Linn Friedrichs

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Learning innovation consultant and international educator.
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Linn Friedrichs works at the intersections of institutional leadership, teaching, research, and consulting. She has crafted learning programs for young people between 15 and 23 from more than 80 countries, supported international faculty in innovating their teaching methods, and advised civil society and corporate clients on diversity and inclusion, leadership, strategy, and learning initiatives.

Linn has held senior leadership and teaching roles at New York University (NYU) in Berlin and Mahindra United World College (UWC) in India. She provides coaching and training at 10-in-10‘s Gigatonne Challenge and at key2advance. Grounded in her PhD research on global curriculum design, Linn's current work delves into inclusive teaching, navigating complexity and crises, digital know-how, and envisioning the future landscape of work and education.

Very recently, she became a death doula and a palliative care volunteer.

Sessions

Wie kann uns die Hochschule für die digitale Gesellschaft gelingen?

Linn Friedrichs, Doris Weßels, Frank Ziegele, Oliver Janoschka

Mit der Covid-19 Pandemie und sprunghaften KI-Entwicklungen schauen wir auf zwei Disruptionsmomente der letzten Jahre und diskutieren, was der Innovationsfähigkeit unserer Bildungsinstitutionen im Weg steht und wie wir die Weichen für eine Zukunftshochschule stellen, die Lehre und Forschung für die nachhaltige, digitale Gesellschaft priorisiert.
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AI
Politics & Society
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German
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Death Doula Superpowers – How Learning About Dying Could Actually Save Us.

Linn Friedrichs

Linn's students are ready to act, but feel unequipped to tackle our existential problems. The climate crisis, war, extinction – death has a new presence in education. So Linn turned to those who deal with it daily – and trained in death work. Could learning about dying be our educational superpower?
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Care
Generational Justice
Education & Learning
Lightning Box 1
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English
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