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				FRIENDS OF THE 
				CONFERENCE 
				  
				J. Ola Lindberg 
				Member of the Scientific Committee, former member of 
				the Publications and Promotions Committee, presenter, moderator 
				
				  
				
				Ola earned his teachers certificate at Luleε 
				University of Technology in 1992, and worked until 1997 as a 
				teacher in mathematics and natural science. From 1996 he has 
				been engaged in teacher education, and in 2005 he earned 
				his PhD in Education at Umeε University. He is now a senior 
				lecturer at the Department of Education, Mid Sweden University. 
				
				  
				
				
				His special interests lie in ICT and teaching, 
				the development of a digital competence for teachers, distance 
				and online education and online learning communities, with a 
				main research interest in teacher professional development 
				supported by ICT. His research departs from a philosophical 
				hermeneutical approach with an overall aim at understanding 
				social and ethical processes of teaching and fostering. Together 
				with his colleague and friend Dr. Anders D Olofsson, he has 
				edited the forthcoming book 
				Online Learning Communities and Teacher Professional Development: 
				Methods for Improved Education Delivery. 
				  
				
				Ola 
				
				has within his research area contributed 
				internationally with book chapters, journal articles and 
				conference papers. He is the project leader for the 
				international project Technology Enhanced Teacher 
				Professional Development in Sweden and China, concerned with 
				a three-year collaborative study between Mid Sweden University 
				and South China Normal University supported by SIDA and the 
				Swedish Research Council. He is also the leader for the research 
				group Digital Competence in Teacher Education for the 
				Faculty of Educational Sciences at Mid Sweden University. 
				  
				
				Marcie 
				Boucouvalas 
				
				Henk 
				Eijkman 
				
				
				Ġorġ Mallia 
				
				
				Peter Mayall 
				
				
				Anders D. Olofsson 
				
				
				Barry O'Grady 
				
				Pericles 'Asher' 
				Rospigliosi 
				
				Jiorgos 
				Sarrigeorgiou 
				
				
				
				Simon 
				Shurville 
				
				Mary Snow 
				
				Richard Snow 
				
				
				Anthony 
				Whitefield 
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