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Friends of the
Conference
2016
Maria Eugenia
Witzler D'Esposito
Member of the Publications and
Promotions Committee and of the Scientific Committee, presenter,
moderator, winner of the 2010 Student Paper Award
Maria Eugenia is one
of the most active promoters of ICICTE ever. She has managed to
bring to the conference a lot of scholarship from her native
Brazil. She herself is a constant participant, with thought
provoking papers. She is also always ready to help with any work
that needs doing during the conference.
Post-doctorate
student in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies at
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2012). Graduated
in English Language: translation and a full degree in English
Language learning and teaching (1993), an MA in Applied
Linguistics and Language Studies (2004) and a Doctorate in
Applied Linguistics and Language Studies at Pontifícia
Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2012). She currently works
as a full time professor at Faculdade Cultura Inglesa. Her area
of interest is language learning and teaching, researching
mainly the following topics: teacher training, educational
technologies, higher education, distance education, writing, and
complexity.
Apart from her
active involvement in ICICTE committees, she is a member of the
research group "Education and Language learning: approaches,
methodologies and technologies" (UERJ / CNPq) .
2015
Zuhaira Najjar
Member of the Scientific Committee, presenter,
moderator
Zuhaira Najjar have
been presenting at ICICTE in her areas of specialisation since
2010. Because of the warm social atmosphere and the scientific
contribution of the conference, ICICTE has become an annual
event for her.
Zuhaira Najjar
is an instructor and head of the internship department at The
Academic Arab College for Education in Haifa City. In addition,
she works as a researcher at the Mofet Institute – a national
inter-collegial center for the research and development of
programs in teacher education and teaching in the colleges.
Zuhaira
received her PhD and M.A. from Tel-Aviv University School of
Education. For seventeen years she worked for the Israeli
Ministry of Education teaching students with learning
disabilities. In the years 2003-2008 she lectured at the
Academic Institute for Training Arab Teachers at Beit Berl
College in Kfar Saba and chaired the special education
department. Also, she worked as an instructor at the Open
University.
Her academic
interests include: the interaction between education and
information technology, and the pedagogical challenges and
opportunities presented by the incorporation of technology in
the classroom.
2014
Evangeline "Litsa"
Varonis
Member of the Scientific Committee, workshop
facilitator, presenter,
moderator
Litsa Varonis first presented at
ICICTE in 2010 and regrets that she did not join the family
earlier. That year, her husband Orestes begged her to write an
abstract for the following year so they could attend again
together, and for them it has become an annual event.
Litsa works as an instructional designer at The University of
Akron and is involved in many outreach activities involving
instructional technology. She was the first person in the
English Department to teach in a Distance Learning classroom and
also the first to use a learning management system. Excited
about the ways in which learning technologies could enhance
education, she moved to a position in IT but continues to teach
regularly.
Certified as a Quality Matters Master Reviewer and Facilitator,
in 2013-4 she served on the committee charged with updating the
Quality Matters rubric used internationally to certify quality
online course design. She introduced Quality Matters to ICICTE
in 2013 when she presented a paper on it and volunteered her
services as a facilitator of the Applying the Quality Matters
Rubric workshop.
Litsa has a BA (English, Psychology, and Honors) from Arcadia
University and an MA (Linguistics) from the University of
Pennsylvania. She has published widely in the areas of
instructional technology, English as a Second Language, English
composition, and linguistics.
2013
Stephen Brown
Member of the Scientific
Committee, presenter, workshop facilitator and "friend in need"
of the conference.
Stephen Brown has been Professor of
Learning Technologies at De Montfort University, UK, since 1994.
He is also director of Hyperworks Ltd, which provides
consultancy, training and content development services in the
fields of knowledge media design, distance education and
technology enhanced learning. Stephen is a Visiting Fellow at
the Centre for Distance Education, International Programmes at
the University of London.
Stephen has also been associated with BT, The University of
Ulster, The Open University, Leicester Polytechnic, The Royal
Academy of Engineering, and JISC Technologies Centre.
He is a strategic leader, designer, researcher, educationalist,
teacher, trainer, learning technologist and distance learning
expert, with extensive experience of leadership, change
management and innovation in industry and higher education.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Associate Member
of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, a Certified
Member of the Association for Learning Technology, and a
Certified Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
Development.
One can see publications, grants and projects at: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/stephen-brown.aspx
Johan Hough
Member of the Publications and
Promotions
Committee, presenter, workshop facilitator and sponsor of the
conference.
