Boardroom Dialogues
Learning Professionals' Communities of Practice
Date Thursday, Dec 2 Time – Room: Chess
If you are part of a community of practice you will know that connections with peers and colleagues on an international level can build know-how and offer support through shared experiences.
Based on insights from those at the core of a CoP of education professionals, we will discuss the scope of cultivating a CoP, and the various avenues for “thinking together”.
Sandra Kucina Softic
Assistant Director, Unversity of Zagreb (University Computing Centre SRCE), Croatia
Assistant professor Sandra Kučina Softić is the Assistant Director at the University of Zagreb University Computing Centre SRCE (Croatia). She is also the Head of the E-learning Centre at SRCE. She has 25 years of experience working in higher education. Her work is focused on monitoring and fostering e-learning in Croatian higher education and providing support and advice to institutions, teachers and students in implementation of new technologies in learning and teaching.
Her field of interest is strategic decision making related to digital education implementation in higher education and enhancement of digital skills of teachers. She is also active in field of open education. She is also author of training courses for teachers and speaker at conferences on these topics. In 2021, she authored the book on digital transformation in higher education (Digitalna transformacija: novi pristupi i izazovi u obrazovanju) published in Croatian.
She has a master’s degree in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) and PhD in Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Zagreb (Croatia).
She was president of European Distance and E-learning Network EDEN 2019-2022 and at the moment she is Vice-President of EDEN DLE.