Perspectives on Teacher Education in the Digital Age

15.08.2023

Englisch

9789811942280

Springer Singapore

Future Education and Learning Spaces

Nein

241

Broschiert

Jako Olivier is a professor in Multimodal Learning at the North-West University (NWU), and he holds the UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources (OER). He obtained his Ph.D. in 2011 in which he researched the accommodation and promotion of multilingualism in schools through blended learning. Before he joined the NWU as the lecturer in 2010, he was involved in teaching information technology and languages in schools in the UK and in South Africa. From 2010 to 2015, he was a lecturer in the then Faculty of Arts of the NWU after being appointed as an associate professor in the Faculty of Education in 2015. During 2012, he was a guest lecturer at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. In 2018, he was promoted to the full professor at the NWU. Jako is an NRF-rated researcher, and in 2018, he received the Emerging Researcher Medal from the Education Association of South Africa (EASA). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Contemporary Language Teaching journal and Reading & Writing and acts as the section editor for the journal Literator. He is also on the international academic board of the Open Spaces University, Morocco.As an activist for open education, he is an active member of the Creative Commons Chapter of South Africa and leads the Network of OER and Multimodal Self-Directed Learning in Southern Africa (NOMSA). He also participated in the consultations for the UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition Report in 2020. Furthermore, he has been involved in publishing multilingual online learning resources since 1996.In addition to recently completing the editing of a book on self-directed multimodal learning, he has published a number of articles and chapters at the national and international levels in accredited publications. He recently co-edited a Springer book on self-directed learning and open education in Africa . He also acts as a supervisor for postgraduate students at the NWU.His research, located within the NWU’s Research Unit for Self-directed Learning, is focused on self-directed learning, multimodal learning, open educational resources, multi-literacies, micro-learning, individualized and contextualized blended learning, e-learning in language classrooms, and online multilingualism.

Digital Technologies and Teacher Training, Online Learning in Southern Africa, Blended Learning in Southern Africa, Multimodal Learning, Teacher Training, Teacher Education, Renewable and Situated Assessments, Multimodal Assessments, Digital Storytelling, Digital Pedagogies, Design of Curricula and Learning, Game-Based Pedagogy, Collaborative Learning, Computer-assisted Language Learning

JNMT - Lehrerausbildung JNV - Lehrmittel, Lerntechnologien, E-Learning

235 mm

15.5 cm