2021 Berlin Summer School

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2021 Berlin Summer School
Freie Universität Berlin, September 19 to 24

Hosted by our partner, the Freie Universität Berlin, the 2021 programme will be delivered in a hybrid format, with four compact online sessions held between May and September, when the residential school commences. Click here to view the full online and residential programme.

The application deadline is Thursday 29 April, 2021.

Places are limited so apply early to secure your place.

The programme is an intensive, hands-on, peer learning experience. The Summer School will extend your transformation management skills, broaden your international professional networks and enhance your personal impact.

Read what our participants over the past couple of years say about their Berlin Summer School experience here.

Designing the Total Student Experience for a Digital Era

Interactive workshop & webinar

March 18 2021, 13:00-14:30 CET

12 months in, we now understand all too well that the pre- and post-COVID worlds are dramatically different.

In the pre-COVID world, most Universities followed a standard playbook for supporting the student experience. But since the first lockdowns of 2020 and the rapid shift to online teaching and support, that playbook has been openly questioned. Many institutions now feel that they are scrambling to meet student expectations of online provision and support.

What do we know about post-COVID student expectations and their levels of satisfaction with online provision? What have we learned so far about delivering an effective digital student experience? What role will ubiquitous digitisation have on student experience strategy and delivery? What are the other big changes underway amplifying technological changes and their impact on the student experience?

These are just some of the issue we hope to explore in our interactive workshop and webinar, delivered with our partner EAB, about designing a Total Student Experience in a Digital Era.

This free 90-minute programme aims to offer a peer learning experience for our members and senior leaders of the student experience, using a combination of small group workshops and plenary webinar sessions.

Save the date and register here

HUMANE autumn webinar programme
No way back: opportunities emerging in a post-Covid world

Designing the student experience of tomorrow:
three scenarios for a post-Covid world

Thursday 5th November 14.00–15.00 CET

We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for this event, to be delivered in partnership with EAB. Registration is free and open to HUMANE members and residential school alumni.

The rapid impact of demographic ageing, and the application of Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented Realty and Big Data to new models of higher education pre-dated Covid, but the pandemic has accelerated consideration of these matters at a breakneck pace.

What will students’ experience of higher education look like in a world where life expectancy in Western Europe will increase to 100 years?; where embedded education technology will not be the exception, but the norm?; where the average shelf-life of knowledge imparted in a typical undergraduate degree programme will continue to decline, but more rapidly?; where the rates of participation in forms of higher education, will continue to grow?

Conducted in collaboration with our partner, EAB, our 5 November webinar will explore these and other questions through the lens of three potential scenarios. We’ll consider the big trends playing out on both sides of the pandemic, in a lively and engaging webinar format making liberal use of online collaboration tools.

Take a step into the future…and register now to secure your place!