We’re delighted to confirm our next external speaker for this year’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference.

We’ve previously announced our keynote, Neil Currant, and Professor Lee Elliot Major and Beth Brooks from the University of Exeter, and Higher Education Partners.

Now, we’ve also got Professor John Traxler joining us for a special panel discussion on Generative AI.

This session will be taking place on the afternoon of Tuesday 8 July via Teams.

John Traxler, FRSA, MBCS, AFIMA, MIET, is Professor of Digital Learning, UNESCO Chair in Innovative Informal Digital Learning in Disadvantaged and Development Contexts and Commonwealth of Learning Chair for innovations in higher education. He is Academic Director of the Avallain Lab, leading research on ethical and pedagogic aspects of educational AI. His papers are cited around 12,000 times and Stanford continues to list him in the top 2% in his discipline. He has written over 40 papers and seven books, and has consulted for international agencies including UNESCO, ITU, ILO, USAID, DFID, EU, UNRWA, British Council and UNICEF.

He was a pioneer of mobile learning, starting in the 2000s with technology and pedagogy but, in the 2010s, concerned with the impact and consequences on societies, cultures and communities of mobility and connectivity, and on the nature of disadvantage. He is interested in the impact of AI on global and individual disadvantage and the decolonisation of the digital technologies of learning and education.

Our full programme will be announced in due course.

Bookings for the conference are already open.