The Technical University of Denmark is happy to welcome Helle Rootzén as professor in Learning Technology and Digitalization.
In celebration of her appointment DTU Compute is happy to invite you to attend Helle Rootzéns inaugural lecture followed by a reception, Friday, 16th September at 3.00 pm, building 101, 1st floor, room 1
Technical University of Denmark, Anker Englundsvej 101a, 2800 Kongens Lyngby.
Follow the lecture online - streaming can be accessed via DTU Broadcast. Access the video here.
Programme:
| 3.00 pm |
Welcome by Professor, Head of Department Rasmus Larsen |
| 3.10 - 3.40 |
Inaugural lecture by Helle Rootzén titled “Personalized, efficient and fun – What Digital Learning Technology can do for Education”. (Abstract below)
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| 3.40 - 3.50 |
Questions and summing up |
| 4.00 - 5.00 |
Reception |
Everybody is welcome. Registration is not required.
Yours sincerely,
Rasmus Larsen, Professor, Head of Department, DTU Compute
Abstract Inaugural lecture 16th September 2016 by Professor Helle Rootzén
Exponential technologies change our world in a way and with a speed that we haven't seen before. Digitalization is the most important part of this revolution and has made our private and professional lives very different from they were just 10 years ago. Data Science and Big Data analytics extract useful information from the massive amounts of data created by digitalization.
Just a few years ago learning was to go to a lecture and listen to the teacher. In the years to come learning will be so much more and will use many different learning platforms, from e-learning to innovative learning spaces - both physical and virtual. Learning analytics and educational data mining will be the basis for individualized learning. The new learning technologies provide important opportunities for making learning deeper, more individual, more innovative - and more fun. The virtual part of learning should be an integrated part of the total learning space to help adapting to different learning styles and different prior knowledge. I believe that meeting these needs will give more engaged students who learn faster and better.
In this talk I will share my visions for the future and give examples on what is possible already. As examples of my research in learning technology I will talk about how we have implemented my ideas in a new approach to e-learning called HEROS: a non-linear learning object based learning system. The idea is to let the individual student be able to choose (some of) her learning material herself, so that it suits her level and her learning style. We have used these ideas in the introductory mathematics course at DTU and in a continuing education course for a worldwide company. In a new project we will explore, propose and test methods to promote student-driven e-learning. How do you create a similar "study spirit" as one experiences in hackerthons? Can you imagine that students get together to work on a "theme" and to organize the learning process themselves - perhaps across competence levels? What is the role of the teachers? Will the weak students suffer - or will it strengthen them? When the number of students increases, and the demands for good and personalized teaching increases we have to think in new ways.
Future learning is about combining many learning technologies to find and use what is best for the individual student and the topic at hand - and for the individual teacher. E-learning will be a large part of the learning experience and will, hopefully, improve more and more. The future e-learning will be not just to put a book on-line or to make a video recording of a lecture, but to develop new and innovative learning materials which use the full power of technology - game based learning is one example, learning which uses virtual reality is another. It takes time and great effort to develop a whole new "learning concept". As a professor in learning technology and digitalization I will contribute to this development together with a lot of colleges.