Scaling, Teaching, and Certifying Together: Collaborative Partnerships Across Universities and Sectors

Principal lecturer Pia Lundbom (DSocSci) has background in sociology. Lundbom is expert on youth participation, civic activities, animal rights movement, NGO-work and participation and voluntary work. Lundbom is responsible for the development of Master level degrees in Humak UAS, most of which are online degrees.

Senior Lecturer Päivi Timonen works as an online learning specialist at Humak University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland. She began her PhD studies at the University of Lapland, Finland, in early 2019. Her primary interest lies in developing real-time online learning opportunities for both students and teachers. She is dissatisfied with the growing trend of independent, self-paced online learning and instead focuses on incorporating coaching pedagogy into online environments.

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Lynn Evans leads the University of Liverpool’s online education portfolio, which it operates in partnership with Kaplan Open Learning.
The University of Liverpool was one of the first UK Universities to offer degrees online. Today it is recognised as a European leader in 100% online postgraduate education, having graduated over 20,000 online students in 171+ countries worldwide.
Lynn is a partnerships and performance specialist, with 20+ years experience in creating value across sectors and in multidisciplinary environments, including media, law and higher education. She was one of the first non-lawyers to be appointed to the board of a legal practice in England and Wales and, since 2012, has led a number of high profile and strategic initiatives for the University of Liverpool.
Lynn’s absolute passion is helping people and organisations to unlock their potential and improve their reach and impact. She is a strategic leader, innovator and problem solver, working purposefully and collaboratively across organisational and disciplinary boundaries to create new sources of value and continually raise the bar on performance and possibility.

A well-known and recognized e-Learning expert, Prof. Emer. Richard Powers is currently a Professor, Trainer and Learning Designer with the University of Stuttgart in Germany, where he teaches blended learning courses to develop competences in digitalization and diversity for pre-service teachers across five universities. He is an EU eTwinning Ambassador for Germany.

He teaches Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Project-Based Learning with eTwinning & Erasmus+ for Interculturality, and Digital Accessibility. Prof. Powers won the 2022 Teaching Award for Excellence at Stuttgart University, receiving Euro 10.000 for his research and future projects.

Remotely, Professor Powers develops, implements and evaluates UDL and synchronous "online-live" training programs for 4,000 faculty at City Colleges of Chicago.

He routinely teaches and trains faculty in Stuttgart and Chicago how to teach online with Moodle, ILIAS and Brightspace in webinars via Webex and Zoom. His DAAD and eTwinning/Erasmus+ virtual exchange & blended mobility classes involve student teachers from Germany, Turkey, the Ukraine, North Macedonia, France, Spain, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Nepal.

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Claudia Röschmann is a Professor in the Communication Design program in the School of Art and Design and Associate Director for Design Innovation in the Materials Applications Research Center (MARC). She was head of the Communication Design program from 2014 to 2020, and as graduate advisor directed the MFA program from 2010 to 2020. She brings 20+ years of international design experience and strategic entrepreneurial thinking to the university where she teaches human-centered design and design entrepreneurship. She also serves as the founder of the Design for America studio on campus, and is the co-founder of the 1 Million Cups Greater San Marcos TX community. Claudia gets very excited about international and cross-disciplinary projects, and speaks at conferences about design thinking and digitally engaged learning. Originally from Germany, she moved to New York in the 90s to work for Vignelli Associates before moving to Austin with her husband, where she runs ROESCHMANNdesign, a design studio focused on brand experiences for non-profit clients. Claudia loves to travel (preferably by sailboat, bike or foot) so she can spend time in bookstores and museums.