Eileen Scanlon

OBE FAcSS
Scanlon in 2015
Born1951 (age 72–73)
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
Open University (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsEducation
Computing[1]
InstitutionsOpen University
ThesisModelling physics problem solving (1989)
Doctoral studentsAnn Blandford[2]
Websiteiet.open.ac.uk/people/eileen.scanlon

Eileen Scanlon OBE FAcSS (born 1951) is a British academic who is Regius Professor of Open Education at the Open University.[1][3][4]

Early life and education

Scanlon was born in 1951.[5] She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and the Open University.[6]

Career and research

Scanlon became co-director of the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) at the Open University in 2004. She directed the Computer Assisted Learning Research Group for many years and has worked on a range of educational technology research and development projects, many of them focussing on science learning. Her current interests include education, computing,[1] mobile learning for formal and informal learning of science, and developing pedagogies for technology enhanced learning.

In January 2013, she was appointed to the new Regius Professorship in Open Education at the Open University [7]

Awards and honours

In the 2016 Birthday Honours, Scanlon was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to education".[8] In 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Eileen Scanlon publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ↑ Blandford, Ann (1991). Design, decisions and dialogue. open.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Open University. doi:10.21954/ou.ro.0000dfe4. OCLC 556435328. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.292860.
  3. ↑ Eileen Scanlon at DBLP Bibliography Server
  4. ↑ Eileen Scanlon publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ "Scanlon, Eileen, 1951-". viaf.org. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  6. ↑ Scanlon, Eileen (1989). Modelling physics problem solving (PhD thesis). Open University. OCLC 557035873. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.277276.
  7. ↑ "Royal award given to professor". BBC. 1 February 2013.
  8. ↑ "No. 61608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2016. p. B14.
  9. ↑ "Eighty-four leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences". acss.org.uk. Academy of Social Sciences. 19 October 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
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