Speakers at Learning, Innovation and the use of Information


Speakers
	Carol Collier Kuhlthau Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University where she directed the graduate program in school librarianship that has been rated number one in the country by U.S. News. She achieved the rank of Professor II, a special rank at Rutgers requiring additional review beyond that for full professor. She also chaired the Department of Library and Information Science and was the founding director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL). She is internationally known for her groundbreaking research on the Information Search Process and for the ISP model of affective, cognitive and physical aspects in six stages of information seeking and use. She has authored Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services and Teaching the Library Research Process and published widely in referred journals and edited volumes. A new book, Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century, authored with her daughters Leslie K. Maniotes and Ann K. Caspari is in press.	Theme Programme Poster session Speakers Registration Accomodation Maps Documents Contact Start page
	Lars Qvortrup Dean of the Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus. Qvortrup has for quite a few years conducted analyses of society, social development and developments in the field of media. He is particularly inspired by the sociological systems theory based on the work of Niklas Luhmann. His research areas are: Digital media; knowledge, the knowledge society and theory of knowledge; issues in science and society, science philosophy and epistemology as well as in theory of recognition. Qvortrup has published extensively and lectured all over the world, including North- and South America, Australia, China, India, and most European countries.
	Sharon Markless Sharon Markless, King’s College London, is a part-time lecturer in Higher Education within KILT. She taught in secondary schools, further and adult education before becoming a Senior Lecturer in Professional Development at Canterbury Christ Church University College. In addition, she was a Senior Research Officer at the National Foundation for Educational Research for six years. Her main research interests are teaching information literacy; the impact of library and information services on teaching and learning; and developing professional practice through action research.
	Susanne Justesen Ph.d., business researcher, lecturer, and founder of Innoversity Consulting and the international network Innoversity.org. Susanne Justesen is a leading expert within the field of innovation and diversity. She coined the term innoversity in 2001 in a working paper on how staff diversity can be used to enhance innovation performance in companies. The focus of her research is the need for diversity – and the threat of homogeneity – amongst employees in creating and sustaining corporate innovation. Since 2000 she has been working with innoversity as both business researcher and as a consultant assisting clients in benefiting from diversity in innovation. Susanne writes her own column about innovation and diversity in the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende and organises the bi-annual international conference “Innovating with Diversity”. At the moment, Susanne is setting up an Innoversity Lab for ten Fortune500 companies in the U.S., which will be launched in February ’08. In all these settings, Susanne’s role is centered on breaking, crossing and spanning the boundaries between disciplines, cultures and differences in order to benefit from the diversity in corporate innovation. Susanne Justesen has been working with a range of different organisations and clients on how to become better at innovating with diversity; noteworthy among these are Procter & Gamble, IBM, Kraft Food, ECCi (UK), Lego, Arla Foods, Deloitte, Danish Design Centre, Novozymes, Novo Nordisk, Leo Pharma, Danske Bank, TCD, The Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Jyske BanK and Pfizer. Susanne Justesen has written extensively on the subject, and is a much-sought lecturer.
	Hanne Leth Andersen Professor, PhD, Head of Centre for Development in University Teaching, Faculties of the Humanities and Theology, Aarhus University, Hanne Leth Andersen works with teaching methods and learning processes primarily at university and high school level, focussing on language and communication, academic writing skills, supervision and dialogue. With twenty years of teaching experience from secondary school, adult education and all university levels in French language, literature and linguistics, Hanne Leth Andersen develops theory and practice both in the areas of language didactics and of general university pedagogy. Her publications and her oral contributions at conferences range from linguistics, spoken and written language, language didactics and language awareness to general ideas of progression in learning and supervision both as a method of teaching and as a method for teacher development.
	Jannica Heinström Research Associate, Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries, (CISSL), Rutgers University, USA. Dr. Jannica Heinstrom earned a Masters Degree in Psychology in 1994 from Abo Akademi University and a PhD (Information Studies) in 2002, and has studied at the Department of Information Studies, Sheffield, UK, (1998) and as a member of the Finnish "National Doctoral Programme for Communication and Information Studies". Published her Ph.d. dissertation: Fast Surfers, Broad Scanners and Deep Divers, (2002). She served as Lecturer and Researcher in the same department, Information Studies, at Abo Akademi University. She joined the IMLS project "Impact of School Libraries on Student Learning" at CISSL, together with Professors Kuhlthau, Todd and Wacholder.
