This morning’s keynote will feature talks by Anka Mulder and Jan Gondol on the state of Open Education in Europe, followed by discussion with conference participants.
Anka Mulder:
Since April 2013, Anka Mulder is Vice-President at TU Delft responsible for Education and Operations. Furthermore she is a member of the edX University Advisory Board, a global network of universities including Harvard, MIT and Berkeley, that produce Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and promote innovation in education worldwide. She is member of the Supervisory Board of the Hotel School The Hague and of the Comité d’orientation stratégique of the University of Sorbonne.
In 2008 Anka Mulder was a member, from 2011 to 2013 president of the board of the international OpenCourseWare Consortium. The Consortium is the largest international organisation in the field of free online provision of education in the form of complete courses. From 2011 to 2013 she combined the post of director with that of Secretary General of the university.
Anka Mulder studied History at the University of Groningen, where she later lectured in International Relations. She worked in Brussels, Vienna and The Hague and became Director of Education at TU Delft in 2004.
Jan Gondol:
Jan Gondol, PhD., worked for the Slovak government in 2014 and 2015. During this time he was a manager of the COMSODE open data project at the Ministry of Interior and was responsible for Slovakia’s open data commitments under the Open Government Partnership (OGP) umbrella. He also introduced the theme of open education in the country’s OGP second National Action Plan and drove the initiative to build foundations for OER policy and open access policy in Slovakia.
He’s now working with several organizations to promote open data, open education and open source software. He lives in Bratislava with his wife Lenuška and two children, Olivia and Hugo. More information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jangondol
Lisa Marie Blaschke:
Lisa Marie Blaschke, is program director of the Master of Distance Education and E-Learning (MDE) graduate program at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, as well as an associate professor (adjunct faculty) within the MDE at the University of Maryland University College, USA. She is a vice-president and executive committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and an EDEN Fellow. Her research interests are in the areas of lifelong and self-determined learning (heutagogy) and the pedagogical application of Web 2.0 technologies. Before rejoining academia in 2006, Lisa was head of information development for SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany, designing, leading, and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training solutions. Lisa is also head of a communications consulting firm, which offers education services, from e-learning design and development to project management.
