The Agenda
10:00
Olivier Wolff
CEO
SimpleCloud.io
**5 Minute Q&A included**
10:25
Is the future here sooner than we expected?
Dr Mark John Patrick Kerrigan
Dean of Learning & Teaching
Plymouth College of Art
The application of technology to secure the quality and delivery of higher education has been at the forefront of our work for the past twelve months. Accelerated technological solutions have supported learning, teaching & assessment, and students to engage with their programmes of study and their institutions more widely. These solutions have led to accelerated capabilities, and expectations, which in turn may lead to new opportunities.
In this short talk, Mark will explore re-thinking and re-imaging and how this crucible of thought affords new opportunities and innovation in the design & delivery of educational provision.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
10:50
Adapting to the new normal – Digital enrolment is here to stay
Andy Mulligan
Identity and Fraud Prevention Specialist
Experian
Craig Donaldson
Business Development Manager within the Public Sector team
Experian
Being able to register and enroll online for university is now an expectation, everybody has had to adapt to a new normal and that includes higher education settings. Let us walk you through the shift to digital enrolment and how it can help you enhance efficiency, security and provide a better onboarding journey and experience for your students.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
11:15
Awareness, Action and Avoidance How the 3 A’s can help education institutions manage the impact of the global security pandemic
Gary Myers
Chief Information Security Officer
M247
The education sector has witnessed significant increases in malicious attacks, including cyberattacks and ransomware during the global pandemic. Unaddressed this risk potentially impacts remote learning, impairs the student experience, and can lead to substantial financial losses.
M247 CISO, Gary Myers, discusses how to protect, prevent, and manage this increasing threat.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
11:40
Breaking the 400 years old mold: experiential learning in virtual worlds
Lilly Smith (Confirmed)
Heritage Enabler at Luton Council
Breaking the 400 years old mold: experiential learning in virtual worlds
**5 Minute Q&A included**
12:05
Power to create future- Use of Data & intelligence
Abhishek Nakhate
Founder & CEO
Zilter by Zoomabroad
Bill Ramell
Chief Advisor/Former Minister of Higher Education & Former Vice-Chancellor
Zilter by Zoomabroad
The secret of the future is hidden in the past data, what if we could harness the insights from the previous experiences at scale in more meaningful ways we can create a desirable and successful future for students, institutions and society. It is possible.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
12:30
Keeping Everyone Informed
James Dickson
CEO
Piota Apps
Ensuring students and staff have the information they need in a timely manner has become more complex with the changes to everyday life, teaching patterns, digitalisation and regulations. We make ‘hub’ apps which make all this information easily accessible at the time when they need it, alert them to updates and changes, and provide a direct feedback route for better engagement.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
12:55
Innovative approaches to future-proofing education – the use of immersive and digital technologies
Dan Pearson
Principal & CEO
USP College
James Parker
Director of Education Improvement
USP College
USP College recognised they, like many other FE institutions, were experiencing testing times, subjects with low student numbers and challenges recruiting high-quality teaching staff. Coupled with variations in teaching and outcomes between the campuses and across subjects, the College saw an opportunity to change their teaching delivery method. The solution was to create immersive spaces, with a wow factor to enable peer and collaborative learning. Learn more about their journey, idea through to implementation and what lessons they’ve learnt along the way. You’ll also have the opportunity to see a live lesson in action as part of the session.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
13:20
Innovating Higher Education: A case study for University of Missouri and Platform.sh
Raphael Tinot
VP – EMEA
Platform.sh
Groundbreaking research university embraces PaaS to manage security and compliance, maximize efficiencies across its website fleet
**5 Minute Q&A included**
13:45
Digital Transformation in Higher Education: Revolution or Evolution?
