2022-12-01 –, Stage 2, Einstein-Saal, BBAW
Europe-Wide Higher Education Collaboration on Edtech
European student mobilty is growing. In the Erasmus program, in European Universities and other programs. In doing so, we are educating a generation of students equipped to contribute to a strong European society and economy. Ensuring a safe, accessible and inclusive learning environment for our students also requires a digital infrastructure. This needs to be a public infrastructure, to garantuee that European education can hold up its European public values. To organize a public infrastructure the education sector needs to take public responsibility to be able to maintain the digital sovereignty. This session will focus on the need for infrastructure, and address dilemmas and opportunities.
Christien Bok is Innovation manager education at SURF. She aims to support collaboration between higher education institutions in the field of IT innovation in order to improve student success and the quality of education. She is an advocate for the protection of public values in education and research. She is convinced that international agreements on standards and architecture are a key to organizing education efficiently and flexibly, nationally and across borders. Christien designed various national innovation programs, including the Acceleration Plan (16M) and the Digitization Impulse for Education (600M). Christien studied Dutch literature at Utrecht University. She worked for the Dutch Foundation for Literature and at The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). At NWO she was responsible for a research program in which IT researchers and heritage managers worked together to make heritage available digitally.