San Diego, California
MONDAY, 8 APRIL
HARBOR B, MANCHESTER GRAND HYATT, SECOND FLOOR
3:30-4:10 PM
Can We Change the Game and Move from Adaptive to Adaptable Learning?
The growing use of adaptive learning technology has led to significant questions about “walled garden” courseware, data-informed multiple learning paths, and what is needed to create a more integrated, extensible, and adaptable ecosystem.
Moving from adaptive to adaptable learning presents greater flexibility to better support institutional, departmental, and faculty goals to improve educational outcomes. An adaptable system could be reconfigured easily by faculty and instructional designers as they experiment and learn what works for students. This has a direct impact on student success and retention.
This session will explore what is needed to establish an adaptable learning ecosystem, capable of sharing learning objectives, analytics, and outcomes tied to a specific learning objective (or lesson) supported by multiple instructional resources and assessment activities.
Moderator: Rob Abel, CEO, 1EdTech Consortium
Panelists:
- John Falchi, Director for Special Projects, University of North Carolina System Office
- Andrew Hurst, President, Colorado Technical University (CTU)
- Lou Pugliese, Senior Innovation Fellow, Arizona State University
- Karen Vignare, Ph.D., Executive Director, Personalized Learning Consortium, The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)
TUESDAY, 10 APRIL
GOLDEN HILL A, MANCHESTER GRAND HYATT, THIRD FLOOR
10:00-11:00 AM
Who Are You Working With? Ingredients for a Successful Partnership, Presented by ETS
Description: Even the greatest ideas fail. Turning them into a product that works, is scalable and provides actual value to customers is what makes us all motivated…and anxious. During this session, experts from ETS and other industries discuss their successes, failures and what they’ve learned in how to create effective business relationships where everyone feels they’re a part of the greater goal.
Moderator: Marlowe Johnson, Sr. Director New Product Development, ETS
Panelists:
- Jason Palmer, General Partner, New Market Venture Partners
- Dr. Rob Abel, CEO, 1EdTech Consortium
- Richard Varn, Distinguished Presidential Appointee
- Zhuang Chen, Director, New Oriental
- Harshil Parikh, Co-Founder / CEO, Tuva Labs Inc.
TUESDAY, 9 APRIL
GOLDEN HILL A, MANCHESTER GRAND HYATT, THIRD FLOOR
3:00-3:55 PM
Sustaining Ed Tech’s Future: Skills for the New Economy
The pathways for traversing the education to workforce ecosystem are becoming more complex. A constant throughout this is the need for clear, strong, and valid signals of the skills desired by educators and employers and those skills attained by students and employees. Which skills are needed now? In 5 years? Which are evolving and will undergo the most change? During this session, experts will discuss how the ecosystem can better organize itself around our evolving understanding of these skills, as well as our need to develop the capabilities to signal them.
Moderator: Javarro Russell, Senior Client Relationship Manager, ETS
Panelists:
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Carolyn Goettsch, Partnership Development Lead, Beagle Learning
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David Leaser, Senior Program Executive, Innovation and Growth, IBM
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Mark Leuba, Vice President, Product Management, 1EdTech Consortium
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George Westerman, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy
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Holly Zanville, Strategy Director for the Future of Learning & Work, Lumina Foundation
TUESDAY, 9 APRIL
CORTEZ HILL B, MANCHESTER GRAND HYATT, THIRD FLOOR
4:00-4:45 PM
Innovation is a Collaborative Journey: Partnering With ACT To Create A Vibrant Learning, Measurement, and Navigation Ecosystem Presented by ACT
ACT is in the middle of a ten-year transformation from being primarily a paper-based assessment company to becoming a digital learning, measurement and navigation company surrounded by an ecosystem of mission-aligned partners. Over that time, ACT plans to invest in, acquire and/or partner with more than 100 like-minded organizations. The panelists will discuss their vision for a robust ecosystem of interactive learning applications, performance assessments and data-driven navigation powered by open standards, as well as the challenges and opportunities that need to be addressed to bring this ecosystem to reality to enable educational institutions to support the needs of each learner. The panelists will share their experiences on buy, partner, or build for accelerating the innovation and transformation of an established company like ACT, especially the mechanics of ecosystem development and partnering.
Moderator: Alina vonDavier, Senior VP, ACTNext/ACT
Panelists:
- Jason Palmer, General Partner, New Markets Venture Partners
- Dror Ben Naim, CEO, SmartSparrow
- Bob Block, VP of Corporate Development, ACT
- Randy Wilhelm, VP of Learning Resources, Knovation/ACT
- Patrick Vogt, CEO of NRCCUA/ACT
- Mark Leuba, VP of Product Management, 1EdTech
WEDNESDAY, 10 APRIL
GASLAMP D, MANCHESTER GRAND HYATT, THIRD FLOOR
1:30-2:15 PM
It takes an ecosystem: Coordination, standards, and buyIn for new credentialing models and the future of work. Presented by Pearson
Major shifts in demand for upskilling, reskilling and alternative pathways to credentials for employability require new approaches for engaging learners across their lifetimes. This panel will explore the opportunities and barriers to evolving verifiable, portable credential stacks that will meaningfully change the nature of learning for employability and the future of work.
Moderator: Curtiss Barnes, Managing Director, North America Partner Markets & Ecosystem Development, Pearson
Panelists:
- Rob Abel, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, 1EdTech Consortium
- Cole Clark, Managing Director, Higher Ed, Deloitte Services LP
- Sean Gallagher, Ed.D. Executive Director, Center for the Future of Higher Education & Talent Strategy & Executive Professor of Educational Policy, Northeastern University
- Peter Janzow, Co-Founder and VP, Business Development, Credly
