Future directions and forging connections in Higher Education: GO:IT, Connected Curriculum, and Participatory Academic Communities

Date: April 19, 2017, 11.00-13.00

Venue: Center for Teaching Development and Digital Media, Aarhus University

Registration deadline: April 16, 2017

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In this (lunch) talk Gwyneth Hughes (UCL Institute of Education, UCL) and Rikke Toft Nørgård (AU) will explore, present cases on, and discuss future directions and new connections in Higher Education. The talk will present the 3 cases of GO:IT, Connected Curriculum, and Participatory Academic Communities as examples of new directions of HE and invite participants to explore and discuss the potentials, possibilities and pitfalls of such directions and connections. 

Programme: 
11.00-11.15: Welcome and introduction, Rikke Toft Nørgård 
11.15-12.15: Future directions and forging connections in HE: 3 cases 
* Connected Curriculum, Gwyneth Hughes 
* Participatory Academic Communities, Rikke Toft Nørgård 
* Global Online Inter-university Teaching, Gwyneth Hughes & Rikke Toft Nørgård 
12.15-13.00: Cake & discussion: Future trends & new connections: possibilities, potentials and pitfalls? 

Through the presentation of these three future directions in HE we invite the participants to engage with and discuss such higher education futures and their potentials, limitations and future directions