Odborníci na problematiku vyučovania na VŠ:

Vicky Davies, PhD., University of Ulster

PhDr. Irina Mattová, PhD., Prešovská univerzita

Christine Rabl, Mag., University of Vienna

Mgr. Joanna Renc-Roe, MPhil., Central European University in Budapest

Matyas Szabó, MA., Central European University in Budapest

Vyučujúci z praxe:

Mgr. Gabriela Pleschová, PhD., Slovenská akadémia vied, Fyzikálny ústav SAV

Eszter Simon, PhD., SAV, Fyzikálny ústav SAV

RNDr. Martin Plesch, PhD., Fyzikálny ústav SAV

Ing. Emília Pietriková, Technická univerzita v Košiciach

Profily lektorov:

Vicky Davies is the Staff Development Adviser responsible for eLearning at the University of Ulster. She began her career as a language lecturer and became involved in the design and development of technological applications for language learning, working on a number of European and UK-based Computer-assisted Language Learning (CALL) projects. Moving to the University’s then Educational Development Unit in 2001, she continued to develop her interest in pedagogical issues relating to university teaching, particularly in relation to online and technology-enhanced learning. Since 2003 she has run the SEDA-PDF recognised Pedagogy of eLearning module for staff at the University, a core module of the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice (2003-2010). She has presented at numerous conferences in the UK and Europe on the pedagogy-technology nexus and its attendant training/development issues. She is a member of the SEDA-PDF committee and is an external reviewer for institutions seeking SEDA recognition.

Irina Mattova works as a lecturer at the University of Presov in Presov. She received her Ph.D. degree in theory of politics. In 2005 she participated in Erasmus Teaching Mobility in the United Kingdom. In 2006 and 2007 she was a member of the organizing teams coordinating workshops for first-time university teachers held in Bratislava, Budapest, and Ljubljana. She is a co-editor (with Gabriela Pleschova) of the book Ako kvalitne učiť (How to Provide High-quality Teaching) published in 2007.

Christine Rabl is a lecturer and trainer in higher education at the University of Vienna. She worked as a junior university assistant at the Department of Education developing various courses dealing with pedagogical issues. The particular focus of her research is in theory of education, situated knowledge in the learning process and educational gender studies. She has presented at conferences in Germany and Austria and has also published a number of papers. In 2010 she organized a symposium addressing the challenges of current educational theory in relation to educational research.

Christine develops and holds workshops in course design including the role as a teacher and peer effects for a number of university institutes such as Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Vienna, Department for Gender Equality and non-academic educational organisations.

Daniel Nagaj graduated from Comenius University in 2003, and received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from MIT in 2008. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center for Quantum Information at the Institute of Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He investigates what nature allows us to compute, especially using quantum mechanics. A former instructor for talented high school physics students in the correspondence competition FKS, he today enjoys giving popular science talks at various high schools in Slovakia. He has been a teaching assistant for several courses in physics at MIT, and he currently teaches a quantum information course at the Comenius University.

Gabriela Pleschová coordinates the educational development program Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. She also teaches at the Department of East Asian Studies at Comenius University in Bratislava. Since 2004, she has been preparing workshops and other development activities for beginner teachers in higher education. She also serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Political Science Education (Taylor and Francis). Her background is in Political Science, and in 2012 she graduated from a MSc. Program in Higher Education at Oxford University. She has been a co-editor (with E. Simon) of a book Teacher Development in Higher Education (August 2012, Routledge).

Eszter Simon is adjunct professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary where she teaches Research Methods and Foreign Policy Analysis. She is recurring visiting professor at the Center of North American Studies of the Economics University in Bratislava. In 2010-2011 Eszter spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Southern Polytechnic University in Marietta, US. Her research interest includes counterinsurgency, foreign policy analysis, American foreign policy, Central European politics, and teacher development in higher education. Currently, she serves as staff development advisor at the Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. She is the author of “Teacher Training for Political Science PhD Students in Europe: Determinants of a Tool for Enhancing Teaching in Higher Education” (with Gabriela Pleschová) and is co-editing (also with Gabriela Pleschová) a volume on the impact of teacher development programs around the world for Routledge.

Emília Pietriková is a PhD student at the Department of Computers and Informatics, Technical University of Košice where she has also been working as a teacher since 2008. Her main research interest includes evolution of programming languages and system development. In 2010 she was involved in the Norway Grants scholarship stay at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway; and in 2011 she received Erasmus grant for stay at University of Málaga, Spain. Since 2009 she has also worked in commercial sphere as an IT staff and a lecturer of various IT courses.

Joanna Renc-Roe is Development Manager of the Curriculum Resource Centre at Central European University, Hungary. She received her Ph.D. in Education from Keele University, UK. She has organized a range of training workshops for visiting academics from many post-socialist countries, and has developed the Teaching in Higher Education course for doctoral students. Her current research interests include educational policy and practice, internationalisation and academic identity, academic teaching practices, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Matyas Szabo is the director of the Central European University’s (CEU) Curriculum Resource Center, and is one of the center’s trainers and consultants in higher education, specializing on curriculum development, course design, students’ assessment and quality assurance in higher education.  He has offered training workshops for university professors in more than 20 countries, and is involved in several international projects targeting curriculum reform and faculty development in higher education.

He received his MA from CEU’s Sociology department in 1994. He has worked as a junior research fellow and teaching assistant at CEU’s Center for the Study of Nationalism, and as an analyst intern at the Radio Free Europe/Open Media Research Institute in Prague. Since 1996 he has been employed by CEU. Currently he is doing his PhD in sociology of knowledge and higher education at the University of Warwick, UK.

Matyas’ main research interests in the area of higher education are the development of social science disciplines in post-socialist countries, and the ways in which international and global trends in knowledge production and the changing role of universities have impacted the content and teaching of social science curricula.