Jörg Pareigis
Course organiser
 

Jörg Pareigis is Head of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Karlstad University, where he is also Assistant Professor in Business Administration and researcher at CTF, Service Research Center. In addition to his role as program manager of the International Business program, he leads the externally funded WISR16 and WISR17 course development projects. The purpose of the projects is to develop open online graduate courses for professionals in the private and public sector based on strategically important research centres at Karlstad University.

Lars Uhlin
Course organiser
 

Lars Uhlin works as an Educational Developer at Linköping university and Mälardalen university. He has a background in Nursing and has long experience of Health Care Education and Problem-based learning (PBL). For the last 20+ years he has worked with educational development in different settings both on the national and international arena. He is also coordinating a national/nordic network for PBL and is a member of steering group for the swedish network for Information Technology in Higher Education (ITHU). Some of Lars’ main focus areas are professional development and educational design within a framework of problem based-, interprofessional- and online learning.

Lotta Åbjörnsson
Course organiser
 

From September 1st, 2022, Lotta Åbjörnsson works as Coordinator at the Unit for Educational Services, Lund university, Sweden. She has a background in physiotherapy and as educational developer. During the Covid-19 pandemic she worked as system manager for e-meeting tool Zoom at Lund university. Eight years as part of the organiser group behind the ONL project from the start in 2014 transformed her from tech-adverse to tech-savvy, counting teenage kids saying “we’ll ask mom” one of her main feats.

Alan Soong 2020
Alan Soong
Course organiser, PBL facilitator
 

Alan Soong is Associate Director at the Centre for Development of Teaching & Learning, National University of Singapore. He teaches courses on blended learning, education grant writing and other topics such authentic learning environments and module design. His research focuses on academic development, online teaching & learning in higher education and living-learning communities. Alan served on the executive committee of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) from 2012 till 2019. He participated in ONL171, and has since been a co-facilitator or facilitator.

Alexandra Wirth
Course organiser
 

Alexandra Wirth I work at the Careum Foundation, Department Educational Development and Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences Switzerland in Zurich, Department of Health Science. In Careum Educational Development I work as pedagogical researcher in the main areas of further development of curricula for problem-based learning (PBL) as well as teacher training PBL, interprofessionality and health literacy. At Kalaidos University I work as junior researcher in a EU project H2020 about mental health and wellbeing of adolescent young carers. I was an open learner in ONL181 and was completely enthusiastic, and have been engaged in the ONL project since.

Filip Levälahti
Course organiser
 

Filip Levälahti works as an e-learning specialist at Arcada, University of applied sciences in Helsinki, Finland. His job is to support and develop the teachers’ competences in online and blended teaching and to coordinate the pedagogical infrastructure in the campus. Filip also teach a course in digital literacies for all new students at the university. He follows the expression “good online pedagogy begins with good pedagogy, period” (Paul Creasman) and is eager to find out how good pedagogy can be applied with modern technology.

Lotta Fröjdfeldt
Course organiser
 

Lotta Fröjdfeldt is an academic developer at Mälardalen University (MDU), Eskilstuna, Sweden. She focuses on the pedagogical aspects of ICT in Higher Education. Lotta is experienced both as a system developer, 15 years, and as teacher, 7 years, and has worked with academic development since 2015. She is interested in, and is now studying for a masters degree in online teaching and learning in higher education. Lotta was a participant in ONL172, and has since been co-facilitator and facilitator.

Anders Gerestrand
PBL facilitator
 

Anders Gerestrand works at Linnaeus university, Växjö, Sweden, as a teacher in media technology. Has the last 10 years ago focused on learning with the help of ICT, both in the classroom and online. Mainly it has been courses that are geared towards teacher training. Now making a comeback to the ONL course as a facilitator, after being away for a few years. Back then I participate in 6 iterations of ONL course as a facilitator. I am also a pedagogical developer for my faculty at my university.

