Niki Lambropoulos
Niki Lambropoulos is an experienced e-learning expert, researcher, consultant, HCI designer, and online communities manager. Her breadth of activities vary from quantitative and qualitative research, social network analysis, business intelligence, as well as software design, online community and e-learning design and engineering, community management, and even presentations, professional speaking and web design.
She feels that studying the leaps between developments reveals patterns of evolution that help to forward existing ideas getting ever further by collaboration and co-creativity. In this way ideas can develop as notes in a music composition allowing infinite possibilities.
Niki has been working in design, development, implementation and evaluation in several multi-discipline projects spanning significantly diverse technologies. She has the ability to translate scientific information into projects and business settings as well as systems? requirements. She believes in equality and encouraging people to develop their personal skills and attributes.
News
User Innovation Networks at HCII 2009 in San Diego
I organise an expert session on User Innovation Networks under the rubric of Online Communities.
Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe
Recently published by the Commonwealth of Learning is this edited e-book titled Education for a Digital World - advice, guidelines and effective practice from around the globe. My contribution to this amazing project is Chapter 9 on Quality Assurance by Design (p.111). (Free download e-book).
This 500-page volume contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development.
There are five sections in the book, with contributed chapters under the headings of:
* The impact of Instructional technologies
* Preparing Online Courses
* Implementing Technology
* eLearning in Action
* Engagement and Communication
The book itself has been designed in such a way that it could be used as a handbook for a course on the topic - with each of the 31 very informative chapters introduced with a list of learning outcomes that should be achieved as the reader works his/her way through the chapter.
There’s simply too much in this book for me to do it justice with a brief mention here - suffice to say that there is something of value in here for everyone, from the newcomers to the topic to those who are well down the track.Another excellent piece of work from the Commonwealth of Learning!
Call for Papers: Distributed Leadership & Online Communities * Deadline July 31, 2008
Coming soon on the Human Technology Journal
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