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Ari-Matti Auvinen, HCI production Ltd.
Ari-Matti Auvinen is a Senior Partner in HCI Productions Ltd, a Finnish company specialized in learning and performance solutions. He has worked in distance education and eLearning since the late 1980s in various national and international tasks, also e.g. at the Helsinki University of Technology, in SATURN - Europe´s Open Learning Network, in Finnish eLearning Centre and also as a short-term expert for the World Bank. He has worked as a jury member both for the Finnish eLearning Quality Award "eEemeli" for years as well as for the EFQUEL "eQuality" Award in 2007. Since 2004 Mr. Auvinen has been leading the Finnish eLearning Quality Mark work for the Finnish eLearning Center. He has started in 2007 within the Finnish framework of Centres of Excellence a project on the quality management of peer production in digital content provision.
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Ingeborg Bo, EDEN
Ingeborg Bø is President of the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) which is the most comprehensive European association in open, flexible, distance education and e-learning. She has her arts degree from the University of Oslo, Norway. All her professional life she has been working within the field of open and distance education in different positions. She has been executive director of the Norwegian Association for Distance and Flexible Education (NADE) for 15 years and now runs her own consultancy firm. She has been member of different boards of directors in institutions for adult and distance education and is member of several national and international committees. She is member of the international editorial board of the journal LLine, Lifelong learning in Europe. She has been speaker and member of programme committees at several international conferences.
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Eileen Brennan Freeman, EENeT
Eileen Brennan Freeman is the Chair of the European Experts' Network for Education and Technology (EENet) since 2005 as well as Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in IT in Education (CRITE), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She holds a B.A in German and French, a H.Dip Ed, and an MSc. IT in Education. Her current research interest includes: An International perspective on National Policies for ICT in School Education and Comparative International Research on Best Practice and Innovation in Learning. As well as 18 years teaching experience at second-level, she has co-ordinated School/University Access Initiatives and School/Enterprise Programmes for disadvantaged students. She has been involved in Syllabus and Curriculum Design, Leadership and Management of National and European projects for Integrating ICT in learning at school level, as well as Course Design and Lecturing on Postgraduate Courses for Teacher Professional Development.
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Marc Durando, EUN
Marc Durando has over 20 years experience in the field of education and training, both at European and national level. He has an engineering background. Since 1983 he worked in the education and training area, where after 5 years of activities in the field of continuing education for enterprises he developed specific expertise in the area of European cooperation in the field of education and training. He occupied successively the post of Director of the COMETT TAO and the SOCRATES&YOUTH TAO. At the end of 1998 he joined the Pôle Universitaire Européen de Lorraine where he develops a lot of consultancy services in the field of education & training including specific evaluation activities. Since September 2006, he joined the European Schoolnet network as Executive Director of EUN. For more than 8 years he also provides consulting services and advice in the field of education and training mainly for the Commission.
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Jim Herbolich, EFMD
Jim Herbolich has been involved in education for more than 30 years and is currently the Director of Network Services at EFMD. He has worked on the development of regional quality standards for management education in Central Asia and South Asia and the development of business school networks in the Middle East and Africa. He has been managing the EFMD CEL (teChnology-Enhanced Learning) Accreditation, the EFMD accreditation for ICT based learning programmes since its inception in 2003 and serves on the CEL Supervisory Board. He has published in the areas of negotiating, report writing and socio-linguistics and has lived and worked in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. He is also a faculty member of the Human Resources Management Department of ESADE in Barcelona, Spain.
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Carl Holmberg, Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning
Dr. Holmberg is presently Adviser to the Director-General in the Swedish Agency for Flexible Learning which works under the Ministry for Education and Science as a change agent in the adult education systems with the task to promote the growth of technology enhanced learning. He majored at the Uppsala University in Education and in Psychology. He has a long career as teacher and researcher and worked for national and international organisations with evaluations and projects within Adult Education and Higher Education. He has initiated and lead a national network of researchers within Distance Education (DUNET), and been serving on the board of national and international organisations. In 2002 together with Nordic colleagues he took the initiative to form the Nordic Evaluation Forum (NEVA), the Nordic roundtable for organisations involved and evaluating the introduction of ICT in education systems and accreditation.
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Félix de Moya Anegón, University of Granada
Félix de Moya Anegón (Ph.D. History, www.ugr.es/~felix/curriculum.html) is the vice-president of the University of Granada in New Technologies. He has written extensively in information retrieval, information visualization, domain analysis, and bibliometric analysis. He has initiated different projects of the Plan de Investigación I+D+i (2004-2007) of the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, like the Atlas of Science project proposes the creation of an information system whose major aims is to achieve a graphic representation of the IberoAmerican Science Research and includes Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Portugal and Venezuela. Together with the Universidad de Extremadura, he has initiated a series of conferences titled International Conference of Multidisciplinary Information Sciences & Technologies and has signed agreements with several government offices for the elaboration of bibliometric reports.
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Göran Petersson, EKMA
Göran Petersson was the Chair of the European Knowledge Media Association (EKMA) between 2002-2006 and from 2007 the Chair of the Swedish Federation of Medical Informatics. Since 1998 he is the main or co-organizer of national and international conferences of computer based learning and eLearning. Between 1994-2006 he was employed part-time at the Council for Renewal of Higher Education at the Agency of Higher Education, the Swedish Agency for Distance Education, the Swedish Agency for the Netuniversity and the Swedish Agency for Networks and Cooperation in Higher Education respectively. He is a member of the International Committee of the Swedish Agency for Networks and Cooperation in Higher Education since 2002. In 2006 he became Professor in Health Informatics and Director of the eHealth Institute, University of Kalmar, Sweden.
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Wim Van Petegem, EuroPACE
He is the Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of EuroPACE, and the appointed head of the unit Audiovisual & New Educational Technologies (AVNET) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven which incorporates the University's Audio-Visual services, eLINK and the Studycentre Open University. Previously he has worked as senior researcher in LINOV (Leuvens Institute for Innovative Learning) and as Assistant Professor at the Science and Technology Department at the Open University of the Netherlands. His current interest domains are: Multimedia production, Multimedia production management, Multimedia asset management, Multimedia presentation, New educational technology, Networked e-learning, Virtual mobility, Lifelong learning, Open and distance learning, Knowledge transfer and Science communication. [more]
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