REIMAGINE NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 25
ALLIES IN REIMAGINING EDUCATION
Dear Reimaginer,
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 the first of the four Reimagine Education speakers to whom this newsletter will be introducing you: Anna Nordell of Sana Labs, a company whose focus on machine learning is designed to bring the personalization of education that bit closer. Discover how they do it – here.
Personalized learning and artificial intelligence are also the forces driving Ethan Keiser, CEO and founder of award-winning student support service provider StudyTree App. In keeping with this year’s focus on demonstration of efficacy, he outlines two case studies in which the app has been implemented into two higher education institutions, each finding ways to ensure that students benefit from a personalised mobile academic assistant.
Our next piece of content sees another of our speakers offer their insights on questions central to the Reimagine Education initiative. 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, among others, are answered by Carla Aerts, former Director of Futures at University College London’s EDUCATE project. Read the full, exclusive interview here.
Our final featured speaker, Cassandra Horii, Director of Caltech’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach, 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.
Anna’s CEO Joel Hellermark, Ethan, Carla, and Cassandra will all be elaborating on their educational visions and work at Reimagine 2018 – and will be joined by representatives from Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, Google, Amazon Web Services, and the University of California, Berkeley – and many more. To join them at our flagship conference, secure your place today!
Finally, we remind all readers that there are only five working days to ensure that your innovative work is eligible for this year’s Reimagine Education Awards, and our $50,000 funding pool. Don’t forget to start – or complete! – your application.
Never stop innovating!
Jack Moran
Steering Committee (Program Manager)
Reimagine Education
Judging
Our call for expert volunteer judges to help evaluate this year’s entrants to Reimagine Education will continue until the 31st August 2018. Want to:
- Gain extensive insight into improvements in education across the world?
- Receive global visibility for your role on our judging panel?
- Acquire accredited acknowledgement for your contribution?
- Receive a discounted ticket to this year’s Reimagine Education conference?
Then we invite you to join the judges! Our call for judges will remain open until the 31st August, and all those who profess expertise in education are invited to apply for consideration. Submit your application here.
Introductory Papers
Those who have only just been introduced to Reimagine Education are offered five introductory papers on the key focuses of Reimagine Education, which outline some basic information about each focus, and introduce some of the debates that we take up at the event.
We’ve written on:
Technology and pedagogical innovation
The Global Skills Gap: Student Misperceptions and Institutional Solutions
