Erkki and we shared the session "Technologies for Development and Learning: innovations grow from concrete challenges. In his talk, Erkki had a few great quotes: "Innovation is socially meaningful invention put into practice" (I've been thinking about what innovation is recently, and I find this a very good answer) and "Risk taking means giving oneself a permission, sometimes requiring apologizing later".
Dr. Xie Weikai, the Deputy Director of our lab presented work in our lab and at the online college of SJTU in which we address specific challenges arising from the educational situation here in China, namely "Highly unbalanced education resource deployment", "Lack of accessible form of life-long learning for working adults" and "Shortcoming of traditional learning management systems".
I'm directly involved in the latter part with my research on Personal Learning/Teaching Environment, especially within the ROLE project. Have a look slides and please let me know any questions you might have:
Some pictures from the event:
