{"id":208,"date":"2017-03-15T07:59:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2020-02-03T22:31:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:31:23","slug":"professional-interests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tbody>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCFFFF\">\n<td>\n<h2 class=\"boz\"><em>Professional Interests<\/em><\/h2>\n<p class=\"box2\"><em><strong>Educational leadership, professional development, instructional design\/design for learning in online and blended education, adult education, international initiatives, community building, continuing education; educational analysis and research, web accessibility, text and digital narrative, games for learning, mobile technologies. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p>I work as a Director, Learning Design and a Sessional Lecturer in the Faculty of Education (FoE) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada). I provide consultative services and leadership in the application of learning technologies. I am responsible for comprehensive plans, policies and strategies in the delivery of the FoE\u2019s blended and fully online courses and programs. I support innovation in pedagogical practice and elearning design. I manage ongoing operations of Education Technology Support (ETS) unit as well as various projects related to both domestic and international educational programs. I teach in the Master of Educational Technology (MET) program at UBC.<\/p>\n<p>My specific focus is on online collaborative and communication strategies, student engagement, different delivery models and culturally-responsive instruction. My projects are in the areas of ePortfolio implementation, accessibility\u00a0issues, Aboriginal education, Mobile technologies, and others.<\/p>\n<p>I obtained my undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), my Master&#8217;s in Distance Education from Athabasca University, Canada and a Ph.D. degree in Language and Literacy Education at UBC, focusing on ethics in gameworlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional Interests Educational leadership, professional development, instructional design\/design for learning in online and blended education, adult education, international initiatives, community building, continuing education; educational analysis and research, web accessibility, text and digital narrative, games for learning, mobile technologies. I work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlywords.ca\/cv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}