If you are going to push any boundaries, Barcelona is as good a place as any to do it. Home of Antoni Gaudi, Joan Miró, Picasso (for a significant period in his work), the chef Ferran Adrià, and the fully online Open University of Catalonia (UOC – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, established as early as 1995), Barcelona has long been in the forefront of innovation and change.
UOC is running an event up to and including October 3 that
will address the challenges that current higher education models face and showcase innovative initiatives and practices that offer creative answers for pressing issues.
Speakers include:
- Terry Anderson (Emeritus Professor at Athabasca University and Director of the Canadian Institute Distance Education Research)
- Lisa Marie Blaschke (Director of the Master of Distance Education and E-Learning at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Jim Groom (Instructional Technologist, Co-founder Reclaim Hosting)
- Brian Lamb (Director of Open learning and Innovation Thompson Rivers University, Canada)
- Allison Littlejohn (Academic Director for Learning and Teaching and Professor of Learning Technology at The Open University, UK)
- Annette Markham (Professor MSO of Information Studies and Co-Director of the Digital Living Masters Programme at Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Yishay Mor (Director of the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in teaching at the Levinsky College of Education, Israel)
- Rikke Toft Nørgård (Associate Professor in Educational Design and Technology at the Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media, Aarhus University, Denmark)
-
Philipp Schmidt (Director of Learning Innovation at the MIT Media Lab)
- and yours truly
I will be focusing in my contribution on the changing nature of online learning (from mainly fully online, text-based, asynchronous to a blend of face-to-face teaching, video-based synchronous, asynchronous and social media) and the implications for faculty/teacher development and training.
There are still places open for the event. For further information, go to the web site. See ya in Barcelona!
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