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In this Podcast:
Carla Aerts is a great person and a professional with an impressive background. Carla shares how she connects companies that work on projects for teaching and learning and schools who may look for solutions in technology.
We are discussing the topics of Connecting EdTech and Real School Needs.
About Carla:
Driven user-centric international digital & e-learning polymath, strategist, instigator, changemaker & realiser of digital and technology supported learning innovation & transformation, a specialist with product development expertise. Inspired by learning as a catalyst and technology as its potential enabler.
Experience in/of Australia, the Far East, Africa, India, Europe, US Kazakhstan & other emerging & developing countries.
Educate the UCL – Institute of Education programme that brings evidence and research to edTech now taking up most of my time at UCL.
Director of Futures – Institute of Education
Carla has over 30 years digital experience and has been working in International Education and Technology Supported Learning for 15 years, shaking the foundations of a some Education Publishers on their blended learning transformation.
She was Global Digital Director for Cambridge University Press-Education.
Carla mentors Education Startups and Youngsters destined for Leadership in the UK, Europe, Africa, India and Nepal and has extensive work experience in Japan
She delivers webinars to e/Merge Africa, is a member of the Global Teacher Prize Academy is an advisor to e-Learning Africa and a non-executive director on a number of advisory boards. She was granted the 2017 World Education Congress EduTech Leadership award.
Carla is very heavily involved in EDUCATE, the UCL – IOE programme that brings evidence to EdTech. She obsessed by access to education, context, user-centricity and ethics for technology supported Education.
Useful Links:
- Project Educate
- What is EdTech?
- Is my child an algorithm? by Carla
- Artificial Intelligence
- Understanding Machine Learning