Johan Hough is a Professor and
Consultant of Strategy, International Business and management
with twenty years practical experience in research and
management-related environments. He prefers a participative and
interactive role in consulting and facilitating local and
foreign business alliances with the emphasis on creating a
competitive advantage for clients. His career objective is to
further his teaching and consulting career in strategic
management and corporate entrepreneurship in a growing
globalised environment.
At the moment, he is busy with the following consulting/research
projects: Corporate entrepreneurship as a competitive advantage
in large SA companies; the formation, development and
maintenance of strategic alliances by South African companies to
become more competitive in international business; strategic
flexibility in the financial services industry.
Since 2003 he has been a Professor at the University of
Stellenbosch, and has also been associated with the University
of South Africa, the First National Bank (Johannesburg), and the
Department of Agriculture (Pretoria).
Johan was the author of the first book on International Business
in South Africa. He was the recipient of the Ernst Oppenheimer
Memorial Trust’s Overseas Research Grant for 1999/2000. He was
part of the selection team for the South African Global Company
Awards, sponsored by Business Report, Barlows and
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 2000. Johan was the recipient of the
Merit Research Award from the Faculty of Economic and Management
Sciences at Unisa, 1997. He was project leader of a 1997
competitiveness research project commissioned by the World
Economic Forum in Switzerland in a venture with Deloitte &
Touche. He was the presenter of the first Unisa course on the
Internet, 1997 and the recipient of the Researcher of the Year
Award,1996 and the Merit Award for Outstanding Research,1995
(Department of Business Management, Unisa).
He has sixty-five contributions in terms of articles, handbooks,
conference proceedings, research reports and other relevant
contributions.
2012
Katherine McGuire
Member of the Scientific
Committee, presenter and workshop facilitator.
Katherine McGuire is a Senior
Instructor of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick in
Saint John, Canada. She has qualifications in Psychology and
Adult Education and has been involved in research in both areas.
In addition to obtaining a Masters in Adult Education and a
Master of Arts in Psychology, she has earned a Diploma in
University Teaching and has been teaching in higher education
since 1996.
As a dedicated teacher she continues
to make efforts towards pedagogical improvement both within her
own classes and her workplace, actively participating in
improving the overall pedagogical standards at her university.
She has provided important support for student advising and
recruitment, has held workshops in student success, and has
served on the organising committee for many on-campus teaching
related events. Katherine is the current co-chair of the
Teaching Excellence and Policy Senate Committee and is a member
of both the Vice-President’s Excellence in Teaching Committee
and the University of New Brunswick Research Ethics Board.
Locally, she is a member of the interprofessional Health
Research Committee and, nationally, was a member of the 2010
organizing committee for the Canadian Network for Innovation in
Education (a conference focused on issues relevant to
instructional technology).
She and her collaborators have
published research in refereed journals and conference
proceedings and have presented at local, national, and
international conferences. Much of her research has focused on
cognitive psychology, pedagogical issues, and the improvement of
teaching effectiveness. She has taught at the international
level at Beijing Concord College, China and on a volunteer basis
at Emmanuel College in Swaziland.
She has a love for travel which has
taken her from beneath the pyramids of Giza to Basecamp Mount
Everest. This passion and a deep desire to help underprivileged
children, has led her to work on projects in South Africa,
Swaziland, and the Ukraine.
2011
Anthony
Whitefield
Dr Tony
Whitefield is a lecturer in Accounting at Swinburne University
in Melbourne Australia. He has qualifications in education and
accounting, but his true love is education. His Masters in
Education was on learning styles and his PhD was in teaching
with technology. Over the past few years, he has had stints in
the Faculty of Business at Swinburne as the Educational
Development Coordinator and more recently as the Associate Dean
International. He has a number of PhD students and is a member
of the Swinburne University Human Research Ethics Committee.
His connection with ICICTE goes back to 2003 when he presented
his first paper. Since then, he has presented more papers (the
last one was with his wife and son), attended all conferences,
chaired many sessions, danced at Greek nights, joined the
Scientific Committee and has been one of the guest editors of
the journal Campus Wide Information Systems, which publishes a
special edition each year from the papers arising out of the
conference.
He has been a
teacher for over 30 years, including 21 years teaching
in secondary schools and now he is coming up to 10 years in
higher education. Apart from teaching, he holds a 4th Dan in
Taekwondo, plays bass guitar in a band and with his wife Despina
has a house on the Greek Island of Limnos. One day, he hopes to
retire to the village life in Limnos and grow and make his own
ouzo.
