ODeL Research and Mentoring Group

ODeL is a Research and Mentoring Group of the International Collaborative of Established and Emerging Scholars (IRCEES) in Educational Technology.

ODeL Research and Mentoring Group Overview

Meeting Place

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://uasystem.zoom.us/j/840755692

Or Telephone

US: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 669 900 6833

Meeting ID: 840 755 692

International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/CsGiSSrU

Google Drive Folder

ODeL Research and Mentoring Group Folder

Check Drive "Shared with Me" Folder to locate

Meeting Dates

Group meets on the last Thursday of each month.

Meeting Times

8am Central Time (CT)/US - Alabama

9am Eastern Time (ET)/US - Georgia

3pm - Central Africa Time (CAT) /Harare, Windhoek

4pm - Eastern Africa Time (EAT)/Nairobi, Kampala

Atieno Adala, PhD,

United States International University Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)

Educational Technologist, Instructional Designer, Research Mentor (e/merge Africa) aaadala@gmail.com

PhD Indiana University Bloomington

Research Interests: Access and quality in higher education, roles of open education resources & practices, eLearning, blended learning; culture, critical/open pedagogy in design of learning environments.

Publications/Presentations Working on Now: Does access to OER adoption lead to open education practices. Book Chapter in progress.

Research Projects Working on Now: Research Mentor, Implementation of International Research Collaboration for Emerging and Established Scholars in Educational Technology (IRCEES).

Sessions/Workshops You Could Lead for the Group: Conducting a Peer Review, Organizing your Journal Article for Publication, Creative Commons Licenses

Projects you would like to work on with the group: Open to suggestions, but one would be examining issues of Culture and E-learning, our cross-cultural collaboration.

On the Web: https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-atieno-adala-phd-mph-43396628/

Twitter:@atyenoadala

Angela D. Benson, Ph.D.

Professor, The University of Alabama (US)

AECT-CLT

abenson@ua.edu or angelabens@gmail.com

Research Interests: eLearning, critical digital pedagogy, culture in technology-mediated learning spaces

Publications/Presentations Working on Now: Undergraduate International Students' Use of Academic Technology; Adopting #TwitterChats for Synchronous and Asynchronous Discussion in a Graduate Online Course.

Research Projects Working on Now: Planning and Implementing an International Research Collaboration, Literature Review of Research on Culture, Learning and Technology

Sessions/Workshops You Could Lead for the Group: Writing for Publication, Conducting Qualitative Research, Zoom,

Projects You'd Like to Work on with the Group: I'm still thinking about this.

Personal Item of Interest: My husband and I will spend the 2019 calendar year in Namibia.

On the Web

Personal Webpage: http://abenson.people.ua.edu

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelabenson/

Twitter: @eAngelaBenson

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angela_Benson2

Unity Chipunza

chipunzau@gmail.com

Director- Centre for Educational Tech Innovation & Design

Bindura University of Science Education

e/merge Africa

Digital fluency, digital content design and authoring, Online learning experiences and design, active learning, gamification in professional learning

Exploring the teacher digital fluency journey

Digitisation of instructional materials for teacher development

Diana Dias

diana.dias@universidadeeuropeia.pt

Vice-Rector

Universidade Europeia

AECT-CLT

Access, Equity, Learning Outcomes, Educational Technology

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SBV6WQBXTVqoV3lMdk5MrF-6uTKURS2m

Publication in index journals (WoS and SCOPUS)

3 research project

Marjorie Sarah Kabuye Batiibwe

batiibwemarjorie@yahoo.co.uk

Lecturer

Makerere University

e/merge Africa

ICT in teaching and learning mathematics

Presentations

None

Anne Montgomery

compute.learnatyourownpace@gmail.com

Instructor- K-6 Victor Elementary School District, Victorville, CA

Alumni - University of Phoenix

AECT-CLT, GSA

2016 AECT International Convention: Supervisor Volunteer, Graduate Student Assembly, Panel Discussion member: ST&C - A Sure Thing or Hedging Bets? Graduate Students Debate The Rise of Alt-Faculty Positions in Western Universities / STC and GSA Joint Panel: Chair: Eugene Kowch, University of Calgary - Faculty of Ed Debating an Increase in ALT-AC (Alt-Academic) Positions in the University and Their Impact on AECT Student Lives. Jennifer Englund, University of Minnesota; Anne Elizabeth Montgomery, University of Phoenix; Fan Ouyang, University of Minnesota; aysegul gok, Georgia State University Graduate Student; Eugene Kowch, University of Calgary - Faculty of Ed

AACE

Research Interests: Distance and online education, E-Learning, MOOCs, Open source materials.

