Academic Session ACA02
Should Students Design Learning Content? Two Studies Researching Effectiveness and Impact
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomPotsdam I
Richard Windle
Associate Professor for Health E-learning, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK
Richard is an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is currently co-academic lead for the health e-learning and media (HELM) team at the University of Nottingham. As well as leading online curriculum development, his research and development interests include open multimedia learning content, pedagogy and reuse, stakeholder involvement in content development and student generated content. He has headed a large number of funded research and development projects in these areas. The open educational resource outputs of these projects are being used in over 50 countries worldwide and his research has been published widely. Richard is a Principal Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy, and has previously been a SCORE Fellow in Open Educational development. Richard has been awarded two Lord Dearing Awards for innovation in educational technology. THe HELM team he co-leads, was a runner up in the 2015 Guardian University Awards as well as the UK's Association of Learning Technologists' (ALT) Learning technology team award, 2016. HELM was awarded the community-led award for 2016. Richard is currently co-leading a MOOC based around the creation of digital learning resources for health. Richard works as part of a cross-EU partnership, together with the University of Stavanger, Norway and the Catholic University of Valencia, Spain. Currently the group is completing an EU funded project investigating the co-translation and delivery of multimedia learning resources.
Links
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthscien…
Moderator
Nives Kreuh
Senior Consultant, E-learning, National Education Institute, Slovenia
Nives Kreuh is a Head of e-learning at the National Education Institute in Slovenia. She is doing the national research, strategy planning and implementation of new curricula through teacher continuous professional development in the field of digital pedagogy and e-learning.
She was leading the national E-competent teacher project in which they designed the standard of e-competent teacher, principle and ICT coordinators in schools framework called The Way towards E-competency. She focused on designing key e-competencies and developing the efficient training model called The Way towards E-competency, leading the instructional design and online courses (MOOCs) development for in-service teacher training and professional development to raise pedagogical digital literacy in schools nationwide.
She is the Head of Programme and Organising Committe of the international SIRikt* conference (*Enabling Education and Research with ICT), which is the largest educational conference in Slovenia with around 1000 delegates each year.
She also works internationally as the national expert and is the author of E-Competent Teacher, Principle and IT expert Framework and Designing E-Student Books Framework.