Airina Volungevičienė
Director of the Institute of Innovative Studies Profile
Prof. dr. Airina Volungevičienė
- President (2019-2021), Director of EDEN Digital Learning Europe
- President of EDEN – European Distance and e-Learning Network (2016-2019)
- Director of the Institute of Innovative Studies
- Professor in Education
- Research leader and senior researcher in Global grant research
- Chair of the Board of LieDM association
- Co-Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Educational technology in Higher Education (ETHE)
Education
- Ph.D. Social Sciences, Education, Vytautas Magnus University, 2008
- M.A. Pedagogy of Higher Education, Universite de Liege, 2004 (with distinction)
- M.A. English linguistics, Vytautas Magnus University, 1997 (with distrinction)
- B.A. English Philology, Vytautas Magnus University, 1995
Short bio
Prof. dr. Airina Volungevičienė is the director of Institute for Study Innovations at Vytautas Magnus University Department of Education, professor in education, Director of EDEN Digital Learning Europe, Management Board member, as well as expert in the European Digital Education Hub responsible for Knowledge building activities.
She has been working among leading researchers, methodology specialists and education policy makers in the area of technology enhanced learning (TEL) development in Europe and Lithuania since 1997. Having established the national network for distance and e-learning in the country, then Lithuanian Distance and e-Learning association (2010), she continued as a leader in research and project work to promote the development of TEL in in HE, schools, VET and adult learning. Her main concern at Vytautas Magnus University is to direct Institute activities to implement its mission: to advise University teachers to design online learning and teaching, to ensure the quality of online and blended learning on the course level, to consult how to organize online studies successfully, and to lead continuous professional development of HE and school teachers to develop their digital competences.
She is involved in EDEN Governance since 2010, as the Board member, Vice President for Research (2016 – 2019) and the President (current, since 2016). Collaboration with UNESCO IITE in application of technologies in education, OER development, as well as UNESCO IBE for Collaborative Master study program of „Curriculum development“ allows mainstreaming of expert knowledge and the development of open professional collaboration of teachers and academia on global level.
Research interests
Since 2007, her research activities are based at Vytautas Magnus University. She coordinates international projects and implements research with the focus on:
- TEL curriculum designing
- Experimentation of innovations in education
- TEL quality assurance
- virtual mobility of students and teachers
- open educational resources and practices
- TEL integration into an organization
- Open and online learning for digital and networked society
- Recognition of open and online learning, valid solutions for virtual learning environments
- Learning analytics as a metacognitive tool and method
She published more than 30 papers on TEL, virtual mobility and OERs, as well as 5 research studies and 2 monographs.
