Services to academia

Associations, Conferences, Special Interest Groups

2011-pr. time: Member, Learning and Professional Development Special Interest Group, European Association of Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI).

2009- pr. time: Member, European Association of Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI).

2006-2007, and 2009-pr time: Co-chair, UK HEA Special Interest Group Technology-enhanced Professional Learning, TEPL ( previously called ‘Supporting Sustainable eLearning Forum’, SSeLF SIG).

2009: Member of Programme Committee, 2009 International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning” (ICL), Villach, Austria; special track “Mashups for Learning” (MASHL2009).

2009: Member of Scientific Committee, IADIS, International Association for Development of the Information Society Conference on e-Learning 2009 (eL2009).

Refereeing/Editorial Services

2012-pr. time: Referee, British Educational Research Journal

2010: External reviewer, PhD project proposal on Learning Networks, Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC), Open University of the Netherlands (OUNL).

2009-pr time: Referee, Computers & Education journal

2009-pr. time: Referee, Journal of Computer-Assisted Learning (JCAL)

2008-pr. time: Referee, Journal of Workplace Learning

2007-pr time: Editorial Board Member, Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management

2009: Referee, Routlegde/Taylor and Francis, Higher Education

2009: Editorial Advisory Board Member, Handbook “Looking Toward the Future of Technology-Enhanced Education: Ubiquitous Learning and the Digital Native”, editors: Martin Ebner (Graz University of Technology, Austria); Mandy Schiefner (University of Zurich, Switzerland); publisher: IGI Global.

2007-2008: Editorial Board Member, Electronic Journal of e-Learning

2008: Referee, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) 2008 Conference

2007: Referee, Special issue of International Journal of Learning Technology (IJLT)

2007: Referee, 42nd Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42)

2006: Referee, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) 2006 Conference

2005: Referee, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2005 Conference

Grant panels/Advisory activities

2010: Member of external expert grant evaluation panel, Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants (LTIG) programme, UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

2007: Member of international expert panel, Education 2015 Armenian Educational System reform initiative co-funded by the Armenian Ministry of Education and United States Agency for International Development.

2008: Critical friend, UK JISC-funded project Improving the evidence base in support of sharing learning objects

Services within university

2007-pr. time: Programme lead, Work-related learning, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

2010: Member of the Implementation Group for a Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI), Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

2007-2010: Convener, Horizons Reading Group on Learning Theory and Practice, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

2006-2007: Co-Convener, Learning for Life seminar series, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Dundee, UK

2003-2005: Member of the Management Group, Technology Applications in Education and Training (TAET) International Master of Science Programme, Faculty of Educational Science and Technology and Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Twente, Netherlands.

PhD Examination

2011: Opponent at the public defense of dissertation by Terje Valjataga, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Dissertation title: "Learner control and responsibility: Expanding the concept of self-direction in higher education"