Plenary Speakers

The Ubiquitous Learning: An International Conference will feature plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field, as well as numerous parallel presentations by researchers and practitioners.

Nicholas C. Burbules

Garden Conversations

Plenary Speakers will make formal 30-minute presentations. They will also participate in 60-minute Garden Conversations – unstructured sessions that allow delegates a chance to meet the speakers and talk with them informally about the issues arising from their presentation.

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The Speakers

Nicholas C. Burbules

Nicholas C. Burbules is the Gutgsell Professor in the Department of Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His primary research focuses on philosophy of education; teaching though dialogue; and technology and education.

He is the Director of the Ubiquitous Learning Institute, dedicated to the study of new models of “anywhere, anytime” teaching and learning, given the proliferation of mobile technologies and pervasive wireless connectivity. He has published several papers and given numerous talks on “ubiquitous learning.” He is currently the Education Director for the National Center on Professional and Research Ethics, located at Illinois.

His most recent books are Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher, coauthored with Michael Peters and Paul Smeyers (2010, Paradigm Press) and Feminisms and Educational Research, coauthored with Wendy Kohli (2012, Rowman and Littlefield). He is also the Editor of Educational Theory.