What is the E21 Consortium?
The E21 Consortium hosts yearly events, which focus on critical issues around technology and education.
E21 Consortium
The goal of the E21 Consortium is to encourage disruptive dialogue within and across four spheres of engagement to break conventional thinking and explore alternative ways of imagining, conceptualizing and conveying a wide-range of emerging and evolving questions in the educational arena writ large.
Make a meaningful difference for learners across the world is an ultimate goal.
Vision
The impetus of this initiative is to bring the right people together to engage and provoke a strong dialogue from which will emerge a vision that anticipates the broad ramifications of education in the 21st Century.
Goal
The goal is to encourage disruptive dialogue within and across four spheres of engagement – to break conventional thinking and explore alternative ways of imagining, conceptualizing and conveying a wide-range of emerging and evolving questions in the educational arena writ large.
Global network
Developing a strong and global network of parties interested in uniting thoughts and actions to imagine Education in the 21st Century is an equally important goal.
Members
In order to achieve this vision and these goals, the Consortium E21 brings together representatives of educational institutions (all levels), organizations, and associations directly or indirectly linked to education, government agencies, and private sector companies, from the Ottawa-Gatineau region, from Canada and from other parts of the world.
Balancing local and global perspectives while envisioning the education of the 21st Century is indeed essential to root discussions in the cultural and socio-economic realities of societies.
For more information about E21 Consortium, visit our About Us page.
Symposium 2021: Re-thinking the Relevance of Higher Education
The theme of the 2021 conference is “Re-thinking the Relevance of Higher Education: Which model could best respond to the needs of a 21st century society”. This conference is designed to challenge educators to re-think how the delivery of education in a post-pandemic society meets the needs and expectations of both students and employers.
THE E21 CONSORTIUM WILL:
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BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER Bring people together to engage and provoke strong dialogue to anticipate the broad ramifications of education in the 21st Century. |
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ENCOURAGE DISRUPTIVE DIALOGUE Encourage disruptive dialogue – to break conventional thinking and explore alternative ways of imagining, conceptualizing and conveying a wide-range of emerging and evolving questions in the educational arena writ large. |
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DEVELOP A GLOBAL NETWORK Develop a strong and global network of parties interested in uniting thoughts and actions to imagine Education in the 21st Century. |
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MAKE A DIFFERENCE Make a meaningful difference for learners across the world. |
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BALANCE PERSPECTIVES Balance local and global perspectives while envisioning the education of the 21st Century is indeed essential to root discussions in the cultural and socio-economic realities of societies. |
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BRIDGE LIFELONG LEARNING Education in the 21st Century is seen in its longitudinally of life-long learning, bridging K through 12, to post-secondary education to the work place, and its horizontality, recognizing the important complementarity of formal, informal, and non-formal learning opportunities. |
THEY SAY
As AI continues to progress and businesses across the globe benefit from its capabilities, it is important to ensure that the technology is being harnessed for good, to create a better, fairer society. AI systems are already superior to humans in certain tasks such as image recognition, data analysis and problem solving tasks. These advances present a wealth of ethical questions surrounding biases that could appear in the data, security issues, and potential consequences if systems are hacked or used irresponsibly.
Abhishek Gupta, Founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute
If we build a machine with the intellectual capability of one human, within five years, its successor will be more intelligent than all of humanity combined. After one generation or two generations, they’d just ignore us. Just the way you ignore the ants in your backyard.
James Barrat, Documentary Filmmaker
