Educational technology is predominantly steered by companies who envision the ‘future’ of education as a data-driven system in which real-time feedback, personalization, evidence-based learning, school efficiency and continuous innovation will drive and improve education. Are you thinking about how education can respond to this complex, challenging and uncertain future?

On Monday, 25 January 2021 (14:00 – 17:00 CEST), the VUB Research Chair ‘Data Protection On The Ground’ will host an online, interactive workshop under the header “Co-designing a values-based future for digital education”. The workshop is a side event of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference 2021. During the CPDP Conference, the Chair on Data Protection On The Ground is also present with a panel discussion on ‘Ready for a crisis: accelerated digitalization in education’.

 A values-based future for teaching

At the core of this event is a workshop which draws on the Near Future Teaching Project at the University of Edinburgh, a project that was designed to engage with futures methods to craft a values-based future of teaching for the university. This workshop will help us think through the opportunities and challenges presented in the uncertainty of our current times and to articulate a ‘preferable’ future for education amidst all those probable futures available to us. We will work together to consider future scenarios and what these could mean for education.

The workshop will be accompanied by talks from distinguished speakers to help us further frame what we can expect from the near future of education and what agency we have in that process.

Programme

Registration:

You can register for this workshop via Evenbrite: https://www.eventbrite.be/e/co-designing-a-values-based-future-of-digital-education-workshop-registration-133135950211

For inquiries pleased contact: dataprotectionontheground@vub.be.