Mary Snow
Dr. Mary Snow teaches meteorology,
climatology, climate change, and geography in the Department of
Applied Aviation Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University, Daytona Beach, Florida.
She earned her Ph.D. in Physical Geography with a specialty in
Life Sciences from Indiana State University in 1999. Dr. Snow
has presented her research to numerous professional
organizations including the American Meteorological Society, the
National Weather Association, the National Council for
Geographic education, the Association of American Geographers,
and the University Aviation Association. She has presented at
international conferences in Greece, Germany, France, the
Netherlands, England, Cancun, the Bahamas, and Hawaii.
Her diverse research topics include microburst avoidance for
pilots, temperature range variability, global climate change,
applied climatic indices, renewable energy, and Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) applications in meteorology and
climatology.
Her husband, Dr. Rich Snow, and she have produced numerous
refereed journal articles and proceedings papers and recently
co-authored a textbook entitled Climatology: An Atmospheric
Science published by Prentice-Hall.
The Snows first presented at the ICICTE on Samos in 2003 and
have been associated with the conference since that time as
presenters, moderators, and committee members. Dr. Snow is also
a licensed private pilot.
Richard Snow
Dr. Richard Snow teaches meteorology, climatology, climate
change, and geography in the Department of Applied Aviation
Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach,
Florida.
He earned his Ph.D. in Physical Geography with a specialty in
Life Sciences from Indiana State University in 1999. Dr. Snow
has presented his research to numerous professional
organizations including the American Meteorological Society, the
National Weather Association, the National Council for
Geographic education, the Association of American Geographers,
and the University Aviation Association. He has presented at
international conferences in Greece, Germany, France, the
Netherlands, England, Cancun, the Bahamas, and Hawaii. His
diverse research topics include microburst avoidance for pilots,
temperature range variability, global climate change, applied
climatic indices, renewable energy, and Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) applications in meteorology and climatology.
His wife, Dr. Mary Snow, and he have produced numerous refereed
journal articles and proceedings papers and recently co-authored
a textbook entitled Climatology: An Atmospheric Science
published by Prentice-Hall. The Snows first presented at the
ICICTE on Samos in 2003 and have been associated with the
conference since that time as presenters, moderators, and
committee members.
They look forward to another Greek Night with the gusto of a
hound dog.
2010
Henk Eijkman
Member of
the Scientific Committee, presenter, moderator.
Henk currently
works as a higher education learning solutions and innovation
specialist at the University of New South Wales at the
Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) Campus. He also acts as
a learning and assessment solutions consultant to various
engineering colleges in India and is Visiting Professor of
Academic Development at Annasaheb Dange Colleg of Engineering
and Technology in India.
Henk's
academic background is in the social sciences (sociology, social
welfare and political science) and post-school educational
innovation and leadership. He has taught at various colleges and
universities in the social sciences and in post-school
curricular and pedagogic practices in trans-culturally diverse
settings such a s in South Africa, Malaysia, Palestine, and
India. Henk publishes widely in international journals and
serves on three Conference Committees. He is the incoming editor
of "The Learning Organisation" and is a founding co-editor of
the new International Journal of Quality Assurance in
Engineering and Technology Education (IJQAETE).
Henk aspires
to make a positive difference in the lives of students and
educators, especially, but not only, those from minority or
marginalised social groups, by contributing to efforts for
educational improvement both in Australia and in low-income
(developing) countries. His teaching and research interests,
therefore, are firmly grounded in socially inclusive educational
strategies, leadership, and advocacy. Specific interests
currently include the strategic role of Web 2.0+ social media,
social theories of learning and improving socially inclusive
outcomes in post-colonial educational settings.
Pericles 'Asher'
Rospigliosi
Asher is a senior
lecturer in e-business and management information systems at the
University of Brighton Business School. He conducts research
into blended e-learning for higher education and continuing
professional development in business. Asher has a substantial
and successful commercial track record in the development and
management of online systems for commerce and education. One of
of his commercial projects won the 1999 PPAi award for best
consumer website (GameSpot UK). Other areas of specialist
interest are the impact of ubiquitous internet access on
business, organisations, planning, learning and knowledge.
Away from the
internet, he has spent the last four years researching the
relationship between higher education and employment. He is
currently working on the idea of a New Vocationalism: returning
the emphasis in education to stimulating students willingness
and ability to learn. With his co-authors he has presented these
ideas at the The Institute For Employment Studies and The Work
Foundation.