	David Streatfield David Streatfield, MA (Information Studies); ALA, Principal of Information Management Associates. David Streatfield offers more than twenty five years' experience of information management in organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors. He has worked as a manager in the Confederation of British Industry, as well as in central and local government, as managing director for a major national training and consultancy company, and as a senior manager with Britain's leading educational research organisation. He has led a series of national research projects on management and information management issues over a twenty year period and conducted major consultancy projects in the UK and Europe as well as Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. He has been National Head of the European Community Education Policy Information System (known as Eurydice) and a Consultant to the Vienna Centre (the European Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences). He is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Information Management and is a member of the Society of Education Consultants.
	Bent B. Andresen Bent B. Andresen is Associate Professor at Department of Curriculum Research, School of Education, University of Aarhus. He holds a Ph.d. in education from the Royal Danish School of Educational Studies and a Master’s degree in cultural sociology from the University of Copenhagen. His main research areas are: human learning and competency development in relation to different phases in life and different conditions, particularly IT as a condition for learning; didactics and institutional development, including school development; research and evaluation methods, including comparative methods. Bent B. Andresen has lectured and written extensively on these subjects. His work is funded by the Danish Research Council, the EU, UNESCO, University of Copenhagen, the Danish Ministry of Education among others.
	Rikke Christensen Business Development Manager at InnovationMaster. InnovationMaster is a new strategic business unit established by Gabriel, where radical product- and process innovation is created with focus on the consumers’ needs. This is carried out in collaboration with leading partners on the international market within different industries, RTOs and universities. The background for the establishment of this new international centre for innovation and project development is the realization that the improvement of the purchase parameters in the European industry during the 80s and 90s is no longer sufficient to differentiate companies on the global market. To achieve business growth and sustainability during the next decade, it will be necessary for the industry to focus on developing the ability to add value to what it offers. InnovationMaster offers cooperation on: idea generation processes; project management; establishment of financing options; and establishment of partnerships on a given project collaboration. Gabriel was the winner of the Innovation Cup 2007. Rikke Christensen has a background in engineering. She has a long history of working with and living in Asia pacific, where she among other jobs has worked as General manager for Gabriel’s China Office.
	Palle Rasmussen Palle Rasmussen is professor of education and learning research in the Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University. For some years he directed the Study for the Interdisciplinary Study of Learning, a national centre for research teaching and development in the area of learning processes. His research areas include social differentiation and inequality in education; lifelong learning; learning and innovation in work organisations; educational policy; educational globalisation. Professor Rasmussen has headed several major research projects, most recently a project on adult education in the Danish peripheries. He has had much experience with evaluation and development projects in collaboration with partners in business and public services. He has also participated in several international research networks and has published extensively in his research fields.
	Claus Rosenstand Ph.D., Associate Professor, InDiMedia (Research Centre for Digital, Interactive Media), Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University. Claus Rosenstand's research and teaching centers around the constructing aspects of digital media (theory, method, technology, organization - management and business development - as well as innovation and educational theory). Claus takes a special interest in the educational function of research libraries in relation to multidisciplinary study programmes with an emphasis on need-based pedagogics that provides the framework for the student's innovative work and development. Claus is a co-founder of the computer-game company Tonic Games (www.tonicgames.dk), the online shop-community design company HyperDress (www.NotABrand.com), as well as the e-learning company Zenaria, which is now a part of EDG (www.edvantagegroup.com). Apart from InDiMedia, Claus is currently attached to the Center for Experience Economy, Creative Industries and Technologies at Aalborg University (www.indimedia.dk), the Technology Centre for Applied Experience Economy (www.apex-center.dk), the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, and the Humanistic Informatics study programme likewise at Aalborg University.