Publications/Presentations Working on Now:

2018 – Montgomery, A. E. & Mallette, L. A. (2018) MOOC Malalignment

2018 – Montgomery, A. E. & Mallette, L. A. (2018) Foundations of Distance Education and Learning: The Impact of Fugitive Literature and Changing Definitions on Distance Education Research.

2018 - University of Phoenix, Dissertation Workshop, Publishing findings of Delphi Study on MOOC best practices.

2018 – Montgomery, A., Expert Panel, in Mallette, L. A. (2017), Dissertation Fundamentals for the Social Sciences.

Sessions/Workshops You Could Lead for the Group: Tools for organization of research and writing

2017 – Montgomery, A. E. (2017). Writing a dissertation: Tools for success. University of Central Florida, Proceedings for AHEA 2017 Conference.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EKYUcgPAffMzjD_uP3dVjnly502TTaL0

Mentoring and editing for dissertation students.

None

Toluwase Olanipekun

tolanipekun@oaucdl.edu.ng

Tutor

Obafemi Awolowo University, Centre for Distance Learning, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

e/merge Africa

Research Interest: Educational Technology, Blended Learning, Perception of Facilitators and Students on Online Teaching and Learning in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Oluniyi Oyeleke

Oluniyi Oyeleke,

ooyeleke@oaucdl.edu.ng

Tutor, Centre for Distance Learning, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oyeleke-oluniyi-54618734

Academic.edu : https://oaucdl.academia.edu/OyelekeOluniyi/Analytics

Research Interest: Open and distance learning, curriculum development and citizenship education

e/merge Africa: Access, Equity and Quality in Open, Distance, and eLearning (ODeL)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fiSmlE7QQAqyY6TJ_PY63x8WSjfmvrcr

Ongoing Research Work: Online satisfactions among our Nursing Students, Assessing institutional capacity for elearning in Nigeria

Personal Web page: under construction (elearning.oluwafunminiyi.com)

None

Hengtao Tang

Dual-title Ph.D., LDT & CI ED

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina

AECT-CLT

Research Interests: Culture, Online education, OERs, Learning analytics.

Research Projects Working on Now: OERs and culture; Learning analytics and learner success; Instructional design.

Twitter: @Happy_Tao

LinkedIn: Hengtao Tang

Gabriel Neepo Uunona

guunona@unam.na

Coordinator: Instructional Design

Center for Open, Distance and eLearning

University of Namibia

e/merge Africa

eLearning, Online and Distance Education, Computing Education

https://drive.google.com/open?id=13Zk6PjzqdnUnRj5MqU_E51pV5IhgOgjg

Yianna Vovides

yv11@georgetown.edu

Director, Learning Design and Research

Georgetown University

AECT-CLT

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BsgsTMvAx0HftyzI1yKPR-_XYXYY6fjG

Phillip Ward

Phillip Ward

pjw1421@jagmail.southalabama.edu

Graduate Assistant/Instructional Designer

University of South Alabama, Innovation in Learning Center

AECT-CLT

instructional design; international students; inclusive online instruction; educational equity; higher education; Peace Corps

https://drive.google.com/open?id=15lH2GYIi2Q0JpyMqyNNDrhD1v89P3Jun

Current Projects:

International Graduate Students’ Perspectives and Experiences within an Instructional Design and Development Program;

Learning to Learn: Development of online course for adults returning to higher education;

Not One China, Not One Culture: Multicultural exploration of differences and similarities between mainland China and Taiwan;

instructional design internship Cultivate Hope Uganda- development of training material, job aids, video editing, etc.;

A perspective on Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILD) as a computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) activity

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