Ann Vestfält
PBL facilitator
 

Ann Vestfält works as a Lecturer at Karlstad University in Sweden, where she manages and teachers courses at the university’s Teaching Programmes. Having taught upper secondary school students for over a decade and being involved in various school development projects as well as international collaboration, she is now keen to pay her knowledge and experiences forward, but is equally open to acquiring new competences, especially within the area of blended learning. Ann took the ONL course in the spring of 2021 and has been a co-facilitator or facilitator since.

Anna Småros
PBL co-facilitator
 

Anna Småros is an Information Specialist at Arcada University of Applied Sciences. Anna has a background in teaching at the comprehensive and upper secondary level and now works as a teacher librarian teaching and giving guidance on information literacy and retrieval. With a growing interest in online pedagogy and networked learning, she is happy to keep exploring these topics within the ONL community and beyond. Inspired by her participation in the ONL221 iteration as a participant, Anna now joins ONL in a co-facilitator role.

Anne Whaits
Contributor
 

Anne Whaits joined the executive team at Educor in May 2018 as Chief Academic Officer (CAO) after having spent most of 2017 with Academic Partnerships – an American Online Programme Manager (OPM) Business in partnership with public universities in South Africa to take a portfolio of their degree programmes 100% online. The group established a second holding company, Uni4, to drive education innovation and online learning in which Anne remains CAO. Having facilitated several iterations of ONL since 2015, Anne’s current action research interests include new learning ecosystems with particular interest in developing online facilitation skills amongst academics and digital literacies amongst students in Africa. UNi4 partners with Education institutions both in South Africa and internationally to power the delivery of online education.

Bianca Crozier
PBL co-facilitator
 

Bianca Crozier works as a Learning and Development Administrator for Educor in South Africa, focusing on the training and development of staff in the new blended learning design. Her main area of expertise is in marketing, and has over 10 years lecturing experience in a face-to-face environment, moving into the online space at the beginning of 2020. Bianca was a participant in ONL202, and has since been a co-facilitator or facilitator.

Cecilia Hellekant
Contributor
 

Cecilia Hellekant works as a learning designer (ICT pedagogue) at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Karlstad University. She has a background from the graphical industry and as IT-consultant and has worked more than 15 years as an independent graphical designer. Before joining Karlstad University, Cecilia worked as a high school teacher for 8 years, teaching graphical design, photography and web design.

Charlotta Edlund
PBL co-facilitator
 

Charlotta Edlund is a lecturer at the School of Business, Society & Engineering, Mälardalen University, Sweden since 20 years. Her main lecturing and research areas are international marketing, international business, multinational enterprises, consumer behaviour and cross-cultural management. During her time at the University she has also worked seven years as Head of Internationalization, a position that has given her lots of skills and valuable experience in dealing with different types of cultures. Within this frame she also manages two international networks: (1) PRIME Networking with 17 partner institutions from 16 different countries and (2) NordBiz, a Nordplus network with eight partners from the five Nordic and three Baltic countries. She is also responsible for the Bachelor’s Programme International Business Management. Besides this she also coordinate all thesis courses in business administration. In all roles, she always strives for development: personal, pedagogical, didactic or organizational…while being on a “Life Long Learning Journey”

David Bevington
PBL facilitator
 

Until August 2022, David Bevington was a Study Support Tutor at the Cornwall College Group. He was based at the Camborne campus. Currently he is working as an educational consultant for a local community interest company delivering online training sessions to the widely dispersed primary and secondary schools in the county. This allows the schools to receive training in a timely fashion and avoids the problems involved in travelling to each one individually. David is also a foster carer and, with his wife, provides TEFL training.

Since 1986, he has worked as a teacher-librarian at colleges and universities in both the UK, in Cornwall and London; and overseas in Papua New Guinea and Namibia. During his career, he has participated in a variety of networks and initiatives that have increased his interest and involvement in developing online learning opportunities for academics and students. David participated as an open learner in ONL192 and is enjoying incorporating the concepts he learned into his design, development and delivery of blended learning courses. He has been  a co-facilitator in each iteration since. He is looking forward to being a facilitator, for the first time, in ONL222.

