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I am Emeritus Professor of Education and former Head of the School of Education and Social Work (2012-16) at the University of Sussex. Currently I am Guest Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Karlstad University in Sweden where I work with the ROSE research group - 'Research on Subject-specific Education'. As part of this collaboration, I am a Co-Investigator for the KOSS Network: "Knowledge and Quality across School Subjects and Teacher Education” supported through an Educational Sciences network grant (2018-03603) from the Swedish Research Council (2019-2022).
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Digital skills and training manager at Keele University with over 17 years experience in higher education, training staff and students in digital skills / capabilities, learning technologies and digitally supported teaching and learning.
Experience of scoping and building bespoke solutions / applications for the management of student placement data and assessments.
Governor and Data Protection Officer (DPO) for local primary school
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I am an Professor of Digital Innovation and a National Teaching Fellow with over 20 years experience in a variety of teaching and learning roles. I am currently the Head of Games Design and Technologies at Staffordshire University. My research themes include Virtual Reality, Student Engagement, Serious Games, and Learning Communities. My research aims to make novel and innovative technologies more inclusive and accessible.
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I'm the founder and director of an education program in Hpa-an, Myanmar. I also take on consultancy work for curriculum and textbook design, and have worked with the University of Hong Kong on their Nurturing Global Leaders (formerly Migrant Outreach Education Initiative program) program for over a decade. I'm currently studying towards an EdD with Reading University UK and have a research interest in integrating technology into mainstream teaching.
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Louise is Associate Dean (Academic Quality & Student Experience) in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. She was formerly Head of Belfast School of Art and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2014); elected Faculty Representative to Ulster University Senate (Jan 2022); professional member of Institute of Designers Ireland (2018); Chair of the Group for Learning in Art and Design in Higher Education (GLADHE); and a full member of Centre for Higher Education and Research Practice, Ulster University.
Her research interests include investigating the role of the artist as social commentator, and the evolution of teaching and learning practices in art and design tertiary level education.
Louise has exhibited work and presented her research both nationally and internationally. She has been commissioned by both private and public bodies to create a number of public artworks, complete research, feasibility studies, education, training and manage arts projects. She has worked extensively in the community and schools sectors on a wide variety of projects and initiatives. Louise has received a number of awards both for her arts practice and pedagogic research. For more information see http://louiseoboyle.com
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Dr Martina Emke coordinates a pool of experts in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education, which is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Sciences of the federal state of North Rhine-Westfalia in Germany. As an Affiiliated Researcher at the Open University, UK, she has been involved in research projects focusing on online language teaching and language teacher professional development. Since 2008, she has been working in projects for the European Centre for Modern Languages, which seek to help language teachers improve their digital teaching skills.
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Sandra Abegglen is Researcher at the University of Calgary (Canada).
Her research interests are in digital education, academic literacies, peer mentoring, creative learning and teaching methods, inclusion, visual narratives, identity, and qualitative methods.
She has written about her research and teaching practice in a variety of journals. She has also published three books and several book chapters.
Sandra has a background in education, social science, social work and nursing enabling her to work multi- and inter-disciplinary.
She has been awarded the Team Teaching Award 2020 by the University of Calgary, Canada.
She is a certified practitioner in learning development by the Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (UK); a Higher Education Academy (UK) fellow; a Scientific Committee Member for the International Conference on Mentoring in Teacher education and Professional Training ICM; a Board member for the International Conference on Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology ICEMST; and a Steering Committee member of the Teaching Academy, Taylor Institute for Learning and Teaching, University of Calgary.
Twitter: @sandra_abegglen
Personal Website: https://sandra-abegglen.com/
Website: https://taloncloud.ca
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Dr. Ayyıldız is a translator/interpreter, sociologist, teacher trainer, language instructor and holds MA and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Educational Management.
She worked as a head teacher, academic coordinator, dean of students and director of English preparatory school in higher education institutions.
To date she has taught several courses in various faculties. She has worked on topics like Epistemology of Educational Sciences.
She holds various academic memberships and is the reviewer/editor of international journals.
She is an assistant professor of Management Information Systems Department and the director of Center of Research and Learning (CORaL) in Ankara Medipol University, Turkey.
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I am a Learning Designer for Heriot-Watt Online at Heriot-Watt University. My role is to provide pedagogical expertise to support and advise faculty members in the design and construction of new online courses, using initiative and innovation to help shape the student experience.
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I am a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the Open University. I have led the development of several digital skills-related online resources including the "Digital Thinking Tools" badged open course and the OpenLearn resource "Introduction to Computational Thinking". I'm leading a collaborative project (Open University, Cambridge, Sheffield and Toshiba) entitled "Opening Up Minds: engaging dialogue generated from argument maps" and have investigated the use of online argument mapping activities for the development of critical thinking skills. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.