Alec Couros is a professor of educational technology and media in the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. An award-winning educator, Couros helps his students take advantage of our connected world through the integration of educational technology in teaching and learning. Couros is an internationally recognized scholar with expertise in connected/networked learning, digital citizenship, social media in education, and critical media literacy. He presents at conferences and delivers workshops all over the world; providing educators, students, and parents with the knowledge necessary to thrive in our new digital reality. A passionate advocate for openness in education, Couros contributes to open access publications, maintains a considerable digital presence, and has created a number of MOOCs and other types of open courses.
Alec Couros
Keynote - Reimagining Education in the Digital Age
I enjoyed Dr. Couros's talk on Reimagining Education in the Digital [Age] and getting a better overall understanding of how education has changed (especially content and tools) and what I need to do as an educator to adapt to these changes in and outside my classroom - Anonymous
The digital age and proliferation of technologies bring both challenges and opportunities for our institutions. Online access to courses and content creates new possibilities for digital learning, and social networking tools connect us to new and once impossible global audiences; indeed, the pedagogical possibilities of digital tools and social learning seem limitless. However, with these new opportunities come new complexities, as we address emerging issues in areas such as citizenship, literacy, and identity. In this presentation, Couros describes ways in which we can navigate both the opportunities and challenges of the available technologies and networks in order to reimagine teaching and learning and to design course experiences that are responsive to students emerging needs. Couros discusses ways we can support students in their quest to become lifelong learners who are able to create and leverage their own networks to manage and utilize the abundance of knowledge and information available to them in our connected world.
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