Morning Session Afternoon - Corporate Learning Session

OPENING

13:30

Welcome and Introductions

Our Formal Education Session host will welcome attendees and bring you through the format of the afternoon.

Dr. Ann Devitt, Academic Director at Learnovate and Associate Professor of Language Education, Trinity College Dublin

KEYNOTE

13:30

Why Should We Imagine Education Futures?

Explore

How and why we do futures work in education.
Why it matters that there are many voices, and many alternatives, put forward when we discuss digital futures.

Takeaways

Higher Education Futures scenarios. developed by the Centre for Research in Digital Education in 2022.
8 scenarios that imagine:
- What universities might look like if AI becomes university infrastructure.
- If humans no longer have jobs.
- If all higher education happens virtually.
- If teachers sell their expertise direct in a form of extreme unbundling.

Dr Jen Ross, Co-director, Centre for Research in Digital Education, The University of Edinburgh

WORKSHOP

14:00

(Re)Imagining the Future of Learning with AI

The Learnovation workshops are designed to offer attendees from each sector a chance to collaborate and learn from other attendees.

We have designed a series of tasks which encourage groups and individuals to share their knowledge, thoughts & opinions on the future of learning in a collaborative and interactive way.

We will share the outputs from the session with participants post-event.

Pablo Alvarez, Technology Lead, Learnovate

Richard Harte, UX/UI Specialist, Learnovate

COFFEE BREAK

15:00

Coffee & Networking

The Atrium

PANEL DISCUSSION

15:30

Teaching Versus Tech – The Great Debate

We have assembled panellists from a range of backgrounds to take a look at where formal education is going in the age of technology disruption and innovation.

What are the opportunities and benefits?

What are the pitfalls?

Are the emerging technologies going to change the way we teach, and learn, forever?

Will the role of the educator evolve, what will that look like?

Chair: Dr. Mary Kelly, Academic Dean, Hibernia College

Rachel Phillips, Senior Measurement & Learning Lead, Gates Ventures

William Cosgrave, Masters Student in AI, Utrecht University Netherlands

Siobhan Blaney, Head of Education, The Big Idea

Joe Rayfus, Assistant Principal, Mullingar Community College

Ciara MacNamara, Head of Digital Learning Platforms, Folens

RESEARCH IN PRACTICE

16:00

The Promise and Challenges of Building Community in Distance and Hybrid Learning Environments

Explore:

The opportunities provided by building communities for teaching and learning in an online learning space as well as the associated challenges.
How a cohort app was implemented by Hibernia College to promote communication, collaboration and to facilitate virtual Communities of Practice (vCOPs) in the student and tutor communities.
How Hibernia College and Learnovate collaborated to research the elements of community-building in a distance and hybrid learning space.

Takeaways:

The benefits to learners and to your organisation of facilitating virtual collaborative workspaces.
How to implement and encourage use of a mobile collaborative platform to facilitate community-building in a learning context.
What the future may look like for the Cohort app at Hibernia College.

Janet Benson, Learning Lead at Learnovate

Francis McKeagney, Head of Digital Learning at Hibernia College

AFTER PARTY

16:30 – 19:00

Drinks Reception

The Atrium, Aviva Stadium

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