3rd edition of Kiron talks...  Our guest this week was Jonghwi Park, who is a Programme Specialist at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.  Materials mentioned:  The skills framework "Digital Kids Asia-Pacific", here: https://dkap.org/

It is the 4th edition of Kiron talks. This time with Gino Fransmann, who is an Academic Development Professional based at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.

In our 5th installment, we talk to Anila Noor. She initiated New Women Connectors, a movement striving to mainstream the unheard voices of migrant and refugee women living across Europe. New Women Connectors is a perspective-shift to the refugee agenda and advocates inclusion rather than integration as a policy choice. The movement helps newcomer refugee women lift their spirits and make something of their skills. Website of New Women Connectors is here: https://newwomenconnectors.com/

In our 6th Kiron talks… we talked about the borderless university, and many other things, with Luca Tateo. He is Associate Professor, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo (Norway), Visiting associate professor Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) and Associate professor, Research Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University (Denmark).

For our 7th episode we discussed issues around the economics of higher education with SUNY Old Westbury Prof. Veronika Dolar. Topics were online learning, online pivot, tuition fees, private sector, open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy.

For our 8th episode of Kiron talks... we chatted with Jehane Akiki about valuing learning and making it visible and tangible. Jehane talked about the need to think beyond pieces of paper for certification, spoke about blockchain, design thinking for education, supporting refugees in the Lebanon and Jordan and helping farmers in the Lebanon.