Academic Session ACA06
Creating Together: Design- and User-Centered Innovation Approaches for New eLearning Products and Services
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – Room Potsdam I
Design-centred and design-driven innovation approaches are becoming increasingly popular in academia, in industry and in our e-learning community. These talks will provide insight into the advantages and disadvantages of design centred innovation. The TU Vienna and the creators and developers they worked with share and discuss here how the approach can be applied successfully in your institution or organisation too.
Özge Subasi
Senior Researcher, Human Computer Interaction Team, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Özge is senior researcher at Human Computer Interaction Group at Vienna University of Technology (TUW).
At TUW Özge collaborates with partner organisations and key academic people from various disciplines. Her work aims for designing better futures at the intersection of state-of-the-art social theories such as gerontology, future education, mobility, smart and participatory city, sharing societies.
Özge has a long list of designerly, artistic and d-anthro techniques that allows her to co-design services, products and concepts in multidisciplinary settings and teams.
Özge got a Ph.D. with focus on “Design Anthropology” from Vienna University of Applied Arts (d’angewandte), Department of Arts Sociology.
She is author for several international research publications majorly on role of design innovation.
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http://igw.tuwien.ac.at/hci/people/osub…
Michael Leitner
Head of Research, CREATE 21st century, Austria
Michael is head of research, interaction designer and user experience expert at CREATE.21st century.
At CREATE Michael designs and works on new products and services in the area of digital learning technologies and media, Smart City participation tools, approaches, and mobility information services.
Michael got a Ph.D. from Northumbria University, Department of Arts, Design and Social Science, at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is author for several research publications in the area of interaction design research.
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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.