Paul Feldman, Chief Executive of Jisc
Opening Keynote > READ THE ABSTRACT > Education 4.0 – JIsc’s vision for transforming teaching: at last!
Paul Feldman has been executive of Jisc since mid-October 2015.
In January 2016, he was listed in The Sunday Times list of Britain’s 500 most influential in the area of engineering and technology.
He currently sit on the GÉANT board of directors.
Background
Before joining Jisc he was most recently an executive partner at Gartner UK, a technology research and advisory firm.
He spent over 20 years in financial services at Nationwide Building Society, Barclays Bank and First Data EMEA, both in IT and business roles.
He has also worked in knowledge-based IT companies including Thomson Reuters Legal UK and the Intellectual Property Office.
Professor Regine Hampel, The Open University
Closing Keynote > READ THE ABSTRACT > Disruptive technologies and the language classroom: a complex systems theory approach
Regine Hampel is Full Professor of Open and Distance Language Learning at the Open University, and currently holds the role of Associate Dean (Research Excellence) in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies. From 2013 to 2016 she was Associate Dean (Research & Scholarship) in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies; from 2010 to 2013 she was Director for Postgraduate Studies in the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technologies (CREET). She was a member of the Department of Languages until 2010 where she convened the Open Languages Research Group and was involved in the German programme offered by the Open University. This included designing and chairing a new level 2 German course that used an innovative blended approach.
Her research focuses on the use of digital technologies for language learning and teaching, contributing to new theoretical and pedagogical perspectives that go beyond narrow cognitive approaches and take account of sociocultural theories of learning and ecological principles as well as the multimodal nature of the new media. She is particularly interested in the affordances of these tools and the potential they offer for learner interaction, communication and real-world learning, as well as the implications for task design, online teaching skills, and new literacies. This work has fed into a wide range of presentations and publications, including a forthcoming book on Disruptive Technologies and the Language Classroom: A Complex Systems Theory Approach (Palgrave Macmillan).
From 2011 to 2013 she was Assistant Editor for System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.