Category: 2021 Delegate

Renagh Linnane is Student Counsellor in GMIT since 2013, before which she ran the Student Counselling Service in another Institute of technology in Ireland. Previously she had a range of positions in the healthcare system in Ireland and is professionally qualified in Social Work and Systemic Psychotherapy. Her current practice and research interests are in developing sustainable and responsive health care in times of earth microbiome and climate change and crises.

After graduating from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, Gavin practiced as an architect in the UK and Germany for 15 years. He joined IT Sligo in 2001 as a lecturer in architecture and was centrally involved in the development and professional accreditation of a number of Degree and Master’s Architecture programmes. Gavin has many years of online teaching experience. Gavin was appointed as Head of Online Learning in 2012 and has responsibility for the continuous improvement of online education and student experience. His current work has a focus on, MOOCs, micro-credentials, assessment of learning, recognition of prior learning (RPL), and making higher education more flexible and accessible. He is Chair of the Institute’s Learning, Teaching, and Assessment Committee and a National Forum Associate. Gavin is President of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) and Chair of the Higher Education Lifelong Learning Ireland Network (HELLIN) for 2020. Gavin has presented papers and keynote addresses at numerous education conferences. Gavin’s roles include:

• President, Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA)

• Chair Learning, Teaching and Assessment Committee (IT Sligo) (2012 – present)

• Chair Higher Education Lifelong Learning Ireland Network (HELLIN)

• Conference Chair ILTA EdTech 2017 ‘TEL in an Age of Supercomplexity: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies’ http://ilta.ie/project/edtech-2017/

• Program Committee Member, European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit (eMOOCs) http://emoocs.eu/programme/188-2/

• Quality Assurance Board Member European BizMOOC Project – http://bizmooc.eu/

• Expert Panel Member TeSLA project – Adaptive Trust-based e-assessment System for Learning http://tesla-project.eu/ (2018-2019)

CHANG-LONG,CHEN is a student studying in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
He major engineer management. His research interests consist of PCB, 3D printing, electric car semiconductor.

Mirza Andiani is an M.Eng. candidate in Civil/Transportation Engineering at Bandung Institute of Technology. Currently, she is an airport engineer at P.T. LAPI ITB who is responsible in handling 9 airport maintenance projects in Indonesia. She received her B.E. in Civil Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology with Airport Development Design as the topic of her bachelor’s degree thesis. Despite her academic background, she also has significant experience prior to transportation engineering when she became a transport assistant at ITDP Indonesia. Along with ITDP Indonesia, she was enrolled to various sustainable transportation projects such as Global Future Cities – Bandung (a collaboration project between World Bank, UKFCDO, Mott MacDonald, and ITDP Indonesia in developing the integrated transport system in Bandung) and the implementation of complete street concept in Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia.