CEO TRACI FENTON
CEO WORLDBLU INC., WASHINGTON D.C., USA
ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION

Sharing best practices and stories from the organisations featured on the groundbreaking WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces©, and drawing from over a decade of her research into successful democratic organisations around the world, Mrs Fenton will share the 10 secrets to building a world-class democratic workplace and how these lessons are applicable to schools. Along the way she will challenge you to rethink your assumptions about what democracy actually is while she explains with spirit and insight why organisational democracy just may be the future of education in a Democratic Age.

MAG. SILVIA WIESINGER
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT FOR SECONDARY HIGHER EDUCATION AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN EDUCATION, PÄDAGIGISCHES INSTITUT WIEN, AUSTRIA
LIFE LONG LEARNING - A CHALLENGE FOR EDUCATORS

Rapid developments in society are big challenges for education nowadays. As the whole life of every person is becoming more and more global, also teaching and learning has to become more international to manage these challenges.

International perspectives and national developments try to find ways and answers, such as the new Integrated Action for Lifelong Learning 2007-2013 of the European Commission, Educational Programmes of the Council of Europe, etceteras. Also on the national level many countries try to adapt their national curricula and educational systems, to be able to educate their young generation for future life and to prepare teachers and trainers for teaching into the middle of the century. This keynote will give an overview on new programmes and developments and some examples of national developments.

MR VALÈRE AWOUTERS
SENIOR TEACHER TRAINER AT KATOLISCHE HOGESCHOOL LIMBURG, BELGIUM
THE WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL SOFTWARE, LEADING TO LEARNING 2.0?

The web 2.0 and Social Software are creating a personalized and interactive web. Weblogs, E-portfolios, Wikis, etc. are new possibilities for content creation and collaborative writing. These ICT-tools facilitate the intersection between home, work and school activities for learners. Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) will evolve into Personal Learning Environments (PLE). How does this look like and how do teachers have to handle this? Will these new tools create a learning 2.0 situation? And how do teachers have to guarantee quality in learning? Although quality has to be considered from a global approach, in this lecture it will be studied from the theory-oriented and the instructors-perspective. 

MR MAGNUS PERSSON
COORDINATOR OF THE LEARNING TEACHER NETWORK
WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE

Education and training tries to adapt to the information society and the new conditions for providing knowledge and skills, while the learners are more and more mobile and independent from traditional structures. The reality that there are three generations in society with different backgrounds forces education to merge split vision approaches. Furthermore, living in a modern society that demands lifelong learning brings to education the challenge of developing conscious and holistic perspectives. Do these conditions support all learners, or will we see more winners and more losers? This presentation will explore the hidden contexts behind winners and losers in education, give perspectives on learning journeys, and discuss which strategies and measures need to be highlighted in order to be pro-active instead of re-active - and to create equal opportunities.