Learning for Tomorrow, Today: Future Fit Universities for 2040

An innovative future-focussed Higher Education Symposium bringing together students from more than 10 universities across Europe will take place in Brussels in early November. The main objective of this free symposium (only a few places remaining) is to explore different scenarios for Higher Education by 2040 and help shape futures thinking with a strong learner perspective on new models and approaches to teaching and learning. In addition to a strong student presence, the symposium has been designed for rich dialogue between educational leaders, policy-makers and industry stakeholders.

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Why a Focus on 2040

A child born today will not graduate from a European university until around 2040. The question is what type of university education will they experience in another 20 years from now? How will universities have responded by 2040 to the major challenges and forces of change facing our societies, and the Higher Education sector in particular? The student voice is central to this unique future-focused symposium as we discuss ‘learning for tomorrow, today’. Students will feature throughout the event as we look to challenge conventional institutional thinking and to reimagine the teaching and learning experience for better futures – for all.

Location

Brussels, Dutch House of Provinces
Rue de Treves 59
Brussels

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Programme Outline – Tuesday 6th November

10:30 – ECIU Student Summit (Students Only)

12:30 – Lunch

‍13:00 – Welcome from Moderator

13:05 – Welcome from Rob van Eijkeren (Head of Office Dutch House of Provinces)

13:10 – Introduction to ECIU and the Big Questions by Professor Mark Brown

‍13:20 – Student Insights – Teaching and Learning in the University of 2040

‍13:50 – World Cafes – Exploring the Big Questions (led by students)

15:00 – Refreshment Break

15:20 – World Cafes Report Back

‍15:45 – ECIU Response to the World Cafes

‍16:00 – Stakeholder Panel Discussion

– Adam Gajek (European Students’ Union),
– Thérèse Zhang (European University Association),
– Vanessa Debiais-Sainton (European Commission),
– European Parliament (TBC)

16:45 – Summary Comments

16:55 – Close of Event

‍17:00 – Networking with Refreshments

Event Host

The Symposium is being hosted by the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) under the leadership of the Steering Committee for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, chaired by Director of the NIDL.

Further Information

You can register and find more information about this event on the ECIU’s website:

https://www.eciu.org/news/future-fit-universities-for-2040

If you have any further questions about this event, then please do not hesitate to contact Olga Wessels in ECIU’s Brussels office:

<olga.wessels@eciu.org>

Visiting Scholar Series: Videos of Previous Events

In October the National Institute for Digital Learning launched our Visiting Scholar Series and since then we have hosted three excellent presentations. Professor Grainne Conole started the series and then in December we hosted Dr Bart Rienties from the UK Open University and last week Associate Professor Steve Wheeler from Plymouth University. All three presentations make excellent viewing and if you have a spare hour or so over the next few weeks, then we highly recommend you take time to watch the three videos embedded below.

We are looking forward to hosting further visiting scholars over 2015 and information about future speakers will be posted via Twitter (@NIDL_DCU) and on our forthcoming events website. The Visiting Speaker Series is open to all comers and next year we plan to ensure some of our speakers are able to get around other parts of Ireland.