assessments and blended learning, are still not adequately researched or understood.
The technology track of the conference focuses on potentials and perils of emerging technologies in the context of digital learning. The rapid pace of technology changes and the interplay between entrepreneurship, technology and policy and their impacts also create both opportunities and challenges that need a closer examination.
The policy track examines the role of public policy and the need for adapting the existing regulatory frameworks to benefit from the leapfrogging opportunities that innovations in educational technology provide. For example, given India’s own need to upskill its population and its potential to be low cost, high-quality educational hub for the world what should policymakers focus in the near term and midterm? How can the goals of accessibility, high quality and relevance be maintained without compromising innovation and enterprise? What new competencies should regulators develop and what roles should they play in helping traditional institutions to leverage the power of technology and adapt to digital learning?
The conference is the first in the series of annual conferences alternating between IIM Bangalore and IIT Bombay for the next three years.
FEATURED SPEAKER AND PANELISTS
Anant Agarwal, CEO, EdX
Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, ALL India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Andrew Ng, Professor, Stanford University (to be confirmed)
Deepak B Phatak, Professor, IIT Bombay
G. Raghuram, Director, IIM Bangalore
R. Subrahmanyam, Additional Secretary (Technical Education), MHRD, GoI
Ronnie Screwvala, Co-Founder and Chairman,UpGrad
Simon Nelson, CEO, Future Learn (to be confirmed)
Amit Goyal, India Country Director, EdX
Mayank Kumar, Co-Founder and MD, UpGrad
Ishan Gupta, Managing Director, Udacity India
Andrew Thangaraj, Professor, IIT Madras
For registration, visit http://www.futureoflearningconference.com
For downloading the brochure click here
THEME: PEDAGOGY, POLICY AND TECHNOLOGY IN A DIGITAL WORLD
DATE & VENUE: JANUARY 15-17, 2018 IIM BANGALORE
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING CONFERENCE 2018
The education sector is set for a major makeover. The twentieth-century model characterized by intense faculty-student interactions in brick and mortar classrooms is fast changing to one of need-based and asynchronous exchanges in a virtual space. The forces that are driving this change include increasing globalization (fiercely competitive domestic and international student markets); greater global mobility (of academics, students and academic brands); an intensifying clamour for democratization of knowledge and access; and the emergence of disruptive digital technologies that drive innovations and offer leapfrogging opportunities.
These developments have important implications for the universities of the future. Successful universities of the future will not be limited by physical spaces or contracts. University learning spaces will be built collaboratively by traditional educational institutions, non-academic subject experts, technopreneurs and investors. This emerging convergence of technologies, entrepreneurship, and risk capital can create new educational market places and radically transform the future of educational institutions and the future of education itself.
How will the above developments change the landscape of higher learning and what implications does this have for the educationists and educational institutions? IIM Bangalore, in collaboration with IIT Bombay, is proud to organize an annual conference on the 'Future of Learning.' This event aims to bring leaders of higher educational institutions, educational policy makers, practitioners and L&D Technology providers on a single platform and aims to provoke thought, showcase innovation and share knowledge along three dimensions of the future of learning: Pedagogy, Policy and Technology.
While digitization promises to revolutionize pedagogical approaches regarding efficacy and effectiveness, these innovative approaches also pose new challenges. For instance, it is still unclear if and how learning platforms will come together to gain insights into how learners learn. Several facets related to the pedagogical aspects of digital learning, such as personalized learning, online assessments and blended learning, are still not adequately researched or understood.
The technology track of the conference focuses on potentials and perils of emerging technologies in the context of digital learning. The rapid pace of technology changes and the interplay between entrepreneurship, technology and policy and their impacts also create both opportunities and challenges that need a closer examination.
The policy track examines the role of public policy and the need for adapting the existing regulatory frameworks to benefit from the leapfrogging opportunities that innovations in educational technology provide. For example, given India’s own need to upskill its population and its potential to be low cost, high-quality educational hub for the world what should policymakers focus in the near term and midterm? How can the goals of accessibility, high quality and relevance be maintained without compromising innovation and enterprise? What new competencies should regulators develop and what roles should they play in helping traditional institutions to leverage the power of technology and adapt to digital learning?
The conference is the first in the series of annual conferences alternating between IIM Bangalore and IIT Bombay for the next three years.
FEATURED SPEAKER AND PANELISTS
Anant Agarwal, CEO, EdX
Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, ALL India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Andrew Ng, Professor, Stanford University (to be confirmed)
Deepak B Phatak, Professor, IIT Bombay
G. Raghuram, Director, IIM Bangalore
R. Subrahmanyam, Additional Secretary (Technical Education), MHRD, GoI
Ronnie Screwvala, Co-Founder and Chairman,UpGrad
Simon Nelson, CEO, Future Learn (to be confirmed)
Amit Goyal, India Country Director, EdX
Mayank Kumar, Co-Founder and MD, UpGrad
Ishan Gupta, Managing Director, Udacity India
Andrew Thangaraj, Professor, IIT Madras