Keynote Speaker

Creating Learning Futures

Gilly Salmon, Australian Digital Futures Institute, Australia

Abstract:

We are on the CUSP of a serious change. When people look back on this time, will they ask- what did you achieve on your watch?

What will it be like to live with constant pervasive and ambient online networking and digital abundance? It’s coming closer and closer. What is the future for learning in  such a world?

In the complex and messy education world of the early 21st Century, we have opportunities that no other educators have had before us. We should plan our interventions now to make a different in the future to create confident learners clear about what technology can do for them.

Professor Gilly Salmon reflects on the trends and the potential of learning technologies in the future and points to the most productive pathways.

Biographical Information:

Gilly Salmon is Professor of Learning Futures and Executive Director of the Australian Digital Futures Institute, based at the University of Southern Queensland.

Until recently she was Professor of E-learning and Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester, UK, head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance (le.ac.uk/beyonddistance) and of the Media Zoos (le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/mediazoo/ and in Second Life).

Gilly’s research interests span strategies for enhancing learning with and through new technologies and the future for learning and innovation through learning design. She is a Senior Fellow of the UK HE Academy and National Teaching Fellow.

Gilly has two research degrees in change management and ICT and pedagogy.  Her book E-moderating (e-moderating.com) is considered seminal in the field of online teaching A third edition will be available in June 2011. Other recent books include E-tivities (e-tivities.com) and Learning in Groups, with David Jaques (learningingroups.com).  Podcasting for Learning in Universities was published in August 2008 (podcastingforlearning.com).