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Digital education for a strong recovery: A forward look

Digitalisation is transforming societies, providing new opportunities to improve education in the classroom, enhance the management of education systems, but also to consider innovative models of...

12:00 PM2:00 PM

Opening: digital education outlook

At the start of the conference the OECD's new report ‘Digital Education Outlook: Pushing the Frontiers with AI, Blockchain, and Robots’ will be launched. The presentation provides an overview of...

Building a framework for research on digital education worldwide

The application of new technologies for teaching and learning have far outstripped our evidence-based knowledge of what digital innovations and methodologies enable learning, why, and for whom. This...

Digital Education Policy: Perspectives from Chile, France, and the United States

The digitalisation of education is high on the agenda of many countries worldwide. Policy makers take a keen interest in the opportunities that digital technologies offer for education, and at the...

Views from EdTech: trends and opportunities

The industry for educational technology (EdTech) has been on the rise for a longer time and experienced a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the EdTech sessions on Tuesday and Thursday,...

Q&A with Melanie Mitchell

This session will allow to understand better the promises and limitations of artificial intelligence, as well as what the big questions of the field currently are. An interview with Melanie...

9:00 AM10:00 AM

Digital Education Policy: Perspectives from Belgium, Hungary and Korea

The digitalisation of education is high on the agenda of many countries worldwide. Policy makers take a keen interest in the opportunities that digital technologies offer for education, and at the...

10:00 AM11:00 AM

Robots in Education: where are we at?

Social robots offer benefits to education that computer-based solutions do not. Their physical nature lends them to have real-world interactions with learners, and their increased social presence...

12:00 PM1:00 PM

Digital Education Policy: ministerial perspectives

This session contains a panel discussion with three (former) education ministers that are known for their keen interest and engagement in the digital agenda in education.

Q&A with Ryan Baker

This session will allow to discuss the big questions of digital technology in education with the scientific advisor and co-author of the publication “Digital Education Outlook”.

Improving educational equity and inclusion with technology

Cutting edge technologies aim to support the development of children with special learning needs, and digital solutions for early warning systems for school dropout keep improving. This session...

Smart Classrooms: supporting teachers with data analytics

What does the classroom of the future look like? And what can data do for teachers? This session provides more insight on these questions and the possibilities of classroom analytics for real-time...

Towards a new generation of assessment

Educational games have a strong potential to improve the quality of testing, and will allow us to assess complex skills in the future. In this session participants learn more about how educational...

Teacher spotlight

In this session, teachers will share their experiences with the use of digital technologies in different educational contexts and their views on the future of technology for education.

Teacher Spotlight: Innovating music teaching with digital tools

In this session, teachers will talk about how digital technology can make music education more creative and engaging for students (and themselves).

12:00 AM1:00 AM

AI in society: Interdisciplinary perspectives from the OECD

The OECD is involved in several interesting projects with regard to the rise of digital technologies. Experts from different OECD directorates discuss their work and the importance of pushing the...

11:00 AM12:00 PM

Views from EdTech: trends and opportunities

The industry for educational technology (EdTech) has been on the rise for a longer time and experienced a boom during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the EdTech sessions on Tuesday and Thursday,...

Learning analytics at the organisation and system level

This session focuses on the opportunities and challenges of AI and learning analytics for specifically higher education. How can educational institutions successfully integrate learning analytics in...

Perspectives from the European Union, OECD, UNESCO, and the World Bank

This session contains a dialogue between high representatives of the OECD, UNESCO, World Bank, and European Union about the future of learning and the importance of digitalisation.

Personalisation of learning

Digital technologies hold a promise for the future of personalised learning, thanks to adaptive learning and intelligent tutoring systems, educational games and other applications, as well as for...

Blockchain and the new credential ecosystem

This session goes in-depth on the use of blockchain in education. Blockchain technology holds a promise to eliminate fraud with credentialing records, and to facilitate the movement of students and...

COVID-19: lessons for digital education

During the lockdown and the closing of schools, teachers, governments and other stakeholders worked hard to guarantee the continuity of education. This session brings together interesting lessons...

Q&A with Andrew Ng

This session will allow to discuss the big questions of digital technology in education with: • Andrew Ng, VP & Chief Scientist of Baidu; Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera; and an Adjunct...

Q&A with Nicol Turner Lee

This session will allow to understand better how to address possible biases of smart technologies, notably algorithmic bias. Interview with Nicol Turner Lee, Brookings Institution, United States.