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Dr Mark Bullen has extensive international experience across distance education, e-learning and educational technology. His work is particularly focussed on the digital learner, though his contribution to the field goes much further. Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/020-Mark-Bullen-Final.mp3 | recorded April 2019 Mark’s online profile: http://markbullen.ca Digital Learners in Higher Education website: http://digitallearners.ca Nominated works (free to access): Gallardo-Echenique, E.E., Bullen, M. &  Marqués-Molías, L. (2016). Student communication and study habits of first-year university students in the digital era. Canadian Journal of Learning & Technology, 42(1).Gallardo-Echenique, E.E., Molías, L.M., Bullen, M. & Strijbos, J.W. (2015). Let’s Talk About Digital Learners in the Digital Era. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 16(3).Bullen, M. & Morgan, T. (2015). Digital Learners in Higher Education: Implications for Teaching, Learning & Technology. In M. Gisbert & M. Bullen (Eds.). Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds: Strategies and Issues in Higher Education, 11-19. Tarragona, Spain: Publicacions URVBullen, M., Morgan, T., & Qayyum, A. (2011). Digital Learners in Higher Education: Generation is Not the Issue. Canadian Journal of Learning Technology, 37(1). Nominated work (may require purchase): Bullen, M. (2015). Revisiting the Need for Strategic Planning for eLearning in Higher Education. In M. Ally & B. Khan (eds.). The International Handbook of E-Learning, Volume 1, 139-152. London: Routledge. Twitter: @markbullen ...

Professor Diana Laurillard has made a foundational contribution to higher education teaching. Her books Rethinking university teaching and Teaching as a design science have influenced many online educators – me included! Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/023-Diana-Laurillard-Final.mp3 | recorded April 2019 Diana’s profile: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=DMLAU06 Nominated links (free to access): Learning Designer tool for teachers at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/learning-designer/ Keynote on Co-designing virtual scenarios for learning, WAVES Conference, on medical education, London 2018, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXINHykjGbc&t=80s (30 mins) Future Classroom Lab Interview ‘Teaching as a design science’, 2014 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO25Uxwfd1Q&t=112s (5 mins) Video lecture from Blended Learning Essentials: Getting Started, 2016 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inp26YryqIA (5 mins) Published works you may wish to purchase: Diana Laurillard (2012). Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology. London: Routledge Diana Laurillard (2002). Rethinking University Teaching: A Conversational Framework for the Effective Use of Learning Technologies. 2nd edition. London: RoutledgeFalmer Twitter: @thinksitthrough ...

Dr Mohsen Keshavarz is Director of the Virtual Education Center of Torbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences. He has a PhD in the area of virtual education planning and is an energetic advocate of distance learning in his home country of Iran, having translated Tony Bates’s book Teaching in a digital age to Persian in addition to several other projects, some with international collaborators. Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/058-Mohsen-Keshavarz-Final.mp3 | recorded June 2021 Mohsen’s online profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6350-2070 Nominated works (free to access): Keshavarz, M., & Ghoneim, A. (2021). Preparing Educators to Teach in a Digital Age. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 22(1), 221-242. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v22i1.4910Bates, A. W. (2016). Teaching in a Digital Age. Guidelines for Teaching and Learning. (M. Keshavarz & A. Sharif, Trans. in Persian: Chapter 1-5, Select a file format, Part of Readable) Vancouver BC: Tony Bates Associates Ltd.  https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=da50f5f1-bbc6-481e-a359-e73007c66932&contributor=&keyword=&subject= Nominated works (may require purchase): Keshavarz, M. (2020). Distance Education System and Print Literacy. Distance Learning 17(2). https://www.infoagepub.com/products/distance-learning-vol-17-2Keshavarz, M. (2020). The Effect of Distance Education on Information Literacy Case Study: “Iran”. The Quarterly Review of Distance Education 21(2), pp.23-47. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Quarterly-Review-of-Distance-Education-21-2Keshavarz, Mohsen. (2016). Distance Education System and Media Literacy. Distance Learning13(4). https://www.infoagepub.com/products/distance-learning-vol-13-4Keshavarz, Mohsen. (2015). Distance Education System and Computer Literacy. Distance Learning 12(5). https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Distance-Learning-Vol-12-5 ...