The Digital Future of Education
VIEW EVENT DETAILSEducating digital natives of the 21st Century, increasingly involves adapting to the tools best known to them. The broad access to technology has also tasked educators with the charge of equipping students to compete in the knowledge economy. As the possibilities of employing technology in education, grow – what might the future of higher education look like? Will technology have a disruptive or disseminating effect on education? How will distance learning and online learning impact education? Join us for a conversation with Sir Timothy O'Shea; Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh and Dr Indu Shahani; President & Chair, Indian School of Design & Innovation as they discuss the evolution of education in the 21st Century.
Professor Sir Timothy O'Shea is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh to which role he was appointed in 2002. He was born in Hamburg in 1949 and started writing machine learning computer systems while at the Royal Liberty School. He obtained a BSc in Mathematics and Experimental Psychology from Sussex and a PhD in Computer Based Learning from Leeds University. He worked as a researcher in the Computer Science Department of the University of Texas at Austin, the Bionics Research Lab, Edinburgh and the Systems Concepts Lab, Xerox PARC. He founded the Computers and Learning Research Group at the Open University in 1978. He was promoted to an Open University personal chair in Information Technology and Education in 1986 and was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor in 1993. Sir Timothy is currently serving as Chair of the Board of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society; the Coursera University Advisory Board. He is Convener of the Scottish Government's Further and Higher Education Sector Oversight Board for Information and Communications Technology, and is a member of the Scottish Government’s Financial Services Advisory Board; the Scottish Government’s digital Services Sponsor Board; the Universities Longer Term Strategy Group; the Advisory Board of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, among others. Professor O’Shea was awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s 2008 New Year’s Honours List in recognition of his services to higher education.
Dr Indu Shahani is the President & Chair of the Indian School of Design & Innovation (ISDI), ISDI | WPP School of Communication and the Indian School of Management & Entrepreneurship (ISME); and is the Founding Dean of ISME. Dr Shahani has over four decades of teaching experience at the college and university level where she has played the lead role in nurturing managers with a heart, through student - empowered teaching - learning model. Dr Shahani who is the first Indian to be appointed Vice-Chair on the Board of the Governors of the International Baccalaureate and has over a decade of experience with the IB worldwide 2001 - 2010. Dr Shahani is a Visiting Faculty Member at the UC Berkeley, NYU Stern, USA and she is a Lead Speaker at various conferences in India and abroad. She has also developed many linkages for student and faculty exchanges with leading universities in USA, UK, Europe, South Africa, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Shahani has received many awards, prominent among them are ‘Women of the Decade Achievers Award’ by ASSOCHAM Ladies League Mumbai; ‘Citizen of Mumbai Award’ by Rotary Club of Bombay and ‘Excellence in Education Award’ at the FICCI FLO Great Women Achiever Awards.
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