Elisabeth Corell
Contributor
 

Elisabeth Corell is an Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Economic History and International Relations at Stockholm University, Sweden. With a genuine interest in pedagogical issues, she has taught a wide range of courses related to international relations, sustainable development, and the role of expertise in science and policy. She took ONL 211, joined the fan club and has been part of the course team ever since. She is currently undergoing training to become a Digital Education Producer.

Erik Månsson
Contributor
 

Erik Månsson I am a Swedish citizen who has been an expat in a number of countries since 1993. Currently I am based in Germany, since I came to Frankfurt in 1998 to help build up the European Central Bank. During that period, I was programme manager for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) introducing BIC and IBAN account numbers and harmonizing European payment systems. Since beginning of 2019 I have a new role at Karlstad University in Sweden teaching leadership and project management remotely.

In autumn 2020 I participated for the first time to the ONL training and found that it was very useful and highly adapted to my new job for online education. ONL helped me to continually improve and develop my own teaching practice with the ability to test and put into practice along with my own personal learning. The PBL group served as a global peer group learning community to exchange experiences, discover new perspectives and challenge each other in a positive way.

Gizeh Perez-Tenorio
Contributor
 

Gizeh Perez Tenorio loves research and considers herself a passionate educator. For many years she has mentored students at Linköping University where she also practiced Problem Based Learning as part of the PhD program: “PBL, for me, was hard at the beginning but brought a lifelong reward at the end”. During ONL162 she discovered the power of PBL online and became fascinated by the course design and pedagogy. In the future she would like to understand more about what makes a successful collaboration in virtual teams, to design pedagogical material for digital courses and to learn MOOC design.

Gregor Theilmeier
PBL facilitator
 

Gregor Theilmeier is a trained anesthesiologist, translational researcher and passionate teacher. He has taught at various medical schools since 1995 and now holds a professorship at the University of Oldenburg in Germany, where he participates in the founding of a new medical school. He holds a cross appointment at the University Medical Center in Groningen. He started to teach PBL (offline) courses in the late 1990s at the medical school of the University of Münster. Ever since he has been engaged in and passionate about teaching PBL in medical contexts. He participated as a student in ONL181 and was so excited about online teaching and learning in the ONL format that he immediately returned to ONL191 to join in supporting the next generation of ONL enthusiasts as a co-facilitator, and hasn’t left since.

Hafizah Osman
Contributor
 

Hafizah Osman is a learning designer and she manages the eLearning team at the NUS School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (SCALE). She works closely with faculty members involved in Continuing Education to design and develop blended and online learning modules. She comes from media background, with over two decades of cross-platform, industry experience. She participated in ONL 191, and has been a co-facilitator and facilitator since then.

 

Jukka Välimäki
PBL facilitator
 

Jukka Välimäki works as a pedagogical specialist at Aalto University, Finland. He teaches university pedagogy, develops educational practices, and supports teachers and program managers especially at the School of Chemical Engineering. He is especially interested in digital and social environment of learning. He is used to work with educational technology, online learning and blended learning. He facilitated ONL202 and is looking forward to being a facilitator again in ONL222.

Katarzyna Radke
PBL co-facilitator
 

Katarzyna Radke is an internationalization coordinator and a senior lecturer of English at the Foreign Language Teaching Center of Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznań, Poland. She teaches general English and English for Specific Purposes with the focus on e-learning techniques and the use of new technologies in language learning. One of her main interests lies in the use of online tools for intercultural collaboration and virtual exchange in higher education. Together with her international partners she has launched 6 COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) projects for students from Poland, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Argentina and the Netherlands. Katarzyna was an open learner in ONL211, and is now back in the role of a co-facilitator for the second time.

Kelly Maroon
PBL facilitator
 

Kelly Maroon is an intersectional educator, writer and artist. Currently a Master of Education candidate at the University of Cape Town, Kelly is involved in higher education institutional management and holds the position of Academic Head for creative media and arts school, CityVarsity Cape Town. She has participated in multiple educational research forums, projects and colloquiums and has a vested interest in radical transformation through the utilisation of a critical pedagogic praxis. Informed strongly by the ethos of education as change, Kelly focuses her practice on developing systems of support, development and enhancement that improve learning ecosystems and educator methodologies that are self-reflective and communal reflexive. Her Masters dissertation and research practice strongly considers the relationship between “what we teach” and “how we teach it” in order to better understand the hidden discursive identities that prevail in educational material and learning design. Her pedagogic goals are to assist people in identifying these often-invisible barriers, in order to improve the life-long impact of the learning experiences students and adults engage in.

