Eileen Scanlon

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Eileen Scanlon (born April 10, 1951 ), professor at the Open University , has been the first Regius Professor of Open Education since 2013 .

Life

Scanlon had studied at the University of Glasgow and the Open University. Both of her parents had already graduated from the latter. In 1975 she started her career at the Open University. From 1978 she worked at the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the Open University. There she held various positions, including heading the Computers and Learning Research Group (CALRG) founded by Timothy O'Shea in 1978 . She received her doctorate in 1990 with the study of psychological models for solving problems in physics. She is currently leading a multifunctional and cross-departmental research group at the Open University that investigates technology-assisted learning.

She owes Scanlon's appointment as Regius Professor to her substantial contributions to technology and the involvement of the public in the sciences. In 2016 Scanlon was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire , OBE for her services . In the same year she was appointed Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences along with 84 other people.

In addition to her duties at the Open University and various positions in institutes and facilities, Scanlon holds a visiting professorship at the University of Edinburgh .

Eileen Scanlon is married to Timothy O'Shea, the Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh , with whom she also collaborates on various academic projects. She has four children.

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Books

  • 1985, The Computer Revolution in Education: New Technologies for Distance Teaching
  • 1992, New directions in educational technology
  • 1998, Communicating science: contexts and channels
  • 2003, Reconsidering science learning

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Open University Milton Keynes professor given royal award. February 1, 2013, accessed December 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h unknown: Professor Eileen Scanlon. In: Website of the Open University. Accessed December 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b unknown: Eighty-four leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. In: Academy of Social Sciences website. October 19, 2016, accessed April 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ unknown: Birthday Honors List - United Kingdom. In: London Gazette, Supplement No. 1. June 11, 2016, p. B14 , accessed on April 14, 2019 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Scanlon, Eileen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British educationalist and university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1951