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Oluwakemi Adebayo

STADIO Higher Education

Dr Adebayo is the Academic Manager at the STADIO School of Education on the Centurion mega campus and lecturer for the Postgraduate Certificate Education programme for Teaching Agricultural Science in...

Fiona Anderson

University of Namibia

Fiona Anderson has been in the education sector since 2003. She has gained knowledge and experience in the field of adult education, vocational education, inclusive education, open, distance and eLear...

Arlene Archer

University of Cape Town

Arlene Archer is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and is the director of the Writing Centre at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests include multimodal pedagog...

Rehema Baguma

Makerere University

Rehema Baguma is a Senior Lecturer & Researcher at the School of Computing & Informatics Technology, Makerere University, Uganda. Her Research interests include: Digital Inclusion, Human Centered desi...

Maha Bali

American University in Cairo

Maha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching, American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder o...

Stephanie Bandli

Who’s your ADDIE?

I have been working in the e-learning industry since 2015 and have a particular interest in creating more engaging and user-friendly interactive learning experiences. With a background in English and ...

Sue Bennett

University of Wollongong

Over the past 30 years, Sue Bennett has worked as a writer, educational designer, higher education teacher and university academic. Her work investigates how people engage with technology in their eve...

Lucila Carvalho

Institute of Education

Lucila Carvalho is a senior lecturer in e-learning & digital technologies at the Institute of Education, and co-director of the Equity Through Education Research Centre, Massey University (Auckland, N...

Johannes Cronjé

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Johannes Cronjé is a professor of Digital Teaching and Learning in the Department of Information Technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Prior to that he was the Dean Informatics a...

Laura Czerniewicz

University of Cape Town

Laura was the first director of the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), at the University of Cape Town, (2014 to 2020) having previously led UCT’s Centre for Educational Technolog...

Irwin DeVries

Thompson Rivers University

Irwin DeVries is committed to making higher education more accessible using open learning methods. His experience and research interests include distance education, instructional design and open educa...

Helen DeWaard

University of British Columbia

Helen DeWaard works with the Faculty of Education, Lakehead University, Orillia, and is a learning designer with the University of British Columbia Faculty of Education. She holds a Masters of Educati...

Eliana Elkhoury

Athabasca University

Dr. Eliana Elkhoury is an assistant professor, human experience in Open, Digital, and Distance Education at Athabasca University. In her role, Elkhoury conducts research on alternative assessment prac...

Nelisa Freitas

Nelisa Freitas works as a health practitioner and assistant planner in the home care services for the City of Mölndal, Gothenburg, Sweden. Prior to that she was a lecturer quantitative techniques, fi...

Daniela Gachago

University of Cape Town

Dr Daniela Gachago is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Innovation in Learning at Teaching at the Centre for Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on...

Clare Gormley

Dublin City University

Clare Gormley is an academic developer with DCU Teaching Enhancement Unit who has worked in digital education since 1996. She is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA) and a Fellow of the Staff and Ed...

Shanali C. Govender

University of Cape Town

Shanali is a lecturer within the Academic Staff Development unit at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching. Her particular brief in the staff development team i...

Jennifer K. Green

Massey University

Jennifer K. Green is a senior lecturer in the School of Nursing, Massey University (Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand). Her PhD research is focusing on productive hybrid learning environments in times of...

Sandhya Gunness

University of Mauritius

Did my first degree in Physics from the University of Mumbai. Came back to Mauritius and joined the University as a Lab technician -Physics Department, then joined the Virtual Centre for Innovative Le...

Michelle Harrison

Thompson Rivers University

Dr Michelle Harrison is a Senior Instructional Designer and Assistant Professor at Thompson Rivers University—Open Learning and is the past Chair of the Learning Design and Innovation departm...

Leo Havemann

University College London | The Open University

Leo Havemann is a higher, digital, open education practice and policy specialist and researcher. He works with colleagues across the disciplines to develop and enhance programmes at UCL, while working...

Norma Rocio Héndez Puerto

Over 10 years of experience leading e-learning and blended learning projects in different types of higher education programs and government entities as well as training for public officials and to pro...

Nazira Hoosen

Wits University

Nazira Hoosen is a lecturer and educational developer within the curriculum and teaching team at the Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development (CLTD) at Wits University. She facilitated previously...

Christine Immenga

University of Cape Town.

Christine Immenga is the Senior Coordinator of Student Governance within the Department of Student Affairs at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has been working in Student Affairs for the...

Tasneem Jaffer

University of Cape Town

Tasneem has worked as a senior project coordinator and learning designer at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She has completed an MEd in Educational Technology and an MBA from the Universi...

Shironica P. Karunanayaka

Open University of Sri Lanka

Shironica P. Karunanayaka is a Senior Professor in Educational Technology at the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). She is a former Dean of the Faculty of Education, OUSL. Prof. Karunanayaka has bee...

Japhet Kazavanga

University of Namibia

Japhet Hindundu Kazavanga is a teacher by profession with over 10 years of teaching experience. After his teaching career he joined a distance teaching college where he was responsible for materials d...

Whitney Kilgore

iDesign

Whitney Kilgore, Ph.D. is co-founder and chief academic officer of iDesign, a partner to universities who wish to build, grow, and support online and blended course and program offerings. iDesign prov...

Greig Krull

Wits University

Greig Krull is a Senior Lecturer and Academic Director for Digital Learning in the Commerce, Law and Management (CLM) Faculty at the Wits University in Johannesburg. He is part of the Faculty’s Teac...

