User:Carina Bossu

About me
I am a Lecturer (Learning and Teaching) with the Tasmanian Institute of Learning and Teaching (TILT) at the University of Tasmania. My work and research are primarily focused on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in higher education, more specifically issues related to learning, teaching and professional development. Previously, I was a Research Fellow with DEHub at the University of New England. My team and I successfully completed a two year research project funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT), titled “Adoption, use and management of OER to enhance teaching and learning in Australia”. I have also worked in several other research projects and have also taught at higher educational, vocational and TAFE levels.

Education
Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Education (GCTE) - University of New England, 2012

Doctor of Philosophy - University of New England, 2009

Masters in Educational Administration (Research) - University of New England, Australia, 2005

Graduate Certificate in Educational Management - University of New England, Australia, 2004

Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering - University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2003

Bachelor in Computer Science and Information Technology - Methodist University of Piracicaba, Brazil, 1996

My Interests

 * Professional

My current research focus are Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP). Other areas of interest include: staff development, higher and distance education, educational change and policy development.


 * Personal

I am personally interested in traveling and other people's travel experiences. History and music are also other interests.

Professional Development

 * Feb to Nov - 2013 Community Mentoring Program - Award for Participation as a Mentee with Dr Trish Andrews as Mentor
 * 13 Nov 2013 - Learning Futures Workshop, Design Hub, RMIT, Melbourne
 * 05 April 2013 - Workshop: Cultivating communities of practice with Etienne Wenger
 * 18 Sept 2012 - Designing Learning in an OER Environment: Engines for an OER-Based Educational Environment, Pre-Symposium Workshop, Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia
 * 8 &amp; 9 June 2011 - NVivo9 Training Basic and Advanced
 * 31 May and 2 June 2011 - Influencer Training
 * 26 January to 10 March 2011 - Find, Author, and Share Open Textbooks - P2PU
 * 04 March 2011 - Moodle Introduction
 * 02 March 2011 - Copyright for Educational Purposes
 * 01 March to 19th April - University of New England Staff Leardership Program
 * 15 &amp; 17 November 2010 - TRIM Training
 * April 2010 – NVivo 8 (Webinar)
 * April 2010 – Supervising International Students
 * 19 March 2010 - Enhancing higher degree research supervision in an intercultural context workshop
 * 17 March 2010 – CMS Training Introduction
 * 03 March 2010 – Performance Planning &amp; Review

Grants and Awards

 * Award

- New Researcher 'One to Watch' 2013 Competition by Routledge Education


 * Grant awared

- Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT), SEED Project, from Dec 2013 - A$ 50,000

- Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT), previous Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), Competitive Grant, Nov 2010 to Dec 2012 - A$ 220,000


 * Grant led

- Council on Australia and Latin America Relations (COALAR), 2010 – A$ 70,000


 * Other grants and scholarship that I have been awarded

- Keith &amp; Dorothy Mackay Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship (UNE), 2007 – A$ 5,000

- Institute for Educational Research Student Research Grant, 2006 – A$ 1,200

- Ambassadorial Scholarship Program - Rotary Foundation, 2004 - US$ 25,000


 * During my PhD candidature, I held a University of New England Assistantship for International Students of Exceptional Merit Scholarship that covered the fees and living costs during the three years of my candidature, approximately a total of A$105,000.

Professional Affiliations

 * 2013 Education Arena Expert Panel - Routledge at http://www.educationarena.com/expertPanel/
 * Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)
 * Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
 * New South Wales Institute of Educational Research (NSW IER)
 * Brazilian Association for Distance Education (ABED)

Journal/Book Review

 * British Journal of Educational Technology

Presentations
Bossu, C., Brown, M., &amp; Bull, D. (2013, 7 - 10 April). A Feasability Protocol for OER Adoption. Poster presented at The Higher Education Technology Agenda (Theta): The Edge of the World. Hobart, Australia.

Bossu, C., Brown, M., &amp; Bull, D. (2012, 25 - 28 Nov). Do Open Educational Resources represent additional challenges or advantages to the current climate of change in the Australian higher education sector? Paper presented at the Australasian Society for Computer in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference: Future Challenges | Sustainable Future, Wellington (NZ).

Bossu, Bull &amp; Brown (2012, 19 - 21 Sept). The Open Educational Movement in Australia: The Need for Political Leadership. Paper presented at the OER Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources: An Asia Perspective on Policy and Practices, Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia.

Bull, D., Bossu, C., &amp; Brown, M. (2011, 2 - 5 October). Gathering the evidence: The use, adoption and development of Open Educational Resources in Australia. Paper presented at the Expanding Horizons: New Approaches to Open and Distance Learning, Bali, Indonesia.

Brown, M., &amp; Bossu, C. (2011, 27 June - 1 July). Open educational resources (OER) in Australia: A cross sector environmental scan. Pecha Kucha presentation at EdMedia Conference: The next decade (2011-2020), Lisbon.

