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Innovative Leadership: Transforming Higher Education in the Digital Age

Subjects and Speakers

Each session’s topic seeks to promote an exchange of knowledge and experiences amongst participants, and to inspire new lines of research across borders.

The speakers are prestigious professors who have extensive teaching and research experience and whose work has been widely published in their respective fields. Sessions are structured around the presentation of articles, case studies, and work of the speakers themselves, presenting reviews of their work and the current state of issues involved

INTERACTIVE LEARNING, ONLINE AND IN-PERSON

Eric Mazur
Eric Mazur
Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics,
Academic Dean for Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

NEW CREDENTIALS AND NEW WAYS OF PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES

Eric Grimson
Eric Grimson
Chancellor for Academic Advancement
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

ACHIEVING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: STRATEGIES FOR INFLUENCE

Paul Osterman
Paul Osterman
NTU Professor of Human Resources and Management
Sloan School of Management and the Department of Urban Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

THE PLEASURES OF ACTIVE LEARNING

Doris Sommer
Doris Sommer
Ira Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish
Harvard University

THE CHANGING ROLE OF ACADEMIA IN THE DIGITALLY NETWORKED AGE

Fawwaz Habbal
Fawwaz Habbal
Executive Dean for Education and Research, Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
Harvard University

EDUCATING FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD

Dan Levy
Dan Levy
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School of Government

FOSTERING MULTIMODAL LITERACY FOR TEACHERS, SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS: NEW APPROACHES TO MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION AT HARVARD

Marlon Kuzmick
Marlon Kuzmick
Director, Learning Lab at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Former Creative Director, HarvardX
Harvard University

DRIVING SYSTEMIC EDUCATIONAL CHANGE IN UNIVERSITIES

Ruth Graham
Ruth Graham
Consultancy in Higher Education
Leonardo da Vinci Medal by the European Society for Engineering Education

THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE US

Sebastián Royo
Sebastián Royo
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor of Political Science Department of Political Science

Clark University

 


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*Sessions are conducted in English and require active participation of all attendees. Required readings are also in English. For more details or questions, write to: iap.symposia@uam.es





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