Academic Session ACA08
The Undergraduate Students in Bulgaria and Turkey - Between the Mobility and the Traditionalism
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – RoomPotsdam I
The benefits to be derived from using mobile devices for learning are directly proportional to the individual’s ability to use them. What were the result of this study on mobile literacy perceptions and the skills of students in Bulgaria and Turkey?
Marina Encheva
Chief Assistant Professor, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (ULSIT), Bulgaria
Marina Encheva graduated in Library and Information Sciences (MA programme) at Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ in 2000. She also holds a qualification of English Teacher from the same university (2002). In 2006 Encheva was awarded a PhD degree in Information Retrieval Systems. Her doctoral thesis is entitled ‘Ädaptability of the Models for Distance Learning in Library and Information Sciences through the Internet’. She has been a part-time Assistant professor in Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ since 2007 and a full-time Assistant professor in the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies since 2009 giving lectures and seminars to BA and MA students in E-Learning; E-Resources and Metadata; Business Information Systems; Cataloguing of E-Resources, etc. Encheva has had experience as a librarian at the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia and as an expert at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria. She has worked on a number of projects co-financed by the EU (as a team member and a coordinator) amongst which: ‘Distance learning in Library and Information Sciences and Print Communications’ (2012-2014), ‘Introduction of electronic management of administrative and information services in recognition of higher education diplomas’ (2009-2011), etc. Since 2004 Marina Encheva is a member of the European Distance and E-Learning Network.
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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.