Rob Lowney

Dublin City University

"Rob Lowney is a Learning Technologist in the DCU Teaching Enhancement Unit. He works with academic staff to enhance their teaching, learning and assessment practices with digital technologies. He has...

Anneri Meintjes

University of Pretoria

Anneri Meintjes has worked in different roles in higher education since 2012, with a broad focus on blended learning and educational technology but a particular interest in the use of online assessmen...

Serpil Meri-Yilan

Agri Ibrahim Cecen University

Dr Serpil Meri-Yilan is an assistant professor of languages at Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Turkey. She holds her MA and PhD in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching from the University of South...

Kate Molloy

University of Galway

Kate Molloy is a Learning Technologist with the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at NUI Galway and is currently the NUI Galway lead on the Irish Universities Association Enhancing Digita...

Kimera Moodley

University of Pretoria

Dr Moodley is in the field of educational technology. Her research focuses on blended learning, e-learning, online learning and various different educational technology. She publishes in field of soci...

Tannis Morgan

Vancouver Community College

Dr Tannis Morgan is AVP, Academic Innovation at Vancouver Community College. She has worked as an Advisor, Learning and Teaching, and Researcher, Open Education Practices at BCcampus. Her research is...

Jolanda De Villiers Morkel

STADIO Higher Education

Jolanda Morkel is the Head of Instructional Design at STADIO Higher Education since January 2021. During her former 20 year academic career at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, she designed...

Travis Noakes

Travis’ research focuses on original online content creation and how authors’ digital voices reflect structural enablers and constraints. He has explored teenage visual artists development of e-po...

Oluwaseun Oyekola

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Oluwaseun Oyekola is an Associate Professor in the department of Chemical Engineering, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa, where he also serves as the postgraduate studies coordinat...

Nicola Pallitt

Rhodes University

Dr Nicola Palitt coordinates the efforts of the Educational Technology team in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL) at Rhodes University and offers professional dev...

Michael Paskevicius

University of Victoria

Dr Michael Paskevicius is Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on learning design practices, the development of digit...

Patrice Torcivia Prusko

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Patrice is Associate Director of Learning Design, Technology and Media within the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Through her research she looks to develop course and systems level structures th...

Rubina Devi Rampersad

University of Mauritius

Rubina D Rampersad is a trained educational technologist at the University of Mauritius, with more than 25 years of experience. She supports content experts to design modules on distance, online and b...

Mashudu Raudzingana

University of Cape Town

Mashudu is an Online Learning Designer on the CILT Course and Curriculum Development team. She received her Post Graduate Diploma specialising in Education Technology with the University of Cape Town ...

David Paul Redelinghuys

David Redelinghuys is a game developer with a special interest in developing educational games. David also spent the last two years as a part-time lecturer in the Faculty of Business & Management Scie...

Verena Roberts

University of Calgary | Thompson Rivers University

Dr Verena Roberts is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary and an Instructional Designer with Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning. Her...

Paul'e Ruwhiu

Massey University

Paulè A. Ruwhiu is a lecturer based at Massey University, in the College of Health, School of Social Work at the Albany Campus, Auckland, New Zealand, however, also teaches on Palmerston North campus...

Nicolette F. Sheridan

Massey University

Nicolette F. Sheridan, PhD. Professor and Head of the School of Nursing, Massey University, New Zealand. She is a registered nurse with 30 years in clinical practice, research and education. She wa...

Widad Sirkhotte

University of Cape Town

Widad is an Online Learning Designer at the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) that is based at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Prior to working in online course and curriculum d...

Janet Small

University of Cape Town

Janet manages the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) learning design unit. She has an Adult Education MPhil and has worked in educational design for 15 years. She is passionate abo...

Proscovia Namubiru Ssentamu

Uganda Management Institute

Proscovia Namubiru Ssentamu is an associate professor of education and head of the quality assurance department at Uganda Management Institute (UMI). She facilitates education-related Masters and PhD ...

Lizzy Steenkamp

Who’s your ADDIE?

I have been in the e-learning industry in various positions since 2011, and have worked across just about all of the sectors in which you might find a tech-enabled experience that helps someone learn ...

Suzanne Stone

Dublin City University

Suzanne works as a Learning Technologist at Dublin City University (DCU) supporting staff to integrate digital technologies in their teaching and learning. Suzanne has used the ABC learning design pro...

Clare Thomson

Ulster University

Clare Thomson is a Digital Education Consultant in the Office for Digital Learning at Ulster University, in Northern Ireland, supporting staff across four geographical campuses. Clare has worked in hi...

Nompilo Tshuma

Stellenbosch University

Dr Nompilo Tshuma is a lecturer and researcher in the Centre for Higher and Adult Education at Stellenbosch University. She has been working with educational technology since 2005, as both a lecturer ...

Mari van Wyk

University of Pretoria

Dr Mari van Wyk has a PhD in Computer Integrated Education and is a senior learning designer at the department of Comprehensive Online Education Services at the University of Pretoria. She is responsi...

Thula Vilakati

University of Cape Town

Nokuthula is currently undertaking full-time PhD study in Education, in the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, researching academic staff development for blended learning approaches t...

Sukaina Walji

University of Cape Town

Sukaina is the Director of CILT. She oversees operational functions for the department including supporting the growth and development of CILT’s capacity to design and develop blended and online cou...

Mia Zamora

Kean University

Mia Zamora, Ph. D. is Associate Professor of English and Director of the MA in Writing Studies at Kean University in Union, NJ, USA. As a leading voice for the practice of open networked education, s...