This is the keynote address from the 2013 Academic Practice and Technology Conference by Dr Rachel Armstrong entitled ‘My TEDucation: challenges and opportunities in university learning for a networked and radically open age’. She presents some fascinating insights into the modern discourses and debates around e-learning.
It was presented on the 2nd of July 2013 at the University of Greenwich
Rachel Armstrong is a Co-Director of AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) specializing in Architecture & Synthetic Biology, University of Greenwich, London. She is also a 2010 Senior TED Fellow, and Visiting Research Assistant at the Center for Fundamental Living Technology, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark. Rachel has been consistently recognised as a pioneer by: Readers Digest 2013 Extreme Thinkers, Chip Chick’s Top 9 Inspiring Women of 2012, Red Bull’s ‘Momentum’ series covering Future Venice, a Top Ten UK innovator by Director Magazine and featured in the Top Ten ‘big ideas, 10 original thinkers’ for BBC Focus Magazine and selected as one of BMW/Wired’s Change Accelerators.