Monday 11 November 2019
6:00pm – 7:30pm

The Technology Revolution in Education

Drinks reception: 7:30pm – 8:00pm

13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP

Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Fully booked

Recent technological innovations have enabled the proliferation of new educational tools and created new ways to deliver educational content globally. These technologies are having a profound impact on society by extending access to education and improving the quality of learning. Moreover, they are expected to extend the frontiers of traditional learning methods, prompting innovation in education systems around the world.

Jakob Ravn, Executive Director of Teaching and Learning at Copenhagen Business School, explained the importance of technology in education, including the impact of technology on learning, and how digital innovation is changing the educational ecosystem. Professor Takehiko Kariya from the University of Oxford then discussed the limitations of the new approaches, and the necessary preconditions that need to be considered to apply them in the Japanese environment.

Below is a written summary of the seminar:

Written Summary, Digital Technologies and Global Innovation, PDF

Presentations by the speakers:

Presentation by Jakob Ravn Presentation by Professor Takehiko Kariya

A video of the seminar can be found here:

About the contributors

Jakob Ravn

Jakob Ravn is Executive Director of Teaching and Learning at Copenhagen Business School. He has been engaged in the development of teaching and learning in higher education for nearly two decades. At present he is working on Copenhagen Business School’s strategic initiative to implement blended learning as the main delivery mode for its programmes. He heads the Teaching & Learning department, a support unit for teaching, academic and infrastructure development. Jakob is also a member of the CBS Board of Directors.

Takehiko Kariya

Takehiko Kariya is Professor of Sociology of Japanese Society at the Department of Sociology and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. His research interests cover the sociology of education, social stratification and social mobility, social changes in post-war Japan, and social and educational policy. He is one of the leading sociologists on inequality in education in Japan and has published extensively on the topic, as well as on his other research interests, both in Japanese and English.

Dr Manolis Mavrikis

Dr Manolis Mavrikis (moderator) is Associate Professor in Learning Technologies at UCL Knowledge Lab, a research centre based in the Institute of Education faculty at UCL. He is also Director of the Education and Technology MA programme and Innovation and Enterprise Lead at the department of Culture, Communication and Media. He conducts research to understand and develop digital technologies to support and transform education, revolving around the design, development and thorough evaluation of supportive technologies for learning, teaching, and research. He is particularly interested the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), human-computer interaction (HCI), and educational technology (EdTech).