Asher's
non-academic areas of interest include his dogs (Cleo and
Hermes), tipis and low impact living, Wing Chun Kung Fu,
walking, cooking, eating, dancing and travelling with his
partner Mitch (though not necessarily in that order!).
More details can
be found online at:
Blogging:
http://arospigliosi.wordpress.com/
Working:
http://staff.bus.bton.ac.uk/ar17/
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/arospigliosi
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/arospigliosi
Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rospigliosi/
2009
J. Ola Lindberg
Member of the Scientific Committee, former member of
the Publications and Promotions Committee, presenter, moderator
Ola earned his teacher’s certificate at Luleå
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 Umeå 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.
Anders D.
Olofsson
Member of the Scientific Committee, former member
of the Publications and Promotions Committee, presenter,
moderator
Anders earned his teacher’s certification at
Växjö University, Sweden in 1999. After working four years as a
teacher he moved to the northern parts of Sweden and started his
PhD studies. In 2005 he earned a PhD in education at Umeå
University, Sweden. Anders is now a senior lecturer in education
at the Department of Education, Umeå University. He lectures in
subjects related to, for example, ICT and assessment, online
learning communities, distance and online education. In addition
since 2006 Anders has been supervising PhD students and work
half time at the Medical School, Umeå University as a researcher
in the field of medical education and as an educational
developer of the medical programme.
In his research Anders departs from a
philosophical hermeneutical approach and his research is aimed
at understanding the meaning of social processes of teaching and
fostering, establishing the meaning of, for example, ethics,
democracy, learning and teaching in an online education context.
During the last few years Anders has developed a significant
interest in teacher professional development taking place
online. Together with his colleague and good friend Dr. J. Ola
Lindberg, he has edited the book
Online Learning Communities and Teacher Professional
Development: Methods for Improved Education Delivery.
Anders
has within his research area contributed
internationally with book chapters, journal articles and papers
to conference proceedings. He is the scientific leader for the
research group Learning and ICT and co-leader for the
research network ICT, Media & Learning within the
Department of Education and Umeå School of Education, both at
the Umeå University.
For
more information:
http://www.pedag.umu.se/personal/olofsson_a/index.html
Jiorgos
Sarrigeorgiou
Indispensably active in the
background of the ICICTE conference since 2004, Jiorgos
Sarrigeorgiou is part of the backbone of the conference, and
helps make the event successful.
Jiorgos, whose main field of expertise is the
installation of heating and cooling systems, has worked in
Technical Vocational Schools since 2000. He served for several
years in remote areas such as Samos island in the North-East
Aegean Sea and Komotini in the North-Eastern part of the
mainland of Greece. There Jiorgos dealt with the inequality of
educational opportunities within rural areas by introducing in
his teaching methods innovative approaches that went beyond
formal education.
He has been involved in European life-long
training programmes such as Comenius, as well as in national
actions such as Daedalus, which is a programme for the
development and implementation of demonstration projects and the
awarding of educational projects by students of public Technical
Vocational Schools.
He has contributed greatly to the success of many
editions of ICICTE by means of his hard work and his persistent
positive approach to problem solving.
2008
Peter Mayall
Peter Mayall is a lecturer in finance at the
Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. His
primary qualification was in Chartered Accounting and he worked
in this capacity in his early career in Africa, the Middle East
and the UK until he found that all that has been said about
accountants was true.
He then moved to Australia and changed to the
finance industry, being involved in the assessment and funding
of capital projects. He joined academia in 1993 and lectures in
corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and financial
decision making.
His research interests include the topics of
mergers, agency issues and the teaching of finance. He has
published in the area of the teaching of finance.
His interests include scuba diving, bicycling,
mountain trekking and TV channel surfing. He does as much
boating as his job and bank balance allows.
Barry O'Grady
Barry O’Grady
is a
lecturer in finance at the Curtin University of Technology in
Perth, Western Australia. He holds qualifications in Finance,
Economics and Accounting.
He has worked in the finance and banking industry
in Europe, Australia and the US. His academic and practical
interests relate to operations of financial markets with a
particular interest in equity, commodity and derivative markets.
He has worked in academia for the last nine years
and has enjoyed seeing students excel and achieve their goals.
His interests include most sports, sailing, drama and the arts.
He hopes to visit British Columbia one day and
challenge one of the local bears to a game of golf (he will let
the bear win).
