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Jörg Pareigis
Course organizer

Currently, I am the Director of Library including the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Karlstad University, Sweden, where I am also Assistant Professor in Business Administration and researcher at CTF, Service Research Center. I have vast experience of developing open online graduate courses for lifelong learning based on strategically important research centres at Karlstad University. I was a participant of FDOL and am since 2019 part of the organising team of ONL.

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Alexandra Wirth
Course organizer

Alexandra Wirth works at the Careum Foundation, which is involved in education within the healthcare sector. She is a Scientific Project Manager in the Strategy and Innovation department. Her strategic focus is "Education for the Care of Tomorrow," with particular emphasis on interprofessional and problem-based learning.

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Filip Levälahti
Course organizer PBL facilitator

I'm an e-learning specialist at Arcada UAS in Helsinki, Finland. My role involves overseeing the development and implementation of innovative educational technologies and supporting faculty in integrating these tools into their teaching practices. I also serve as the team leader of i-fabriken (I-Factory) whose job is to raise awareness of digital pedagogical opportunities, develop digital skills, and create digital learning environments.

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Vesna Bulatović
PBL co-facilitator

Vesna Bulatović is an assistant professor at the University of Novi Sad, where she teaches English for Specific Purposes. Her research focuses on the use of educational technologies in higher education. Vesna was an open learner in ONL241, and now has returned as a co-facilitator for the second time.

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Oksana Chernysh
PBL co-facilitator Open learner team lead

My name is Oksana Chernysh. I am the Director of the Scientific and Research Institute of Medical Technologies, Mental Health, and Human Intelligence at Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University (Ukraine). My scientific interests are in linguistics, digital education, and clinical psychology.

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Cath Fortune
PBL co-facilitator

Cath is an independent freelance online learning specialist consultant, primarily with the University of Cape Town, and various other higher education institutions and tertiary learning organisations. She has worked extensively in the online learning space for more than 20 years and her current interests focus on curriculum development, online learning design, content authoring, online assessment, online facilitation, training and support. She has previously taken part in ONL as a participant and is now very excited to continue her journey with ONL as a co-facilitator.

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Olga Novikova
PBL co-facilitator

Olga is a researcher at the Department of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Her research explores the sharing economy, business models, design thinking, innovation, and media. She has participated in ONL before and is now returning to the ONL community as an eager co-facilitator.

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Sinéad Whitty
PBL co-facilitator

I am Director of Learning at FCD, Ireland where I'm responsible for the design, development and delivery of online and blended postgraduate courses. I have over 20 years experience teaching and leading in higher education. My particular interests include internationalising the curriculum, innovative teaching practices, and supporting learners to reach their potential. I may be somewhat addicted to ONL, having first joined as a participant in 2016 and having returned as facilitator or co-facilitator over the years. I'm delighted to co-facilitate in ONL 251.

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Ann Vestfält
PBL facilitator

Ann Vestfält is a Lecturer at Karlstad University in Sweden, where she works at the Institution for Pedagogical Studies. She manages courses and teaches at the university's Teaching Programmes, and contributes to in-house training at the Centre for Teaching and Learning. 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 keen to pay her knowledge and experiences forward, but is equally open to acquiring new competences, especially within the area of blended learning. Ann is a qualified teacher with an additional degree in Special Education. She initially got involved with the ONL course as a participant, and has been an ONL co-faciltator or facilitator since 2021.

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Dragana Vukovic Vojnovic
PBL facilitator Contributor

Dr. Dragana Vuković Vojnović is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. She has been teaching English language and Communication at bachelor and master's level for almost 30 years. Recently, she has been involved in the internationalization of the Faculty as COIL coordinator. She has participated in the EUGLOH Let’s talk: a Course in Intercultural Communication with her students and ONL (open networked learning), as a participant and co-facilitator. She has developed, with her colleague Dr. Vesna Bulatović, a course for EUGLOH students - 'Building Soft Skills in the Digital Age: A Problem-Based Approach' for the iteration of Spring 2025. In her research, in addition to corpus-based contrastive language studies, she is interested in innovative teaching practices including online collaborative learning, problem-based learning, digital literacy, AI literacy, and development of transferable skills in language education.

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