Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Paul Kim, Ph.D.
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Paul Kim, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Paul Kim is Chief Technology Officer and Associate Dean at Stanford University School of Education. His courses focus on contextualized innovations in education, empowering mobile design and entrepreneurs in higher education systems. Today it is one of the senior researchers in an interdisciplinary project that aims to promote innovation and competition by building a programmable open mobile internet (POMI 2020) NSF (National Science Foundation) to develop and evaluate ubiquitous wireless mobile computing systems and interactive systems for K-20 center, formal and informal learning and assessment scenarios. He leads initiatives related to the design of learning technologies, educational research and community development.
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Antonella Poce, Ph.D.
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Antonella Poce, Ph.D.
Universitá Roma TRE
Antonella Poce is a full time researcher and lecturer in experimental pedagogy at the University Roma Tre – Department of Education. After the PhD in Innovation and evaluation of educational system, she obtained a post-doc scholarship to carry out research work on the evaluation of e-learning models in university didactics. Her research concerns innovative teaching practices in higher education at national and international level. In 2008, she was awarded as New Researcher of the year by Aea-Europe (Association for Educational Assessment). She has been chairing the Aea-Europe subcommittee for Professional Development since 2012. She has been a member of the EDEN – European Distance andE-learning Network, since 2009 and elected member of the EDEN NAP Steering Committee (Network of Academics and Professionals), since 2014. She was co-manager of the Tempus DEMED project (2009-2011) and has been participating in various EU funded projects, coordinated by the Roma Tre research group she is part of. She directed different departmental projects on the use of technology in higher education. She is co-director of the international - post graduate course Standards for Museum Education based at Roma Tre university. She is member of theEvaluation Committee at Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples. She wasvisiting scholar at University of California - Berkeley in 2009 and lecturer at CALT (Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching) - UCL - University College of London (UK), as part of the staff mobility Erasmus Programme in 2010. She is author of different publications on the employment of innovative didactic tools in higher education.
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Russell Beale, Ph.D.
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Russell Beale, Ph.D.
University of Birmingham
Russell is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and directs the HCI Centre at the University of Birmingham.
As well as being a full-time academic, Russell has founded four companies and run two of them, provides consultancy services on projects he’s interested in, and used to race yachts competitively until a toddler and twins needed his attention – but once they have learned to sail, he’ll return to that as well.
Russell is happy to talk to the media about his research, or on technological issues of the day. He is available for rapid responses on a wide range of subjects, including the Internet, social impact of technologies, mobile systems, the psychology of interaction, usability, design, human-computer interaction, future trends and opportunities, and so on.
Russell is a prize-winning communicator of scientific ideas, has written popular science articles and textbooks, was nominated for a University DOME (Delivering Outstanding Media Experience) award in 2009, and is equally happy on the radio or television.
As well as being a full-time academic, Russell has founded four companies and run two of them, provides consultancy services on projects he’s interested in, and used to race yachts competitively until a toddler and twins needed his attention – but once they have learned to sail, he’ll return to that as well.
Russell is happy to talk to the media about his research, or on technological issues of the day. He is available for rapid responses on a wide range of subjects, including the Internet, social impact of technologies, mobile systems, the psychology of interaction, usability, design, human-computer interaction, future trends and opportunities, and so on.
Russell is a prize-winning communicator of scientific ideas, has written popular science articles and textbooks, was nominated for a University DOME (Delivering Outstanding Media Experience) award in 2009, and is equally happy on the radio or television.
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Venkataraman Balaji, Ph.D.
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Venkataraman Balaji, Ph.D.
Commonwealth of Learning
Dr. Venkataraman Balaji, a specialist in the area of Information and Communication Technology applied to rural development, joined COL on September 1, 2010. He has been active with his students and colleagues in the area of Learning Technology as well, for close to a decade. He received the World Technology Award in the Education category in 2001 (www.wtn.net). In 2011, Dr. Venkataraman was elected to the IFIP IP3 Global Industry Council amongst "internationally recognized luminary executives, thought leaders, and visionaries and for their strong history of providing substantive contributions to global business, industry, society, education, and governments." Balaji received his Masters' degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur in 1984, and completed his PhD in Energy Studies from the University of Madras in India in 1991. He was on the staff of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai in India in various capacities (1991-2000), notably as the director of the informatics. During his tenure there, he facilitated the development of the Information Villages research project that has created a globally recognized model for applying contemporary ICT in rural development. His work was featured in the international media extensively. After a short stint in France at a CNRS laboratory in Montpellier, Balaji returned to India in 2001 to join the International Crops Research institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), which has been a partner of the COL over the last decade. At ICRISAT, which has laboratories and offices in seven countries in sub Saharan Africa and South Asia, Balaji served as the Global Leader for Knowledge Management and Sharing. While here, he has worked with a number of Open Universities in South and Southeast Asia and in Eastern and Southern Africa organizing training programs and workshops to bring technology-mediated knowledge management and ODL closer. In his recent work with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research he was associated with development of digitized UG course materials equivalent to about 10,000 hours of teaching, and in building the Agropedia, a platform that uses advanced web technologies and links web space to mobile telephony. He is also associated with a project to create a generic re-usable learning objects repository. Balaji has considerable international experience in project and IT management and in consulting. He has worked with the FAO, UNESCO, UNDP-GEF, IDRC (Canada) and with a host of international agricultural research organizations on over a dozen projects, and is associated with the University of Florida as the honorary manager for the joint education center with ICRISAT. He is a member of a number of professional societies such as the IEEE and the ACM, and serves as editor or reviewer for journals in knowledge management, ICT-for-development and Geomatics.