2007
Marcie
Boucouvalas
Keynote speaker
(2005), member of the Scientific Committee, presenter, workshop
facilitator, moderator, local media liaison
Marcie is a resident
faculty member of Virginia Tech’s Graduate Center. She has four decades of experience in the field, practicing
within a variety of institutional contexts, in geographically
diverse areas, in urban and rural settings, with a myriad of
populations, special interest group and cultures from the elite
to the impoverished.
She has served on the editorial board of
the Adult Education Quarterly for over a decade and has
been editor-in-chief for the Journal of Transpersonal
Psychology since 2002 having served as a field editor since
1981.
Marcie has
published, made presentations, or provided service/consulting in
Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, served as a Kellogg exchange
professor to England, and was the USA representation to three
World Assemblies in Adult Education and to two UNESCO
Assemblies. She is listed in biographical reference publications
such as Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American
Education, Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America,
The World Who’s Who of Women, The Who’s Who of
Business and Professional Women, and the International
Directory of Distinguished Leadership.
She
is a member of the International Adult and Continuing Education
Hall of Fame.
http://www.halloffame.outreach.ou.edu/2003/Boucouvalas.html
Ġorġ
Mallia
Member of the Scientific and Steering Committees, ICICTE graphic designer,
webmaster, presenter, moderator, chair of the P&P Committee and
ICICTE Communications co-ordinator
Ġorġ lectures in communications and instructional technology at
the University of Malta. He is the head of the Department of
Media and Communications at the Faculty of
Media and Knowledge Sciences, with lecture specialisations in print
and presentation media, graphic design, instructional design and
educational communications.
He has a PhD in Instructional Technology from the University of
Sheffield, UK. His research interests include: impacts on
teaching and learning of new media technologies and social
software; transfer of learning; hypertextual processing, and
instructional communications. He has presented and published a
number of papers about these areas, and has also lectured about
aspects of them locally and around Europe.
Ġorġ was at the first ICICTE Conference in Samos as a delegate
and has been a member of the Scientific Committee since 2004,
still presenting, but also moderating, and in 2007 designing the
conference material and in 2008 the conference website too. He is now ex ufficio formal
conference graphic designer and web master. As from ICICTE 2012
he is Chair of the Publications and Promotions Committee, as
well as Communications Coordinator.
In Malta, he is also well known as a children’s book writer and
illustrator, a satirical cartoonist who had his own comic strip
published in Malta’s leading weekly newspaper for many years, and for his
frequent presence on the national media. He was
chairman of Malta’s Government appointed National Book Council
between 2005 and 2013.
More information can be found at
http://www.gorgmallia.com.
Simon Shurville
Member of the
Scientific Committee and Organizational Committees, co-editor of
Campus Wide Information Systems selected papers issues
for 2006 and 2007, presenter, moderator, 2009 keynote writer
Simon has extensive
experience of delivery, development, project management, and
research of e-learning, information systems and knowledge
management in higher education, industry and the public sector. Until recently he
was a Senior Lecturer in Electronically Enhanced Learning at
Cranfield University where he has also lectured in knowledge
management, organizational learning and human computer
interaction. Previously he was:
• Project Director of the Managed Learning Environment at the
University of Sussex
• A Senior Business Modeler for Moody’s Risk Management
• Co-Course Director of the UG and PG Certificate/Diploma in
Digital Entrepreneurship for SMEs in New Media and UG
Certificate/Diploma in Online Tutoring for City University
• Project Manager for E-Learning at iDesk Research Communities
• Project Manager in E-Learning at the University of Oxford
• Research Fellow in Online Learning at the University of
Brighton
He is Assistant
Editor with responsibility for themed issues for the
international journal Campus-Wide Information Systems and
recently co-edited a special double issue of the international
journal Organizational Transformation and Social Change
on ICT-Driven Change in Higher Education. Simon has now
migrated to Australia to join his wife Marian and plans to buy
her a troublesome camper van so they can work their way
methodically through Mr James Halliday’s Wine Atlas of
Australia. He recommends Tapanappa Whalebone Vineyard
Wrattonbully Cabernet/Shiraz, Samuel’s Gorge McLaren Flat
Temparanillo, Tasmanian camp sites and the buskers at the
Fremantle Market Bar. He would like to find a magic door to
Samos and McLaren Vale and prop it open with copies of the
collected works of Ursula K. Le Guin ... so that Marian and his
cat Skippy can always enjoy the sunshine.
More information can be found at
http://simonshurville.blogspot.com/
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