Cross-Border Collaboration in Humanitarian Response: Use Cases for EdTech

In this talk, Keith Bowen, Ph.D, who is Director of the Learning Design Challenge in the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, shares research into a new program using technology in the education and training of humanitarian responders in the U.S. and the Middle East. For immersive learning, the program uses Virtual Reality to situate learners in a series of sites for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. To build assessment skills, the program uses Artificial Intelligence to facilitate interaction and observation in the immersive environment. Crucially, the program uses a range of communication technologies to bring learners from high- and low-income countries together to leverage wide perspectives in collaborative problem-solving efforts. Students who are interested in EdTech can explore this kind of work in the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and its Learning Design Challenge, an annual program with classes and mentoring that gets underway this quarter.

Speaker: Keith Bowen, Stanford University

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Room 126