London Nov 27 2018

LD and AI (programme and biographies of contributors)

Events Centre, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1D 5DN

Programme (see links for slides. Videos will be posted shortly).

09.30 - 10.00 Registration and refreshments

10.00. Welcome address - Richard Price HEE

10.15. AI and the Future of the NHS Workforce - Rose Luckin

11.15. Digital Capabilities and Artificial Intelligence - Richard Price

11.45. Applying AI to help us better understand and enhance learning designs Wayne Holmes

12.15. Using personality models to personalise learning support on medical placements. Vania Dimitrova

12.45. Lunch

13.45.Intelligent design. Liz Masterman

14.15. Designing learning in the age of AI - A leadership development perspective - Jason Brewster

14.45. Community updates

15.30. Close

Speakers

Richard Price is the Learning Technologies advisor to Health Education England and to the UK Prosperity fund. Richard is currently working on a number of learning technology projects involving artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as developing semantic technologies and learning analytics tools to improve the way individuals in healthcare access learning and development.

Prof. Rose Luckin is Professor of Learner Centred Design at the UCL Knowledge Lab in London. Her research involves the design and evaluation of educational technology using theories from the learning sciences and techniques from Artificial Intelligence (AI). Rose has a particular interest in using AI to open up the 'black box' of learning to show teachers and students the detail of their progress intellectually, emotionally and socially. Rose is also Director of EDUCATE, a London hub for Educational Technology StartUps, researchers and educators to work together on the development of evidence-informed Educational Technology. Rose was named on the Seldon List 2017 as one of the 20 most influential people in Education. She has taught in the state secondary, Further Education and Higher Education sectors, and she was previously Pro-Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of Sussex.

Dr Wayne Holmes is a Lecturer (Learning Sciences and Innovation) in the Institute of Educational Technology, at The Open University (OU), and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil). He currently leads on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) across the OU, and is co-author of two AIED reports (Intelligence Unleashed: An Argument for Artificial Intelligence in Education and Technology-enhanced Personalised Learning: Untangling the Evidence).

Dr. Vania Dimitrova is Associate Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning at the Leeds Institute of Medical Education. Vania leads a cross-university research activity on using intelligent technologies to augment human intelligence. Her research focuses on learner modelling, meta-cognitive skills, community adaptation, ontology-enhanced interaction, ontological modelling and reasoning. She is the research lead for the myPAL@work project on personalised adaptive learning (UK, Higher Education Funding Council for England), and the principal investigator for a Health Education England project on personality detection for personalised learning.

Jason Brewster is senior programme lead for distance learning, action learning facilitator and lead facilitator for several leadership development MOOCs. Jason develops the NHS Leadership Academy’s distance learning offering nationally and internationally. He believes that high quality development doesn’t fit people to fix the issue of today but instead helps leaders to develop new ways of seeing and being for the emerging opportunities and challenges of the world. Jason has held a national role in the development of blended learning approaches in the English National Health Service [NHS] since 2012, at the formation of the NHS Leadership Academy. His career has allowed him to bring learning from the charity, private and public sectors. His passion for enabling high quality and engaging behavioural change has won him several national awards.

Dr Liz Masterman has been a senior researcher in the Technology Enhanced Learning team at Oxford University since 2005. Her research fields include the student digital experience, OER and open educational practice, and attitudes to the institutional VLE. Liz also specialises in the evaluation of digital education projects; in the past these have included the evaluation of digital tools to support Learning Design. With colleagues, she is currently developing a variant of UCL’s ABC Learning Design model for Oxford; the University is also an associate partner in the Erasmus+ ABCtoVLE project led by UCL.