BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mastery - Why Deeper Learning is Essential in an Age of Distractio n - Dr Ulrik Juul Christensen (Area9 Lyceum)\, Jessica White (University o f Sussex) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251014T140000 DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251014T150000 UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3f0d3cdf-5695-41c4-8463-7e1961542a21/ DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fireside chat with Ulrik Juul Christensen M.D\, co-author of Mastery: Why Deeper Learning is Essential in an Age of Distra ction written with Tony Wagner. (Mastery by Tony Wagner | Hachette Book Gr oup https://share.google/jr2DlgjbAvjxV9jqF)\n\nHow are teachers’ roles e volving? From sources of information – to sources of inspiration.\n\nThe outside world is changing digitally - humans need to change fast as well but stay human!\n\nWe’ll explore why deeper learning is more essential t han ever\, how AI is reshaping education\, and what it means to reimagine learning in this digital age.\n\nFireside chat at OxfordXML Wolfson Colleg e\, University of Oxford and Online with Jessica Kennedy White\, Ph.D rese archer University of Sussex\, University of Oxford Alumni\, Wolfson Colleg e\n\nTeams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MD YzMjAyMzktOTE1Yy00YzQwLTgyMDUtNjZkZTlhMjY5NWEz%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%2 2Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e448 20d7-5edb-4030-9763-4c8cdc3aafd6%22%7d\n\n------\n\nShort bio:\n\nUlrik Ju ul Christensen M.D: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrikjuulchristensen/\nExe cutive Chairman and Founding Partner of Area9: https://area9lyceum.com/ \n \nGrowing up in a family of educators he has long had an affinity for both teaching and learning. Since founding his first company in 1997\, he has continued to devote his professional life to advancing a highly individual ised\, improved way of learning and have been driving the development of A rea9 and McGraw-Hill Education’s adaptive learning platforms.\n\nHis fir st company\, Sophus Medical\, was sold to Laerdal Medical in 2002 where th e technologies became the basis for Laerdal Medical's dominant role in eme rgency medicine computer simulation which works with customers like Health Stream and the American Heart Association among others. He has given numer ous keynote lectures and has spent the last 20 years pioneering advancemen ts in adaptive learning\, blended learning\, computer simulation\, and deb riefing technologies.\n\nIn February 2014 Area9 and McGraw-Hill Education joined forces through a large acquisition of Area9's educational company a nd most of Area9's educational activities at the time. Area9 Labs was esta blished to continue to be a powerhouse for cutting edge research in educat ional technologies\, and Area9 Learning to pioneer the market for adaptive learning in the corporate/organisational space. As part of the acquisitio n\, he joined McGraw-Hill Education's board of executives as senior fellow for digital learning to facilitate McGraw-Hill Education's journey as an industry leader in digital and personalised learning. \n\nHe is serving as the Executive Chairman for the Area9 Group that counts a high-end compute r science company\, Area9 Innovation\, and Area9 Lyceum™ which was found ed in 2018 to develop the next generation infrastructure for education tar geting K-12\, higher education\, workforce development and corporate as we ll as government and defence. \n\nHe currently serve on the boards a numbe r of companies as well as on the board of the Technical University of Denm ark and Global Underwater Explorers and advisory boards of several educati onal organisations\n\n------\n\nJessica Kennedy White BA(Hons)\, M.Sc.\nOx ford University\, Wolfson College Alumni\nPh.D. interdisciplinary research er in Education and Human Computer Interaction at University of Sussex \n\ nShe is a Learning Sciences Researcher and advisor to digital learning com panies on learning design and innovation. \n\nShe served as Senior Directo r of Learning Sciences at Area9 Lyceum™ where her doctoral research expl ored evidence-based applications of their Adaptive Learning Platform that enables a mastery-based approach to teaching and learning.\n\nShe has also served as a Research Mentor at UCL on a €4.5M EU Horizon project suppor ting EdTech startups\, and as an Academic Consultant at McGraw Hill Educat ion integrating evidence-led adaptive learning developed by Area9 into div erse curricula\n\nEarlier in her career\, she founded Thinc\, an NGO in Au stria advancing participatory digital education\, and collaborated with ED UCULT on EU-funded projects connecting schools and cultural institutions a cross Europe.\n\nInspired by a family of educators who pioneered language reform and early educational technologies in higher education\, she has de dicated her career to reimagining teaching and learning.\n\nPublished rese arch on Ph.D. topic:\nWhite\, J.\, du Boulay\, B. (2024). Supporting Learn ers’ Metacognition and Meta-Affect. In: Santoianni\, F.\, Giannini\, G.\ , Ciasullo\, A. (eds) Mind\, Body\, and Digital Brains. Integrated Science \, vol 20. Springer\, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58363-6_5\n\ nForthcoming chapter: Ethics in Digital Education in Elgar Companion to Ap plied AI Ethics: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-elgar-companion-to-a pplied-ai-ethics-9781803928234.html\nSpeakers:\nDr Ulrik Juul Christensen (Area9 Lyceum)\, Jessica White (University of Sussex) LOCATION:Wolfson College (Levett Room)\, Linton Road OX2 6UD TZID:Europe/London URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/3f0d3cdf-5695-41c4-8463-7e1961542a21/ BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Mastery - Why Deeper Learning is Essential in an Age of D istraction - Dr Ulrik Juul Christensen (Area9 Lyceum)\, Jessica White (Uni versity of Sussex) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR