I am a digital teacher and pedagogue, with experience especially in instructional design, networked learning, digital composition and publishing, collaboration, and editing. I've been working in digital teaching and learning for 16 years. My work in the field of Critical Digital Pedagogy and Critical Instructional Design is founded in the philosophy of Paulo Freire, and finds contemporary analogues in the work of Howard Rheingold, Audrey Watters, Henry Giroux, bell hooks, and Jesse Stommel. I am committed to engaging audiences in critical inspection of digital technologies, and to turning a social justice lens upon education.

I am currently Senior Instructor of Learning, Design, and Technology in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado at Denver. I am also the Director of Digital Pedagogy Lab, an experiential, exploratory professional development gathering for a global digital pedagogy community; and I am the former director and managing editor for Hybrid Pedagogy, a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology. I am the co-author of An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy, and a contributor to Disrupting Digital Humanities, Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, MOOCs and their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education, Applied Pedagogies: Strategies for Online Writing Instruction, and Critical Examinations of Distance Education Transformation Across Disciplines.

I have been working in digital learning environments since 1999, first as an instructional designer, and later as an adjunct instructor and English program chair. I've consulted with institutions and corporations including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Marylhurst University, the Community College of Denver, Udacity, Instructure, the City University of New York, HASTAC, the University of Delaware, the University of Dayton, the American University in Cairo, Iliff School of Theology, Warwick University, Open University, and the University of Mary Washington, among others. I received my M.A. in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Willi Bernhard is a professor at the Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences located in Brig.

He works as an engineer, lecturer, researcher, consultant and author in the fields of Digital-Collaboration, Computer Simulation, Serious Games, Digital Learning and Creativity Training.

He received several innovation awards in the field of simulation technology, is a member of the Board of Swiss Engineering STV „Section Basel“ and head of the Special Interest Group "Digital Collaboration" at the Swiss E-Learning Community of Higher Education Institutions.

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Prof. Dr. Möslein-Tröppner has many years of experience in industry and trade. His main focus in research and teaching is in the areas of supply chain management, process management and market research as well as new learning methods. He is Professor at DHBW Ravensburg.

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Søren Vrist Christensen is a Danish high school teacher and pedagogical coordinator at Marselisborg Gymnasium, whose teaching is grounded in blended learning theories.

Working as a teaching consultant, he has given countless of presentations to both private-owned and public organizations and firms in recent years about his teaching practices.

In addition, he does lectures and workshops for high school and university teachers on how to easily integrate EdTech, flipped classroom, and cooperative learning in everyday practices. The goal of Søren’s presentations is always to make everything as concrete as possible.

Professor Gilly Salmon, PhD, PFHEA, NTF.  is CEO & Principal Consultant. She has 30 years’ experience at senior levels, in universities in the UK and Australia. She has initiated, strategized, implemented & completed significant institutional change. Her experience & background includes the UK Open University as well as Associate Dean (Online) & Pro Vice-Chancellor roles in research-intensive and in vocational institutions.

​She recently spent two years as academic director at an Online Programme Management company. Gilly Salmon is now an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, & Visiting Professor at Edge Hill University, close to Liverpool, UK.

See her web site www.gillysalmon.com

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Professor Gilly Salmon, PhD, PFHEA, NTF.  is CEO & Principal Consultant. She has 30 years’ experience at senior levels, in universities in the UK and Australia. She has initiated, strategized, implemented & completed significant institutional change. Her experience & background includes the UK Open University as well as Associate Dean (Online) & Pro Vice-Chancellor roles in research-intensive and in vocational institutions.

​She recently spent two years as academic director at an Online Programme Management company. Gilly Salmon is now an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, & Visiting Professor at Edge Hill University, close to Liverpool, UK.

See her web site www.gillysalmon.com

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Kay is currently the Exectutive Director Growth Intiatives for Online Education Services (OES).  Founded in 2010, OES is a public-private partnership between SEEK, who have matched over 150,000 students with their ideal course and Swinburne University of Technology, a pioneer in online education with over 20 years’ experience.

The partnership’s first endeavour, Swinburne Online, was launched in 2011 with 10 undergraduate courses in the fields of Business, Social Science and Communication.  By 2017, Swinburne Online had expanded its offerings to include 21 undergraduate and postgraduate university courses, five TAFE courses and offerings for international students, with over 10,000 students currently enrolled.

Kay’s discipline area is Statistics, and she has previously undertaken academic roles at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and Swinburne University of Technology.  Her most recent academic role in leadership was as Dean of the Faculty of Higher Education, Lilydale, at Swinburne University of Technology, from 2009 to 2011.

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Shirley Alexander is Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) where she is Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Vice President (Education and Students).

She has been a member of three successive national government committees advising on improvements to higher education teaching and learning and chaired a national committee advising the Minister for Education on the best uses of technology in K-12 education.

Shirley has led the learning.futures strategy at UTS (https://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/learning-and-teaching/learningfutures/how-our-students-learn). At this time, UTS has almost completed a major campus redevelopment and building program at a cost of approximately $1.5 billion and Shirley has led the initiatives to ensure the new learning spaces are designed for the future of education. 

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Laura Overton is an experienced international speaker, author and facilitator with a passion for exploring, challenging and sharing.

Founder of Towards Maturity- the expert learning analysts, Laura's focus has always been on bringing a community together to investigate how learning innovation builds business impact, communicating the findings and facilitating change in the industry.

Tracking the L&D learning innovation journey since 2004, she has authored/ co-authored of over 40 major research reports and, as a regular contributor to industry publications she has written over 300 articles.

As an industry change maker, Laura regularly share good practice findings as a keynote presenter at conferences around the globe and through masterclasses, webinars and seminars. She serves on several advisory boards including the CIPD Professional Map and Learning boards and the OEB Global Council.

Laura was the first female recipient of the Learning and Performance Institute’s Colin Corder Award for outstanding achievement and was also the first recipient of the Learning Technology award for outstanding achievement. In 2018, she was voted the Number 1 mover and shaker in the global e-learning listing and in the top 10 EdTech UK influencers.

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As Owner of Learning Rebels, Shannon Tipton is a skilled learning strategist with over 20 years of leadership experience developing successful infrastructures for training departments across North America, Europe and China.

Shannon is excited to work with training teams and organizations to develop learning solutions to achieve applicable business results. Recognized as bringing real-world expertise into the learning field, Shannon integrates learning technologies and microlearning tools to strengthen workplace alignment, enhance collaboration and increase learning connectivity. 

As author of “Disruptive Learning” Shannon frequently speaks at conferences across North America and Europe. Recently named in the top 100 elearning “Movers and Shakers” by eLearning Industry, Shannon’s blog “Learning Rebels” is in the top 100 elearning blogs and can be found at learningrebels.com.

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I am Dean of the Instructional Technologies faculty at Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) in Israel. 

From 2001 -2011, I served as an Adjunct Professor at The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Graduate School at the Master of Distance Education and E-learning Program.

Other positions were:  head of interactive television satellite-based unit at the Open University of Israel (OUI) and a director of an e-learning center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Also, I was the Academic Vice President of a company that provided e-learning solutions for the corporate industry.

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Dr. Eran Gal is an e-learning expert with over 20 years of experience in applying cross-company technology-based learning solutions. Dr. Gal holds both M.A. and PhD degrees from the Knowledge Technology Lab at the Tel Aviv University, School of Education. Following several years as an e-Learning manager in large enterprises Dr. Gal joined the Holon Institution of Technology (HIT), Faculty of Instructional Technologies as a lecturer and a research team leader.  Dr. Gal delivers courses and seminars regarding instructional design and e-learning offering development. 

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Tuija Marstio (MSc, Econ) works as Expert in Digital Pedagogy and Senior Lecturer at Laurea University of Applied Sciences. She has been working in the field of education and training for more than 30 years and has gained a strong insight in digital pedagogy, online education, digital marketing, entrepreneurial training, digital marketing and international business operations.

At Laurea Ms. Marstio contributes to the development of online learning through staff training and managing various digital learning initiatives. She has also an extensive background in international project management and has managed several projects in the fields of education and business-related ICT. Ms. Marstio has published several articles on online learning and learning design.

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I am originally a robotics and embedded software developer at the University of Magdeburg, who became obsessed with programming paradigms.

Due to my participation in the “Industrial eLab” project, which tries to make university hardware online accessible to students anytime and anywhere, I had to shift to web-development.

Developing educational content for this purpose with the common Learning Management Systems (LMS) and authoring-tools was simply not satisfying and did not meet my expectations. So I started to design my own “markup” language for creating free and open educational content that integrates everything that I liked or missed from other authoring systems ...

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Sebastian Zug is a Professor at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. His research interests are focused on outdoor robotics and self-describing, intelligent components.

Based on a broad experience in bachelor and master course in programming and embedded systems, he develops new concepts for practical oriented engineering courses. This includes new open source course materials including interactive programming sessions, simulation tools and remote access on laborartory equipments. Sebastian Zug is the coordinator of two national projects addressing challenges of remote laboratories and eLearning environments.

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Petra Peeters likes to hover above the L&D world to see what's happening. When something interesting happens see focusses and tries to make sense of developments. Last year this resulted in a co-written article called Personalised Learning Unraveled, which aims at developing a language around personalisation. Working as a University Lecturer offers her the opportunity to work with part-time students from a range of organisations which helps to keep a clear view and an open mind.

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Marlo Kengen MSc is an experienced Learning & Development professional with a history of working in higher education as well as in corporate settings (business services and IT). Marlo works as a senior lecturer in the bachelor program on Learning & Development in Organisations at HAN University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. She is a strong educational science professional focused on curriculum development, strategic L&D and learning technologies. She is a regular conference speaker and workshop facilitator and publishes in various Dutch and international L&D magazines.

I am 38 years old and have ten years of teaching experience.

My background is with a master's degree in communication and business studies.

I have a special interest in experience economics, service design, method and digital technologies. But most importantly; an interdisciplinary holistic approach to learning!

For two years I have been working on developing learning videos. The focus is with a professional approach, to be able to deliver messages with a certain degree of humor!

It is difficult to create relationships in "traditional" online teaching - but at The ServiceShow, we try to lower this barrier to interaction. Our videos are made based on the questions and wonders we receive from students. In addition, we have a weekly online "mailbox", where we answer current challenges from our students.

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I am 40 years old and have more than ten years of teaching experience.

I did a M.Sc. in Stratregy, Organization and Management, and a B.Sc. in economics and commercial law, both at Copenhagen Business School

My largest interest as an educator is trying to motivate students to learn complex and interdisciplinary subjects by offering them an accessible and holistic approach. This has led me to many different genres of teaching. 

For the past two years, we have developed learning videos, focused on maintaining a professional, interdisciplinary approach - but with a degree of humor. 

Creating effective relations with students "traditional" online teaching is difficult - but at The ServiceShow, we try to lower this barrier to interaction. Our videos are made based on the questions and wonders we receive from students.

Recently we expanded our portfolio to include podcasts and a blog, which required our own online platform: www.serviceshowet.dk and www.theserviceshow.com.

I am 33 years old and have six years of teaching experience.

My background is a master's degree in IT and business studies.

I have a special interest in design process, digital technologies and how to communicate online teaching to the students in a new interesting way. 

The last two years I have been working on developing learning Podcasts and videos through The ServiceShow. The focus is with a professional approach, to be able to deliver both interesting and learning talks with a certain degree of humor! 

Cristina Petracchi is heading the e-learning Center in the Capacity Development Unit in FAO, she manages and coordinates the design, development, delivery and language adaptations of e-learning courses, blended learning programmes and face-to-face training events, for the benefit of FAO member countries. Within the context of the position she holds, Ms Petracchi also consolidates partnerships with United Nations agencies, academic institutions and universities, regional organizations, CSOs and NGOs. In addition to a university degree in Biological Sciences, Ms Petracchi holds a PhD in Nutrition and Food Science, and has several years of experience of capacity development activities in India, Ethiopia, Nepal, Namibia, Senegal and Mali. Ms Petracchi is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish and has a good knowledge of Arabic.

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Alejandra Rivas is graduated in Social Communications and holds a Master in General Management and Strategic Planning. She is currently working as Web Administrator / E-Learning Instructional Designer at Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO).

With more than 10 years of professional experience, her areas of expertise are the techniques and processes of creating audio-visual content, as well as setting-up learning management systems and other web-based content management systems and interactive environments for creating Internet and digital oriented products. Her strengths include analytical and writing skills, designing and developing instructional materials to transfer them into online curriculum. As well as the use of authoring content tools and technologies knowledge (LMS, CMS, SCORM).

Since 2016, she has been part of the team responsible to design and customize the Learning Management System 'DEVCO Academy online platform' that serves as information and education platform for all citizens interested in international cooperation and development.

LUIS ELIECER CADENAS is a Computer Engineer with postgraduate studies in economics, telematics, networks and computer science, with almost 30 years of experience in the sector of information technology and telecommunications in the private and public sphere.

He has been co-founder, President and member of the Board of Directors of the national academic network of Venezuela, REACCIUN.

He was President of the Latin American Research Network Association (Enredo 1998-1999), member of the board of the National Center of Supercomputing of Venezuela (Cecalcula, 1997-1999), and the directory of the Park Technological of Sartenejas (1997-1999). He worked seventeen years in Cisco Systems Inc.

He is Executive Director of RedCLARA since August 1, 2017 (Orcid at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9762-1986).

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Inge de Waard (PhD) is currently leading the learning part of an InnoEnergy project that alleviates skill and competency gaps by combining Artificial Intelligence (AI, specifically Natural Language Processing), Human Resources (HR), learning analytics to provide a personalised learning trajectory (including micro-credits, blockchain in education, informal and formal learning options...). This project combines the expertise of people working at InnoEnergy, The Open University (UK), FutureLearn and many European University partners working on renewable energy.

Since 1999, Inge has set-up, coordinated and developed several innovative online, blended and mobile learning projects, always with a focus on participation and durability. These projects involved partners and individuals from both the Northern (Canada, United States, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Germany, UK) and Southern regions (South-Africa, India, Peru, Morocco). As an avid enthusiast of open science, she is an active international speaker giving keynotes and guest lectures, as well as providing and receiving knowledge input through seminars, SIGs and workshops.   

Enlightened by the first connectivist MOOCs, she set up the first MOOC on mobile learning, called MobiMOOC (2011 & 2012). This was a community and project-oriented MOOC, enabling international learners to realize their own project by the end of the MOOC.

Her core sentiment on learning is: “I have come to realize that there is no single solution for all. The diversity which is at the core of nature’s success, is replicated by the diversity in learning preferences and ways to achieve learning success in humans”. She loves to exchange ideas, so feel free to talk to her.

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Jo Cook is Deputy Editor at www.TrainingJournal.com magazine and website, and focuses her time on ground-breaking discussion webinars and speaking at events.

TJ is the only independent, monthly print magazine in the UK for learning and development professionals and has 50 years' experience with the best L&D thought leaders.

Jo works for TJ part time and the rest of the time is Director of her company www.LightbulbMoment.info, which specialises in developing, facilitating and training others to deliver great live online training sessions, virtual classrooms, webinars and blended, digital programmes.

You can contact her through @LightbulbJo or @TrainingJournal

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Vivian is Co-Founder of the 70:20:10 Institute and co-owner of Tulser B.V.

Her strength is her strategic thinking combined with pragmatism and a knife-like focus on execution.  She has consulted on a wide range of projects at every level for the implementation of 70:20:10 solutions. Her projects have covered managment development change, the implementation of electronic patient files and across other areas. Vivian’s strengths are in a total focus on the execution of the Performance Detective tasks, and of those of the Performance Tracker and the Performance Game Changer.

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Charles is a leading expert on building and implementing 70:20:10 learning and performance strategies. He is co-founder of the 70:20:10 Institute. The Institute is the premier centre for 70:20:10 and Value-Based L&D and works with organisations around the world to help improve performance and business outcomes.

His 40-year career includes roles as a business school professor, as a chief learning officer, and as a senior advisor and member of boards and steering groups for international learning, performance and business bodies. He has deep experience of corporate L&D, Talent and HR, having held senior CLO roles in global companies. Charles is a member of advisory boards and steering groups for international learning, performance and business bodies around the world.

Charles is also a member of the Internet Time Alliance, a small multinational think-tank of leading learning and business performance practitioners helping organisations exploit emerging practice in informal and social learning to ‘work smarter’.

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Jacob Rosch has served in a number of educational leadership and teaching roles in China, the USA, and the UK. He is currently the Director of Ed Tech for a primary through secondary school, Collège du Léman in Switzerland. This international school serves 1900 students representing over 100 nationalities. He co-created a Blended Learning teacher training programme to meet the needs of these diverse learners. Jacob regularly delivers workshops on educational technology tools and methodologies within his school and internationally. 

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Dr. Elizabeth Boyle is a reader in Psychology at the University of the West of Scotland with wide ranging interests in varied aspects of psychology including cognition, skills, attitudes, self, identity, motives and emotions.

Recently her research has focused on psychological aspects of technology and e-learning, looking especially at engagement and learning in digital games and individual difference characteristics of social media users. She has published journal and conference papers, edited books and book chapters in these areas.

Over the past 8 years she has been Principal Investigator on 3 European projects that have involved the design, development and evaluation of serious games (RU EU?, @email and CHERMUG). These projects are all at the cutting edge of technology, looking at how the features of games that engage players can be used to support learning. The most recent game, the RUEU? game, aims to support international students in understanding European identity.

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Over a period spanning 25 years, Dr. Fawzi Baroud has been engaged in promoting technology as a pedagogical tool tied to meeting educational objectives and assessment of learning outcomes in higher education. Specialized in eLearning, systems management, mathematics and electrical engineering, he combines numerous areas of academic expertise for advancing the use of technology in different curricular content areas.

As the Assistant Vice President for Information Technology at Notre Dame University – Louaize (NDU) in Lebanon, Dr. Baroud leads in the campus-wide planning and implementation of information technologies that support teaching and learning, including training faculty members to integrate educational technology in their teaching.

As champion of open education on campus, Dr. Baroud has made the integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) a key strategic goal of the University. Under his watch, NDU became an institutional affiliate of Creative Commons, and he is currently in the process of formulating policies for the successful use of OER in teaching and learning. He conducts seminars and hands-on workshops on open education and open licensing at leading Lebanese higher education institutions and has become a reference point on the subject.

Dr. Baroud has published several studies on eLearning and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use in education, participated in conferences, coauthored the informatics national curriculum for Lebanon, and offered consultancy to academic institutions. His research centers on the use, integration and evaluation of ICT, OER, and eLearning implementation in higher educational contexts.

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Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She is editor at the journal Hybrid Pedagogy, International Director of Digital Pedagogy Lab, editorial board member of 4 journals: Teaching in Higher Education; Online Learning Journal, Journal of Pedagogic Development and Learning, Media and Technology. She is a Prof Hacker and DML Central blogger, and co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org

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In 2018 Nik Gowing co-authored (with Chris Langdon) “Thinking the Unthinkable”. In this era of a new disruption leaders reveal that they are ‘scared’, ‘confused’ and ‘overwhelmed’ especially by the new short termism. Nik founded the ongoing, dynamic project in 2014.

Nik was a main news presenter for BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London.

For 18 years he worked at ITN.  He was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw, and Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News (1988-1996). He has been on the councils of Chatham House (1998–2004), the Royal United Services Institute (2005–present), the Overseas Development Institute (2007-2014), the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (1996-2005).

Nik was been a Visiting Professor at Kings College, London and Nanyang University (NTU), Singapore.  In 2018 advised the President of the UN General Assembly on leadership challenges.

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Monika Weber Fahr is Chief Operating Officer at Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All).

Previously, Monika was Chief Knowledge Officer and Senior Manager at the World Bank Group's Independent Evaluation Vice Presidency. Transforming how the World Bank Group and its staekholders learn from independent evaluation was her primary focus, working with IEG evaluators on shaping their products and engagement tools for enhanced uptake and usability - with the ultimate objective to deepen World Bank Group impact and effectiveness. Monika's teams also delivered IT supported analytical tools and coordinated partnerships and capacity development for evaluation, both within the Bank Group and externally. In her previous assignment, as Director for Knowledge, Learning and Results for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, Monika oversaw quality and portfolio management for knowledge services that were specifically designed to strengthen sustainable development. She was an advocate for innovative approaches in generating new knowledge and learning opportunities for the Bank Group and its clients.

Monika has worked for several years with the private sector, setting up and leading within the International Finance Corporation (IFC) its Business Line for Sustainable Business Advisory.  She also worked with the World Bank Institute (WBI) where she built and led the Global Development Learning Network and Multimedia Division at the World Bank Institute (WBI), spearheading the Institute’s engagement with an international partnership of independent Learning Centers.  In 2000, Monika led the team that designed and delivered the World Bank’s first global innovation competition, the Development Marketplace.  Monika brings private sector experience also from working several years with the Boston Consulting Group.  She holds a PhD in business economics.  Monika and her family live in Washington DC.

Monika heads the Council of the Centers for Learning in Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) Initiative and is a member of the Board of COSA (Committee on Sustainability Assessment).

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Paul Bacsich is the Founder and Managing Director of Matic Media Ltd, a consultancy in the UK active in online learning since 1996. He is also Professor of Practice for the University of West Indies Open Campus, which is headquartered in Barbados.

In addition he consults for the SeroHE division of Sero Consulting Ltd as a Senior Associate: he was a member of the Sero team who recently reviewed Learning Technology Support at the University of Oxford, and currently he is leading a 12-month project at Sero to develop an accredited vocational short online course to teach teachers to teach online for Wey Education (who run Interhigh Virtual School and other similar entities).

He is also Visiting Professor for University of Derby Online Learning (UDOL) in the UK.

He has a long-standing interest in Open Education via a large EU project (POERUP) and several EU/European Parliament studies: in particular he is Co-Coordinator of the Open Education Working Group and an Ambassador for the global advocacy of OER and a member of the OER Advocacy Committee of ICDE.  He was a co-author for the JRC 2017 report “Policy Approaches to Open Education in 28 Member States”.

His interests in leadership in e-learning were developed during the Erasmus+ D-TRANSFORM project 2014-17, which drew on and continued his work over 20 years on management of open and distance learning.

In addition to his public work he consults for a number of international, government, commercial, venture fund and university clients on market/competitor/pricing research, policy, education funding models and retention strategies. He has recently finalised a report on credit recognition and transfer for online masters' programmes, for a university client in Canada.

In 2015-16 Paul chaired the review panel for the Vision and Strategy Appraisal of the UK Open University Library, where he interviewed over 70 staff and students and carried out substantial comparative and policy research. He also chaired the E-learning review panel for Uppsala University, with three days of intensive meetings and presentations, and spent four months chairing a task force for the National Forum for Learning and Teaching in Ireland to prepare a scoping document on infrastructure issues related to online learning.

