Learning Café
Speed Networking Around OEB23 Topics Among Participants
Date Friday, Nov 24 Time – Room Tiergarten
7 topics, 7 round tables with 10 chairs. At each table: a facilitator and a number of attendees that self-selected themselves to network around the topic of their choice. After 20 minutes, a bell rings, the facilitator stays, but attendees switch table. Or not. Then another networking round of 20 minutes starts. And afther that, a third round.
This is, in a nutshell, what this speed networking session is about. No need for small talk, getting straight to business is the norm and the sole purpose is to meet people face-to-face and create meaningful connections.
If you came to OEB to network but didn’t get the chance to do so yet, this session is for you!
Plot of a 20 minutes networking round:
- 00:00-00:01: identify the table with your topic, sit down (or stand if there are not enough chairs)
- 00:01-00:02: brief introduction by the table facilitator
- 00:02-00:15: each table attendee has up to 1 minute to introduce themselves and spell out what they would like to discuss
- 00:15-00:20: the table attendees can now freely mingle and network in spontaneous smaller groups or one-to-ones
Table facilitators will include:
Inge de Waard
Learning Innovation coordinator, EIT InnoEnergy, Belgium
Inge de Waard is the learning strategist at EIT InnoEnergy, she is a longtime researcher, activist, award-winning learning innovator and (e)Learning coordinator. She developed multiple online & hybrid courses, co-designed AI tools, and embedded learning innovations. Inge coaches and co-creates international, blended curricula with engineers and teachers, and explores innovative learning formats. Her expertise is recognized by peers, resulting in additional co-authored papers, invited talks and keynotes in both academic and professional conferences, workshops and seminars. She recently founded the Flamboyant Grays initiative to spotlight role models who changed their lives at any age beyond 50 (FlamboyantGrays.com). Most of all, she likes to connect with people and share stories.
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Margaret Korosec
Dean of Online and Digital Education, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Margaret Korosec is an innovative strategic leader bringing creativity, intentionality, and systems perspective to her leadership in scaling online and digital education. She is the Dean of Online and Digital Education at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom leading on establishing a design ecosystem to support and scale online education and a digitally-enabled student experience.
As part of her role, she has academic oversight of the Digital Education Service. The service provides specialist learning design, development, production, media, creative and learning systems management for online and digital education. She led the development of a digital learning accelerator, Helix; a creative space to encourage experimentation, iteration, and exploration fostering sense making of emergent technology and enabling radical internal and external collaboration.
Prior to joining Leeds, she led the growth of the credit and non-credit bearing online portfolio at the University of Derby Online Learning. She had strategic leadership of the design, development, and production of the portfolio with specific remit to launch over a dozen new online degrees fulfilling an ambitious strategic investment bid in less than two years. Her prior contribution at Western Governors University in the US, a fully online, competency-based educational model, significantly informed her commitment to online and flexible learning after witnessing the transformative impact education had on the professional trajectory and lives of graduates.
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Jeanne Law
Professor of English & Director of First-Year Writing Program, Kennesaw State University, United States of America
Jeanne Law is a Professor of English. Her research includes multimodal languaging and generative AI technologies for writers. She is co-author of The Writer’s Loop: A Guide to College Writing and a founding author for Multimodal Mondays blog series. She has authored chapters on information literacy in several edited collections. Her work is also regularly featured in public media, including The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has authored seven Coursera courses on gen-AI use, featuring her Rhetorical Prompt Engineering Framework. Jeanne is a mentor for AAC&U’s AI Pedagogy Institute and has chapters on gen-AI accepted by Computers & Composition and Routlege. She has presented for multiple audiences on the ethical use of gen-AI.
Brayden Milam
Program Coordinator, Kennesaw State University, United States of America