Rethinking the Learning Experience

Rethinking the Learning Experience

The use of educational technologies in education and research is exploding under pressures of emerging personalized practices on campus, which are also developing more and more offsite. A whole community of educators, students, families, organizations and start-ups are figuring out how to improve the learning experience by leveraging new technologies.

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Discover the latest trends, developments and products developed in the field of Education:

· Become inspired by the insights of academic and business experts on the future of learning;

· Discover highly innovative Ed-Tech start-ups during our Technology Showcase;

· Mingle with executives from French and local universities during a special Ed-Tech Venture Café;

Program:

5 pm – Rethinking the learning experience, roundtable with Academic and Business Experts, Havana Room

Speakers: Scot Osterweil, (http://education.mit.edu/people/scot-osterweil) Research Director, MIT - Violeta M Ivanova (http://oeit.mit.edu/about/staff/violeta-ivanova), Ph.D., MIT, Open Digital Learning - Sandrine CRENER (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sandrine-crener/5/b32/92b), PhD, Harvard Business School - Barry Brennand, Education Solutions (http://www.steelcase.com/en/products/category/educational/research/pages/research.aspx), Steelcase Inc.

5:45 pm – Technology Showcase, Havana Room

Baabak Touran, CEO Applykit (http://www.applykit.com)

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Thomas Ketchell, CEO Hstry

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Remy Carpinito, CEO CampusTap (http://info.thecampustap.com)

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Svetlana Dotsenko, CEO Project Lever (http://projectlever.com)

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Facilitator: LearnLaunchX

6:30 pm - Networking event, Venture Café

Why: The event is part of a Learning Expedition organized by EducPros (http://www.letudiant.fr/educpros/) in collaboration with PRIME (http://www.innovation-prime.com/) and The French Tech Hub (http://www.frenchtechhub.com/). This program brings together 25 participants from France as well as executives of higher education organizations and journalists.

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