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Next Level Lab Speaker Series

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  • Dr. Karl Testor

    On April 15th, 2024, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by Dr. Karl Testor, Head of the Institute of Neurocognitive Sciences and Leadership in Austria. The working environment provides plenty of opportunities for change — intentionally as well as sometimes externally driven. Rather than giving into the situation, we would like to be part…Continue…

  • Dr. Mohsen Moghaddam

    On February 14th, 2024, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by Dr. Mohsen Moghaddam, Assistant Professor at the College of Engineering at Northeastern University. Human-centered computing holds the potential to foster a symbiotic relationship between humans and technology in industrial workplaces, prioritizing augmentation over substitution with software and machines. How can we bring this…Continue…

  • Dr. Eileen McGivney

    On November 8th, 2023, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by Dr. Eileen McGivney, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media, and Design. Virtual reality can be a powerful tool to bring activities into the classroom that are otherwise difficult or impossible, like operating machinery in outer space or having unlimited practice…Continue…

  • Dr. Sarah Dryden-Peterson

    On February 15th, 2023, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by Dr. Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Founder and Director of Refugee Reach, which engages in research, education and action to support communities and quality education in settings of migration and displacement around the globe. Next Level…Continue…

  • Steven Isaacs and Benjamin Kelly

    On February 8th, 2023, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by Steven Isaacs, Education Program Manager with Epic Games, and Benjamin (Ben) Kelly, Educator with Anglophone East School District in New Brunswick, Canada. Faculty Director of the Next Level Lab, Dr. Tina Grotzer, situated Steven and Benjamin’s presentation in larger discussions of climate and…Continue…

  • Dr. David Perkins

    On November 2, 2022, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by David Perkins, Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a founding member of Harvard Project Zero, entitled SURFING ON QUICKSAND: Navigating a World of Information, Opinion, and Spin. Dr. Perkins conducts research on creativity in the arts and sciences, informal reasoning, problem solving, understanding, individual…Continue…

  • Dr. Rovy Branon

    On May 11, 2022, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by Dr. Rovy Branon, Vice Provost for University of Washington Continuum College. Dr. Branon’s presentation, Lifelong Learning and the 60-Year Curriculum, explored the ways advances in instructional design can support learners over the course of their lifetime. The University of Washington Continuum College was used as a…Continue…

  • Dr. Pattie Maes

    On April 27, 2022, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by Dr. Pattie Maes, Professor of Media Technology at MIT’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences and the director of the MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces research group. Devices put the world’s information and knowledge at our finger tips, but they do not help us…Continue…

  • Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

    On April 13, 2022, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Professor of Education, Psychology, and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, and Director of the USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education (CANDLE). This talk summarized the findings from a five-year transdisciplinary study on educating for…Continue…

  • Dr. Sae Schatz

    On March 30, 2022, the Next Level Lab hosted a presentation by Dr. Sae Schatz, Director of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, a science, technology, and policy program under the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the U.S. Department of Defense. Before joining the government in 2015, Dr. Schatz worked as an applied human–systems…Continue…

  • Dr. Bror Saxberg

    On March 2, 2022 the Next Level Lab welcomed Dr. Bror Saxberg as a guest for the Distinguished Speaker Series. Dr. Saxberg is the founder of the recently launched learning engineering consulting firm LearningForge, LLC, and was previously the Vice President of Learning Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Chief Learning Officer of Kaplan,…Continue…

  • Dr. Ruth Kanfer

    The Next Level Lab Distinguished Speaker Series launched on February 9, 2022 with a presentation from Dr. Ruth Kanfer, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Work Science Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In her presentation, Adult Learning Related to Work: A Person-Centric Perspective, Dr. Kanfer discussed adult learning at scale, which includes the…Continue…