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Otto Khera, Ph.D.
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Otto Khera, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Otto Khera is currently the senior manager, research and evaluation at the Center for Scholarly Technology at the University of Southern California where he oversees an instructional design and instructional technology team that manages the conversion of traditional face-to-face courses to online modules, courses. Khera’s focus is on distance learning and globalization, and has published on online course delivery in a trans-national setting and accessing digital archives in developing countries. Otto has led major distance-learning grant projects to connect rural communities to universities, and has led two major private-sector new media projects relying on video and on text/print. Khera holds a post-Master’s certificate (International and Global Communication) from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication where he will receive a Master’s in Online Communities (May 2009). He holds an MBA from Arizona State University, and two undergraduate degrees in finance and in economics. His current focus is on mobile technology for teaching and learning, and for transportation efficiencies.
Specialties:
Location-based technologies, digital video, mobile technology, course management systems (Blackboard, Instructure, Moodle), Google Apps for Education; business planning, market analysis, external funding including grants and private-sector partnerships. Emerging online learning technologies including digital badges, data visualization tools, and collaboration strategies and supporting tools.
Specialties:
Location-based technologies, digital video, mobile technology, course management systems (Blackboard, Instructure, Moodle), Google Apps for Education; business planning, market analysis, external funding including grants and private-sector partnerships. Emerging online learning technologies including digital badges, data visualization tools, and collaboration strategies and supporting tools.
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Raul Aquino Santos, Ph.D.
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Raul Aquino Santos, Ph.D.
Universidad de Colima
Raúl Aquino Santos was born in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico on May 23rd, 1965; he studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Colima from 1983 to 1988 He attended postgraduate studies in applied physics with specialization in electronics and telecommunications at the Center of Scientific Research and of Education Superior de Ensenada (C.I.C.E.S.E.) from 1988 to 1990. From 1990 to 1996, was head of the Department of networking and telecommunications at the University of Colima and from 1996 to 2000 he was Director of the Faculty of telematics at the University of Colima. From 2000 to 2005, Raúl Aquino course PhD. studies at the University of Sheffield, England. In 2007, He made the post-doctorate in networks and telecommunications in the Center of Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada, CICESE, and in 2008, the post-doctorate in networks and telecommunications in the Telecommunications Department of the UNAM. Raúl Aquino is currently, an evaluator of the inter-institutional committees for higher education evaluation (CIEES) and the National Council of science and technology (CONACYT). He is a member of the academic Committee of the thematic network "Information technologies" of the CONACYT and the national system of researchers (level 1). He has published 6 books, 12 chapters in books and more than 50 articles in journals and international conferences. His areas of interest are currently in design, development, simulation and implementation of wireless telecommunication networks: LAN (Wi-Fi), Metropolitan (WIMAX) networks, and wireless sensor networks.
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Laurence Johnson, Ph.D.
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Laurence F. Johnson, Ph.D.
New Media Consortium
Dr. Johnson is an acknowledged expert on emerging technology and its impacts on society and education, and has written five books, seven chapters, and published more than 50 papers and research reports on the topic. He speaks regularly on the topics of creativity, innovation, and technology trends, and has delivered more than 125 keynote addresses to a long list of distinguished groups and organizations all over the world. He is the founder of the Horizon Project, which produces the acclaimed series of Horizon Reports that are used by well over a million educators in more than 150 countries.
Johnson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium, an international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies, and Director of the Edward and Betty Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts (MIDEA). The NMC's and MIDEA's hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded universities, museums, and research centers in the world. In his current post at the NMC, Johnson routinely brings visionaries and thought leaders from across the globe together to define and explore new ways of thinking about and using technology, and to examine emerging trends and issues.
