Past members
Dr. Jean Adams is currently Special Assistant Professor (Policy Specialization) at Schulich School of Business and Associate Co-Director at York University’s Institute for Research on Digital Learning (IRDL). Her research and articles focus on using new technologies to promote innovative learning, particularly by fostering a “learner in control” pedagogical approach. Other research interests include the study of organizational learning, the role of e-learning, leadership and management education, high performing teams, critical thinking, creativity and innovation. Research grants include: Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) / MaRS Innovation Proof of Principle (65K); Hewlett Packard (HP) Technology for Teaching Leadership research grant (250K); Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) Adult Learning Research Grant (70K). Jean holds a doctorate from York University. She received the President’s University-Wide Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence (2009) and the Governor General’s Gold Award (2005) for exceptional academic distinction. Current project Two challenges colleges and universities face in achieving quality education is driving effective student engagement necessary for lasting learning and equipping students with the soft skills critical to successful career launch and build. While institutions are attempting to integrate current technology trends into curricula to help drive student engagement (e.g., collaboration tools and interactive features such as in-class polling), there does not yet exist a fully integrated total learning solution that embeds self-organizing quality content with collaboration tools and interactive features while seamlessly working with institutional learning management systems (LMS) to effectively engage students in directed and self-directed learning. In short, this research project funded by Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) through MaRS Innovation aims to commercialize a soft skills online total learning solution (i.e., the NewMindsets Management Education Project) built on an award-winning pedagogical approach developed at YorkU and implemented over the past ten years in business education at Schulich School of Business by Drs. Gareth Morgan and […]
Mary Leigh Morbey is Professor of Culture and Technology in the York University Faculty of Education, Toronto, and serves as the Associate Co-Chair of the York Institute for Research on Digital Learning. She researches, teaches, and publishes widely on the theory, history, practice, and education of Web participatory and Social Media technologies, digital literacies, and technological mediations in visual culture, with an emphasis on the Global South. Her publications are included in Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, SIGGRAPH Visual Proceedings, the International Journal of Learning and Media (The MIT Press), and the International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, as well as other academic journals and books. She is currently completing a book on information communications technology access and education, and is the research team leader of the Ugandan Heritage Sites and Stories social media project of the Uganda National Museum in Kampala. Links Research Gate
Simon Fraser University Milena is an experienced mixed-methods and qualitative researcher, with a focus on media and communication studies, sound studies, interaction design, education, and sensory ethnography. At IRDL, Milena works as a post-doctoral researcher for the Think, Design, Play project which investigates game development as an instructional tool for teaching computational literacy in the K-12 system. Milena is also a Learning Specialist for InWithForward, a social enterprise company based in the Netherlands, which is developing an innovative learning service for people with cognitive disabilities. Milena’s current research brings communication and media studies together with sensory everyday ethnography in an exploration of cultural and perceptual practices with personal mobile computing devices, focusing specifically on sound and listening. Milena has published and presented widely in the areas of sound studies, game audio, education and interaction design. Links Twitter @ambientfluff Blog: natuaural.com