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Ilona Buchem (Phd)

Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Ilona Buchem and I am visiting professor for Digital Media Studies at Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. I also teach online courses at VFH/on@campus (Germany) and in eEducation program (Austria). My research and teaching focus on the intersections of digital media and society. I am interested in how digital media, especially social and mobile media, change our current practices in education and business. Some of the hottest topics on my research and teaching agenda include digital diversity, digital identities, online participation, online facilitation, mobile learning, e-portfolios and personal learning environments.

In 2009, I completed my PhD in Educational Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. My dissertation research was part of my work at Daimler AG, where I designed and evaluated technology-enhanced learning for sales. I did my Master’s Degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw (PL), studied Communication Sciences at Concordia University (USA) and Educational Sciences at University Duisburg-Essen (DE).

In academia, I have worked as senior researcher and lecturer. My fascination with online communities as forms of learning, belonging and participation started with the research project “Mediencommunity 2.0”. I have personally cherished the creativity, openness and the edupunk spirit of the PLE community. As member of the organising committee of the PLE Conference I have been organising the Mediacast Contest to support creative expression through digital media.  The ePortfolio idea has been inspiring to me for a long time and I have been actively involved as member of the E-Portfolio Initiative  in Berlin & Brandenburg.

Outside of academia, I have worked as trainer at various corporations. My trainings focused on e-learning and language training. I have also co-authored a Publicly Available Specification (PAS 1093) at the German Institute for Standardization (DIN), focusing on competency modeling in context of Human Resources & Work-based E-Learning.

I enjoy international cooperations and I have been involved in a number of national and international collaborations projects, including #mproject, #iCollab and #FSLN. These international collaboration projects have involved students from different parts of the world, including Germany, UK, Spain, New Zealand and Israel. It has always been an enriching experience!

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