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Susan Zvacek
SMZTeaching.com
United States


Brief Bio
Susan Zvacek is Associate Provost for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Denver, where she oversees the Office of Teaching and Learning. She has worked in higher education as a faculty member, dissertation advisor, and administrator. Her publications are in the areas of distance education, instructional design, and faculty development and she is co-author of a distance education textbook (Teaching and Learning at a Distance, currently in its fifth edition) and Blackboard for Dummies. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Czech Republic and has also worked with the University of Porto (Portugal) to integrate higher order thinking skills into online and f2f engineering education. ... More >>


James Uhomoibhi
Ulster University
United Kingdom


Brief Bio
James Uhomoibhi, a native born of Nigeria is an academic of strong international standing in Physics, Computing and Engineering. He has a first degree in Physics from Nigeria, a BPhil degree from Italy and moved to the UK where he completed his MSc in Optoelectronics and Optical Information Processing and a PhD in Laser Physics. Following his initial appointment as lecturer in Queen’s University Belfast he completed a PGCHET in Higher Education. Today he is at University of Ulster where he was Faculty e-learning coordinator (2004-2015) and now lectures in Engineering whilst researching in computer science and education. He is a visiting Professor of Physics, Computer Science and IT in two Nigerian Universities. He is also a visiting Professor of Science, Technology and Environmental Studies at the Open University in Tanzania. James is a Chartered Physicist and a member of the Institute of Physics; He is a Chartered IT Professional and a Fellow of BCS and also a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. James Uhomoibhi is the African Laser Centre Representative in Europe and has served as Head of SEFI Task Force on European Cooperation with Africa. SEFI is the European Society for Engineering Education. He also sits on the Board of the International Network for Engineering Education and Research (iNEER). He is a member of Council of SEFI and of the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. James Uhomoibhi is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee (DIC) and the International of the Institute of Physics (IoP). He is the founder and current Chair of the BCS e-Learning Specialist Group. In 2011 James Uhomoibhi was appointed a LEADS Scholar by the Nigerian National Universities Commission (NUC), charged with the responsibility of linking experts and academics in the Diaspora to the country. He is a recipient several academic and community awards including amongst others, the iNEER Global Achievement Award in Engineering Education (2011), Belfast Ambassadors Award (2012), BCS Long Service Award and the Distinguished Service Award of the Powerlist All Ireland African Leadership Excellence Award Programme, which he received in 2012. James Uhomoibhi very recently received the Sentinus Ambassador of the Year 2016 Award for outstanding works and contributions to STEM Education and Research Development and Implementation in Northern Ireland, UK. ... More >>



PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mehdi Adda, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada
Shirley Agostinho, University of Wollongong, Australia
Carlos Alario-Hoyos, Universdad Carlos III, Spain
Peter Albion, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Nelma Albuquerque, Concepts and Insights, Brazil
Efthimios Alepis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Colin Allison, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Galia Angelova, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sanchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Juan Ignacio Asensio, University of Valladolid, Spain
Anders Avdic, Dalarna University, Sweden
Breno T. Azevedo, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Fluminense, Brazil
Paul M. A. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Adriano Baratè, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Jorge Barbosa, UNISINOS, Brazil
Antonio R. Bartolomé Pina, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Patrícia S. Bassani, Universidade Feevale, Brazil
Clemens Bechter, TBS, Thailand
Mohammed Belkhatir, , France
Alvine B. Belle, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada
Kay Berkling, Cooperative State University Baden Württemberg, Karlsruhe, Germany
Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema, Open University, Netherlands
Lars Bollen, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
Andreas  Bollin, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Katrin Borcea-Pfitzmann, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Elmar-Laurent Borgmann, Hochschule Koblenz, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Ivana Bosnic, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia
Federico Botella, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain
Ghizlane El Boussaidi, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
Patrice Bouvier, LDLC VR Studio, France
Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Santi Caballé, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Pasquina Campanella, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy
Chris Campbell, Griffith University, Australia
Alberto Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Thibault Carron, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, France
Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway
Line Clemmensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Jo Coldwell-Neilson, Deakin University, Australia
Marc Conrad, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Ruth G. Cook, DePaul University, United States
Patrick J. Coppock, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Gennaro Costagliola, Università di Salerno , Italy
Manuel Perez Cota, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Caroline M. Crawford, University of Houston-Clear Lake, United States
Beno Csapó, University of Szeged, Hungary
John P. Cuthell, Virtual Learning, United Kingdom
Thanasis Daradoumis, University of the Aegean / Open University of Catalonia, Greece
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, Reno, United States
Stavros N. Demetriadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Giuliana Dettori, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD-CNR), Italy
Darina Dicheva, Winston-salem State University, United States
Yannis Dimitriadis, School of Telecommunications Engineering, University of Valladolid, Spain
Danail Dochev, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Ian Douglas, Florida State University, United States
Toby Dragon, Ithaca College, United States
Amalia Duch, UPC- Politechnical University of Catalonia, Spain
Ishbel Duncan, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Erik Duval, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Michael E. Auer, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria
Martin Ebner, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
Larbi Esmahi, Athabasca University, Canada
Ramon Fabregat Gesa, Universitat de Girona, Spain
Si Fan, University of Tasmania, Australia
Mingyu Feng, SRI International, United States
Richard E. Ferdig, Kent State University, United States
Filomena Ferrucci, Università di Salerno, Italy
Davide Fossati, Emory University, United States
Rita Francese, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
José R. Franco, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jun Fujima, Independent Researcher, Germany
Judith Gal-Ezer, The Open University of Israel, Israel
Mikuláš Gangur, Faculty of Economics, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
Serge Garlatti, IMT ATlantique, France
Isabela Gasparini, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Brazil
Piotr Gawrysiak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Sébastien George, Le Mans University, France
Biswadip Ghosh, Metropolitan State University of Denver, United States
David Gibson, Curtin University, Australia
Henrique Gil, Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Mercè Gisbert, Universitat Rovira i Virgili , Spain
Christian Glahn, International Relations and Security Network, , Switzerland
Nuno P. Gonçalves, Superior School of Technology, Polithecnical Institute of Setúbal, Portugal
Ana González Marcos, Universidad de la Rioja, Spain
Anandha Gopalan, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Maria Grigoriadou, University of Athens, Greece
Angela Guercio, Kent State University, United States
Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Nathalie Guin, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, France
David Guralnick, Kaleidoscope Learning, United States
Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ibrahim A. Hameed, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Ålesund, Norway
Yasunari Harada, Waseda University, Japan
Roger Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Olivier Heidmann, University of Thessaly, Greece
Eva Heinrich, Massey University, New Zealand
Richard Helps, Brigham Young University, United States
Oriel Herrera, Universidad Catolica de Temuco, Chile
George Hloupis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
Janet Hughes, The Open University, United Kingdom
Kin-Chuen Hui, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hans Hummel, OUNL, Netherlands
Ivan Ivanov, SUNY Empire State University, United States
M. C. J. C. S. Reis, Department of Engineering, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
Romina Jamieson-Proctor, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Marc Jansen, University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West, Germany
Stéphanie Jean-Daubias, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LIRIS, France
Jelena Jovanovic, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Katerina Kabassi, Tei of the Ionian Islands, Greece
Michail Kalogiannakis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Atis Kapenieks, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Bill Kapralos, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Göran Karlsson, KTH Stockholm, Sweden
