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Alexandra Okada
The Open University UK
United Kingdom
Alexandra Okada is a consultant to the Association of Science Education UK, a research fellow at the Knowledge MediaInstitute of The Open University (OU), and a visiting lecturer to the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the OpenUniversity of Portugal. She also leads the COLEARN open research network on collaborative open learning.Her research on 10 projects in Europe and Brazil focuses on knowledge and social media technologies for fosteringscientific digital literacy, helping future citizens to embrace the potential of science and technology. She is particularlyinterested in innovative approaches that empower co-learners to develop key competences and succeed in the21st century. She is currently the principal investigator of ENGAGE and a co-investigator of weSPOT, two European projectsthat focus on inquiry-based learning. She holds a BSc in Computer Science, an MBA in Knowledge Management andMarketing, and an MA and a PhD in Education. She has published over 90 papers at international conferences and inacademic journals, as well as 30 book chapters and 10 books.
Peter Scott
The Open University UK
United Kingdom
Professor Peter Scott is the Director of the Knowledge Media Institute of the UK's Open University. KMI is a Research and Development Unit, which explores the future of learning. He has a BA & PhD in Psychology. Before joining the Open University in 1995, he taught Psychology & Cognitive Science at the University of Sheffield, with a textbook in each of these subjects. From 2007-10 he was elected founding President of the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning.
Murilo Mendonça
UNISUL
Brazil
Murilo Matos Mendonça is a board member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium representing Brazil. As a member of the board of directors, he provides strategic vision to assist in the growth of the Consortium and the global opencourseware movement as well as insight into ways in which Open Education can help improve educational standards in the Latin American region. Currently, Mendonça is the International Relations Manager and Open Educational Resources Coordinator at UnisulVirtual, the distance education campus of Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Brazil (Unisul).Mendonça is also a board member of the GUIDE Association (Global Universities in Distance Education).
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