Times and speakers may change at the last minute due to incontingencies. Click on the Presenters’ name to learn more about them and their topics.
Day 1: Thursday, 23 October 2025
10:00 – 16:00 Ireland | 05:00 – 10:00 Chile
Topic |
Presenter |
|
10:00 – 10:10 |
Welcome and Introduction |
Dr Julian Ng (WCI) |
10:10 – 10:35 |
– From Leonardo da Vinci to Digital Badges: How Can Educators Help Build a Competence-Based Civil Society Capable of Overcoming Turbulence, Barbarism and the Law of the Strongest? |
Dr Giovanni Crísona (Italy) |
10:35 – 11:00 |
– Rebuilding the Learning Ecosystem: From Isolated Achievement to Collective Intelligence through Human – AI Collaboration. |
Karthiga Ratnam (Sri Lanka) |
11:00 – 11:25 |
– The Global Impact of Augmented Reality Simulation in Skills Training: Welding as a Catalyst for Industry and Community Advancement. |
Antonio Fernández Pérez (Spain) |
11:25 – 11:35 |
Short Break |
|
11:35 – 12:15 |
– Virtual Academic Collaborations: Challenges and Opportunities. |
Dr Doris Dukova (Colombia) |
12:15 – 13:00 |
Lunch Break |
|
13:00 – 14:00 |
– Workshop: Creating Effective and Sustainable Blended Learning. |
Dr Julian Ng (USA) |
14:00 – 14:25 |
– AI‑Empowered Co‑Creation: Leading Collaborative Learning and Innovative Assessment in 21st Century Education. |
Faton Deshishku (Kosovo) |
14:25 – 14:50 |
– Learning Self-Assessment Logbook. |
Daniel Soza (Perú) |
14:50 – 15:00 |
Short break |
|
15:00 – 15:25 |
– Engaging Learners in the Classroom and Online. |
Dr Julie Furst-Bowe (USA) |
15:25 – 15:50 |
– Ctrl+Alt+ReThink: The Machine is Not Cheating—It’s Just Faster Than You. |
Dr David Hopkins (USA) |
15:50 – 16:00 |
Wrap Up for Day 1 |
Dr Julian Ng (WCI) |
Day 2: Friday, 24 October 2025
10:00 – 16:00 Ireland | 05:00 – 10:00 Chile
Time |
Topic |
Presenter |
10:00 – 10:05 |
Welcome and Introduction |
Dr Julian Ng (WCI) |
10:05 – 10:30 |
– The Game Changer: Microcredentials – a European approach in the quality assurance and accreditation of microcredentials. |
Prof Olgun Cicek (Türkiye) |
10:30 – 10:55 |
– 21st Century Transformative Strategies for Fostering Self-Directed Learning in Learner-Driven Classrooms. |
Frieda Kavetuna (Namibia) |
10:55 – 11:00 |
Short break |
|
11:00 – 11:25 |
– Integrated Competency-Based Learning Model in Mold-Making Skill Development that Redefines Technical Education for the 21st Century. |
Dr Muralidhar Lakkana (India) |
11:25 – 11:50 |
– Designing neuroinclusive learning spaces: supporting Highly Sensitive Students through creating a supportive environment and co-creation. |
Dr Monika Baryła-Matejczuk (Poland) |
11:50 – 12:50 |
– Workshop: “New Learning” meets “New Work” – Designing motivational and sustainable work at school. |
Dr Gunnar Binda (Germany) |
12:50 – 13:50 |
Lunch Break |
|
13:50 – 14:50 |
– Workshop: Criteria 7 in the University subsystem and criterion 9 in the TP subsystem: management of Coexistence, gender equity, diversity and inclusion. |
Carolina Ovalle Gónzalez y Jenny Rojas (Chile) |
14:50 – 15:15 |
– Instructional Design of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Strengthening 21st-Century Competencies: An Approach from Gamification and Artificial Intelligence |
Dr Claudia Lengua Cantero (Colombia) |
15:15 – 15:25 |
Short break |
|
15:25 – 15:50 |
– Instructional Design of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Strengthening 21st-Century Competencies: An Approach from Gamification and Artificial Intelligence, |
Renata González Silva (Chile) |
15:50 – 16:00 |
Wrap Up for Day 2 |
Dr Oscar Barrios (USG) |
Day 3: Saturday, 25 October 2025
15:00 – 19:00 Ireland | 10:00 – 14:00 Chile
Time |
Topic |
Presenter |
10:00 – 10:10 |
Welcome and Introduction |
|
10:10 – 10:35 |
– Quality with meaning: excellence, well-being and social commitment in Higher Education. |
Dr María Isabel Cifuentes (Perú). |
10:35 – 11:00 |
– Curricular innovation and situated educational quality: the incorporation of the DreamBuilder program at the University of Los Lagos, Chiloé campus. |
Evelyn Hiller Garrido (Chile)
|
11:00 – 11:25 |
– The Evolution of ChatGPT in Higher Education: Are We Still Being Questioned? |
|
11:25 – 11:50 |
– Technical Vocational Education in the 21st Century: Gap between Graduate Profiles and Labor Market Needs. |
Elias Maldonado (Chile) |
11:50 – 12:00 |
Short Break |
|
12:00 – 12:40 |
– Where is leadership in education today? |
Dr Tulio Barrios Bulling (Chile) |
12:45 -13:00 |
Wrap Up for Day 3 |