Kevin Kuang
PBL co-facilitator
 

Kevin Kuang is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. His disciplinary research interests include development of sensors for civil engineering and structural health monitoring. He holds 3 patents in this field and recently co-founded an NUS spin-off company together with a couple of former undergraduate students. He teaches a range of subjects including Engineering Professionalism, Liveable and Smart Cities, Numerical Methods for Engineers and Sensor Technologies. He enjoys adopting digital technologies in his modules because he thinks they makes his job easier. He also has a YouTube channel teaching others how to solve the Rubik’s Cube. He graduated from the most recent iteration of this wonderful online networked learning course, ONL221, and wants to stick around to learn more so he got involved as co-facilitator.

Kiruthika Ragupathi
Contributor
 

Kiruthika Ragupathi is an academic developer with the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning (CDTL) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has a background in Engineering and has worked with academic development since 1997. Her research interests are in analyzing pedagogical issues surrounding the integration of educational technologies into teaching and learning; understanding the learning processes and outcomes for learners engaged in technology-supported tasks; and in tracking and supporting learning in interactive learning environments. Her current research focuses on using student evaluation of teaching to enhance teaching practices and policies; in optimizing instructor interventions in online discussion forums to enhance the student learning experience; and also in studying the impact of gradeless learning on student motivation. Kiruthika took the ONL171 journey, and has since then been a co-facilitator or facilitator.

Lars Harrysson
PBL facilitator
 

Lars Harrysson I work at Lund University, School of Social Work, as a senior lecturer. My main focus in research is in social policy, elderly care and health care. At the moment I am involved in a project called Proactive cancer care, which involves knowledgeable people from many various branches of academy, practice and patient groups. My teaching, apart from joining the ONL team, focus on online and flipped classroom courses in social work and design sciences. I followed the ONL171 a few years ago and took the chance to co-facilitate in ONL172. Very rewarding, thus to try to support the ONL movement was not a hard decision when asked.

Luis Costa
PBL co-facilitator
 

Luis Costa works as s specialist in digital pedagogy at Aalto University, in Espoo, Finland. In this capacity, he supports teachers implement their fully online or blended courses and advises them on pedagogical aspects of their implementation. In addtion to this, he is the system manager of Turnitin, a similarity checking system. His background is in electrical engineering, and before his current position he was involved in research and teaching, which he is passionate about. He pioneered the use of PBL in electical engineering education in the then Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in the late 1990s. He participated in ONL171, which served as an eye-opener showing the possibilities of online collabrative learning, and has returned as co-facilitator ever since.

Maria Christidis
PBL co-facilitator
 

Maria Christidis is a lecturer at the Swedish Red Cross University. Her main areas of teaching and research are nursing, languages (Swedish, English, Modern Greek), pedagogics, and didactics. Her dissertation focused on integrated teaching and vocational knowing within nursing education. Maria is now involved in projects that attend to teaching and literacy in professional higher education. She attended the ONL202.

Minna Koponen
Contributor
 

Minna Koponen works as an educational designer and project manager at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) Innovation Centre for Teaching and Learning. She focuses on managing and coordinating the production and processes of a massive open online course (MOOC). She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Tampere, Finland, with a focus on digital competence development and intercultural dialogue in online higher education. Her current research interests include educational design, learning analytics, open education, and their use in MOOC production.

Miriam Fischer
Contributor
 

Miriam Fischer works in the E-Learning Team of Zurich University of Applied Science Department of Social Work. She has a linguistic and paedagogical background.

