Presentation Panel
Upgrade Your Educational Assets! Best Practices to Organise Professional Development for Technology-Enhanced Teaching
Date Friday, Nov 25 Time – Room: Charlottenburg II
With the sudden shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, getting teachers up to speed for online delivery has never been so crucial and urgent. In this presentation panel, speakers will discuss novel ways in which higher education institutions can organise faculty support services for their staff. At the end, a discussion among participants could lead to new ideas.
Vesa Paajanen
Senior Lecturer, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Vesa Paajanen is a senior lecturer in animal physiology. In current position as a facilitator of online and blended learning at University of Eastern Finland he is using 50% of the working load on teaching higher education and rest time helping his colleagues to turn their teaching online and to develop pedagogically useful online learning environments. In higher education his is focused in Flipped Classroom & learning analytics to support each student in a personal way.
Patti Dyjur
Educational Development Consultant, University of Calgary, Canada
Patti Dyjur, PhD, is an Educational Development Consultant with the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary. She works on curriculum review and development, as well as collaborating with others to design courses and programs that incorporate intentional, meaningful student learning experiences. Her research interests include curriculum development and review in higher education, micro-credentialing, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in higher education.
Hilde Gaard
Senior Adviser, Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, Norway
Hilde Gaard is an Information technology and Library specialist. She has over 15 years' experience as a project manager and consultant in innovation projects within education. She has held executive positions and have extensive experience from government agencies related to flexible learing models, digital transformation and quality enhancment in higher education. Hilde is currently a senior adviser at the Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, working with incentive programs to promote and enable online and technology-enhanced education.
Hoda Mostafa
Director Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Hoda is a Professor of Practice and the Director at the Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo. She actively leads and serves in the areas of educational development, digital education and strategic educational initiatives that enhance the profile of AUC as a global university.
She collaborates across the university and beyond, as a faculty developer, supporting and enabling innovation in teaching and learning, formative assessment of learning and teaching, digital education, experiential learning, and integration of creative and critical thinking into the curriculum. She also has an MD in Ophthalmology and lengthy experience in clinical practice and medical education.
Hoda joined AUC as a faculty member in 2011 after transitioning into higher education and continues to develop her interest in, and commitment to, faculty development, design thinking, digital education, pedagogy and thinking skills in the classroom and beyond.
She develops and facilitates professional development workshops for faculty and teaching assistants across a variety of topics within the field of educational development. She also consults with faculty and leaders across AUC through her role as director of the CLT, an active educational developer and consultant. Hoda has held leadership positions at the Center for Learning and Teaching since 2016 as Associate Director and Director in 2018.
She has taught extensively in the core curriculum at AUC for over 10 years teaching and developing the course Scientific Thinking and directed this multi-section course initiative from 2011-2015. She has also directed the co-development of the course Creative Thinking and Problem Solving at a freshman level and co-taught Design Thinking as part of this multi-section core offering.
Hoda recently led her team to support the university’s transition to emergency remote teaching during COVID-19 pandemic and is responsible for blended and online learning initiatives. She has contributed extensively and co-led multiple high impact institutional initiatives such as AUC’s Learning Spaces Plan, Hybrid Learning Spaces (dual delivery), the Quality of Education Task Force for Undergraduate and Graduate Education, and Design Thinking Initiative.
She is also a passionate design thinking facilitator and coach with a mission to spread innovation frameworks in higher education curricular and co-curricular activities and spear-heads design thinking activities at AUC.
Moderator
Nives Kreuh
Senior Lecturer, Archimedes Institute, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
She is currently a teacher trainer, teaching Methodology and Research courses at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Institute Archimedes. She is also the product manager for Methodology and Research courses, a member of the innovation team designing the new programmes and an expert for digital didactics, responsible for curriculum, integrating digital didactics and information literacy in the new programmes for teaching languages. Her focus is digital content and instructional design. Before moving to the Netherlands in 2020 she was leading the national research, strategy planning, and implementation of curricula in the field of digital education, and the use of digital technology in education at the Quality and Research Centre at the National Education Institute in Slovenia.