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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Sian Bayne

University of Edinburgh

Professor Sian Bayne is the Personal Chair of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. She directs the Centre for Research in Digital Education and teaches on the MSc in Digital Education. Her research is focused on critical approaches to teacher automation, open and distance education, and the application of theories of critical posthumanism to digital education. 

Dr. Ben Kotzee

University of Birmingham

Dr. Ben Kotzee is a senior lecturer in the School of Education. He works on topics in the philosophy of education and focuses on applying insights from contemporary epistemology to questions regarding intellectual development. He also has research interests in the nature of expertise and in professional education.

Dr. Paul Smart

University of Southampton

Dr. Paul Smart is a senior research fellow in Electronics and Computer Science. His research interests lie at the interface of the network, web and cognitive sciences, with a particular emphasis on how our access to network-enabled technologies and network-accessible information resources affects cognitive processes at both the individual and collective (social) levels

Dr. Su White

University of Southampton

Dr. Su White is an associate professor who researches in the Web and Internet Science Group at the University of Southampton. As well as focussing on MOOCs, Su's research interests encompass associated Web Science and Education agendas of Digital Literacies, Learning in a Connected World, Open Data for Education and perspectives on STEM Education and Web Science Curriculum.

SPEAKERS

  • Dr. Berry Billingsley (Canterbury Christ Church University)

  • Dr. J. Adam Carter (University of Glasgow)

  • Dr. Ian Church (Hillsdale College)

  • Dr. Andrea English (University of Edinburgh)

  • Dr. Simon Fokt (University of Edinburgh)

  • Dr. Emma C. Gordon (University of Edinburgh)

  • Mr. Finley Lawson (Canterbury Christ Church University)

  • Dr. Neil McDonnell (University of Glasgow)

  • Professor Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College)

  • Dr. Mehdi Nassaji (Canterbury Christ Church University)

  • Professor Barbara Oakley (Oakland University)

  • Dr. Erik Olsson (Lund University)

  • Dr. Orestis Palermos (University of Cardiff)

  • Dr. Dave Ward (University of Edinburgh)

RECORDED PRESENTATIONS

  • Dr. Mark Alfano (TU Delft)

  • Professor Michael Dennin (UC Irvine)

  • Professor Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford)

  • Professor Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut)

  • Professor Gary Matkin (UC Irvine)

  • Professor Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh)

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