Welcome

Keynote Address

Focused on what strategic priorities can / should be, the keynote session will help to frame why we should care about strategic priorities not just locally, but importantly as a global community as well. Moreover, it will help us to understand how to make this central and foundational work, and will provide insight into the ways in which the operationalization of strategic priorities can lead to more inclusive, equitable, and collaborative learning futures

When Local Strategic Priorities Help Change the World: A Case for Global Alignment

This session will begin with a series of brief “provocations” – short, thought-provoking talks – from global changemakers. Centering the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), each speaker will story their own unique changework and demonstrate how intentionally aligned local strategic priorities can help advance global goals of quality, equitable online, blended, and digital learning spaces. This session will be particularly insightful for those seeking to apply for international grants, enter into global coalition building, as well as those seeking to understand how their work can have greater impact.

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Establishing and Aligning Local Strategic Priorities for Global Impact (Workshop)

Led by facilitators from around the world, this workshop guides participants through the work of setting strategic priorities. Facilitators will provide examples of how they determine strategic priorities at their institutions / organizations and will provide examples for how they align priorities to local action plans and the resources necessary to implement these actions. As a community, we will also return to a discussion of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and identify major challenges across the field of online, blended, and digital learning. Participants will then consider how and with whom they might address global challenges, and identify how to align the priorities of their institutions or organizations to global challenges. By the end of the session, participants should have identified global issues that could be addressed within their local contexts through collective action, as well as developed a series of strategic priorities and ensure alignment both locally and globally.

Key questions:

• What actionable steps can you take to address the challenges most relevant to your local context? Who can you collaborate with? What resources do you need to be successful?
• What SDGs do you connect with the most? What SDGs would be most important to your institution or organization?
• What are the most significant problems that you face in your local context?

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Local Leadership, Collective Action

Panelists will discuss what leadership looks like within their local spaces, what challenges they face as leaders, and how leaders can work effectively with other global leaders.

Key questions:

• What are important leadership qualities within your local context?
• What leadership skills are needed to promote global change?
• How can you apply your leadership skills to make global change?

Day 1 Wrap-Up & Close

Welcome

Plenary Talk: Partnerships for the Goals

We’ve all undoubtedly heard something along the lines of “we can accomplish more together.” That said, why do partnerships actually matter? This plenary talk will explore this fundamental question, and will provide experiential evidence to help center us as a community as we shift into Day 2 of the Global Leadership Impact Summit.

Laying the ground work: What the Work of Establishing Global Partnerships Looks Like Online (Fireside Chat)

Identifying partners and establishing a genuine and meaningful relationship is not always easy. In this fireside chat, we will have the opportunity to engage with personal accounts of what this type of work can look like, and learn from both the successes and mis-steps of leader(s) who have established successful partnerships.

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Making Global Connections

To assist participants in connecting with others both locally and globally, this session makes space for intentional and focused networking across institutions and organizations.

Global Coalition Building and Changemaking at Scale (Part 1)

Designed as a series of back-to-back 30 minute sessions, this portion of Day 2 will showcase partnerships from around the world that have had impact in and across the field of online, blended, and digital learning. These partnerships will represent a range of institutions and organizational contexts. Each session will discuss how global coalition building has benefited them within their local contexts, what strategies have helped them connect with others globally, and how they have made impactful and sustainable changes at scale. By the end of the session, participants will have practical ideas for connecting with others to implement sustainable change.

Key Questions:

• What does global coalition building look like in your local context?
• What strategies can you suggest for making changes, and what barriers have you faced?

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Global Coalition Building and Changemaking at Scale (Part 2)

Designed as a series of back-to-back 30 minute sessions, this portion of Day 2 will showcase partnerships from around the world that have had impact in and across the field of online, blended, and digital learning. These partnerships will represent a range of institutions and organizational contexts. Each session will discuss how global coalition building has benefited them within their local contexts, what strategies have helped them connect with others globally, and how they have made impactful and sustainable changes at scale. By the end of the session, participants will have practical ideas for connecting with others to implement sustainable change.

Key Questions:

• What does global coalition building look like in your local context?
• What strategies can you suggest for making changes, and what barriers have you faced?

Day 2 Wrap-Up & Close: Call-to-Action and Community Planning

As we close the event, we will engage in one final session focused on a collective call-to-action and community planning. This session will afford participants space for additional collaboration and networking and will importantly position them with resources and tools to advance their global coalition building and changemaking efforts into 2024 and beyond.