Dr Ismini Vasileiou
Associate Head of School (Teaching and Learning)
De Montfort University
With the global pandemic, Higher Education Institutions have been called to move to online teaching and learning provisions rather rapidly, often overnight. Some have done it in an organised way, some in a chaotic way. Some institutions had previous experience and some had none. The student expectations remained the same but suddenly the learning experience became more personalised. Is Higher Education ready to transform in such short notice? What happens to the building investments? Are they still valid or should Institutions start maximising their digital transformation. How has Industry 4.0 affected HE and are we ready to see the pandemic as an opportunity to fully invest our money and efforts
into transforming globally. Is Digital Transformation revolutionises education or is it a natural evolution? There are many questions to be answered. Are students adequately educated in digital literacies? How about cyber threats? Or are we ready to manage a global Digital transformation by creating inclusive and equal opportunities environments?
**5 Minute Q&A included**
14:10
Senseon’s ‘AI Triangulation’ technology
David Atkinson
Founder and CEO
Senseon
Senseon’s unique ‘AI Triangulation’ technology emulates how a human security analyst thinks and acts to automate the process of threat detection, investigation and response. By looking at the behaviours of users and devices from multiple perspectives, pausing for thought and learning from experience, Senseon provides accurate and context-rich alerts. These automated capabilities free security teams from the burden of exhaustive analysis, alert fatigue and false positives.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
14:35
Managing Student Communications In New Hybrid World
Martin Harris
Head of New Business Sales, UK/I
Vonage
Student and employee expectations have changed at a speed not seen before. Vonage will demonstrate how student services professionals can future proof the student experience expected alongside increasing expectations from employees. Ensuring flexibility & scalability in an ever-increasing list of channels will become table-stakes alongside offering home-working for staff.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
15:00
Bringing the physical into the digital with a hands-on learning aid, a pandemic-inspired innovation
Dr Joanne Tippett
Lecturer in Spatial Planning at School of Environment, Education and Development
The University of Manchester
Learning is enhanced by social interaction, and learning at a distance is challenging. It requires careful consideration of how to build a sense of belonging to a learning community. This talk introduces an innovation to emerge from the pandemic, bringing a hands-on, visual approach to learning into remote spaces. It combines the physical and the digital, with each student in a cohort using a tactile learning aid to structure their thinking before sharing images of their work using tools such as Padlet, and discussing the ideas to emerge from the process in digital breakout rooms.
The key innovative leap was taking the lessons learned from decades of research and practice with face-to-face teaching, workshops and stakeholder engagement (Tippett, Connelly and How, 2015, Tippett and How, 2020) and developing ways to bring them into remote learning. Each student in a cohort has a physical kit that they use in their own learning space. Using a tactile and visual learning aid helps students focus, structure their thinking, and contribute in online group situations.
The toolkit is called Ketso Connect, and was adapted from a larger kit meant for face-to-face sessions in response to the pandemic. Using different coloured ‘leaves’ to capture and order ideas in stages brings structure to the process, and builds learning and thinking skills: “I like how the kit lets me put my ideas down on something physical, as I usually just type on my laptop. Allowing visual organisation and categorisation as I move them around on the felt also helps with the development of ideas and the creation of new ones.” Student feedback.
This talk will present lessons learned from the roll out of the kit to over 1000 learners in 25 countries, including use in my own teaching with over 250 students. An unexpected finding has been the value of the kit in helping the students to structure their self-directed study, with positive implications for the future of learning, face-to-face, hybrid and online.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
15:25
Building community and empowering learner personalisation in an online course.
Douglas Barr
Programme Leader
University of the Highlands and Islands
The University of the Highlands and Islands’ new BSc Applied Software Development degree, delivered in collaboration with IBM, is an ambitious new
the course which is already producing award-winning students.
The course has been built entirely around team projects, to replicate the career path of a junior developer, and was also designed to be delivered online. It offers students a large amount of personalisation, with each student charting their own
path through course material and assessments. This approach was supported by IBM, who have been key partners throughout the design and delivery of the
course.
Programme Leader Douglas Barr will walk you through the tools and technology
that have been instrumental in the success of the first year of delivery.
15:45
Barclays Digital Eagles supporting Health & Social care with Digital Skills
Mark Cossons
Barclays Digital Eagle External Relationships
Barclays
An insight into the work the Barclays Digital Eagles are doing to help those in the sector with digital skills. A free training programme plus other projects they are doing to support front line workers to create capacity, save time and money across the sector.
**5 Minute Q&A included**
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