Mirko Ahonen
PBL facilitator
 

Mirko Ahonen is a Senior lecturer in Online Media at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. He teaches media production, audio/video/animation, multi-camera production, streaming, programming, and game design. On the side he works with live television as a Technical operations manager. He has always been interested in pedagogy and e-learning, and he wrote his Master’s thesis about creating engaging online courses. In his free time, he is either at the gym, listening to audiobooks, or learning something new.

Nicolette Karst
PBL co-facilitator
 

Nicolette Karst I work as a lecturer at Lund University, facilitating introductory and advanced courses in higher education development. I also am the system manager of our video platform (Studio), and give weekly workshops to our teaching staff in the use of video in education. My pedagogical interests are accessibility and generic skills, in on-campus and online teaching and learning. I attended ONL 202, liked it very much, learned a lot, and increased my network. So I was happy when asked to participate in this iteration as a co-facilitator.

Oksana Chernysh
PBL co-facilitator
 

Oksana Chernysh, a PhD Lecturer, Associate Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University (Ukraine)

Research interests: Distance Education, E-learning, Lexicography, Computer and Corpus Linguistics, Media linguistics, Genre Studies.

Motto: Live and Learn😊

Patrik Holm
PBL facilitator
 

Patrik Holm is a Biomedical Laboratory Scientist who mainly teaches Nursing and PE teacher students in anatomy and physiology at Karlstad university in Sweden. He has extensive experience and interest in online teaching and he is more than happy to share and discuss pedagogical approaches for both IRL and online education. He has just recently joined the Centre for Teaching and Learning at his university to help his colleagues develop their reasoning and execution of online teaching.

Peter Fogel
Contributor
 

Peter Fogel is a ICT-pedagogue at University of Skövde, Sweden. He has a background as teacher in music performance and musicology and has been studying the relation between human and technology in a musical creative context. Peter is coordinator of courses in course design and pedagogical digital competence as well as internationalisation in higher education. The interest in internationalisation was energised during several exchange projects with Brazilian universities. Peter participated as student in ONL192 and hasn’t left since.

Raheel Lakhani
Contributor
 

Raheel Lakhani is an Educational Development and Digital Learning professional. He currently serves as an Assistant Director, Research and Faculty Development at a private university in Pakistan. He was heading the Digital Publishing department at Oxford University Press Pakistan. He has also served as an Educational Technologist at The Aga Khan University, Network of Blended and Digital Learning. He is a recipient of High Honours in Master of Education from The Aga Khan University – Institute for Educational Development. He participated as a digital innovator in an academic scholarship program ‘Social Innovation in a Digital Context’ funded by the Swedish Institute, where he explored the development of a digital storytelling approach for promotion of pluralistic and creative expression. He holds an MA in Technology and Social Change from Lunds Universitet by the same program. His interests include eLearning pedagogy, learner autonomy, pluralism education and visual narratives.

Selen Savsin
PBL co-facilitator
 

Selen Savsin works as a lecturer at Mälardalen University, Sweden. She has a Ph.D. in economics and is currently teaching microeconomics, econometrics, and globalization. She has research experience in experimental economics, international trade and interest in behavioral economics. She attended ONL221.

Sinéad Whitty
PBL co-facilitator
 

Sinéad Whitty is Head of Training, Teaching and Career Development at The Global Health Network, at the University of Oxford. Previously, she was Pedagogy Coordinator at the Department of Medicine in Karolinska Institutet, where she was responsible for the design, development and delivery of online, post-graduate courses. Sinéad has twenty years’ experience teaching face to face, online and blended. She is an advocate for technology that supports good teaching and learning practices. Sinéad may be addicted to ONL, having participated in six previous iterations. She is delighted to be back for ONL222.

 

Verily Tan
Contributor
 

Verily Tan is an academic developer with the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning in the National University of Singapore. Verily has a strong background in Instructional Systems Technology and the Learning Sciences. These inform her work on designing self-paced blended learning courses, working with faculty on technology-enhanced courses, and supporting students and their supervisors in undergraduate teaching opportunities. She was a participant in ONL212, and went on to be a co-facilitator in ONL221, expecting to gain new perspectives and friendships with members in her group. Increased social learning was one of her goals for ONL221.