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KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
DR. PIET KOMMERS
DR. PIET KOMMERS , Associate Professor Ph.D of Media, Communication and Education. UNESCO chair in Higher Education. Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
Keynote Speech Title:
"Playing as Metaphor for Learning in the 21st Century"
Abstract
Educational practices shift from curricular to continuous life-long learning in which the learner needs to develop the efficacy in self-regulation and a recurring willingness to revise existential and professional views. In terms of expertise access there is not so much a physical boundary as was before. Much more decisive is the growing need to redefine the concepts of work, jobs and enterprise. This lecture will highlight the typical affordances to equip vocational and regular higher education with 21st century skills and attitudes. The growing awareness is that social media can no longer be seen just as distractions to what we used to call "study mentality"; Students need to work and play in teams; not only in gaming; also in preparing for a next job or to create a new enterprise. For this sake, the triangle learning-playing-working is gathering momentum. Its invoked paradigm is that playing as mind-set is a vital hub between existential comfort and conceptual ambitions. Entrepreneurial skills are explored and injected in schooling stages. However, even the suggestion that these skills can be transferred is a vulnerable assumption. Problem-based learning however seems to be more proliferating at that point. Recent and ongoing projects will be illustrated.
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