The NMC's annual Horizon Report, now published in six languages, has become one of the leading tools used by senior executives in universities and museums to set priorities for technology planning. NMC summits and large-scale projects have helped set the agenda for topics such as visual literacy, learning objects, educational gaming, immersive learning, the future of scholarship, and social networking.
Having served as president and senior executive at institutions in both the higher education and not-for-profit realms, he has nearly 30 years of experience in the global education arena, and has served in campus roles from professor to dean, CIO and provost, and president. His educational background includes an MBA in Finance and a Ph.D. in Education that focused on research and evaluation.
Among much other recognition, Dr. Johnson has been honored as a Distinguished Graduate by his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin.
Johnson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium, an international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies, and Director of the Edward and Betty Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts (MIDEA). The NMC's and MIDEA's hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded universities, museums, and research centers in the world. In his current post at the NMC, Johnson routinely brings visionaries and thought leaders from across the globe together to define and explore new ways of thinking about and using technology, and to examine emerging trends and issues.
The NMC's annual Horizon Report, now published in six languages, has become one of the leading tools used by senior executives in universities and museums to set priorities for technology planning. NMC summits and large-scale projects have helped set the agenda for topics such as visual literacy, learning objects, educational gaming, immersive learning, the future of scholarship, and social networking.
Having served as president and senior executive at institutions in both the higher education and not-for-profit realms, he has nearly 30 years of experience in the global education arena, and has served in campus roles from professor to dean, CIO and provost, and president. His educational background includes an MBA in Finance and a Ph.D. in Education that focused on research and evaluation.
Among much other recognition, Dr. Johnson has been honored as a Distinguished Graduate by his alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin.
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Kul Takanao, Ph.D.
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Kul Takanao Wadwa, Ph.D.
Wikimedia Foundation
Kul Takanao Wadhwa, from the United States licensed in political sciences at the University of Stanford. Professionally he has more than a decade experience in Business Management and development, as well as he has already occupied important positions in recently created companies (the Japanese CyberTrust or Pangea2). He has also done economic research at global scale (non-profit) and has worked for television (NBC), the industry of video games and in digital animation (Satelight in Japan).
Since 2008, and despite his age, he is head of business development at the Foundation Wikimedia. His main task is to promote the strategic Business development of the Foundation. He identifies and develops offers with commercial companies, living special attention to those offering material that may be available to everybody. Of course, the 'wiki' philosophy is already part of him.
Since 2008, and despite his age, he is head of business development at the Foundation Wikimedia. His main task is to promote the strategic Business development of the Foundation. He identifies and develops offers with commercial companies, living special attention to those offering material that may be available to everybody. Of course, the 'wiki' philosophy is already part of him.
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ONLINE SPEAKERS
Sir John Daniel
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Sir John Daniel
OERU
Sir John Daniel served as President and C.E.O. of COL from 2004 to 2012. He now works on a variety of projects, notably as Education Master in the Beijing DeTao Masters Academy, China, Senior Advisor to Academic Partnerships International and Chair, pro bono, of the UWC (United World Colleges) International Board. Sir John brought wide international experience in universities and the United Nations system to his eight-year tenure as President of COL.
He obtained his full-time university education in Metallurgy at the universities of Oxford and Paris and later demonstrated his commitment to lifelong learning by taking 25 years to complete a part-time Master's degree in Educational Technology at Concordia University. The internship for that programme, which took him to the UK Open University in 1972, was a life-changing experience. He saw the future of higher education and wanted to be part of it. This quest took him on an international odyssey with appointments at the École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal (professeur assistant/agrégé, 1969-73); Télé-université, Université du Québec (Directeur des Études, 1973-77); Athabasca University (Vice-President for Learning Services, 1978-80); Concordia University (Vice-Rector, Academic, 1980-84); Laurentian University (President/Recteur, 1984-90); The Open University (Vice-Chancellor, 1990-2001); UNESCO (Assistant Director-General for Education, 2001-04); and the Commonwealth of Learning (President, 2004-12). His non-executive appointments have included the presidencies of the International Council for Open and Distance Education, the Canadian Association for Distance Education and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. He also served as Vice-President of the International Baccalaureate Organisation.
Among Sir John's 340 publications are his books Mega-Universities and Knowledge Media: Technology Strategies for Higher Education (Kogan Page, 1996) and Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers: Achieving Education for All (Routledge, 2010).Sir John is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford University (1990), the College of Preceptors (1997) and the Commonwealth of Learning (2002). He won the Symons Medal of the Association of Commonwealth Universities in 2008 and his 32 honorary degrees are from universities in 17 countries. The three countries where he has lived and worked have each recognised his contributions with national honours: France – Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Chevalier–1986; Officier–1991); United Kingdom – Knight Bachelor (1994); Canada – Order of Canada (Officer–2013).
