Panel Presentation Session DES17
Empowered Learners: Understanding Feedback, Review and Assessment
Find out how peer-assessment, peer-review, online collaboration and feedback processes can become successful learning experiences for students and educators alike. Speakers will address what they encountered when designing assessment for the empowered learner. What did this mean for study materials, the role of faculty and costs?
Mark de Boer
Lecturer, Akita International University, Japan
Mark deBoer, Canadian, is a lecturer at Akita International University (AIU) in Northern Japan and has taught English in Japan for 20 years to all age levels. He holds both a BSc in Chemistry and a BSc in Biology from York University in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MA in TESL/TEFL from the University of Birmingham and is a Ph.D. candidate also through the University of Birmingham. He was responsible for creating ICT English as a Medium for Instruction curriculum for Applied Chemistry, Materials Science, and Biochemistry at the university level in Japan. At his current position at AIU he is involved in the creation of MOOCs for Liberal Arts Education and is also currently actively involved in COIL.
His research investigates online peer-peer Dynamic Assessment instances in English language learning and he is developing a learning process theory based on collaborative tool-mediated learning environments.
He is a semi-professional cellist and loves to bake bread.
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Stylianos Hatzipanagos
Senior Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning, King’s College London, UK
Dr Stylianos Hatzipanagos is Senior Lecturer (King's Learning Institute) at King's College London, UK. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Distance Education at the University of London. His research portfolio includes: learning design and evaluation of online learning environments, formative and technology-enhanced assessment, computer supported collaborative work, open education, digital literacies, social media and social networking in an educational context. His output is peer-reviewed articles, books, edited journal special issues and has led and participated in research projects at a European and national (UK) level.
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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/learningteac…
Moderator
Pedro Muñoz Merino
Visiting Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. In 2009 he received his PhD in Telematics Engineering from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He obtained his acreditation in May 2012 as Associate Professor. He has made two long research stays: one in Ireland for more than 3 months at the Intel company in 2005, and another in Germany for more than 6 months at the Fraunhofer Institute of Technology in 2009-2010. He is author of more than 80 scientific publications and has participated in more than 20 research projects. He has been invited as a speaker in different events in topics related to learning analytics and educational data mining. He is also an IEEE Senior Member since 2015. His skills and experience include research and development in learning analytics, educational data mining, evaluation of learning experiences, user studies, gamification or Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
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http://www.it.uc3m.es/~pedmume/index.ht…