David Kaufman, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jalal Kawash, University of Calgary, Canada
ChanMin Kim, Penn State University, United States
Maria Kordaki, University of the Aegean, Greece
Miroslav Kulich, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Jean-Marc Labat, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Timo Lainema, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland
H. Chad Lane, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
Teresa Larkin, American University, United States
Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
José P. Leal, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal
Celina Leão, University of Minho, Portugal
Dominique Leclet, UPJV, France
Newton Lee, Newton Lee Laboratories LLC and Institute for Education Research and Scholarships, United States
Marie Lefevre, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Frederick W. B. Li, University of Durham, United Kingdom
Veronica Liesaputra, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Cheng-Min Lin, Nan Kai University of Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China
Yu-Tzu Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Andreas Lingnau, German University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Luca Andrea Ludovico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Heide Lukosch, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Krystina S. Madej, Georgia Tech, United States
Massimo Marchiori, University of Padua, Italy
Jacek Marciniak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Ivana Marenzi, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Kai P. Mark, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
José C. Marques, FEUP, Portugal
Lindsay Marshall, School of Computing, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Alke Martens, Universität of Rostock, Germany
Alke Martens, Universität of Rostock, Germany
Alejandra Martínez-Monés, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Bruce Maxim, University of Michigan-Dearborn, United States
Roger McDermott, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
António J. Mendes, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Robert Meolic, University of Maribor, Slovenia
José Carlos M. Metrôlho, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Bakhtiar Mikhak, Harvard University, United States
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Susan Moisey, Athabasca University, Canada
Gyöngyvér Molnár, University of Szeged, Hungary
Roberto Moriyón, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Antao Moura, Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil
Jogesh K. Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Hiroyuki Nagataki, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
Ryohei Nakatsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Minoru Nakayama, Institute of Science Tokyo (Tokyo Tech.), Japan
Sotiris D. Nikolopoulos, University of the Peloponnese, Greece
Stavros Nikolopoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece
Bolanle Olaniran, Texas Tech University, United States
Ebba Ossiannilsson, The Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE), Sweden
Thomas Ottmann, Computer Science, , Germany
José Palma, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal
Pantelis M. Papadopoulos, University of Twente, Netherlands
Kyparisia Papanikolaou, School of Educational and Technological Education (ASPETE), Greece
Iraklis Paraskakis, South East European Research Centre, Greece
Emanuel Peres, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro/Inesc-Tec, Portugal
Niels Pinkwart, Humboldt University, Germany
Leonard A. Plugge, Cooperative SURF, Netherlands
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania
Philippos Pouyioutas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Khalid Rabayah, Arab American University, Palestine (State of)
Maria G. Rasteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Eliseo Reategui, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Petrea Redmond, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Manuela Repetto, Independent Researcher, Italy
Fernando R. Ribeiro, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Martin Rich, Cass Business School, United Kingdom
Razvan Rughinis, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Libuse Samkova, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Demetrios Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece
Ian Sanders, University of South Africa, South Africa
Ian Sanders, University of South Africa, South Africa
Sabine Schlag, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Karsten Schmidt, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Georg J. Schneider, Computer Science, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Edgar Seemann, Furtwangen University, Germany
Abhishek Shukla, R. D. Engineering College, India
Pei Hwa Siew, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Juarez Bento da Silva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
John L. Simmons, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Ole Smørdal, University of Oslo, Norway
Filomena Soares, Algoritmi Research Centre, UM, Portugal
Michael Sonntag, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
J. Michael Spector, University of North Texas, United States
Karl Steffens, University of Cologne, Germany
Craig Stewart, Indiana University, United States
Masanori Sugimoto, Hokkaido University, Japan
Katsuaki Suzuki, Kumamoto University, Japan
Ekaterina Talalakina, Independent Researcher, Russian Federation
Bénédicte Talon, ULCO, Université Lille Nord de France, France
Brendan Tangney, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Ireland
Uwe Terton, Southern Cross University, Australia
Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
A. M. Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Stefan Trausan-Matu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Carlos Vaz de Carvalho, ISEP, Portugal
Andreas Veglis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ioanna Vekiri, Independent Researcher, Greece
Harald Vranken, Open Universiteit, Netherlands
Minjuan Wang, San Diego State University; Shanghai International Studies University, United States
Alf I. Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Edgar Weippl, University of Vienna, SBA Research, Austria
Martin Wessner, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Leandro K. Wives, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Jie C. Yang, National Central University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Katarina Zakova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Diego Zapata-Rivera, Educational Testing Service, United States
Amal Zouaq, University of Ottawa, Canada
Javier García Zubía, Universidad de Deusto, Spain

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