1st Leadership School Detailed Programme
Preliminary program
Monday 14 Nov
1400 Welcome and announcements
Vr. Marta Aymerich (introducing)
Rector J.A. Planell (welcome)
1415 Elevator introductions
Each leader of every institutional delegation (up to 30 delegations).
1430 Opening Keynote
The Opening up of Education and the Modernization of Higher Education agendas in Europe.
1515 Full 15 minute session of questions and discussion.
1530 Refreshment break (full 30 minutes).
1600 Block 1: Millennials and strategies.
How HE institution has adapted their learning and teaching strategy to cope. The issue of social media for student learning among the new generation of students. Employability issues of millennials.
1730 Close day 1
1800 Cocktail reception (hotel)
Tuesday 15 Nov
0900 Newcomer introductions.
0915 Block 2: Digital libraries and digitally enabled study spaces: more than just a librarian’s issue?
1100 Refreshment break
1120 Block 3: Overcoming academic resistance to ICT-based teaching
Different kinds of universities in different countries on how their ICT-based reform projects have transformed the pedagogy at their institutions. Lecture-casting and social media.
1300 Lunch
1400 Keynote 2: The Promise and the Reality of Analytics.
1430 Full 30-minute session of questions and discussion.
1500 Refreshment break
1515 Block 4: Learning analytics: ready now to serve institutional needs?
1700 Close day 2
Wednesday 16 Nov – PRESIDENTS DAY
0900 Newcomer introductions.
0915 Block 5: New approaches to assessment.
1100 Refreshment break. Note that there will be a change-around of groups for the Blocks.
1120 Block 6: Benchmarking digital institutions.
Specific benchmarking approach, followed by practical work on benchmarking, criteria across the institutions present (different criteria for different groups).
1300 Lunch
1400 Keynote 3: What can we learn from small innovative online HE providers?
Three mini-presentations (10 minutes each) by small innovative online HE providers (public, non-profit foundation, for-profit), followed by a 30-minute panel session. It should be noted that most EU countries do not have such providers – yet they provide interesting role models for innovation pilots, based in particular university departments before later being scaled up across the institution.
1500 Close day 3
1600 Free time for networking
1900 Social Dinner
Thursday 17 Nov
0900 Newcomer introductions.
0915 Keynote 4A: European universities disrupted
Learning gains at university, competences, unbundling and future role of private providers.
1030 Refreshment break
1100 Keynote 4B: European universities disrupted.
1300 Lunch
1400 Block 7: The MOOCs panel
Three mini-presentations (10 minutes each) by senior representatives of MOOC aggregators + 60-minute panel session.
1500 Refreshment break
1530 Block 8A: The Business Case for MOOCs in European HE.
Senior staff present their reasons for developing MOOCs. This is preceded by group introductions and followed by questions and group work as usual. Issues of badges will be covered.
1700 Block 8B: The Business Case for Distance learning in European HE.
On how they see the business case. A number of leading European public universities have partnered with private providers to deliver distance learning at global scale. Other universities have reached a considerable scale by their own efforts, in particular the Open Universities. What are the business cases for distance learning in the various EU countries? And internationally? Group work will focus on the business cases relevant to delegates’ own countries.
1800 Close day 4
Friday 18 Nov
0900 Newcomer introductions (those who arrived after Thursday morning)
0915 Closing panel: Feasible visions of digital universities and how to achieve them.
Panellists (around 5) present a 2-minute evidenced vision statement each (no slides)[1] and then the panel discusses topics raised by the audience.
1030 Refreshment break
1100 Final block 9: on topics of delegates’ choice (no speakers so just 1 hour of Chat then Work)
1215 Selected presentations
(up to 6 – five minutes each) from delegates (focus on those who stayed all week) on what their main “take-aways” are from the Leadership School and how they might take issues forward within their institutions.
1300 Closing LS
1330 Buffet lunch
1500 End