Confirmed keynote speakers for Media and Learning 2011:
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Constantijn van OranjeConstantijn is a Cabinet Member and Senior Advisor to Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner responsible for the European Digital Agenda. Until recently Constantijn was Head of the Information Policy and Economics team at RAND Europe, and Head of Brussels office of the RAND Corporation.
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Peter AdriaenssensPeter Adriaenssens is Professor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Catholic University of Leuven since 1993. He is clinical director of the Crisis Intervention Unit of the department of Child Psychiatry and director of the Confidential Center for Child Abuse & Neglect at the University Hospital Leuven. His research and publications cover the field of child & trauma, parenting, community child psychiatry.
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Dr Conor Galvin Lecturer and Researcher at UCD School of Education
& Lifelong Learning in Ireland where he works on various education, ICT, public policy and research methods programmes. His research interests include social capital, professional knowledge, innovation transfer in an information age, e-learning, schools ICT and the impact of new and emergent technology on learning and society.
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Prof Richard HarperPrincipal Researcher at Microsoft Research in
Cambridge and co-manages the Socio-Digital Systems group. Richard is concerned with how to design for 'being human' in an age when human-as-machine type metaphors, deriving from Turing and others, tend to dominate thinking in the area. Trained as a sociologist and with a strong passion for ordinary language philosophy, he has published over 120 papers and recently published his 10th book, Texture: Human expression in the age of communication overload, (MIT Press).
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Nikos TheodosakisFounder of the OliveUs Education Society, he is the architect of the InStill Life, Preserving Your Culture and The Director in the Classroom projects. His book "The Director in the Classroom: How Filmmaking Inspires Learning" examines connected learning through digital media production in the classroom and is a resource for teacher training around the world. He works with schools and organisations to help grow meaningful learning projects that connect and matter to students, teachers and communities.
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Prof Lizbeth Goodman Lizbeth is Professor of Inclusive Design for Education and Chair of Creative Technology Innovation at University College Dublin, where she is an Executive Board member leading the Creative DNA strand of the new Innovation Academy. She founded the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute 20 years ago and has developed the world renowned practice-based PhD Programme through the institute, along with the MAGIC Multimedia and Games Innovation Centre and Gamelab, which she designed with industry collaborators as a prime knowledge transfer space in the London docklands, from which base the team has been developing applications and projects in the social entrepreneurship and volunteering/IT sectors in preparation for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Pere ArcasHead of educational projects at Television of Catalonia (TVC) in Spain. Pere has been spearheading the transformation of the traditional educational service of Catalonian Television from a purely educational video production service delivered via an educational TV channel to a highly interactive and innovative internet service. This transformation is based on Pere and his colleagues' conclusion that their role as a public television provider was not to educate but to provide useful elements for the education of citizens.
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Donald ClarkDonald was CEO and one of the original founders of
Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market, floated on the Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005. Describing himself as 'free from the tyranny of employment', he is now a Board member of Ufi LearnDirect, Caspian Learning, LearningPool, Deputy Chair of Brighton Arts Festival & Dome. Donald has won many awards for the design and implementation of e-learning, has advised on e-learning for The World Bank, United Nations and many other public and private sector organisations and is a regular (and controversial) blogger on e-learning!
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Gráinne PhelanGráinne joined Google in July 2008 and is responsible for driving Google’s Enterprise engagement with the Education Sector across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Today this role is primarily focused on promoting sustainable adoption of Google Apps for Education within both the schools and higher education sectors, but also includes other new and exciting Google offerings such as Chrome OS.
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Pascal SmetPascal Smet has been the Flemish Minister for Education, Youth, Equal Opportunities and Brussels Affairs since 2009. He believes strongly in the power of dialogue and has supported the Media & Learning Conference since its inception. This year he will officially close the conference which is held in his ministry's headquarters in Brussels.
