Merits & Achievements

Merits

• I am the Vice President for the Swedish Association for e-Competence/REK, as well as for the Swedish Association for e-Competence/REK.

• 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)

• 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

  ISO 21001:2018, Educational organizations -- Management systems for educational organizations -- Requirements with guidance for use

• I hold a PhD from Oulu University, Finland, with my dissertation on international benchmarking, and quality enhancement on e-learning in Higher Education.

• I am a Professor at Kaunas Technical University (KTU)

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  Please visit my : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8488-5787

• 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.

• 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.

• I am the Swedish contact node, for Campus NooA. I also collaborate with EdTech Sweden, and EdTech Industry.

• I collaborate with ICDE on a variety of tasks and missions: 

         ICDE Executive Committee

  ICDE OER Advocacy Committee

         ICDE Core group Strategy Plan 2020-2023

  ICDE Quality Network

  ICDE Operational Network BOLDIC

• Guest Ed Editor Education Science Topical Collection on MOOCs

• I work with the ISO, especially on Future Concepts and ISO ISO 21001:2018

• I work with the Swedish Standard Institute (SIS) on quality related matters and standards on quality, which also is related to ISO.

• Invited Professor Kaunas Technical University

• Guest Professor Near East University, N Cyprus

• 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

• 2019

  ICDE EC
• 2018

  EDEN Council of Fellows
• 2017

  Open Education Europa Ambassador
• 2017

  ICDE OER Ambassador
• 2016

  Open Education Europa Fellow
• 2015

  GIZ Ambassador for Quality in Digital Learning
• 2014

  EDEN Fellow