Arizona Dreams: An Initiative of Arizona State University to Digitize Education
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheThrough its EdPlus Initiative, Arizona State University, one of the biggest universities in the United States and this year’s guest at the Technology Symposium, has taken aim at improving education worldwide. It began with a few online classes which have grown to 175 online programmes for more than 30,000 students. Furthermore, new ideas and tools for improving digital teaching are constantly being developed.
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Robert PAGE
University Provost Emeritus and Regents Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
| 1976 | B.S., Entomology; Chemistry, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA |
| 1980 | Ph.D., Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA |
| 1986-1989 | Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, OH |
| 1989-1991 | Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA |
| 1991-2004 | Professor, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA |
| 1999-2004 | Chair, Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA |
| 2001-2005 | External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2004-2014 | Foundation Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| since 2004 | Chair and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis, CA |
| 2004-2010 | Founding Director, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2011-2013 | Vice Provost and Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2014-2015 | University Provost, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2014-2018 | Foundation Chair of Life Sciences |
| 2015-2017 | External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2015-2019 | Regents Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| since 2015 | University Provost Emeritus, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| since 2019 | Regents Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
Ph.D. Peter SCHLOSSER
Vice President and Vice Provost, Global Futures Initiative, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
| Peter Schlosser is the vice president and vice provost of the Global Futures Initiative at ASU. He is the University Professor of Global Futures and holds joint appointments in the School of Sustainability, the School of Earth and Space Exploration in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. | |
| Professor Schlosser joined ASU in 2018. Professor Schlosser is one of the world’s leading earth scientists, with expertise in the Earth’s hydrosphere and how humans affect the planet’s natural state. He comes to ASU from Columbia University where he was the Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics and Chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the deputy director and director of research at the Earth Institute. He also was a member and the founding chair of the Earth Institute faculty and a member of the senior staff at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. His prior positions included a professorship at the University of Heidelberg and a visiting professorship at the University of Washington-Seattle. | |
| He has published more than 180 articles in leading journals. |
Ph.D. Manfred LAUBICHLER
Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology, and Director, Center for Biosocial Complex Systems, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
| 1991 | M.Sc., Zoology, University of Vienna |
| 1993 | M. Phil., Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 1997 | Ph.D., Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 1998 | MA, History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| 2001-2007 | Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| since 2002 | Scientific Member and External Faculty, KLI, Klosterneuburg |
| 2007-2012 | Full Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2009-2010 | Appointed Fellow and Convener of a Research Group, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin |
| 2009-2015 | Director, Life Sciences, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| since 2009 | Adjunct Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA |
| since 2011 | External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2011-2017 | Associate Director, Origins Project, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| since 2012 | President’s Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology; Director, Evolutionary Theory Core, Complex Adaptive Systems, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| since 2013 | Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin |
| since 2014 | Director, ASU-SFI Center for Complex Biosocial Systems, Santa Fe, NM |
| since 2015 | Advisor to the Provost for International Research Collaborations; Visiting Professor and Director, ASU-Leuphana Center for Global Sustainability and Cultural Transformation, Leuphana University, Lüneburg |
| since 2016 | Scientific Advisory Board; Humboldt University, Berlin; Complexity Science Hub, Vienna |
| since 2017 | Scientific Advisory Board, KLI, Klosterneuburg; Director, Global Biosocial Complexity Initiative, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
