REIMAGINE EDUCATION CONFERENCE: SPEAKERS CONFIRMED!
EDITORIAL OVERVIEW – ISSUE 25
Find out what’s included in the latest 2018 edition of your Reimagine Education Newsletter: an interview with UCL’s former Director of Futures Carla Aerts; Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach; Spotify for Education; and the startup who are trying to put a mobile academic assistant in every student’s pocket.
INTERVIEW WITH CARLA AERTS
Does edtech devote due attention to demonstrating efficacy? What’s the biggest challenge the tertiary education sector faces? And which is edtech’s ‘country to watch’? These questions, and much more, are answered by Carla Aerts, former Director of Futures at University College London’s EDUCATE project. Read the full, exclusive interview here
ALLIES IN REIMAGINING EDUCATION – BY CASSANDRA HORII
Cassandra Horii is Director of Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach, and will be speaking at 2018’s Reimagine Education Conference. In her speaker introduction, she chooses to discuss the benefits derived by institutions that emphasize educational development. Learn more about Caltech’s CTLO, and the principles on which it operates, here.
USE OF AI FOR ACADEMIC SUPPORT & COACHING
Ethan Keiser’s StudyTree App is at the forefront of the student support services revolution: the app offers a mobile academic assistant to all student users. Here, Ethan, founder and CEO of StudyTree offers two case studies that outline how StudyTree can be implemented in tertiary education contexts.
What if the principles that allow Spotify to recommend you a song, or Netflix to recommend you your next binge-watch series, could be applied to education, to direct learners towards courses and learning content suited to them? That’s the question driving Sana Labs, a company whose focus on machine learning is designed to bring the personalization of education that bit closer. Discover what they do – here.
2018 CONFERENCE: SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED!
With four months to go until this year’s event, we’re delighted to introduce our first cohort of participating speakers. To find out which representatives from Google, Harvard, Cambridge, and (formerly) University College London will be driving the agenda in San Francisco, read on!
REIMAGINE EDUCATION CONFERENCE: EARLY BIRD TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE
Education is changing. If you’re driving that change, or seeking to, then reserve your place at the Reimagine Education Conference (29-30 November 2018, Grand Hyatt San Francisco).
We are currently offering a 20% Early Bird Discount to all those who secure their place before the 15th September 2018.
REIMAGINE EDUCATION AWARDS 2018: JOIN THE JUDGES
Are you an educational expert? Passionate about identifying, acknowledging, and rewarding innovation in your space? Want to meet those behind the work that’s transforming education for learners worldwide? Then apply to join our judging panel – our call for judges is open until August 31st!