	Maj Rosenstand Assistant Director Maj Rosenstand, Aalborg University Library, is responsible for the library's various information services, including user instruction and teaching, the circulation desk, interlibrary loan, contact to borrowers, and development of new information services. She is head of the library's information specialist team, as well as of the Branch Library for Natural Science and Technology. She has worked extensively with the development of user instruction, e-learning and library development. She has published a number of articles on these subjects, and is the co-editor of the recently published anthology Fra information til læring: Bibliotek og uddnnelse i vidensamfundet which is available in Danish at: http://ej.lib.cbs.dk/index.php/antologier/
	Maria Carme Torras Dr. Maria-Carme Torras i Calvo is a senior academic librarian at University of Bergen Library. As well as working as a subject librarian, she designs and teaches user education courses in information literacy. She has managed the project 'Learning centres at the University of Bergen Library' (2004-2005), which aimed at developing a student-centred information literacy education programme for the university library. She has also co-managed the project 'Digital Literacy through Flexible Learning' (http://www.ub.uib.no/prosj/DK/index.htm) (2004-2006). The goal of this project was to design an information literacy tutorial for distance education postgraduate students. The tutorial 'Søk og Skriv' ('Search and Write') aims at improving students' information literacy by presenting information searching as a process that goes hand in hand with the academic writing process. The tutorial also focuses on the critical, creative and ethic use of information. Dr. Torras is currently the head of the teaching board at the University of Bergen Library. Since 2005, she has been a member of the IFLA Section for Information Literacy.
	Therese Skagen Therese Skagen works as an academic librarian at Bergen University Library. She holds an MA degree in Psychology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has participated in the Bergen University library's pedagogical development projects. She has co-managed the project 'Digital Literacy through Flexible Learning'. She is editor of the new peer-review journal "Nordic journal of Information literacy in Higher Education".
	Karen Harbo Development consultant, Librarian / Master in IT, Language and Learning,ASB Library, The School of Business, Aarhus University. Development consultant and responsible for the library development initiative U2: Integration between library and learning. The work is development-orientated in the following ways: Information competence including methods for searching and handling information in the learning process and personal knowledge management (PKM) Presentation of the library resources in relevant learning contexts Presentation of specific and relevant tools for supporting learning processes. The development group co-operates with resource persons from the Aarhus School of Business, the educations at the University of Aarhus and from external information scientific environments. Besides, the development group co-operates in project environments with relevant external partners. The development group plans and runs all the library educational activities. Participation in projects: Co-ordinator in the DEFF project The Libraries as an active learning partner – New roles for the Research Libraries (2005-2007) www.deff.dk Participant in the EU project E-MOVE. An operational conception of virtual mobility http://www.eadtu.nl/e%2Dmove/
	Solveig Bach Sandal M.L.I.Sc./Librarian, ASB Library, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus. Solveig works with reference services, counseling and tutoring in information seeking. She is the library’s contact to the Department of Marketing and Statistics, and a member of the U2 Development Group working with integration between library and learning i.e. learning and the use of information in higher education. Currently Solveig is also working with social technologies in organizations, research libraries, and in the private sphere.
	Søren Hansen Associate Professor, Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University. His main research areas are: Facilitation of students’ creativity in the university’s engineering programmes; the role of the counselor in problem-oriented project work; engineering didactics in project pedagogy; and intercultural communication in engineering programmes. So far, Søren Hansen’s research has been centered around the development of team member qualifications with an emphasis on the development of the individual’s process competencies. However, his research interests are moving in the direction of the development of process competencies in development companies using project organisation accompanied by a flat organisation structure. His current goal is to connect research and teaching based on the idea that when it comes to selection and structuring of a competence development strategy there is principally no difference between the organisation of a project group at the university and a project group in a development company.
	Niels Maarbjerg Olesen Msc. Economics, is head of the secretariat at the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine and AAU Innovation at Aalborg University. He has participated in a number of institutional initiatives for the purpose of improving the possibilities for transferring and utilising the knowledge and technology of the university in relation to society at large. Among the initiatives are: the establishment of the university’s Network Centre that organizes about 40 research networks; the establishment of a Regional Innovation Forum; the establishment of an Office for Fundraising and Project Management, and the establishment of SEA – Supporting Entrepreneurship at Aalborg University. Furthermore, he is a teacher of business economics focusing on innovation in a strategic and organisational perspective, and has conducted research on the interplay between economic and technological development including innovation processes and -systems.