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Learning 4.0:
Connecting the Dots;
Reaching the Unreached
The Second Annual Future of Learning Conference 2019

DATE VENUE
January 4-5, 2019 IIM Bangalore
Bangalore, India

IMPORTANT DATES

Last date of submission of abstracts: Final paper submissions:

November 20, 2018 December 20, 2018

Communication of acceptance of papers:

November 30, 2018

W W W. F U T U R E O F L E A R N I N G C O N F E R E N C E . C O M
 The Second Annual Future of Learning 2018 Conference
Learning 4.0: Connecting the Dots and Reaching the Unreached
The educational sector is set for a major and likely disruptive
makeover. A decade ago the possibility of unlimited and
unfettered access to education appeared far-fetched. Driven by the
forces of globalisation, advances in information and
communication technologies, and the next generation of tech-
savvy learners, education is fast evolving toward an open, always
available and personalised model, possibly breaking the
stranglehold of traditional universities.
The enticing promise of digitalisation in transforming the
educational sector is now uncontested by both educationists and
policymakers. Expectations that digital innovations would make
learning both affordable and accessible has been a dominant
theme driving these discussions. Despite occasional successes, the
impact of digital technologies in transforming education have been
constrained due to a variety of reasons. These include lack of
supporting infrastructure, financial constraints faced by learners,
technology barriers, diffused efforts due to the emergence of
multiple competing platforms and business models, and simply a
lack of interest among the key stakeholders in the educational
system.
India is a good case in point. Despite the emphasis on a digital
transformation of the economy, the digital divide is huge. With the
internet penetration in urban and rural areas pegged at 65
percent and 20 percent, over 50 percent of India’s population is
unserved or underserved with regards to educational services.The
situation in much of South Asia is similar with 65 percent of the
population with limited or no access to the internet.
Papers on the above and related themes are invited from researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
Please submit your abstracts not exceeding 300 words to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fol2019
What accounts for these gaps in technology, policy and practice?
How can these gaps be bridged? How can advances in technology
be leveraged to make high-quality education affordable, accessible
and empowering for the vast majority of the population that is
unserved or underserved.
The second edition of the Future of Learning Conference 2019
aims to highlight innovation and foster dialogues between major
actors shaping 21st-century learning models, namely, academics,
entrepreneurs, regulators and technologists.
The 2019 conference will address the following issues:
· What should be the learning model 4.0 in line with the
 principles of industry 4.0?
· How do we bring in the vast majorities of underserved
 learners into the emerging learning networks?
· What barriers to transformation exist and how may they
 be overcome?
· Which business or financial models are likely to be
 successful?
· Which ecosystem elements needs to evolve? What policy
  interventions may be needed?
Details of the first conference on Future of Learning can be
accessed at http://www.futureoflearningconference.com/
PARTIAL LIST OF SPEAKERS @FOL2018 PARTIAL LIST OF ORGANISATIONS @FOL2018