He obtained his full-time university education in Metallurgy at the universities of Oxford and Paris and later demonstrated his commitment to lifelong learning by taking 25 years to complete a part-time Master's degree in Educational Technology at Concordia University. The internship for that programme, which took him to the UK Open University in 1972, was a life-changing experience. He saw the future of higher education and wanted to be part of it. This quest took him on an international odyssey with appointments at the École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal (professeur assistant/agrégé, 1969-73); Télé-université, Université du Québec (Directeur des Études, 1973-77); Athabasca University (Vice-President for Learning Services, 1978-80); Concordia University (Vice-Rector, Academic, 1980-84); Laurentian University (President/Recteur, 1984-90); The Open University (Vice-Chancellor, 1990-2001); UNESCO (Assistant Director-General for Education, 2001-04); and the Commonwealth of Learning (President, 2004-12). His non-executive appointments have included the presidencies of the International Council for Open and Distance Education, the Canadian Association for Distance Education and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. He also served as Vice-President of the International Baccalaureate Organisation.
Among Sir John's 340 publications are his books Mega-Universities and Knowledge Media: Technology Strategies for Higher Education (Kogan Page, 1996) and Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers: Achieving Education for All (Routledge, 2010).Sir John is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford University (1990), the College of Preceptors (1997) and the Commonwealth of Learning (2002). He won the Symons Medal of the Association of Commonwealth Universities in 2008 and his 32 honorary degrees are from universities in 17 countries. The three countries where he has lived and worked have each recognised his contributions with national honours: France – Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Chevalier–1986; Officier–1991); United Kingdom – Knight Bachelor (1994); Canada – Order of Canada (Officer–2013).
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GUEST SPEAKERS
Ricardo Barranco Fragoso
Luis Ruvalcaba Sánchez
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Luis Antonio Ruvalcaba Sánchez
Microsoft Consulting Services
Luis Antonio Ruvalcaba Sanchez is a Mechatronics Engineer graduated from Monterrey Institute of Higher Education, he is currently studying the last period of his Master Degree in Information Technology Management at ITESM. He has been working in Consulting Services at Microsoft Mexico since 3 years ago working as a Software Development Consultant participating in projects both in public and private sector with customers like SAT, Televisa, TELMEX, Elektra, Grupo Bimbo, Banco Compartamos. His areas of professional experience includes modern applications development in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Luis is an active member of the Microsoft World Wide Community “Azure Champs” (for Microsoft Full Time Employees only) participating in projects of cross platform application development in Android and iOS using Visual Studio, C# and Xamarin. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional with 4 certifications including: Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD): Windows Store Apps Using C#, Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C#, Microsoft Specialist: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence.
Desarrollo de aplicaciones Android utilizando Visual Studio, C# y Xamarin
Mtro. Luis Antonio Ruvalcaba Sánchez,
Microsoft Consulting Services.
Durante este taller, los participantes conocerán cómo desarrollar aplicaciones multiplataforma mediante hands on lab para crear aplicaciones Android utilizando como IDE Visual Studio y C# como el lenguaje de programación mediante el uso de Xamarin.
Mtro. Luis Antonio Ruvalcaba Sánchez,
Microsoft Consulting Services.
Durante este taller, los participantes conocerán cómo desarrollar aplicaciones multiplataforma mediante hands on lab para crear aplicaciones Android utilizando como IDE Visual Studio y C# como el lenguaje de programación mediante el uso de Xamarin.
Wulfrano Moreno
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Wulfrano Moreno
Mexbalia
SAP (Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing) Enterprise Architect Focus HANA with extensive experience in SAP Business Suite & the Netweaver Platform with great knowledge in Solution Integration, Business Process Management & the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework. Eight years working with SAP technologies, four within SAP Mexico’s branch, he has been involved in a large number of projects both internal and external with Local and International customers as well. Before joining SAP, He mainly worked helping Mexican and Latin American customers to create their corporate websites, marketing campaigns and implementing custom development solutions that involved the integration of legacy systems using web technologies. With fifteen years of experience, he has special interest in new technologies and IT trends like BigData, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, Cloud Computing, BPM, DRY frameworks and Responsive business web apps. He is a technophile with excellent self-training skills, a passion for knowledge and a big curiosity for how things work in general; his areas of interest cover not just Engineering but Economics, Psychology, Physics and Philosophy as well. Specialties: Software Presales, Enterprise Architecture, SAP Netweaver, SAP HANA, SAP solutions architecture, SAP Development, Business process management (BPM), Web technologies, Open Source Software, video streaming, light painting photography.
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