Computer Supported Education - The Human Factor

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José Carlos Quadrado is the full professor with tenure of electrical machines in the electrical engineering and automation department of the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Portugal. Currently he holds the position of President of ISEL since 2006. He has a BSc in Energy and Power Systems, a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation and Industrial Electronics from ISEL, a MSc and a Doctor degree in Electrical Engineering and Computers from Lisbon Technical University. He also holds the Habilitation degree (Aggregation) in Electrical Engineering from Beira Interior University. Holds the position of President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) and the position of immediate-past president of the Ibero-American Engineering Education Association (ASIBEI), and he is also the immediate past vice-President of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI). Former member of the National Bologna Expert Group, he leads the Portuguese Observatory on European and Latin-American University management strategy best practices and the national association of engineering rectors and deans. Being a member and senior member of several engineering societies and engineering education societies in several continents, he is also a visiting professor in several universities around the world and board member of technological societies. He holds over 100 international publications (including journals and chapters of books), several patents and some international technical prizes and scholarships, and also held the position of editor and editor-in-chief in some journals. Up to now he has also developed several international engineering projects in the fields of renewable energy, fuel cells, electrical vehicles and intelligent control.

 

 

Digital Age Learning - The Changing Face of Online Education

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Steve Wheeler is Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at Plymouth University, in South West England. Originally trained as a psychologist, he has spent his entire career working in media, technology and learning, predominantly in nurse education (NHS 1981-1995) and teacher education (1976-1981 and 1995-present). He is now in the School of Education, at the Faculty of Health, Education and Society.Steve teaches on a number of undergraduate and post-graduate teacher education programmes in the UK and overseas. He researches into e-learning and distance education, with particular emphasis on the pedagogy underlying the use of social media and Web 2.0 tools, and he also has research interests in mobile learning and cyber-cultures. Steve is regularly invited to speak about his work and has given keynotes and invited lectures to audiences in 30 countries across 5 continents. He is currently involved in several research programmes related to e-learning, social media and handheld technologies.Steve is the author of more than 150 scholarly articles, with over 2500 academic citations and is an active and prolific edublogger. His blog Learning with ‘e’s is a regular online commentary on the social and cultural impact of disruptive technologies, and the application of digital media in education and training. It currently attracts in excess of 150,000 views each month.Steve is chair of the Plymouth e-Learning Conference, and between 2008-2011 was also co-editor of the journal Interactive Learning Environments. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of learning technology and education related open access academic journals including Research in Learning Technology (formerly ALT-J), the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL), the European Journal of Open, Distance and eLearning (EURODL) and Digital Culture and Education. He has served on the organising and executive committees of a number of international academic conferences, including ALT-C, ICL, EDEN, IFIP and AICT.In 2008 Steve was awarded a Fellowship by the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN), and in 2011 he was elected to serve as a member of the Steering group of EDEN’s Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP). Between 2008-2013 he also served as chair of the influential worldwide research group IFIP Technical Committee Working Group 3.6 (distance education) and is author of several books including The Digital Classroom (Routledge: 2008) and Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures (Information Age: 2009). He lives in Plymouth, on the South West coast of England.

 

 

Mathematics Teaching - Is the Future Syncretic?

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Larissa Fradkin is Emerita Professor, London South Bank University, UK and Associated Professor, Brunel University, UK.  Trained as a physicist at St Petersburg University, Russia, from 1974 till 1977 she studied for her PhD in Applied Mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.  From 1978 till 1984 she was employed as a Research Scientist at the NZ Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and from 1985 till 1992, as a Research Associate at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of Cambridge University, UK.   From 1993 till 2009 Larissa was a member of academic staff at London South Bank University where she created and ran a Research Group on Mathematical Modelling of Ultrasonic NDE (Non-Destructive Evaluation of industrial components and materials) and teaching mathematics on various engineering courses.  She is now a Managing Director of an independent research organisation Sound Mathematics Ltd., working on her ultrasonic projects, mainly in collaboration with CEA (the French Atomic Commission) and promoting sound mathematics education of engineers.  Larissa is a Fellow of IMA (UK Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications), IOP (UK Institute of Physics) and IET (UK Institute of Engineering and Technology).  Larisa has authored and co-authored over a 100 scientific and scholarly publications, lately on pedagogy behind her system of maths teaching and in 2013 Bookboon has published her open access e-textbook “College Algebra and Calculus:  The Whys and Hows.”  Larissa has been a member of organising committees of several international engineering conferences and is currently a UK National contact person for SEFI’s Maths Working Group (SEFI is the European Society for Engineering Education) and a member of the Committee on Mathematical Education for Engineers, iNEER (International Network for Engineering Education and Research). Larissa lives in Cambridge, England.

 

 

Team Learning in Engineering Education

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Erik de Graaff is trained as psychologist and holds a PhD in social sciences. He has been working with Problem Based learning (PBL) in Maastricht from 1979 till 1990. In 1994 he was appointed as associate professor in the field of educational innovation at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. Dr. de Graaff has been a visiting professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia in 1995 and a guest professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. The collaboration with Aalborg University led to an appointment as full professor at the department of Development and Planning in 2011. Dr. de Graaff is recognized as an international expert on PBL. He contributed to the promotion of knowledge and understanding of higher engineering education with numerous publications and through active participation in professional organizations like SEFI, IGIP, IFEES and ALE. He has published over 200 articles and papers and he has presented more than 70 keynotes and invited lectures on various topics related to PBL in higher education, like: Working with PBL, Management of change, Assessment and evaluation, Methods of applied research and Collaboration between university and industry. Since January 2008 he is Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Engineering Education.