Some of his recent thinking can be found in his UNESCO policy brief on "Alternative Models of Education Delivery" and in a paper for the "Open Education 2030" higher education workshop run by the EU. He remains very interested in "Multiversity" models and competence-based provision, based on his earlier studies on "Time and e-learning", developed from a speech given in Austria, a country with which he has increasing links.

He is a co-founder of MultEversity, a start-up in online/blended post-secondary education which aims in due course to be an accredited university and higher vocational provider. He also has had involvement in other early-stage online providers over the last six years and has done several studies of them.

In the university phase of his career he was a researcher at Oxford University, had many roles over 25 years at the UK Open University, and was for seven years Professor of Telematics at Sheffield Hallam University and then a Director at the UK e-University. He was also Visiting Professor at Middlesex University and Advisor to the Rector of the Arab Open University.

He has knowledge of and/or experience in higher education in many developed countries.

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Brian Mulligan is a Civil Engineer who originally worked in mathematical modelling and simulation and the application of information technology in engineering. He is currently Manager of Online Learning Innovation in the Centre for Online Learning at the Institute of Technology Sligo where he has lectured since 1984. He has been the key driver in the rapid growth in online distance learning in IT Sligo since 2002 and significantly involved in the growth of e-learning in Ireland since 1999, organising the EdTech series of conferences since 2000 and as a founding member of the Irish Learning Technology Association in 2002.  His main areas of expertise and interest are now in web-casting, webinar management, synchronous online training, instructor-led online training, lecture capture, open education (MOOCs and OER) and the rapid development of online content. He led the Erasmus+ funded LoCoMoTion project on low-cost MOOC development (moocs4all.eu).

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Jane Bozarth is a veteran classroom trainer who transitioned to eLearning in the late 1990s and never looked back. As leader of the State of North Carolina USA's award-winning eLearning program, Dr. Bozarth specializes in finding low-cost ways of providing online training solutions. Her abiding interest in social learning and communities of practice framed her graduate work and dissertation and led to the publication of her bestselling book Social Media for Trainers and the new Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-Tos of Working Out Loud. She is the author of several other books, including eLearning Solutions on a Shoestring, Better than Bullet Points, and From Analysis to Evaluation. She frequently contributes material to trade publications and writes the monthly "Nuts & Bolts" column for Learning Solutions Magazine. A popular conference speaker, Dr. Bozarth has keynoted events in the US, Canada, Australia, Turkey, and Scotland. She and her husband live with Thomas the Corgi in Durham, North Carolina, USA

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Donald is an entrepreneur, CEO, Professor, speaker and blogger. He was CEO and one of the original founders of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK e-learning market, floated on the Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005. Describing himself as ‘free from the tyranny of employment’, he now the CEO of an AI learning company WildFire, investor and Board member of PlanB learning, LearningPool and Cogbooks. He has been involved in consulting and implementing online learning in schools, FE, HE, corporate and government.

Donald has been involved in film, games, web, mobile, MOOCs, Oculus Rift and won many awards for the design and implementation of online learning. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences, having delivered talks in the US, Europe, Far East, Middle East and Africa, and won several ‘Best speaker’ awards … also a regular (and controversial) blogger on online learning!

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http://www.planblearning.com/Bio/

Mr Charles Senkondo is the Executive Director of Tanzania Global  Learning Agency (TaGLA), a Government Executive Agency with a mandate of capacity development through innovative approaches using technologies. TaGLA (www.tagla.go.tz) forms part of over 120 centres within the Global Development Learning Network (www.gdln.org), enabling real time knowledge sharing and training accorss the globe.

Mr Senkondo has over 15 years engagement experience in development knowledge sharing and training using modern information and communication technologies including video conferencing, internet and blended approaches. 

He has been involved in leadership of development and  delivery of diverse learning initiatives in Africa including top-notch leadership programs,  learning technologies development and management, technology-based organisational transformation and multi-country events coordination. He holds a position within the Association of African Distance Learning Centre (AADLC) as a Secretary General, and among founding members of the World Education Council.

