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International Conference on Innovative Learning Environments (ILE)

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Banff, Alberta, Canada - Banff Conference Centre

10-12 October 2011

This international conference on Innovative Learning Environments (ILE) has been co-organised by OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and Alberta Education, the Ministry of Education in the Canadian province of Alberta. The local hosts were the Canadian Rockies Public Schools, the Alberta school district in which the town of Banff is located.

The OECD/Alberta conference was the most ambitious event to date in the OECD work on Innovative Learning Environments. It was based on the earlier work on learning research and addressed in detail the on-going “innovative cases” analysis and the new work focused on the key issues of “implementation and change”. It is also the most ambitious in terms of the numbers of invited participants who, in addition to the core group of those in each system most closely engaged in the ILE project (the “system coordinators”), will include key players in different leadership positions and stakeholder groups.

1. Why Systems Must Innovate their Learning ? Nelson Gonzalez

The OECD/CERI International “Innovative Learning Environments” (ILE) Project:Framing Concepts and Existing Conclusions

2. Overview of Innovative Learning Environments in the International Project

The range of innovative learning environments in the ILE compilation – approaches and innovative features, Vanessa Shadoian-Gersing and Mariana Martinez Salgado, OECD
“The Nature of Learning” in the ILE Case Studies, Hanna Dumont, Tuebingen University, Germany

3. Facets and Dimensions of Innovative Learning Environments

What different ILEs mean for the learner and for the learning professionals – changing the learning experience

Chaired by Valerie Hannon, Innovation Unit, UK

Presenting: Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser, Network of Performance Based Schools, Vancouver

Island University, British Columbia, Canada.

Reorganising learning environments – organisation and dynamics

Chaired by David Istance.

Presenting: Anders Palm and Peter Skoglof, Swedish National Agency for Education, Stockholm, Sweden

Erich Ramscheier, University of Teacher Education, Bern, Switzerland.

Integrating technology’s potential for redesigning the medium of learning

Chaired by Dean Lindquist, ADM, Learning Supports & Information Management, Alberta Education, Canada.

Presenting: Jennifer Groff, Educational consultant, Cambridge, USA.

ILEs for new knowledge, competences and capacities – changing content

Chaired by Gertraud Benke, Institute of Instructional and School Development University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

Presenting: Ellen Hambrook, ADM, Education Program Standards and Assessment, Alberta Education on Framework for Student Learning: Competencies for Engaged Thinkers and Ethical Citizens with an Entrepreneurial Spirit.

4. Key Transversal Issues arising for Innovative Learning Environments

The ILE set of research-based principles by which to design and organise learning environments –an unattainable ideal or an unavoidable requirement?

Chaired by Hanna Dumont, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Presenting: Marlene Scardamalia, Institute for Knowledge Innovation & Thechnology (IKIT), University of Toronto, Canada.

Defining and building “learning leadership”

Chaired by Anthony Mackay, Centre for Strategic Education (CSE), Melbourne, Australia.

Presenting: Jan Robertson, Griffth University, Waiheke Island, New Zealand.

Teacher professionalism for 21st century learning environments

Chaired by Carol McLean, ADM, People and Research, Alberta Education, Canada.

Presenting: John Bangs, Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) Working Group on Education, Training & Employment Policy, England.

How appropriately to judge the success of ILEs - outcomes?

Chaired by Per Tronsmo, Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, Oslo, Norway.

Presenting: Maria Langworthy, Microsoft Innovative Teaching and Learning (ITL), Partners in Learning Program, Redmond, USA.

Panel of Workshop Chairs on “Key Transversal Issues arising for ILEs”

5. Making Innovations Happen – Insights from ILE Cases and Wider OECD Analysis

Launching and Sustaining ILEs: the insights from the ILE case studies, Anne Sliwka, Heidelberg University of Education, Germany

Insights from the OECD “Innovation Strategy” analysis of education systems – motors and brakes, Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, OECD/CERI

6. The Governance and System Challenges

Keynote by Valerie Hannon, Innovation Unit, England

Systems and modes of governance appropriate for fostering 21st century learning environments

Chaired by Rod Allen, Superintendant, British Columbia, Canada.

Presenting: Kim Bater, Canadian Rockies Public Schools District, Banff, Canada.

Networks and clusters – going to scale through a well-developed “meso” level

Chaired by Lone Lonne Christiansen, Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training,

Oslo, Norway.

Presenting: Patricia Wastiau, European Schoolnet, Brussels, Belgium.

Resource challenges – in times and contexts of limited resources, how to ensure that quality 21st century learning environments do not depend on high resourcing?

Chaired by Susanne Owen, Department of Education & Children’s Services, Adelaide, South Australia.

Presenting: José Carlos Rocha Silva and Isidro Sánchez Ulloa, National Council for Educational Development (CONAFE), Mexico city, Mexico.

Influencing climates, building capacities, and creating conducive conditions – appropriate policies?

Chaired by Elvira Vacirca, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Presenting: Michael Walter, ADM, Strategic Services, Alberta Education on Educational Transformation in Alberta; ATA and ASBA representatives