Ajit Parulekar, Goa Institute of Management Accenture NPTEL, IIT Madras

Amit Goyal, EdX Aeon Learning NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore 
Anant Agarwal, EdX Bosch Limited Philips
Andrew Ng, Coursera British Council Planet Ganges
Andrew Thangaraj, IIT Madras Christ University Quest Alliance
Bala Girisaballa, Microsoft Accelerator CMBSMS Red Hat India
Deepak B. Phatak, IIT Bombay CogBooks SWAYAM
Dinesh Kumar, IIM Bangalore Coursera T.I.M.E.
Giridhar S, Azim Premji University Crafitti Consulting TIFR
Gopal Devanahalli, MeritTrac EdX Tiny Magiq
Ishan Gupta, Udacity India EkStep Foundation TutorComp Infotech
Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera Ellipsonic India Udacity
Karthik K.S., AEON Learning Emeritus Institute University of Edinburgh
Krish Shankar, Infosys Fidelity UpGrad Education
Mangala Sunder K., IIT Madras FutureLearn Vidzik
Mayank Kumar, UpGrad GoCrackIt Edutech Pvt Ltd Vmware
Michael Gallagher, University of Edinburgh Gray Matters Capital
Mohan Kannegal, Emeritus HasGeek Learning
Mohandas Pai, Manipal Global Education IBM Research - India
Nandan Nilekani, EkStep IIT Bombay
Neelu Rohmetra, IIM Sirmaur IIT MAdras
Pankaj Mittal, UGC IIM Bangalore
Parameswaran N., MHRD IIM Ahmedabad
Prathap Haridoss, IIT Madras IIM Sirmaur
Pratik Mehta, Microsoft India IIM Indore
Raghuram G, IIM Bangalore Impartus Innovations
Rajan Saxena, NMIMS Indus Business Academy
Rajiv Jayaraman, Knolskape Infosys Ltd
Renuka Sindhgatta, IBM Research-India Intercon International
Rishikesha Krishnan, IIM Indore KNOLSKAPE
Ronnie Screwvala, UpGrad KVIMIS
Shailendra Mehta, MICA Mahindra And Mahindra
Simon Nelson, FutureLearn Mahindra Research Valley
Sridhar Iyer, IIT Bombay Manipal University
Sudhir Bhaskaran, Red Hat India McGraw Hill Education
Suresh Bhagavatula, IIM Bangalore MeritTrac
Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU MICA
Vasanthi Srinivasan, IIM Bangalore Microsoft Accelerator
Microsoft Education
Microsoft India
 FOL 2019: Learning 4.0: 
Connecting the Dots;
Reaching the Unreached

ABOUT IIMBx ABOUT IIT BOMBAYx

IIMBx is founded on the philosophy that management
education has strong potential to transform our
educational systems and that high quality education must
be available to all unconstrained by limitations imposed
by location, finances or prior educational background.
The vision of the IIMBx program is to use digital learning
to enable widespread access to management education.
Lead by the faculty at IIM Bangalore, IIMBx offers
MOOCs through EdX, a not-for-profit online initiative of
Harvard and MIT, to more than 6,00,000 learners from
190+ countries. It offers MOOCs on the Swayam
platform – a Government of India initiative. IIMBx runs
special blended learning programs to cater to learning
requirements of educational institutions and corporates.
For more information, write to:
digital.learning@iimbx.edu.in.
IIT BombayX is the online education educational service of
IIT Bombay. IIT BombayX is built on open EdX and offers
MOOCs to Indian learners. IIT BombayX is used for
Faculty Development Programs (FDP), hybrid MOOCs,
flipped classroom, school teacher training, and skill
development. So far, IIT BombayX has offered 56 courses
to over 1,60,000 learners. Over 17,000 teachers have
participated in the Faculty Development Programs. IIT
BombayX offers hybrid MOOCs to students combining the
benefits of a high quality MOOC and face to face learning
from IIT Bombay faculty and local college teachers. Over
65 institutions and 55,000 students are using hybrid
MOOCs offered on IIT BombayX. For more information,
write to: info@iitbombayx.in.

IIT Bombay, established in 1958, has emerged as a

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB),
established in 1973, is EQUIS accredited and offers a
range of doctoral, post-graduate and executive education
programmes. Located in India’s hi-tech capital, IIMB is
strategically positioned to expose students to all facets of
India’s growing economy. At the core of IIMB is its faculty
– a 100-plus group of highly qualified researches,
educators and practitioners from the best universities and
business schools of the world. They generate knowledge
through cutting-edge research in all functional areas of
management and their research is published in leading
academic and practitioner journals. For more details, visit
https://www.iimb.ac.in.
leading Institute in India. It is globally recognized for its
quality education and strong research programs. Located
in Powai, one of the northern suburbs of Mumbai, the
residents of the institute reap the advantage of being the
busy financial capital of India. Its residential campus is
home to over 8000 students, 500 faculty members, 14
departments, 6 centers and 3 inter-disciplinary
programmes. Research and academic programmes at IIT
Bombay are driven by an outstanding faculty, many of
whom are reputed for their research contributions
internationally. The Institute has a research programme in
Education Technology that attempts to evolve the most
effective learning-teaching processes. For more details, visit
https://www.iitb.ac.in.

For more details and to register  please visit or write to:

Website: http://www.futureoflearningconference.com/
Email: fol2019@iimb.ac.in
Contact: +91 80 26993479 / +91 80 26993000

Papers on the conference themes as well as topics related to digital learning  are invited 
from researchers, practitioners and policymakers.   Please submit your abstracts not exceeding 300 words to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fol2019