Re-Imagining Learning and the Future of Higher Education

About this event

It cannot be underscored that the world of learning is currently under full mutation. The pandemic has brought barely concealed realities to the surface. Education is a matter of justice: access to and quality of education are unevenly distributed. Financial resources, gender, ethnicity, and location widely determine the opportunities for education from the primary to the tertiary levels. UNESCO’s World Inequality Database on Education provides incisive data on the societal and economic rifts impacting educational opportunities, to which ethical reflection can provide meaningful avenues for solutions.

There is, however, a complementary and fascinating array of dimensions of learning and education on which the webinars will help shed light. Why do we learn and what enables us to learn? How can tailored education programmes serve underrepresented groups, the preservation of endangered languages or the empowerment of marginalised populations? Last, but not least, how can learning and education unleash the potential for societal innovation and transformation?

In our final Blue Table Webinar of the series "What are We Learning For?", we will be looking at reimagining learning and the future of higher education.    

 

When22 November 2023
15:00-16:00 CET
WhereOnline
WhatWebinar
Language English

Speakers

Juny Montoya Vargas

Juny Montoya Vargas

Colombia
Former Director of the Center of Applied Ethics at Universidad de los Andes (UniAndes), Juny Montoya Vargas specialises in law, professional ethics, and education. Her lines of research are legal education, democratic education, ethics in the professions, teacher training, problem-based learning, evaluation of educational programs, curriculum and evaluation in higher education. She is a member of the Globethics Pool of Experts and co-teaches the Globethics Academy course Cómo incluir la ética en la formación universitaria.

Nadia Balgobin

Nadia Balgobin

Switzerland / Mauritius
A Global Ethics Advisor, Master Trainer, Lead Assessor and UN Expert on SDG 12, Nadia Balgobin has international experience in development projects, corporate training programme development for Top Managers and advisory services in areas such as sustainability, business ethics, quality management and performance improvement of operations for multinationals, SMEs, academic institutions as well as government institutions and NGOs. She is a member of the Globethics Pool of Experts and leads the HE-EMET benchmarking project.