Merits & Achievements
Merits
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I am the Vice President for the Swedish Association for e-Competence/REK, as well as for the Swedish Association for e-Competence/REK.
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I am in the Executive Committee both in the International Council for Open and Distance education (ICDE) as well as in the European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN)
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I work for ISO and SIS.
For ISO I have been/am involved in
ISO/TC 312, Excellence in service
ISO/TC 176/TF 4 Future concepts in quality management
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I hold a PhD from Oulu University, Finland, with my dissertation on international benchmarking, and quality enhancement on e-learning in Higher Education.
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I am a Professor at Kaunas Technical University (KTU)
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Please visit my
: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8488-5787
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I serve as an executive board member in EDEN, since 2015. I was awarded the EDEN Fellowship in 2014. Since 2018 I am in the Council of Fellows. I am also in EDEN NAP, and served even in the EDEN NAP EC for one period. I am responsible for the EDEN special interest Group on Technology-Enabled/Enhanced learning and quality enhancement (EDEN SIG TEL QE). I serve even as ISO representant for EDEN as well.
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I serve as a quality reviewer for ICDE and work in close collaboration with EADTU on benchmarking and quality, where I am a reviewer for Excellence and OpenupEd (MOOCs). I was in the editorial team for both the E-xcellence manual (3rd ed) and the OpenUpEd manual OpenUpEd manual. I was the evaluator for SEQUENT. I previously served as a quality reviewer for EFQUEL and their quality reviews UNIQUe and ECB Check, Quality improvement scheme for e-learning programs. I was one of the founders and reviewers for LANETO eV EPPROBATE e-learning quality grid. I am frequently asked as expert and quality reviewer for universities, schools and organisations.
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I am the Swedish contact node, for Campus NooA. I also collaborate with EdTech Sweden, and EdTech Industry.
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I collaborate with ICDE on a variety of tasks and missions:
ICDE OER Advocacy Committee
ICDE Core group Strategy Plan 2020-2023
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Guest Ed Editor Education Science Topical Collection on MOOCs
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I work with the ISO, especially on Future Concepts and ISO ISO 21001:2018
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I work with the Swedish Standard Institute (SIS) on quality related matters and standards on quality, which also is related to ISO.
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Invited Professor Kaunas Technical University
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Guest Professor Near East University, N Cyprus
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I am regularly invited to do keynote presentations at national and international scientific conferences; recent examples include the first and second Annual Conferences on Innovative Learning Spaces, hosted by LUXATIA International.
Awards
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2019ICDE EC
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2018EDEN Council of Fellows
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2017Open Education Europa Ambassador
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2017ICDE OER Ambassador
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2016Open Education Europa Fellow
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2015GIZ Ambassador for Quality in Digital Learning
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2014EDEN Fellow