Before joining TaGLA, Mr Senkondo was an Executive Director of Tanzania Global Learning Centre, worked as a Business Manager of the African Virtual University, Open University of Tanzania and in has gained experience in management of manufacturing industries and leadership. Mr Senkondo holds an MBA (City University, London) and BSc. Engineering (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania).

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Dr Steve Nwokeocha is a Nigerian citizen, from Imo State. He is educated in three separate Nigerian universities – the University of Calabar; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; and Bayero University, Kano. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Sociology; and Masters  and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees both in Industrial Sociology. He also has a Masters Degree in Business Administration and Post Graduate Diploma in Education.

He began public service in 1983 as a staff of the Office of Auditor General for the Federation of Nigeria and later in 1990 moved on to the Federal College of Education as a Lecturer in Educational Management and Foundations. He rose to the rank of Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Educational Management and Foundations. In 2002, he joined the services of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), an agency of the Federal Ministry of Education responsible for the regulation of the teaching profession at all levels of the Education system in Nigeria. In the same year he became the pioneer Director of Operations of the Council on acting basis, a position he held till 2008 when he was confirmed as a substantive Director by Nigeria’s Honourable Minister of the Education on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

TRCN came into existence in 2000 and the success of the organisation for the ten year period spanning 2002-2012 is a story of the his strategic leadership of the organisation where he was second only to the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer in terms of designing and implementing organizational reforms and development. Under his tutelage, TRCN expanded from its one centre (Abuja) status to a phenomenal national organisation with offices, staff, huge resources and goodwill in all 36 states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory. TRCN through his diplomatic engagements networked with other teaching regulatory authorities in Africa, giving birth to the current Africa Forum of Teaching Regulatory Authorities (AFTRA), which unanimously adopted TRCN as its Headquarters. Dr Steve Nwokeocha consequently serves as AFTRA Executive Director. Through his international networks, TRCN also became a prominent member of the International (World) Forum of Teaching Regulatory Authorities, IFTRA.

Being a Director of Operations of a national organisation recognized formally as an academic institution regulating the education, practice, ethicss and other aspects of teachers/teaching from primary to the university levels throughout Nigeria – academics has been his primary sector/domain. He therefore has served in various levels of Educational policy-making and implementation in Nigeria up to being a member of the National Council on Education which is the highest decision-making body in Education in Nigeria. He has been awarded the Fellowship of several national and international organisations among which is the prestigious Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) and the College of Teachers, London.

He is an accomplished international personality that has traveled to all continents of the world to participate in international conferences, seminars, short courses, etc – in some of these he was the guest speaker and in others the learner. Countries he covered included United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands, Israel, China, Australia, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Egypt, Colombia, etc. In 2009, a paper he co-authored with the TRCN Registrar/Chief Executive, Professor Addison Mark Wokocha, and which gave account of TRCN’s ICT strategies, policies and programmes was selected as the Best Paper on ICT Practice in the International Conference on Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) organised by the United Nations University, Macao, China; the Centre for Technology in Government, New York State University, USA; and other United Nations organisations.

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http://www.trcn.gov.ng

Albert Nsengiyumva is an independent consultant in the fields of Technical and Vocational Skills Development and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Prior to this, he was a Cabinet Member in the Rwandan Government from 2011 to 2015 and have served as Minister of Infrastructure from 2011 to 2013 and Minister of State in charge of TVET from 2013 to 2015.Before joining the Cabinet, Mr. Nsengiyumva has respectively worked for the National University of Rwanda as Director of ICT, Ministry of Education as Coordinator of ICT in Education and Workforce Force Development Authority (WDA) as Director General. Since 2001, Mr. Nsengiyumva has worked as freelance consultant for various international and bilateral development organizations particularly in ICT Policy and Regulation as well as Technical and Vocational Skills development. He has built an extensive research expertise in both ICT and TVET working with the Washington State University, University of Washington, University of Maryland in the United States and the Research ICT Africa Network that was based at University of Witwatersrand in South Africa among others.

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http://www.mininfra.gov.rw

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