Keynote Speakers

Professor Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK

Presentation title: Mobile and Intelligent Assistants in Education

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme is Professor of Learning Technology and Communication in the Institute of Educational Technology. She has been working in mobile learning since 2001, leading research projects investigating learning innovation in the UK and internationally. She is Past-President of the International Association for Mobile Learning (2010-13), and serves on several Editorial Boards including the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning. Invited scholarships and keynotes include a Visiting Scholarship at the University of Technology, Sydney; keynotes at ICCE 2009 in Hong Kong, mLearn 2010 in Malta, IADIS Mobile Learning 2012 in Berlin, ED-MEDIA 2012 in Denver, UNESCO Mobile Learning Week 2013 in Paris, Games and Mobile Learning 2014 in Coimbra, ChinaCALL2014 in Beijing, GloCALL2015 in Daejeon.

Agnes has led numerous projects investigating innovative and emergent practice with learning technologies in post-16 education, recently as part of the European MOTILL project on mobile technologies in lifelong learning, the MASELTOV project on smart and personalized technologies for social inclusion of immigrants and the British Council project on Mobile Pedagogy for English Language Teaching. Her original discipline background is in foreign language teaching and learning and from this perspective she has a long standing research interest in effective communication with technology and the experiences of non-technical users. Her research interests include human factors in technology adoption, formal and informal language learning, and lifelong learning.

Within The Open University, Agnes has served in various management and leadership roles as Associate Director (Learning and Teaching), Associate Director (Academic Professional Development), Deputy Director IET, Co-Head of the Technology Enhanced Learning Group, Programme Lead for Next Generation Distance Learning and Innovating Pedagogy and Convener of the Technology and Learning Research Group.

Executive Director, Dr Keith Devlin, Stanford University, H-STAR Institute, USA

Presentation title: Breaking the Symbol Barrier – a New Approach to Learning Mathematics

Dr. Keith Devlin is a co-founder and Executive Director of the university's H-STAR institute, a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network, and a Senior Researcher at CSLI. He is a World Economic Forum Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. Other research interests include: theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition. He has written 32 books and over 80 published research articles. Recipient of the Pythagoras Prize, the Peano Prize, the Carl Sagan Award, and the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award. In 2003, he was recognized by the California State Assembly for his "innovative work and longtime service in the field of mathematics and its relation to logic and linguistics." He is "the Math Guy" on National Public Radio.