McGreal, R., Anderson, T., Bossu, C., Conole, G. &amp; Olcott, D. (2011, 15 - 18 February). Open Educational Resources Panel. Keynote panel presented at the Education 2011 to 2021- Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning, 15 - 18 February, Sydney.

Bossu, C. (2011, 15 - 18 February). Southern Skies Distance Education Academic Exchange Project: Building communities of practice. Paper presented at the Education 2011 to 2021- Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning. Sydney.

Bossu, C. (2011, 15 - 18 February). Open Educational Resources (OER): Some remaining and contemporary challenges. Paper presented at the Education 2011 to 2021- Global challenges and perspectives of blended and distance learning, 15 - 18 February, Sydney.

Bossu, C. &amp; Wijeyewarden, I. (2011, 31 Jan - 2 Feb). Wrestling theory and worldviews when English is not your first language, or Australia is not your birth country. Talk given at the Higher Degree Research Intensive - School of Health &amp; School of Rural Medicine. UNE, Armidale.

Bossu, C. (2010, 24 – 28 November). Analysing the development of institutional policies for sustainability and quality of OERs with a focus on the Australian context, Paper presented at the 6th The Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning: Access and Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives. Kochi, India.

Bossu, C. (2010, 11 - 12 November). Adoption, use and management of open educational resources to enhance teaching and learning in Australia, Presented at the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-learning (ACODE) 54th Meeting. Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Bossu, C. &amp; Wylie, A. (2010). An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OERs) and their adoption in teaching and learning, University Learning and Teaching Futures (ULT-Futures) Colloquium: Rethinking learning in your discipline, 8-9 September, University of New England, Armidale, Australia

Silveira, E &amp; Bossu, C. (2010, 31 Aug - 3 Sept). Open Educational Resources: The Case of OCWC at FGV. Roundtable discussion presented at Content, student support and certification: The central ingredients for effective distance education. 16th International Congress for Distance Education. Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

Bossu, C., Smyth, R., &amp; Maxwell, T. (2009, 1 – 3 December) The Development of Higher and Distance Education Policies in Brazil: Hoping for unity of purpose while overcoming centralization. Paper presented at 37th Annual Conference of the ANZCIES: Entering the Age of an Educational Renaissance: Ideas for unity of purpose or further discord. UNE, Armidale.

Bossu, C., Smyth, R., Stein, S., et al (2008, 21 - 24 April). Investigating Staff Development in Brazil: A Constructivist Approach. Paper presented at the International Seminar on Teacher Education, University of New England, Armidale, Book of Abstracts page 31.

Bossu, C. (2007) Academic Professional Development for Effective E-learning: A Possible Framework for Brazil, paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Blended Learning (ICBL), 7 – 9 May, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

Recent Publications
Bossu, C., Bull, D., &amp; Brown, M. (2012). Opening up Down Under: the role of open educational resources in promoting social inclusion in Australia. Distance Education, 33(2), 151–164.

Willems, J., &amp; Bossu, C. (2012). Equity considerations for open educational resources in the glocalization of education. Distance Education, 33(2) 185–199.

Bossu, C., Brown, M., &amp; Bull, D. (2011). Playing catch-up: Investigating public and institutional policies for OER practices in Australia. The Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 15(2), 41 - 54. http://journals.akoaotearoa.ac.nz/index.php/JOFDL/issue/view/5

Bossu, C. &amp; Tynan, B. (2011). "OERs: new media on the learning landscape", On the Horizon, 19(4), 259 - 267. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1953822&amp;ini=aob

Bossu, C (2011). Educação continuada e a EAD. In F. M. Litto &amp; M. Formiga (Eds.), Educação a Distância: O Estado da Arte, 2nd Edition. São Paulo: Pearson

Bossu, C. (2010). Qualidade na educação superior a distância superior brasileiro­: Prestação de contas ou melhoria, Proceedings of Conteúdo, apoio ao aprendiz e certificação: Os ingredientes centrais para eficácia em EAD, Congresso Internacional ABED de Educação a Distância, 31 August to 3 September, Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil.

Bossu, C. (2010, 23 July). Southern Skies Distance Education Academic Exchange. Research@UNE, 12.

Bossu, C. (2009). Higher and distance education in Brazil: Policies, practices and staff development. Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy, University of New England, Armidale.

Bossu, C., Smyth, R. and Stein, S. (2007). Academic Professional Development for Effective E-learning: A Possible Framework for Brazil, International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2(4), 48-53

Smyth, R., Shanahan, P., Bossu, C. et al (2007). Lecturers' perceptions of videoconferencing as a tool for distance learning in higher education, 14th Association for Learning Technology Conference, 1-12.

Bossu, C. (2007, 11-14 August). Is action research an appropriate methodology to investigate distance education in Brazil? Proceedings of the Inaugural Postgraduate Research Conference: Bridging the Gap Between Ideas and Doing Research. Australian College of Educators, 5-16.