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Rose Luckin
Rose Luckin is Professor of Learner-Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Lab, a research department at University College London aiming to “[lead] interdisciplinary digital research and design in education”.
Professor Luckin’s research spans multiple domains, from the use of artificial intelligence techniques to develop and evaluate educational technology, to the best means of scaffolding learning across multiple technologies, locations, and times.
Professor Luckin will be speaking on our ‘The AI Revolution’ panel alongside Satya Nitta of IBM and Ivan Ostrowicz of Domoscio, which will be the first panel of our ‘Reimagining Ed Tech’ track on Tuesday 5th December.
Noah Drezner
Noah D. Drezner is an associate professor of higher education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and founding editor of the journal Philanthropy & Education.
He is internationally known as a leading researcher on educational philanthropy. Currently, Dr. Drezner’s work is based in identity-based philanthropy. In other words, he is researching how a person’s social identities affect their giving to higher education and how colleges and universities can engage their alumni in more inclusive ways.
Noah Drezner will be speaking on the ‘Philanthropy and Education’ panel alongside fellow member of his ‘Philanthropy and Education’ journal executive committee, Associate Professor Genevieve Shaker – introduced below.
Genevieve Shaker
Genevieve Shaker is Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, a constituent department of Indiana University Bloomington. She is also on the Executive Committee of the ‘Philanthropy and Education‘ journal founded by Noah Drezner.
Ms. Shaker brings to the panel twenty years of expertise attained as associate dean for development and external affairs for the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts. Her current research projects include an exploration of the fundraising profession, studies intended to generate new information about workplace giving in the United States, and continued examination of how higher education contributes to the public good.
Ms. Shaker and Professor Drezner will be featuring on the ‘Philanthropy and Education’ Panel, on Tuesday 5th December at 2:15 PM.
Alyssa Wise
Alyssa Friend Wise is Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Educational Technology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University (NYU).
Ms. Wise’s research focuses on the design of learning analytics systems that are theoretically grounded, computationally robust, and pedagogically useful for informing teaching and learning. She has published extensively on how to identify useful traces of learning in large data sets, and how best to use them to inform educational decision-making by designers, instructors and students.
Wise is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Learning Analytics Research and the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Committee within in the International Society of the Learning Sciences. In 2017, she will become one of the principal editors of the Journal of Learning Analytics.
Ms. Wise will lead the ‘Learning Analytics: Evidence-based Education’ panel, taking place on Tuesday 5th December at 3PM.
