User:Vvladimirschi

= Profile =

Summary of qualifications

 * Career in the area of Education with emphasis on distance and blended teaching and learning, 11 years in the position of Director at the company e-connection, 1 year and 2 months in the position of Educational Consultant in the company MobGeek, 6 months in the position Blackboard Collaborate Educational Consultant and Trainer in the company Blackboard, previously 7 months in the position of Lead Instructional Designer at the company iai?, Project Executive Coordinator at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV Online),  Project Manager and Lead Instructional Designer at Faculdade das Américas and 17 years in the position of English Teacher and Coordinator of Online Programs at Associação Alumni, all institutions and/or organizations are active in the field of education.


 * In charge of the development, execution and implementation of distance education courses, blended courses, face-to-face courses and mobile learning.
 * In charge of the development of complimentary materials (text, images and video tutorials) for the booklet on Open Educational Resources for public school teachers in Brazil (Recursos,Educacionais Abertos (REA): Uma caderno para professores). This booklet was designed to be a guide aimed at teaching public school teachers how to find, create, adapt, use and share open educational resources.
 * Consulting services rendered for international corporations or Universities interested in learning more about the potential market for online/distance learning in order to determine any possible challenges that may arise.
 * Responsible for cost management, project budget, schedule and performance of the project and course components for distance education ensuring its implementation success and acceptance by all stakeholders. In charge of the training and education of company clients in best practices for distance teaching and learning.
 * Educational Consultant and trainer, Blackboard Collaborate.

Education and Accreditation

 * Doctoral candidate in Doctor of Education (D.Ed.) with specialization in Distance Education –Athabasca University – Alberta – Canada – 2013.
 * Master of Education (M.Ed.) with specialization in Distance Education– Athabasca University –Alberta–Canada – 2012.
 * Certified Translator English/Portuguese/English; Certified Consecutive Interpreter English/Portuguese/English; Certified Simultaneous Interpreter English/Portuguese/English - Associação Alumni -1998.
 * Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology –UNISA (University of Santo Amaro)- São Paulo – Brazil-  1984.

Publications and participation in scientific conferences

 * Author of chapter: An exploratory study of cross-cultural engagement in the Community of Inquiry:instructor perspectives and challenges (VLADIMIRSCHI, V., 2012) in AKYOL,Z. & GARRISON, D.R. (Eds.). Educational Communities of Inquiry: Theoretical Framework, Research and Practice (pp. 466-489). doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2110-7. Here is the link to access my thesis.
 * Guest speaker at 6thNational Conference of Distance Education: “Andragogy and Distance Learning” –SENAED/Associação Brasileira de Educação a Distância (ABED)(Brazilian Association of Distance Education) – Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, April 2008.
 * Speaker at the 13thInternational Conference of Distance Education with the work: “Research of the Factors that Influence Student Retention and Success Rate in Distance Education Courses” - Associação Brasileira de Educação a Distância (ABED)(Brazilian Association of Distance Education) - Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, September 2007.
 * Speaker at the 1stAthabasca University Faculty of Graduate Studies Conference (AUFGS) with the work: “ An exploratory study of cross-cultural engagement in the Community of Inquiry: instructor perspectives and challenges”, Edmonton – Alberta – Canada, September 2012.


 * Recipient of the 2012 Graduate Level Student Travel Awards, Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada,August 2012.


 * Panel member for CIDER(Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research) webinars series with the topic:“ Cultural presence in diverse online environments”, Alberta, Canada, October 2014.  If you are interested, you can watch the presentation or view the slides for this presentation.

Future studies: dissertation and other works

 * Undertake an intervention in a K-12 public school in Brazil to train teachers how to use and create OER. The central question that will guide my study is: What are the characteristics of an effective OER in-service professional development course for K-12 public school teachers? The main objective of this mixed methods design-based research (DBR) study is to measure the effectiveness of a design for an OER in-service professional development program for K-12 public school teachers. The main goal of the OER in-service professional development program will be to widen knowledge and build capacity on OER by training teachers how to locate, create, use, reuse, remix and adapt OER and to assess how such practices can be sustained.
 * I recently completed a capstone project on leadership in Distance Education. This capstone project was developed using Live Binders. For those of you who are interested in learning more about leadership issues in Distance Education here is the link to my project. The acesss key for private binder: vvladi. Hope you enjoy it! :)

OER developed resources
I developed a couple of video tutorials for K-12 public school teachers geared towards teaching teachers how to find, use and create OER. I apologize but these videos are in Portuguese. All videos are licensed as CC-BY and can be found on YouTube or on REA site.

Other interests

 * Learning, teaching and leading change and inovation in education.
 * Empowering people through education.
 * Movies, reading, traveling and knowing about other culture.